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Register by 4/17 for the 2026 Space Weather Workshop

March 30, 2026

From Monday, April 27 to Friday, May 1, join UCAR’s Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science (CPAESS) for the 2026 Space Weather Workshop. This annual gathering, which started in 1996, brings together industry, academia, and government agencies to discuss the impacts of space weather on modern technology, including communications and power systems. The program focuses ...

Join Us for the NHUG-ESDS March Meeting Featuring OpenOnDemand

March 27, 2026

The NCAR HPC User Group (NHUG) and Earth System Data Science (ESDS) Initiative are co-hosting a virtual event this coming Tuesday, March 31st from 1-2p MDT. Daniel Howard and Mike Robbert will be sharing their work deploying Open OnDemand, an open-source web portal providing user friendly access to HPC resources and interactive application support, on NCAR resources (full abstract below). We...

WaterSoftHack 2026 - Inclusive Cyberinfrastructure and Machine Learning Training to Advance Water Science Research

March 24, 2026

Applications are open for WaterSoftHack 2026 scheduled virtually July 20 to July 31, 2026 with deadline March 31, 2026. The WaterSoftHack initiative aims to cultivate the workforce that creates, utilizes, and supports advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) workflows and tools to enable and potentially transform fundamental water science education and research. This is a multi-year NSF-funded proje...

Derecho Maintenance Tuesday April 7th

March 23, 2026

Derecho will be down for maintenance Tuesday, April 7th from approximately 6am-6pm MDT. The primary maintenance activity will be cooling and electrical system maintenance, as well as system network checkout and troubleshooting. Casper, JupyterHub, and all filesystems will remain available. Jobs queued when the downtime begins will be retained for execution after successful system checkout. Pr...

Participate in a seminar regarding East Asian Mesoscale Convective Systems

March 23, 2026

On Thursday, April 2, from 2:00 PM to 3:00 pm MT, join the Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Laboratory (MMM) at NSF NCAR for a seminar featuring Taeho Mun from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology. The talk is entitled “Bridging Satellite Observations And Convection-Permitting Simulations Of East Asian MCSs: From Microphysics Optimization To Future Extremes.” Dr. Mun will ...

Join a colloquium on predictive signatures for space weather

March 23, 2026

On Wednesday, April 1, from 2:00 PM to 3:00 pm MT, join the High Altitude Observatory (HAO) at NSF NCAR for a colloquium featuring Larisza Krista from the University of Colorado Boulder and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CU/CIRES). The talk is entitled “Predictive EUV Signatures: Leveraging Coronal Dimmings And Flare Precursors For Advanced Space Weather Forec...