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.

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

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.

One of the things NSF Unidata Program Center staff members do is participate in scientific, technical, and community meetings. The insights we gain by interacting with others at meetings of groups like the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the Scientific Python community (SciPy), Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) or the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) keep us informed about issues and new developments and help us choose how to spend our efforts for the benefit of the Unidata community.

Here, Ethan Davis highlights some of the things that caught his attention at the 2025 Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) meeting in January.

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

The NSF Unidata Users Committee is seeking nominations for a Graduate Student representative to join the group of university faculty members who serve on this committee. Nominees should be Graduate Students who use NSF Unidata software, hold a strong interest in the NSF Unidata program, and have an interest in learning how a community-based program like NSF Unidata is governed. Nominations may be made by any community member, and self-nominations are acceptable. This position will be for a two-year term beginning with the fall 2025 Users Committee meeting.

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!