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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 ...

Listen to Everette Joseph on the “Weather Geeks” podcast!

November 27, 2024

On November 6, the Director of NSF NCAR, Dr. Everette Joseph, appeared on the Weather Geeks podcast. In the 34-minute episode, called “Atmospheric Insights at NCAR,” the NSF NCAR Director chatted with the hosts about atmospheric research in the past, present, and future, running the institution, and much more. Listen to the episode on Spotify, Apple, or anywhere you get your podcasts. Weath...

Next week, at the AGU meeting, join NSF NCAR for a Town Hall

November 27, 2024

On Wednesday, December 11th, at 12:30 pm ET (which is 10:30 am MT), NSF NCAR invites you to join an NSF NCAR Town Hall to take place at the AGU Fall Meeting 2024. Each year, NSF NCAR provides computing resources, services, and support to tens of thousands of researchers worldwide. The NSF NCAR Town Hall will highlight some of the most exciting new developments in our cyberinfrastructure for e...