Unidata CommuniteE-Letter

Unidata 2013: A Transformative Community Facility

Mohan Ramamurthy, Unidata Director

Unidata was founded nearly a quarter of a century ago by the meteorological community so that universities could acquire and use real-time weather data in education and research. Since then, both the Unidata community and the scope of its activities have grown, and participation in the program has broadened both geographically and to other geoscience disciplines...

Enhancing User Experience on the UPC's Web Site

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:47:40 GMT

Jen Oxelson, Unidata Web Developer

The Unidata Program Center is in the process of updating its website to fix bugs and improve user experience. The most notable changes will include revamping the mechanism that handles user registration and account management as well as site redesign...

RAMADDA: Repository for Archiving, Managing, and Accessing Diverse DAta

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:49:02 GMT

A new UPC effort called RAMADDA, has been under active development since December 2007. It is an open data management framework that enables a data provider or a community of users to upload, manage and share large data holdings.It is designed to run in multiple contexts, ranging from local desktop use to real time and case-study data archives...

DeSouza Award Presentation

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:43:12 GMT

Mark Laufersweiler's presentation during the spring Users Committee's April 2008 meeting was an affirmation of his selection as the 2008 DeSouza Award winner. In addition to receiving the award during the meeting, Mark was asked to present a seminar detailing his use of Unidata tools and data products...

News Briefs

Thu, 08 May 2008 15:10:34 GMT

AccessData Workshop - The AccessData workshop, sponsored jointly by NSF, TERC, Colorado College, and Unidata wound up in Portland, Oregon Saturday the third of May...

2008 Equipment Award Recipients - Three 2008 Equipment Award Recipient finalists were announced yesterday...

Regional Workshop - A Unidata Regional Workshop at Plymouth State University, slated for May 18-20, 2008, is fully subscribed...