NSF Unidata Update: December 2025

In case you missed it — here's a recap of news from the NSF Unidata Program Center for the month of December 2025.

We at the NSF Unidata Program Center wish you a Happy New Year, and we're hoping to see you at the AMS Annual meeting in Houston! Stay tuned for details about sessions, posters, and other chances to meet up with NSF Unidata staff.

Highlights from December:

Call for Proposals: NSF Unidata 2026 Community Equipment Awards

The NSF Unidata Program Center is pleased to announce the opening of the 2026 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 2026, a total of $100,000 is available for awards; proposals for amounts up to $20,000 will be considered.

FAIR in ML, AI Readiness, & Reproducibility (FARR) Workshop

The FARR Workshop 2026, April 8-9, 2026 at the AGU Conference Center in Washington DC, aims to make advances in the areas of AI Readiness, AI Reproducibility, and the intersection of the FAIR Principles and ML.

NSF Unidata 2026 Summer Student Internships Available!

The NSF Unidata Summer Internship offers undergraduate and graduate students an opportunity to work with NSF Unidata Program Center staff on software development projects drawn from a wide variety of areas in the atmospheric and computational sciences. Apply for the 2026 internship by 6 February 2026.