Do you know someone in the NSF Unidata community who has been actively involved and helpful to you and other NSF Unidata members? Perhaps this is someone who volunteers to assist others, contributes software, or makes suggestions that are generally useful for the community.

The NSF Unidata Users Committee invites you to submit nominations for the Russell L. DeSouza Award for Outstanding Community Service. This Community Service Award honors individuals whose energy, expertise, and active involvement enable the NSF Unidata Program to better serve the Earth Systems Sciences community. Honorees personify NSF Unidata's ideal of a community that shares ideas, data, and software through computing and networking technologies.

Members of the NSF Unidata Program Center staff will be attending the 106th annual American Meteorology Society meeting, to be held 25-29 January 20256 in Houston, TX. 

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.