In case you missed it — here's a recap of news from the NSF Unidata Program Center for the month of March, 2024.
Upcoming deadlines to be aware of:
| 3 May | Nominations for the 2024 Russell L. DeSouza Award are due. |
| 2 August | Nominations for the NSF Unidata Governing Committee membership are due. |
Highlights from last month:
K Nearest Neighbors
K Nearest Neighbors (KNN) is a supervised machine learning method that "memorizes" (stores) an entire dataset, then relies on the concepts of proximity and similarity to make predictions about new data. The basic idea is that if a new data point is in some sense "close" to existing data points, its value is likely to be similar to the values of its neighbors. In the Earth Systems Sciences, such techniques can be useful for small- to moderate-scale classification and regression problems.
NSF Unidata 2024 Community Equipment Awards: Deadline Extended
As a result of changes in the spring 2024 meeting schedule for the NSF Unidata Users Committee, we are able to extend the submission deadline for this year's Community Equipment Awards solicitation until March 29, 2024. All other aspects of the 2024 program remain as described in the original announcement.
AWIPS Tips: Exploring Satellite Imagery using Python-AWIPS
This installment of AWIPS-Tips dives into a little bit of python-awips to learn
more about what satellite data our EDEX has to offer.
Exploring Indigenous Data Sovereignty
The concept of Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDS) asserts that data generated by Indigenous peoples, including data generated from their land and resources, should be governed by the people themselves. Environmental observations collected on native lands are one small part of the IDS context, and they were the subject of a recent workshop hosted by the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
AWIPS Tips: Customized Contours
This installment of AWIPS-Tips looks at how to customize contours for products in
CAVE by changing the styleRules.
Register Now for the 2024 Pythia Cook-off!
Registration is open for the 2024 Pythia Cook-off! This U.S. National Science Foundation-funded hackathon for Cookbook development will grow participants’ Python coding, communication, collaboration, and educational development skills, while expanding the collection of Pythia Cookbooks for the open source, open science community. Pythia Cookbooks are crowd-sourced collections of domain-specific tutorials and exemplar workflows, building on existing Pythia Foundations tutorials. Cookbooks are supported by a rich GitHub-based infrastructure enabling collaborative authoring and automated health-checking to ensure reproducibility.
NSF Unidata Committee Nominations Open
NSF Unidata is governed by its community. Our Strategic Advisory and Users committees facilitate consensus-building for future directions of the NSF Unidata Program and establish standards of involvement for the community. Direct involvement in the Program by the academic community helps NSF Unidata stay on top of trends in Earth Systems Science education and research; for example, recent initiatives on Python and cloud-based computing have benefited tremendously from committee advice and involvement.
Shutdown of Two Special-Purpose THREDDS Data Servers
NSF Unidata will be shutting down two existing special-purpose THREDDS Data Servers
on April 15, 2024.
NetCDF operators (NCO) version 5.2.2
Version 5.2.2 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.
On the Developer's Blog
NSF Unidata Program Center developers write regularly on technical topics on the Unidata Developer's Blog. The ongoing MetPy Mondays series concludes its look at dealing with missing data, and investigates different ways to copy data in Python.
Governing Committee News
NSF Unidata's Users Committee met November 1-3, 2023 in a joint meeting with the Strategic Advisory Committee at the Unidata Program Center in Boulder, CO. The Users Committee will meet next May 13-14, 2024 in Boulder, CO.
NSF Unidata's Strategic Advisory Committee met November 1-3, 2023 in a joint meeting with the Users Committee at the Unidata Program Center in Boulder, CO. The Strategic Advisory Committee will meet next May 2-3, 2023 in Washington, DC.
