2025 Community Equipment Awards

NSF Unidata is happy to announce the Community Equipment Award recipients for 2025. 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.

Two institutions received funding this year:

• Tuskegee University:
  Enhance Earth Systems Science Research and Education at Tuskegee University by Integrating and Sharing Locally Developed Geospatial and Atmospheric Datasets
• University of Hawai'i at Manoa:
  AI-Met Lab at UHM

For additional details on the proposals funded this year, see the Previous Equipment Awards page.

Historically, NSF Unidata has funded a high percentage of the projects submitted for consideration. Proposals are short, and NSF Unidata Program Center staff are available to assist proposers throughout the process, from advising on proposal preparation and hardware specification to assisting with installation and configuration of NSF Unidata software technologies.

We invite you to provide suggestions for the focus of future Equipment Award RFPs, and to keep your eyes open for the 2025 announcement. To get an idea of the wide range of recipient institutions and projects, including copies of successful proposals, visit the Equipment Awards page.