The Strategic
Advisory Committee provides a “Big Picture” perspective,
helping the NSF Unidata Program better understand data and technology trends within
the university geoscience community. This high-level, long-term perspective is
crucial to NSF Unidata’s ability to successfully anticipate community needs and
provide proactive solutions and cyberinfrastructure leadership.
The eight voting members of the committee are drawn from academia, balancing
the membership to represent a range of colleges and universities and to reflect
the concerns of both instructors and researchers.
The committee also includes representatives from NASA,
NOAA, and NSF,
as well as from UCAR and NCAR,
who are important
sources of information and advice about events and
conditions that can profoundly affect the program.
The Strategic Advisory Committee meets
twice a year, and its members serve three-year terms. The
committee's official charge is to make recommendations to the director of
Unidata on policies, activities, and objectives. The committee's most important
responsibility is to ensure that the needs of the university community are met
and that Unidata is responsive to those needs.
Learn about the NSF Unidata Strategic
Advisory Committee
NSF Unidata is a broad community of education and research institutions vested in the
common goal of sharing data, tools to access the data, and software to analyze and
visualize the data.
At the heart of NSF Unidata
are participating
institutions engaged in teaching and research activities.
Highlighted examples of NSF Unidata software and data in use at member
universities.
We collaborate with a number
of organizations extend NSF Unidata systems into new arenas.
We work with community members to host in-person and virtual
Learning Experiences
focused on use of NSF Unidata software packages and technologies.
Participation in the NSF Unidata Community allows users to access data and NSF Unidata
software to explore Earth Systems phenomena as well as make beneficial connections
through a variety of interactions.
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for the Unidata Program, and establish standards of
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