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HPC Systems Scheduled Maintenance - November 4-5, 2025

October 15, 2025

All HPC Resources will undergo maintenance November 4-5, 2025. Derecho, Casper, JupyterHub, GLADE file systems, data access nodes, and Globus transfers will all be unavailable for various durations over these two days. The primary maintenance activity will be upgrading the operating system version deployed on Casper and Derecho. This critical activity is required in order to satisfy secur...

Join an early- and mid-career mentoring series, starting Tuesday 10/21

October 8, 2025

The Computing Research Association Widening Participation has opened registrations for a Virtual Early and Mid Career Mentoring Series, starting Thursday, October 16, evenings weekly through the end of November. This six-part series brings together accomplished speakers from academia, industry, and government labs to share their expertise on topics critical to your career development. Whether y...

Apply by Friday 10/31 for the Better Scientific Software Fellowship

October 8, 2025

The Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellowship program fosters and promotes practices, processes and tools to improve developer productivity and software sustainability of scientific codes. Each 2026 BSSw Fellow will receive up to $25,000 for an activity that promotes better scientific software through a publicly available artifact. Activities can include organizing a workshop, preparing a tu...

Apply for ESIP Community Fellows by the upcoming deadline: Monday 10/20

October 8, 2025

Earth Science Information Partners, ESIPfed.org, is now accepting applications for the next cohort of ESIP Community Fellows. ESIP Community Fellows are graduate students interested in bridging the gap between informatics and Earth science. This fellowship provides early career researchers a chance to work closely with professionals in an interdisciplinary, cross-sector group by working with on...

Participate in a colloquium on the history of the High-Altitude Observatory

October 1, 2025

On Wednesday, October 15, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. MT, join the High Altitude Observatory (HAO) for an in-person colloquium. The talk is entitled "The Observatory at Climax: Art, Science, and the History of the High-Altitude Observatory." Hanna Rose Shell, a historian of science and art at the University of Colorado Boulder, will tell the story of the establishment of the Fremont Pass Station (th...

Attend a seminar on climate projection uncertainty

October 1, 2025

On Wednesday, October 15, from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. MT, join NSF NCAR’s Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science (CPAESS) for a virtual seminar. The talk is entitled "The Role of Observation-Based Data in Local Climate Projection Uncertainty." The speaker is Graham Taylor, a former CPAESS Postdoctoral Researcher at NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL). ...