The 2010 Unidata Equipment Awards Program
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
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NSF has once again funded the Unidata Program Center to provide up to $100k in equipment grants this year.  Since 2003, when the UPC took over the administration of the Equipment Awards Program from NSF, 45 awards have been granted to academic institutions across the world. We look forward to receiving and providing funds for another group of quality proposals.

In alignment with the Unidata 2013 proposal, the Equipment Awards Program is designed to broaden participation and promote the use of Unidata tools and systems (e.g., THREDDS, NetCDF, IDV, GIS connections) to support education and research on various aspects of climate studies (e.g., diagnostics, change and impacts), by providing grants to be used in the procurement of new computers and equipment including upgrades to existing classroom and laboratory equipment. 

This year special consideration was given to proposals that:

  • Plan to install either the THREDDS Data Server or RAMADDA at their institutions to share data relevant to furthering Unidata's mission, including but not limited to data from real-time IDD/LDM feeds, local observations, data from local modeling efforts, case study data collections, and climate data.
  • Foster research and education at the boundary between our core meteorology community and other communities, including societal impacts as well as other geoscience disciplines.

A Request for Proposals was sent out February 2 with an April 2 submission deadline. We received 11 proposals. The Review Panel has been formed and will meet at the Unidata Program Center on April 22.  Applicants will be notified of their award status by June.