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.
The Socio-Environmental Knowledge Commons (SEEKCommons) Fellowship is an initiative to bring graduate students and early-career researchers to socio-environmental research with common technologies. The SEEKCommons project is dedicated to building pathways for horizontal collaborations across Science and Technology Studies (STS), Open Science (OS), and socio-environmental researchers and community organizers.
The Emerging Pedagogies Summit is an annual event hosted by the Learning Innovation and Lifetime Education (LILE) group at Duke University, and I, Nicole Corbin, instructional designer at NSF Unidata, had the pleasure of attending. This year's event was packed with thoughtfully curated topics relevant to the NSF Unidata higher education community, including AI and workforce development.
AWIPS 23.4.1-0.4 is a beta release, with both EDEX and CAVE installation options.
This release (building upon previous versions 23.*) includes a major upgrade for the operating system, running on Rocky 8 Linux – which is a free Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution for EDEX and linux based CAVE.
Version 5.2.9 of the netCDF Operators (NCO) has been released. NCO is an Open Source package that consists of a dozen standalone, command-line programs that take netCDF files as input, then operate (e.g., derive new data, average, print, hyperslab, manipulate metadata) and output the results to screen or files in text, binary, or netCDF formats.
Jim Steenburgh from the University of Utah has been awarded the 2024 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.
