The FARR Workshop 2026, April 8-9, 2026 at the AGU Conference Center in Washington DC, aims to make advances in the areas of AI Readiness, AI Reproducibility, and the intersection of the FAIR Principles and ML.
The NSF Unidata Program Center is pleased to announce the opening of the 2026 NSF Unidata Community Equipment Awards solicitation. Created under the sponsorship of the U.S. National Science Foundation, NSF Unidata equipment awards are intended to encourage new members from diverse disciplinary backgrounds in the Earth Systems Sciences to join the NSF Unidata community, and to encourage existing members to continue their active participation, enhancing the community process. For 2026, a total of $100,000 is available for awards; proposals for amounts up to $20,000 will be considered.
The American Geophysical Union 2025 Fall meeting will be December 15-19 2025, at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, LA. Several NSF Unidata staff members will be presenting as part of the AGU Scientific Program; a schedule of their talks and posters is included.
Between April and June 2025, NSF Unidata conducted a comprehensive community assessment survey to understand the Earth Systems Science (ESS) community's needs, challenges, and priorities from both organizational and personal perspectives. This article summarizes our key takeaways from the survey.
The Saltzman research group in the Department of Earth System Science, University of California Irvine, seeks to hire a full time (100%) Assistant Researcher.
Version 5.3.6 of the netCDF Operators (NCO) has been released. NCO is an Open Source package that consists of a dozen standalone, command-line programs that take netCDF files as input, then operate (e.g., derive new data, average, print, hyperslab, manipulate metadata) and output the results to screen or files in text, binary, or netCDF formats.
UCAR has scheduled a power down and test of their electrical switchgear for Oct 18th 6AM through Oct 19th 6PM 9 (this weekend). This will result in an outage in some NSF Unidata services including mailing lists, user support and rtstats.
The IDD, NOAAport, GOES-East, and GOES-West data ingest, ADDE, thredds.ucar.edu, motherlode.ucar.edu, and atm.ucar.edu are expected to continue uninterrupted during this time.
