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.

In case you missed it — here's a recap of news from the NSF Unidata Program Center for the month of June, 2024.

The 105th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting in will be held 12-16 January 2025 in New Orleans, LA. This year's theme is “Towards a Thriving Planet: Charting the Course Across Scales.” The submission deadline for abstracts is 15 August 2024.

The American Geophysical Union's 2024 Fall Meeting in will be held 9-13 December 2024 in Washington, DC. This year's theme is “What's Next for Science.” The submission deadline for abstracts is 31 July 2024.

In case you missed it — here's a recap of news from the NSF Unidata Program Center for the month of May, 2024.

A new U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) funded faculty travel grant program will support up to 50 early-to-mid career faculty from under-resourced U.S. undergraduate-focused institutions, such as Emerging Research Institutions (ERIs), Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), and community colleges (2YCs) to attend the fall AGU24 annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

In case you missed it — here's a recap of news from the NSF Unidata Program Center for the month of April, 2024.

Unidata offers computer equipment grants to support a variety of projects

The NSF Unidata Users Committee has decided to extend the deadline for the 2024 Equipment Awards solicitation until April 12, 2024. Institutions who submitted proposals by the original March 29 deadline are invited to amend their proposals and resubmit if they feel they would benefit from the extra preparation time. All other aspects of the 2024 program remain as described in the original announcement.

In case you missed it — here's a recap of news from the NSF Unidata Program Center for the month of March, 2024.

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.

The concept of Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDS) asserts that data generated by Indigenous peoples, including data generated from their land and resources, should be governed by the people themselves. Environmental observations collected on native lands are one small part of the IDS context, and they were the subject of a recent workshop hosted by the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) in Albuquerque, New Mexico.