A 10 week position is available for a student to work on a major upgrade to Carleton’s weather site. The project involves some electronics and a lot of computer programming on Mac and Linux systems. The successful candidate will be writing Python, PHP, MySQL and other code. You need not know all these languages, but must be able and interested to learn them. This summer’s goal is to develop and implement a single-board computer system which can communicate with weather sensors, gather and store data from those sensors and then pass those data to another computer which runs a database and web server.
Carleton has been gathering and sharing weather data since 1881, and these data are the oldest official weather records in the state. Our weather site pioneered some now-common methods of presenting weather data graphics on the web. Most of the work on the site has been accomplished by students, and we look forward to continuing that tradition. We’re looking for someone with a friendly attitude, attention to detail, and an interest in weather, scientific instrumentation, and of course computing.
If interested please contact Tom Baraniak or Doug Foxgrover.
Tom Baraniak
Olin 208
x4033
Tbarania@carleton.edu
Doug Foxgrover
CMC 133
x5508
dfoxgrov@carleton.edu