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Community Survey: Tell Unidata What You Think!

23 September 2021

YOU are the Unidata community

As a community-governed program, Unidata depends on guidance and feedback from current and prospective users in the atmospheric and geoscience community. This includes educators, researchers, students, and professionals within the government and private sectors. The 2021 Unidata Users Committee Community Survey seeks your feedback both on existing Unidata services and possible future directions for the program. Your ideas will help inform Unidata's path forward; your participation is much appreciated.

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Offer: Unidata Science Gateway JupyterHub Resources Available for Fall 2021 Courses

23 August 2021

For the fall 2021 term, Unidata is once again offering to provide universities (or individual instructors) access to cloud-based JupyterHub servers tailored to the needs of university atmospheric science courses and workshops. By using the Unidata Science Gateway, instructors can add Jupyter notebooks used in their coursework to a dedicated JupyterHub hosted using Unidata’s resources in the NSF Jetstream cloud. Once logged in to the JupyterHub, individual students access pre-configured computing environments that allow them to work with the notebooks interactively, making and saving their own alterations to existing notebooks or creating their own new notebooks.

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Summer 2021 Unidata Interns Wrap Up Their Projects

04 August 2021

The Unidata Program Center's three summer student interns — Lydia Bunting from Texas Tech University, Connor Cozad from the College of Charleston in South Carolina, and Isabelle Pfander from Willamette University in Oregon — have come to the end of their summer appointments. After a summer of dedicated work they presented the results of their projects to the UPC staff on July 28, 2021. You can find videos of their presentations to the UPC staff on the Unidata Seminar Series page.

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EarthCube 2021 Annual Meeting

11 May 2021

The National Science Foundation's EarthCube program welcomes those interested in the intersection between cyberinfrastructure and geosciences to attend the 2021 EarthCube Annual Meeting, to be held virtually June 15-17, 2021.

Attendance at the meeting is free. Registration closes May 28, 2021.

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World Data Flows Return to Normal after Suez Incident

01 April 2021

A container ship blocking the Suez Canal

For 6 days, 3 hours, and 38 minutes in late March, the Golden-class container ship Ever Given blocked the Suez canal, leaving more than 400 vessels piled up on either end of the canal as they waited for the stranded container ship to be refloated. While media coverage of the incident has focused on potential shortages of goods like petroleum, food, and bathroom tissue, little attention was paid to the potential for worldwide data shortages as a result of the reduction in shipping capacity.

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