[community] Call for Proposals: The 2017 Unidata Community Equipment Awards

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• Subject: [community] Call for Proposals: The 2017 Unidata Community Equipment Awards
• From: Terry Mitchell-Sur <tmitchel@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 10:34:24 -0700

Announcing:
*The 2017 Unidata Community Equipment Awards Program*
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation

Are you interested in participating in the Unidata program?
Do you need upgraded equipment to continue participating?
Do you have an innovative contribution to make to the Unidata community?
The Unidata Community Equipment Awards can help!

We are soliciting proposals for computer equipment purchases from *academic
institutions* engaged in teaching and research in the geosciences.

   - Awards up to $20K will be made
   - Proposals must be received at the Unidata Program Center by *March 31,
   2017* to be considered
   - Notifications of award status are expected to be made by May 2017

This year, special consideration will be given to proposals that include
one or more of the following:

   - Production of online training materials (code notebooks, video
   tutorials, online documentation, or similar resources) that can be be
   shared with the Unidata community
   - Projects that advance data-proximate analysis of large remote datasets
   (e.g. GOES-R satellite data)
   - Installation of equipment that provides student access to modern
   visualization tools such as AWIPS, IDV, or Jupyter notebooks

Proposals from minority-serving institutions also receive special
consideration.
As always, these special emphases do not preclude other proposals from the
Unidata community for procuring new computers or upgrading existing
classroom and laboratory equipment to integrate Unidata tools and data
services in geoscience education and research.




*More information is available
at:http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/community/equipaward/RFP2017.html
<http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/community/equipaward/RFP2017.html>*
Or contact us at:

support-egrants@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

We will also be at AMS next week, so be sure to visit the UCAR Community
Programs (UCP) and Unidata booths with questions about this program or any
of our tools and data services!