Talks and Posters
featuring NSF Unidata Staff
Several NSF Unidata staff members will be presenting as part of the AMS Scientific Program.
Saturday, January 24, 2026
| Time | Session | Title | Location | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17:30 - 19:30 | Career Resource and Graduate School Fair | Hall B3, table T-39 | Several |
Sunday, January 25, 2026
| Time | Session | Title | Location | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14:00 - 15:45 | Session 10F | Breakout Session: Hands-on Experiences - Exploring Meteorological Datasets with NSF Unidata AWIPS and MetPy | Room 320B | Drew Camron, Tiffany Meyer |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | S24 | C++ Accelerating Unidata’s MetPy Thermodynamic Engine and its Adaptation to Jovian Storm Analysis | Hall B3 | Linfeng Li (2025 Summer Intern), Ryan May, Drew Camron, Jaye Norman (2025 Summer Intern), Yuan Ho, Sean Arms |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | S23 | Performance Benchmarking of NSF Unidata MetPy in a CI/CD Workflow | Hall B3 | Jaye Norman (2025 Summer Intern) |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Career Resource and Graduate School Fair | Hall B3, table T-39 | Several |
Monday, January 26, 2026
| Time | Session | Title | Location | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17:30 - 17:45 | J4.5 | Unidata Science Gateway: Integrating Atmospheric Science Desktop Applications with Modern Code-Driven Workflows in the Cloud | Room 372A | Julien Chastang, Ana Espinoza |
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
| Time | Session | Title | Location | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14:30 - 14:45 | 7.4 | Voices of the Earth Systems Science Community: Insights from the 2025 NSF Unidata Assessment Survey | Room 372A | Tanya Vance, Nicole Corbin, Alexander R. Davies, Brian Tang, Mohan Ramamurthy |
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
| Time | Session | Title | Location | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 - 08:45 | 8.1 | Future Directions for Earth Observations and Data Stewardship: National Academies Workshop Insights and Opportunities | Room 342D | Steven J. Stichter |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | J9.5 | Improving MetPy Performance with C++: Gains and Challenges | Room 372A | Ryan May, Drew Camron, Kevin Goebbert |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | 10.3 | NSF Unidata AWIPS Update | Room 372A | Tiffany Meyer |
| 15:00 - 16:30 | 563 | C++ Accelerating Unidata’s MetPy Thermodynamic Engine and its Adaptation to Jovian Storm Analysis | Hall B3 | Linfeng Li (2025 Summer Intern), Ryan May, Drew Camron, Jaye Norman (2025 Summer Intern), Yuan Ho, Sean Arms |
| 15:00 - 16:30 | 562 | Performance Benchmarking of NSF Unidata MetPy in a CI/CD Workflow | Hall B3 | Jaye Norman (2025 Summer Intern), Linfeng Li (2025 Summer Intern), Ryan May, Drew Camron, Sean Arms |
Thursday, January 29, 2026
| Time | Session | Title | Location | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15:00 - 16:30 | 803 | The NSF Unidata Summer Internship: 14 Years of Adding Open Source to Open Science By Investing in the Software and Education Skills of Students and Their Communities | Hall B3 | Drew Camron, Ryan May |
Open Source Software
NSF Unidata Programs
NSF Unidata organizes a variety of programs aimed at bringing together and supporting the geosciences education and research community.
18 May to 31 July, 2026
The NSF Unidata Summer Internship program offers graduate students and upper-level undergrads an opportunity to work with NSF Unidata software engineers and scientists on projects drawn from a wide variety of areas that overlap atmospheric and computational sciences. NSF Unidata's mission is to support the Earth Systems Science research and education community with innovative data access, analysis, and visualization tools. Interns use, design, and/or modify existing NSF Unidata software in innovative ways to better support the NSF Unidata Community.
Applications are due by February 6, 2026
Need gear?
The NSF Unidata Community Equipment Award grants program provides resources for educational institutions to purchase computing equipment that will let them take advantage of NSF Unidata technologies for education and research. The goal is to encourage new members from diverse disciplinary backgrounds in the geosciences to join the NSF Unidata community, and for existing members to continue their active participation so as to enhance the community process.
Several grants of up to $20,000 are awarded each year.
Proposals are due by March 27, 2026
Learn to use software and data
NSF Unidata offers technical support for all of the software it makes available to the education and research community. In addition, we offer a variety of learning experiences in partnership with academic institutions and scientific conferences.
NSF Unidata hosts a selection of freely available asynchronous learning materials on NSF Unidata eLearning and YouTube.
The NSF Unidata Science Gateway offers custom JupyterHub clusters deployed on top of the NSF Jetstream2 Cloud at no cost to researchers and educators in the Earth Systems Science community. In addition to enabling users to create and run their own interactive python notebooks, our JupyterHubs can be equipped to track one or many GitHub repositories to easily share content with your users.
Contact NSF Unidata
Write to us any time at support@unidata.ucar.edu for support with NSF Unidata software and services, access to data, internships, and community programs.
Information about NSF Unidata is also available at the UCAR's booth (#119) in the Exhibit Hall.