In case you missed it — here's a recap of news from the NSF Unidata Program Center for the month of July, 2024.
Upcoming deadlines to be aware of:
| 2 August | Nominations for the NSF Unidata Governing Committee membership are due. |
| 15 August | Abstract submission deadline for the 105th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting. |
| 19 September | Abstract submission deadline for the 24th Annual Student Conference at the American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting. |
Highlights from last month:
NetCDF operators (NCO) version 5.2.6
Version 5.2.6 of the netCDF Operators (NCO) has been released. NCO is an Open Source package that consists of a dozen standalone, command-line programs that take netCDF files as input, then operate (e.g., derive new data, average, print, hyperslab, manipulate metadata) and output the results to screen or files in text, binary, or netCDF formats.
I-Guide Forum 2024: Convergence Science and Geospatial AI for Environmental Sustainability
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.
AWIPS Team Reduction
Announcing the departure of one of our AWIPS team members, as well as a reduction in the AWIPS Tips blog series.
Abstract Deadlines for AMS, AGU Meetings
The 105th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting in will be held 12-16 January 2025 in New Orleans, LA. The American Geophysical Union's 2024 Fall Meeting in will be held 9-13 December 2024 in Washington, DC.
New eLearning: Machine Learning Foundations in the Earth Systems Sciences
Announcing a new eLearning module available now on Unidata eLearning: Machine Learning Foundations in the Earth Systems Sciences. This no-code module is designed to guide you through the very basics of supervised machine learning in the Earth Systems Sciences.
NSF Unidata at the 2024 Earth Educators' Rendezvous
NSF Unidata Instructional Designer Nicole Corbin and AI/ML Software Engineer Thomas Martin were at the 2024 Earth Educators' Rendezvous in Philadelphia, PA the week of July 15-19, 2024.
NSF Unidata Funding Proposal Approved by U.S. National Science Foundation
The NSF Unidata Program receives the majority of its funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation. We are please to announce that our most recent five-year funding proposal, Unidata Reimagined: New Approaches to Community Data Services, has been awarded.
netCDF-Java version 5.6.0 released
The NSF Unidata THREDDS development team released netCDF-Java 5.6.0 on July 16th, 2024. This release contains a number of security upgrades to third party libraries, a variety of bug fixes, and several new features and improvements.
TDS version 5.5 released
The NSF Unidata THREDDS development team released the THREDDS Data Server (TDS) version 5.5 on July 16th, 2024. This release contains a number of security upgrades to third party libraries, a variety of bug fixes, and several new features and improvements. It is recommended that all TDS users upgrade to this version.
AWIPS Full Beta Release v23.4.1-0.3
AWIPS 23.4.1-0.3 is a beta release, with both EDEX and CAVE installation options. This release includes a major upgrade for the operating system, running on Rocky 8 Linux – which is a free Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution.
NetCDF operators (NCO) version 5.2.7
Version 5.2.7 of the netCDF Operators (NCO) has been released. NCO is an Open Source package that consists of a dozen standalone, command-line programs that take netCDF files as input, then operate (e.g., derive new data, average, print, hyperslab, manipulate metadata) and output the results to screen or files in text, binary, or netCDF formats.
On the Developer's Blog
NSF Unidata Program Center developers write regularly on technical topics on the Unidata Developer's Blog. The ongoing MetPy Mondays series is on a short hiatus.
Governing Committee News
NSF Unidata's Users Committee met May 13-14, 2024 at the Unidata Program Center in Boulder, CO. The Users Committee will meet in a joint session with the Strategic Advisory Committee in September, 2024.
NSF Unidata's Strategic Advisory Committee met May 2-3, 2024 at Howard University in Washington, DC. The Strategic Advisory Committee will meet in a joint session with the Users Committee in September, 2024.
