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.

The FARR Workshop 2026, April 8-9, 2026 at the AGU Conference Center in Washington DC, aims to make advances in the areas of AI Readiness, AI Reproducibility, and the intersection of the FAIR Principles and ML.

The NSF Unidata Program Center is pleased to announce the opening of the 2026 NSF Unidata Community Equipment Awards solicitation. Created under the sponsorship of the U.S. National Science Foundation, NSF Unidata equipment awards are intended to encourage new members from diverse disciplinary backgrounds in the Earth Systems Sciences to join the NSF Unidata community, and to encourage existing members to continue their active participation, enhancing the community process. For 2026, a total of $100,000 is available for awards; proposals for amounts up to $20,000 will be considered.

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.

Earth Science Information Partners is now accepting applications for the next cohort for ESIP Community Fellows.

NSF Unidata offers JupyterHub resources tailored to the instructional requirements of university atmospheric science classes through the Science Gateway project. For the Fall 2025 term, NSF Unidata is once again offering universities (or individual instructors) access to cloud-based JupyterHub servers tailored to their requirements.

The 106th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting in will be held 25-29 January 2026 in Houston, TX. This year's theme is “Fast and Slow Thinking: The Human Factor in a Rapidly Changing World.” The submission deadline for abstracts is 14 August 2025.

The American Geophysical Union's 2025 Fall Meeting in will be held 15-19 December 2025 in New Orleans, LA. This year's theme is “Where Science Connects Us.” The submission deadline for abstracts is 30 July 2025.

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.