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Register for the Second Workshop on Correctness and Reproducibility for Earth System Software

September 22, 2025

On Wednesday, November 5, to Friday, November 7, join the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) and the Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory (CGD) at NSF NCAR for the Second Workshop on Correctness and Reproducibility for Earth System Software. This workshop will be held in conjunction with the tutorial: “Rigor and Reasoning in Scientific Software (R3Sw).” The tutorial wil...

Graduate Visitor Program (GVP) Fellowship applications now open; virtual office hours Monday 9/29

September 22, 2025

On Monday, September 29, join the NSF NCAR Advanced Study Program (ASP) for two virtual office hours on the Graduate Visitor Program (GVP) Fellowship: • The first informal drop-in session, at 10:00 am MT, is for prospective graduate student visitors. Students register here. • The second session, at 11:00 am MT, is for potential hosts. Hosts register here. The GVP Fellowship offers an opportu...

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...