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AGU Hydrology H3S @agu-h3s.bsky.social · 9d

Wowza! The votes keep streaming in! Next #Headwaters match up for #CatchmentCup2025 is:

Nsimi vs Fudoji & Kiyu Experimental Watersheds!

Vote here: www.agu-h3s.org/rivercup
Check out facts below:

Let us know if you work at any sites or have visited we would love to see more photos!!!

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NSF NCAR & UCAR @ncar-ucar.bsky.social · 23d

The Advanced Study Program’s Graduate Visitor Program Fellowship is accepting applications! This fellowship allows graduate students to work on their thesis, dissertation, or final project equivalent, with guidance from NSF NCAR scientists and engineers.

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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · Sep 8

Attention Teachers and Educators!
Have the NWS visit your classroom virtually! Presentation topics include weather, climate, space weather, hydrology (rivers) & tsunamis, and are available in English and Spanish. weather.gov/education/sc... #BackToSchoolNOAA

A group of students sit on a classroom floor facing the projector screen which displays a map of the United States and the faces of meteorologists virtually speaking about the presentation. The students hold their laptops and listen intently to the presentation. Text on the photo reads: Virtual School Talks

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Falko Judt @cloudprophet.bsky.social · Sep 5

🌍 The MMM lab at @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is running experimental realtime forecasts with a global 3.75-km MPAS model.

Goal: Highlight the power of global km-scale models for weather prediction from local to planetary scales, incl. tropical cyclones.

👉 project.mmm.ucar.edu/real-time-fo...

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NSF NCAR & UCAR @ncar-ucar.bsky.social · Aug 29

Applications are OPEN for the Faculty Innovator Program, supporting collaborative interdisciplinary projects pairing faculty with NSF NCAR researchers. Applicants will start with the Ideas Lab workshops to co-develop proposals. Due Sept. 15. https://edec.ucar.edu/university-partnerships/innovators

Diagram of the process for applying. Please see website for full details.

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Jeremy Tuloup @jtp.io · Aug 19

👋 JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebook users:

What's one thing you'd love to see improved in JupyterLab, Jupyter Notebook, or JupyterLite?

The team is prepping the upcoming 4.5/7.5 releases and wants to tackle some usability issues.

Drop your feedback below, this will help prioritize what gets fixed!👇

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Project Pythia @projectpythia.bsky.social · Jul 10

Still 10 more days to join us in Boulder to cook up some great open-source geoscience Python notebooks!

NSF NCAR Computational & Information Systems Laboratory @ncar-cisl.bsky.social · Jul 2

Happy July! There is still time to register for the 2025 @projectpythia.bsky.social Cook-off Hackathon!
Registration closes July 20th.

📅 Aug 5–8 | 📍 @ncar-ucar.bsky.social Mesa Lab in Boulder, CO.

Learn more: projectpythia.org/pythia-cooko...

Pythia Cook-off 2025 - Pythia Cook-off 2025

projectpythia.org

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NSF NCAR & UCAR @ncar-ucar.bsky.social · Jun 12

Celebrating 30 years of our Community Earth System Model (CESM)! 🌍 We’re gathering input on CESM’s national and international impact through a quick survey. 📝 If you’ve used CESM data, models or support resources, your feedback is essential. The survey closes 6/19.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Impacts of CESM

As we celebrate the 30 year anniversary of the Community Earth System Model (CESM), we are seeking to better characterize the value of the CESM activity, which includes the model, data, and support th...

docs.google.com

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Katelyn FitzGerald @kafitzgerald.bsky.social · Jun 5

A great opportunity to learn and collaborate with folks on open geoscience workflows!

NSF NCAR Computational & Information Systems Laboratory @ncar-cisl.bsky.social · Jun 5

Join us for the 2025 Pythia Cook-off Hackathon! Registration is open and closes July 20th.   📅 Aug 5–8 | 📍 NSF NCAR Mesa Lab in Boulder, CO.

🚨 Apply for travel support for US-based students/postdocs by June 20th! Learn more: projectpythia.org/pythia-cooko...

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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · May 16

Heads up on this vital 100 hour streaming marathon on the value of weather and climate expertise as National Weather Service struggles with staff shortages and reduction in service
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

100-Hour Streaming Marathon To Highlight Value Of Weather Expertise

A 100-hour streaming marathon before hurricane season seeks to raise awareness of cuts to the weather-climate enterprise and why that expertise matters to us all.

www.forbes.com

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Katelyn FitzGerald @kafitzgerald.bsky.social · May 17

Any chance it was recorded?

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Russ Schumacher @rschumacher.cloud · May 9

Have you ever looked at a weather map online? Or seen a nice visualization of weather forecast model output? If so, NSF Unidata almost certainly made that possible in one way or another.

