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INnovative Training Enabled by a Research Software Engineering Community of Trainers (INTERSECT) Applications Open
February 4, 2026

The INTERSECT Bootcamp scheduled for July 13-17, 2026 at Princeton University is now accepting applications. The INTERSECT Research Software Engineering Bootcamp will be a 4.5 day intensive hands-on workshop focusing on practices that will help research software developers improve the quality, reproducibility, and sustainability of their software. The bootcamp is primarily geared towards those...

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Read the article: How CIRRUS user examples are inspiring Earth system scientists to host their own projects on CIRRUS
February 2, 2026

NSF NCAR's groundbreaking cloud platform, CIRRUS, now has a dedicated User Applications page. This new page features real-world examples that illustrate the many advantages of CIRRUS and showcase how Earth system scientists, both within and outside the NSF NCAR community, are successfully utilizing the platform. CIRRUS is designed to let researchers concentrate completely on their science by e...

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Join a seminar on rain microphysics—refreshments served for in-person guests
February 2, 2026

On Tuesday, February 10, at 3:30 pm MT, join NSF NCAR’s Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) for a seminar entitled “A Variational Framework for Estimating Rain Microphysics from Dual-Pol Radar Observations.” The speaker will be Nicholas Barron of Aeolus Labs. This seminar introduces a new variational framework that uses dual-pol radar to infer "unmeasurable" storm thermodynamics. By coupling S-POL...

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