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.
NSF Unidata is governed by its community. Our Strategic Advisory and Users committees facilitate consensus-building for future directions of the NSF Unidata Program and establish standards of involvement for the community. Direct involvement in the Program by the academic community helps NSF Unidata stay on top of trends in Earth Systems Science education and research; for example, recent initiatives on Python and cloud-based computing have benefited tremendously from committee advice and involvement.
We are looking for several creative people at U.S. universities and colleges who are using NSF Unidata products and services — or who are familiar with NSF Unidata — to help guide the program in addressing the needs of our growing community. Nominate someone (even yourself) to join NSF Unidata's governing committees today!
Do you use NSF Unidata software packages? Do you love to write code or teach others about data-centered Earth System Science? Maybe you're just interested in the interplay of science and data? The NSF Unidata Summer Internship program is looking for you!
The NSF Unidata Summer Internship offers undergraduate and graduate students an opportunity to work with NSF Unidata Program Center staff on projects drawn from a wide variety of areas in the atmospheric and computational sciences. Apply for the 2025 internship by 24 January 2025.
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.
NSF Unidata is governed by its community. Our Strategic Advisory and Users committees facilitate consensus-building for future directions of the NSF Unidata Program and establish standards of involvement for the community. Direct involvement in the Program by the academic community helps NSF Unidata stay on top of trends in Earth Systems Science education and research; for example, recent initiatives on Python and cloud-based computing have benefited tremendously from committee advice and involvement.
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?
Do you use NSF Unidata software packages? Do you love to write code or teach others about data-centered Earth System Science? Maybe you're just interested in the interplay of science and data? The NSF Unidata Summer Internship program is looking for you!
The NSF Unidata Summer Internship offers undergraduate and graduate students an opportunity to work with NSF Unidata Program Center staff on projects drawn from a wide variety of areas in the atmospheric and computational sciences. NSF Unidata's mission is to support the Earth System Science research and education community with data and tools for data access, analysis, and visualization. As a NSF Unidata intern, you'll pursue the goal of adding innovative enhancements to data access, analysis, and visualization tools developed within NSF Unidata.