Modern meteorological education would not be possible without the data, tools, and resources they provide.

NSF Unidata @unidata.bsky.social · May 9

Due to the current gap in funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program is pausing most operations effective 12 May 2025. Nearly all staff will be furloughed until funds from our existing NSF grant become available. For more information, see buff.ly/d2TC1Oy

NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations

www.unidata.ucar.edu

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pyOpenSci @pyopensci.org · May 6

If you or somone you know has been impacted by federal grant funding cuts, there is a funding initiative supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Kapor and William Grant Foundations that provides modest bridge funding. Please share widely.

www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
#science #openscience

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · May 1

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

www.nature.com

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NSF NCAR Computational & Information Systems Laboratory @ncar-cisl.bsky.social · Apr 29

🔔 Slides & recordings from the 2025 Improving Scientific Software Conference are now available within the online conference program: sea.ucar.edu/iss/2025-pro...

Thanks to all who joined us—see you in 2026! #ISS2025 #ScientificSoftware

UCAR Software Engineering Assembly - Program

The public facing site for the UCAR SEA featuring news, event information, and best practices.

sea.ucar.edu

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NSF Unidata @unidata.bsky.social · Apr 28

✨The 2025 NSF Unidata Community Survey is now live! ✨
Share your insights, support community progress.

Take 15 minutes to complete the survey, and as a thank you, you'll have the chance to enter a drawing for an NSF Unidata swag bag.

🔗 arcg.is/zLOSW

#PoweredByUnidata

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scipyconf.bsky.social @scipyconf.bsky.social · Apr 25

📢 We're looking for reviewers for the #SciPy2025 Proceedings! 🚀

🙋‍♀️ If you're interested or want to nominate someone, fill out this short form:

forms.gle/kuVdZenq5XrS...

SciPy Proceedings Reviewer Suggestions

Thank you for your interest in the SciPy 2025 conference. As part of the conference, a proceedings journal is being organized, for which we are organizing reviewers. If you would like to nominate…

forms.gle

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American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · Apr 24

New AMS Statement and Special Report: The Federal agencies in the public sector provide a foundational role in supporting the rest of the weather enterprise. A failure of these systems would be catastrophic.

Read the AMS Statement: bit.ly/4lLTdbk

Without a Strong Weather Enterprise America's Economic Leadership Is at Risk

The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.

www.ametsoc.org

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Katelyn FitzGerald @kafitzgerald.bsky.social · Apr 23

Great opportunity for Earth systems science data folks:

NSF NCAR Computational & Information Systems Laboratory @ncar-cisl.bsky.social · Apr 22

We're hiring! Scientific Data Curation Consultant. You'll work with engineers & scientists to support the @ncar-rda.bsky.social w/ developing and maintaining research data management services 💻 for atmospheric & 🌍Earth systems science research. Apply: ucar.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/UCAR_Careers...

CISL Scientific Data Curation Consultant

Job Description Summary: UCAR is excited to announce the job opening for the Computational & Information Systems Lab’s (CISL) Data Engineer II - Scientific Data Curation Consultant. This position ...

ucar.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com

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Katelyn FitzGerald @kafitzgerald.bsky.social · Apr 23

Lol, same. Regretting my life choices.

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NSF NCAR & UCAR @ncar-ucar.bsky.social · Apr 4

If you provide Earth system science learning at the post-secondary levels or within the workforce, we need your input! Take this quick survey so we can understand your priorities + obstacles to providing education, training & support: www.surveymonkey.com/r/ESS_Needs

Earth System Science Needs

The goal of this study is to understand the state of education and training efforts for emerging ESS specializations and help identify ways that UCAR and its collaborators could address priorities and...

www.surveymonkey.com

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · Mar 21

I’m keeping a running upperair observation status page on my website.

I have additional metadata like reason for degradation, degradation type, when the degradation began, etc. In a coming update you will be able to read those things by clicking on the site.

www.stormscale.io/spc/upperair...

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Tomer Burg @burgwx.bsky.social · Mar 20

2 additional radiosonde sites are temporarily suspending launches, while 6 others are reducing to one launch a day. 14 out of 83 sites now have partial or no launches.

The more radiosondes are reduced or suspended, the more noticeable the forecast skill reduction becomes.

Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · Mar 20

Up-to-date NWS upper air network map

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Katelyn FitzGerald @kafitzgerald.bsky.social · Mar 14

These guides from Scientific Python are great as well: learn.scientific-python.org/development/

Home

This guide is maintained by the scientific Python community for the benefit of fellow scientists and research software engineers.

learn.scientific-python.org

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · Mar 12

Reminder, NOAA/NWS houses the Volcanic Ash Advisory Center. NOAA/NWS reductions in force (RIF) decisions are expected in the next few days.

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