The NSF Unidata Summer Internship offers undergraduate and graduate students an opportunity to work with NSF Unidata Program Center staff on software development projects drawn from a wide variety of areas in the atmospheric and computational sciences. Apply for the 2026 internship by 6 February 2026.

In case you missed it — here's a recap of news from the NSF Unidata Program Center for the month of November 2025.

Between April and June 2025, NSF Unidata conducted a comprehensive community assessment survey to understand the Earth Systems Science (ESS) community's needs, challenges, and priorities from both organizational and personal perspectives. This article summarizes our key takeaways from the survey.

In case you missed it — here's a recap of news from the NSF Unidata Program Center for the month of October 2025.

UCAR has scheduled a power down and test of their electrical switchgear for Oct 18th 6AM through Oct 19th 6PM 9 (this weekend).  This will result in an outage in some NSF Unidata services including mailing lists, user support and rtstats.

The IDD, NOAAport, GOES-East, and GOES-West data ingest, ADDE, thredds.ucar.edu, motherlode.ucar.edu, and atm.ucar.edu are expected to continue uninterrupted during this time.
 

In case you missed it — here's a recap of news from the NSF Unidata Program Center for the month of September 2025.

Welcome to NSF Unidata's revamped website. Read on for more about the transition to the new site, which is still in progress.

The Unidata Program Center's two summer student interns — Linfeng Li from the University of Michigan and Jaye Norman from North Carolina State University, Raleigh — have come to the end of their summer appointments. After a summer of dedicated work they presented the results of their projects to the UPC staff on July 23, 2025.

Jaye Norman

Jaye Norman joined the NSF Unidata Program Center as a student summer intern on May 19, 2025. This fall, Jaye will be a Senior at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. After finishing their Bachelor's degree in Meteorology, Jaye plans to attend graduate school for a Master's degree in Meteorology with a focus on numerical modeling.