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In November, join the family-friendly "Super Science Saturday" event in Boulder

September 15, 2025

On Saturday, November 1, from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm MT, join NSF NCAR and UCAR Science Education for Super Science Saturday. The event is a free, family-friendly event designed to encourage a love for science. Attendees are invited to explore the natural world and learn how to use their "superpowers" of knowledge to become heroes for science. The event will include hands-on activities and demons...

Read the article: New GDEX Data Commons unifies Earth system science research

September 15, 2025

Last Tuesday, NSF NCAR launched the Geoscience Data Exchange (GDEX), a new initiative that unifies three data repositories into a single, comprehensive research data commons. A new article in CISL News explores the origins of GDEX and its potential future impact, both within NSF NCAR and beyond. According to CISL Director Thomas Hauser, GDEX "empowers users to access NSF NCAR's data from a con...

Please join the September NHUG meeting!

September 12, 2025

The next NHUG (NCAR HPC User Group) meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, September 16th, 2025, at 1 PM MT, and we invite all NCAR HPC users to attend. This month’s agenda will include: • Upcoming workshops and relevant opportunities • Upcoming outages • Casper AMD GPUs • Stratus/Boreas transition • Campaign storage space usage reporting tool To add this meeting to your calendar, please use the...

A major milestone for NSF NCAR: The GDEX transition is complete

September 8, 2025

As of Tuesday, September 9, the Research Data Archive (RDA) has been relaunched as the Geoscience Data Exchange – Integrated Research Data Commons (GDEX). GDEX democratizes data access through adherence to FAIR principles, a shared infrastructure integrated with NSF NCAR HPC (Casper and Derecho), national-scale data and compute services, standardized formats, and metadata-rich infrastructure. C...

Join a virtual seminar on freshwater forcing of ocean models

September 8, 2025

On Wednesday, September 17, from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm MT, join NSF NCAR’s Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science (CPAESS) for a seminar with Dr. Raphael Dussin, CPAESS Associate Scientist IV at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL). The talk is entitled "Freshwater Forcing of Ocean Models." Dr. Dussin ...

Join a hybrid seminar about tropical cyclone development, with refreshments for in-person guests

September 8, 2025

On Thursday, September 11, at 2:00 pm MT, join the Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Laboratory (MMM) at NSF NCAR for a seminar with Dr. Jacob Carstens, an assistant professor at the University of North Dakota. The talk is entitled "Tropical Cyclone Response to Vertical Wind Shear in High-Resolution Climate Model Ensembles." Most tropical cyclones fail to reach their maximum potential intens...