The Unidata Users Committee invites you to join Unidata staff, community members, and distinguished speakers this July in Boulder, Colorado. The goal of this year's workshop is to raise awareness of data science in the geoscience academic community and share hands-on activities, course materials, and ideas for improving research and education.
The workshop, titled Navigating Earth System Science Data, is scheduled for July 9-13, 2012.
David Knight of the University at Albany -- SUNY's Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences has been awarded the 2012 Russell L. DeSouza Award by the Unidata Users committee. The DeSouza Award honors "individuals whose energy, expertise, and active involvement enable the Unidata Program to better serve the geosciences."
The Cooperative Opportunity for NCEP Data Using IDD Technology (CONDUIT) uses Unidata's Local Data Manager (LDM) and Internet Data Distribution (IDD) technologies to make high-resolution model data sets available to the U.S. Weather Research Program (USWRP) and university communities. These NCEP model data consist of a substantial set of NCEP and NWS model data not currently available on NOAAPort.
NCEP and Unidata are in the process of evaluating the contents of the CONDUIT data feed. We would like your help in determining which of the model output currently included in the feed are in use, which are candidates for removal from the feed, and which new model runs (if any) should be added to the feed.
The survey should take fewer than five minutes of your time. Please give us your feedback!
The Unidata Program Center would like to remind members of our community that the deadline for the 2012 Unidata Community Equipment Awards is March 9, 2012.
Created under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation, Unidata equipment awards are intended to encourage new members from diverse disciplinary backgrounds in the geosciences to join the Unidata community, and to encourage existing members to continue their active participation, enhancing the community process. For 2012, a total of $100,000 is available for awards; proposals for amounts up to $20,000 will be considered.
Residents of Boulder, Colorado are familiar with the Chinook winds that bring warm, dry air down from the mountains to the west of town. To composer and musician Nathan Hall, however, the Chinook represented a source of musical inspiration as well. With the help of NCAR and UCAR staff including Unidata Program Center scientist Jeff Weber, Hall used weather data from the Boulder area as the basis for a 7-minute composition and video titled, fittingly, "Chinook."
The Unidata Users Committee invites you to join Unidata staff, community members, and distinguished speakers for the 2012 Unidata Users workshop. The goal of this year's workshop is to raise awareness of data science in the geoscience academic community and share hands-on activities, course materials, and ideas for improving research and education.
The 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 Unidata Program to better serve the geosciences. Honorees personify Unidata's ideal of a community that shares ideas, data, and software through computing and networking technologies.
Members of the Unidata Program Center staff will be attending the 92nd annual American Meteorology Society meeting, January 22-26 2012, in New Orleans. Unidata will be in Booth 322 in the exhibit hall (map); feel free to stop by to talk with us. The booth will feature live, hands-on demonstrations of Unidata software and services, including a look at the current state of the AWIPS II environment. Come and talk with the developers about what's coming up and what you'd like to see.
The Cooperative Opportunity for NCEP Data Using IDD Technology (CONDUIT) uses Unidata's Local Data Manager (LDM) and Internet Data Distribution (IDD) technologies to make high-resolution model data sets available to the U.S. Weather Research Program (USWRP) and university communities. These 
