In case you missed it — here's a recap of news from the NSF Unidata Program Center for the month of June, 2024.
Upcoming deadlines to be aware of:
| 8 July | Apply for NSF Faculty Travel Grants. |
| 31 July | Abstract submission deadline for the American Geophysical Union's 2024 Fall Meeting. |
| 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:
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for Earth Systems Science
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a powerful class of deep learning models widely applied in Earth science for image analysis, classification, and regression problems. Leveraging the Keras framework in python, CNNs can efficiently process and extract spatial features from 2D and 3D remote sensing, model output, and other Earth Systems Science (ESS) data types.
AWIPS Tips: Using Hotkeys in CAVE
This tip look at some of the most useful shortcuts in CAVE — keyboard hotkeys.
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.
Welcome Summer Intern Leo Matak
Leo Matak joined the NSF Unidata Program Center as a student summer intern on May 20, 2024. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Currently, he is pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Houston, where he is part of the Environmental Fluid Mechanics lab, focusing on atmospheric boundary layer dynamics.
Welcome Summer Intern Ana Castaneda Montoya
Ana Castaneda Montoya joined the NSF Unidata Program Center as a student summer intern on May 20, 2024; she received her Bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Texas at Dallas the same week. She will be starting her graduate studies at the University of Michigan in August, where she'll pursue a PhD in Climate Science.
AWIPS Tips: NSF Unidata AWIPS 23.4.1-0.2 Beta CAVE Software Release
AWIPS 23.4.1-0.2 is a beta release of CAVE for installation on linux, windows, and virtual machines (Windows and Linux). We are currently working on a CAVE installer for MacOS. 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.
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.
