NSF Unidata Update: October 2024

In case you missed it — here's a recap of news from the NSF Unidata Program Center for the month of October, 2024.

Upcoming deadlines to be aware of:

6 November Last day of Early Registration for the American Geophysical Union 2024 Fall Meeting.
4 December Last day of Early Registration for the American Meteorological Society 105th Annual Meeting.

Highlights from last month:

2024 Community Equipment Awards

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NSF Unidata is happy to announce the Community Equipment Award recipients for 2024. 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 geosciences to join the NSF Unidata community, and to encourage existing members to continue their active participation, enhancing the community process.

Jim Steenburgh Receives 2024 DeSouza Award

Jim Steenburgh

Jim Steenburgh from the University of Utah has been awarded the 2024 Russell L. DeSouza Award by the NSF Unidata Users committee. The DeSouza Award honors “substantive and sustained contributions of energy and expertise to the geosciences community that reflect the ideals of the NSF Unidata Program's mission” to better serve the geosciences.

NetCDF operators (NCO) version 5.2.9

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Version 5.2.9 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.

AWIPS Full Beta Release v23.4.1-0.4

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AWIPS 23.4.1-0.4 is a beta release, with both EDEX and CAVE installation options. This release includes a major upgrade for the operating system, running on Rocky 8 Linux – which is a free Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution for EDEX and linux based CAVE.

Reflections on the 2024 Emerging Pedagogies Summit

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The Emerging Pedagogies Summit is an annual event hosted by the Learning Innovation and Lifetime Education (LILE) group at Duke University. Nicole Corbin, instructional designer at NSF Unidata, attended this year’s event, which was packed with thoughtfully curated topics relevant to the NSF Unidata higher education community, including AI and workforce development.

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 is on a short hiatus.

Governing Committee News

NSF Unidata's Users Committee met in a joint session with the Strategic Advisory Committee September 25-28, 2024. The Users Committee will meet next in the Spring of 2025.

NSF Unidata's Strategic Advisory Committee met in a joint session with the Users Committee September 25-28, 2024. The Strategic Advisory Committee will meet next in the Spring of 2025.

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