The NSF Unidata THREDDS development team released netCDF-Java 5.6.0 on July 16th, 2024. This release contains a number of security upgrades to third party libraries, a variety of bug fixes, and several new features and improvements.
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 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.
Announcing a new eLearning module available now on Unidata eLearning: Machine Learning Foundations in the Earth Systems Sciences. This no-code module is designed to guide you through the very basics of supervised machine learning in the Earth Systems Sciences. You will discover how machine learning is currently being used by scientists, examine the process for supervised machine learning model development, explore how data plays a crucial role in making good predictions, and how to be an effective and ethical user of machine learning tools. You will also learn that machine learning is not a catch-all solution to every problem!
As part of its data-driven mission, I-GUIDE (the Institute for Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment), supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, tackles fundamental scientific and societal challenges focused on sustainability, from climate change and biodiversity loss to food and water insecurity. I-GUIDE Forum 2024, to be held in Jackson, Wyoming October 14-16, 2024, is designed as a conference series to bring together domain science researchers, artificial intelligence (AI) and data scientists, cyberinfrastructure experts, and educators from across academia, government, and industry.
Version 5.2.6 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.
AWIPS 23.4.1-0.2 is a beta release of CAVE for installation on linux, windows, and virtual machines (Windows and Linux). We are currently working on a CAVE installer for MacOS. This release includes a major upgrade for the operating system, running on Rocky 8 Linux – which is a free Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution.
Ana Castaneda Montoya joined the NSF Unidata Program Center as a student summer intern on May 20, 2024; she received her Bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Texas at Dallas the same week. She will be starting her graduate studies at the University of Michigan in August, where she'll pursue a PhD in Climate Science.
