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Sustainable Scientific Software Conference and National Laboratory Information Technology Summit

December 11, 2024

The Sustainable Scientific Software Conference (S3C), hosted by the National Laboratories Information Technology (NLIT) Summit, will be held May 5th-8th, 2025 in Denver, CO. HPC users through system engineers among others are all welcome to attend. Registration is free for all NCAR affiliated staff or others employed by national labs and FFRDC type centers. NCAR staff may select OTHER in organi...

Deadline Extended - NCAR / NOAA / NREL Open Hackathon and Mentor Call

December 11, 2024

The deadline to apply to participate in the NOAA / NCAR / NREL Open Hackathon has been extended to after AGU, Monday Dec 16th 11:59pm PT. The event with virtual attendance option is scheduled for February 25th to 27th 2025, to be held at the NREL campus in Golden, CO, with virtual introduction meetings on the 12th and 18th. Open Hackathons are multi-day, hands-on events designed to facilitate...

2025 Improving Scientific Software Conference now accepting abstracts

December 11, 2024

The UCAR Software Engineering Assembly's Improving Scientific Software Conference is now accepting abstracts for our 2025 event which will take place April 7-10, 2025 at NSF NCAR's Center Green Campus and virtually. The theme of ISS 2025 is From Legacy to Leading-Edge: Transforming Software Design in Science to Meet Tomorrow’s Challenges. As always, we welcome anyone with an interest in improvi...

Quasar data archive system maintenance on December 16

December 11, 2024

The Quasar tape-based archive system will be down for maintenance Monday, 12/16, from 8am-5pm for a software upgrade. During this time data migrations to or from tape will not occur, and users will not be able to access the Quasar Globus endpoint.

Join a virtual talk by a NASA postdoc fellow on flares, storms, and space weather

December 4, 2024

Please join NSF NCAR’s Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science (CPAESS) for a virtual seminar talk with Dr. Charlotte Waterfall, NASA Jack Eddy Postdoctoral Fellow, Goddard Space Flight Center–NASA. The talk, which takes place Wednesday, December 18, from 10:00 to 11:00 am MT, is entitled “Flares, Storms, and Space Weather: Tracing solar eruptions and their journey to...

Next week, join a webinar on the WFIP-3 project in wind energy

December 4, 2024

On Wednesday, December 18, 2024, at 8:00 to 9:00 am MST, join a webinar entitled “Project Overview and Initial Results from the Third Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP-3).” Anthony Kirincich, Senior Scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, will present initial results from WFIP-3, a project focusing on the offshore wind regime along the U.S. East Coast. WFIP-3 seeks to improve ...