NSF Unidata Update: October 2025

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

Highlights from October:

Brian Blaylock Receives 2025 DeSouza Award

Brian Blaylock from the United States Naval Research Laboratory has been awarded the 2025 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.

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.

Maintenance work, weekend of October 18-19

UCAR had scheduled a power down and test of their electrical switchgear from Oct 18th 6AM through Oct 19th 6PM. This will resulted in an outage in some NSF Unidata services including mailing lists, user support and rtstats.

TDS version 5.8 released

The THREDDS Data Server (TDS) version 5.8 bug-fix-only release is now available and is recommended for all server administrators.