The NSF Unidata Program Center is pleased to welcome new members to the program's advisory committees. Committee members serve three-year terms, meeting twice each year to provide feedback on the effectiveness of the NSF Unidata Program and advise staff on issues facing the university community. Appointments reflect the range of large and small colleges and universities with undergraduate and graduate emphases where NSF Unidata systems are in use.
The NSF Unidata 2025 Community Survey is closing on Friday, June 2025. If you have not yet had a chance to let us know how we can help you achieve your Earth Systems Science research and teaching goals, please do take some time to do so now. As a community-focused program, NSF Unidata relies on input from educators, researchers, students, and professionals working across the Earth Systems Sciences. Whether you're a longtime user or new to our offerings, your voice plays a critical role in shaping the future of NSF Unidata.
Announcing a new eLearning series available now on Unidata eLearning: Supervised Machine Learning Readiness. This learning series is a self-paced, beginner-friendly program designed for Earth systems scientists to explore the core principles of supervised machine learning. This series uses a combination of step-by-step frameworks, exploratory widgets, and low-code exercises in Jupyter Notebooks, to explore the full cycle of machine learning model development. No programming experience is required. By the end of the series, you will be able to recognize when machine learning is an appropriate tool and critically evaluate machine learning in Earth systems science contexts.
As a community-focused program, NSF Unidata relies on input from educators, researchers, students, and professionals working across the Earth system sciences. Whether you're a longtime user or new to our offerings, your voice plays a critical role in shaping the future of NSF Unidata.
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!
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.
The NSF NCAR Advanced Study Program (ASP) is pleased to announce that they are now accepting applications from graduate students for the 2025 Graduate Visitor Program.
The NSF Unidata Program Center is pleased to welcome new members to the program's governing committees. Committee members serve three-year terms, meeting twice each year to provide feedback on the effectiveness of the NSF Unidata Program and advise staff on issues facing the university community. Appointments reflect the range of large and small colleges and universities with undergraduate and graduate emphases where Unidata systems are in use.
NSF Unidata is at the 2024 Earth Educators' Rendezvous in Philadelphia, PA the week of July 15-19, 2024. Join Instructional Designer Nicole Corbin and AI/ML Software Engineer Thomas Martin on Friday's poster session to discuss their ongoing collaboration with Metropolitan State University of Denver, Machine Learning Foundations and Applications in the Earth Systems Sciences.
