FireWxPy is a user friendly, open source Python package to create visualizations of data specific to fire weather and fire weather forecasting, created by Eric J. Drewitz. The package is built to support a wide range of fire weather-focused visualizations for any state or GACC Region. Users can also create custom boundaries using latitude and longitude coordinates. Version 1.4.3, released February 1, 2025, allows users to create a variety of graphics, samples of which you can view in the full article.

The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Neural Networks and AI: With hands-on examples in PyTorch!!! strikes an excellent balance between accessibility and technical depth. Josh Starmer, PhD, builds on his previous work while making neural networks approachable for both students and practitioners. This book has a similar feel and vibe to the previous book, The StatQuest guide to Machine Learning.

The Rising Voices, Changing Coasts (RVCC) Hub is a coastal research project that brings together university-trained scientists and Indigenous knowledge-holders to study the interactions between natural, human-built, and social systems in coastal populated environments. Applications for the RVCC Summer Internship program are now being accepted. Priority will be given to those who apply before February 16, 2025.

Welcome back to AWIPS Tips!

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday break. I have a couple updates that I would like to share with you all regarding:

• Decommissioning Unidata Version 20 (CentOS7) EDEX
• Upcoming Maintenance on Unidata Version 23 EDEX
• AMS Participation

Members of the NSF Unidata Program Center staff will be attending the 105th annual American Meteorology Society meeting, to be held 12-16 January 2025 in New Orleans, LA. The schedule below lists sessions or posters presented by staff members. We'll also be spending time in the UCAR booth (#323) in the main Exhibit hall.

Spend the summer in beautiful Boulder, Colorado

Do you use NSF Unidata software packages? Do you love to write code or teach others about data-centered Earth System Science? Maybe you're just interested in the interplay of science and data? The NSF Unidata Summer Internship program is looking for you!

The NSF Unidata Summer Internship offers undergraduate and graduate students an opportunity to work with NSF Unidata Program Center staff on projects drawn from a wide variety of areas in the atmospheric and computational sciences. Apply for the 2025 internship by 24 January 2025.

The Association for Women in Science (AWIS) has announced its 2025 scholarship program, with applications due by February 28, 2025. The program includes awards for undergraduate students, doctoral students, and women re-entering the STEM workforce.

The NSF Unidata Program Center is pleased to announce the opening of the 2025 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 2025, a total of $100,000 is available for awards; proposals for amounts up to $20,000 will be considered.

The American Geophysical Union will be conducting a hybrid in-person and virtual conference for its 2024 Fall meeting, December 9-13 2024, with live events taking place at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. Several NSF Unidata staff members will be presenting as part of the AGU Scientific Program; a schedule of their talks and posters is included in the article.

The AWIPS team reminds you that the version 20.3.2 public EDEX Server (edex-cloud.unidata.ucar.edu) will be decommissioned at the end of 2024, as it is running on CentOS7 which has reached its end of life back in June.

We do have a new public EDEX Server version 23.4.1 (edex-beta.unidata.ucar.edu) that has been available since August. Once v20 is decommissioned, the edex-cloud.unidata.ucar.edu will change to point to v23.