The 2011 Unidata Equipment
Awards Program
Sponsored by the
National Science Foundation
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NSF provides the Unidata Program Center up to $100k in equipment grant funds
each year. 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,
This year special consideration was given to proposals
that:
·
Include installation of either/both THREDDS Data Server
and RAMADDA to share data relevant to furthering Unidata's
mission with the community at-large.
This includes but is not limited to data from real-time IDD/LDM feeds,
local observations, data from local modeling efforts, case study collections,
and climate data.
·
Include installation of a prototype AWIPS II EDEX
server, when AWIPS II is made available in the Fall
2011 time frame, to share data relevant to furthering Unidata's
mission with the community at-large.
A Request for Proposals was sent out on December 9, 2010 with a March 18 submission deadline. The Review Panel met on April 12 at the Unidata Program Center and recommeded that the following eight proposals of the nine that were received be funded for the 2011 program:
| Institution & PI | Proposal |
| New Mexico State University David DuBois |
Portal for Community Access to Meteorological, Satellite, and Model Archives Proposal | |
| Pennsylvania State University Charles Pavloski |
IDD Ingest Relay Replacement in Support of the THREDDS/RAMADDA Server System at Penn State Proposal | |
| Rutgers University John Kerfoot |
Upgrade of Existing Computer Hardware to Facilitate Processing and Distribution of
Large Oceanographic and Environmental Datasets from the Rutgers University Coastal
Ocean Observation Laboratory Proposal | |
| San Jose State University Alison Bridger & Marty Leach |
Server Upgrade and Electronic Map Wall at San Jose State University Proposal | |
| Texas A&M University Gerald J. Creager |
Upgrading LDM Server and Archive Systems to support Atmospheric Sciences at Texas A&M University
and in the Broader Community Proposal | |
| University of Colorado / CIRES Catherine A. Smith |
Improving Access to a Climate Data Repository using Unidata Tools Proposal | |
| University of Salento, Italy Giovanni Aloisio |
Establishment of a Multiplexed Thredds Installation and a Ramadda Collaboration Environment for Community Access to Climate Change Data Proposal | |
| University of South Florida Jennifer M. Collins |
Upgrading Meteorological Analysis and Visualization Capability Proposal | |
Congratulations to all of the award recipients and we thank the Review Panel members, NSF and the Unidata community for their continued support of the Equipment Awards Program.