The 2012 Unidata Equipment Awards Program

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation

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, 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:

• 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, to share data relevant to furthering Unidata's mission with the community at-large.

A Request for Proposals was sent out on December 27, 2011 with a March 9 submission deadline. A review panel has been formed and will meet on April 3 at the Unidata Program Center to review the five proposals that were received.