The 2011 Unidata Equipment Awards Program

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation

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NSF provides the Unidata Program Center up to $100k in equipment grant funds each year.  In alignment with the Unidata 2013 proposal, the Equipment Awards Program is designed to broaden participation and promote the use of Unidata tools and systems (e.g., THREDDS, NetCDF, IDV, GIS connections) to support education and research on various aspects of climate studies (e.g., diagnostics, change and impacts), by providing grants to be used in the procurement of new computers and equipment including upgrades to existing classroom and laboratory equipment. 

This year special consideration was given to proposals that:

·        Include installation of either/both THREDDS Data Server and RAMADDA to share data relevant to furthering Unidata's mission with the community at-large.  This includes but is not limited to data from real-time IDD/LDM feeds, local observations, data from local modeling efforts, case study collections, and climate data.

·        Include installation of a prototype AWIPS II EDEX server, when AWIPS II is made available in the Fall 2011 time frame, to share data relevant to furthering Unidata's mission with the community at-large. 

A Request for Proposals was sent out on December 9, 2010 with a March 18 submission deadline. The Review Panel met on April 12 at the Unidata Program Center and recommeded that the following eight proposals of the nine that were received be funded for the 2011 program:

Congratulations to all of the award recipients and we thank the Review Panel members, NSF and the Unidata community for their continued support of the Equipment Awards Program.