We at NSF Unidata are pleased to announce that we have now received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the next year of the period of performance of our five-year award. This positive development allows us to end the current furlough of our staff and resume our operations. While we are grateful to receive our next increment of funding, we are mindful of the challenges that lie ahead with our continued funding given the administration's proposed FY26 budget that cuts NSF's budget by over fifty percent.
Due to the current gap in funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program is pausing most operations. Nearly all staff will be furloughed until funds from our existing NSF grant become available.
In the wake of the U. S. National Science Foundation's award of financial support in response to NSF Unidata's most recent core program funding proposal, there have been several changes at the Program Center. This article attempts to explain the Program's current situation, what changes have been made, and what we are planning to do next.
The NSF Unidata Program receives the majority of its funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation. Every five years, the program submits a new proposal for core program funding to the NSF, outlining past accomplishments and describing plans for future activities.
We are please to announce that our most recent five-year funding proposal, Unidata Reimagined: New Approaches to Community Data Services, has been awarded.
You may have noticed a change on this web site recently: where you might expect to see the name "Unidata" you are now beginning to see "NSF Unidata" in its place. Just what's going on?
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is seeking public input from the science and engineering research and education community on implementing the NSF Public Access Plan 2.0.
The Public Access Plan 2.0 is an update to NSF current public access requirements in response to recent White House Office of Science and Technology Policy guidance; among other things, it addresses potential equity impacts of public access requirements.
The National Science Foundation is sponsoring a workshop focusing on “Next Generation Cloud Research Infrastructure,” on November 11-12, 2019, in Princeton, NJ. The workshop will immediately precede the ACM HotNets 2019 workshop at the same location.
The Unidata Program receives the majority of its funding from the National Science Foundation. Every five years, the program submits a new proposal to the NSF, outlining past accomplishments and describing plans for future activities.
As Unidata entered the final year of the most recent NSF proposal period, which ended on March 31, 2019, Program Center staff and members of Unidata's governing committees engaged in countless conversations about the future direction of the program. The impact of existing programs, requests from community members for new or augmented services, and prognostications about the future needs of the geoscience educators and researchers all figured into the discussions. The resulting proposal, titled Unidata: Next-generation Data Services and Workflows to Advance Geoscience Research and Education, was awarded by NSF with an official start date of May 1, 2019.
In preparation for a routine review of the Unidata Program by our sponsors at the National Science Foundation, we are collecting anecdotes that illustrate the ways in which Unidata's activities have benefitted you, your research, your teaching, your students, or your community.
If you've got a story that hinges on data you received through the Internet Data Distribution (IDD) system, or on visualizations created with the Integrated Data Viewer (IDV), or your experiences with AWIPS, GEMPAK, or metPy, tell us!
The Unidata Program receives the majority of its funding from the National Science Foundation. Every five years, the program submits a new proposal to the NSF, outlining past accomplishments and describing plans for future activities. We recently received word from the NSF that Unidata's most recent five-year proposal had been accepted and funded.
While much of the work proposed involves the continuation and extension of existing programs, projects, and services, the proposal does chart a new direction for the program; namely the provision of data and services through the "cloud" mechanisms that are becoming ubiquitous.
