Triennial Workshops

Storytelling with Earth System Science Data: Challenges and Opportunities for Effective, Ethical, and Reproducible Science

The 2023 Unidata Users Workshop will be held in Boulder, Colorado. The workshop will cover topics ranging from grand data challenges, tools for exploratory data analysis and visualizing multi-disciplinary data to tell a compelling story, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, data ethics, and open science. Attendees will be spending time with coaches to create a take-home tangible story or draft of a story using their own data. There will also be a poster session and time for informal discussions with presenters and Unidata developers.

Reducing Time to Science: Evolving Workflows for Geoscience Research and Education

The 2018 Unidata Users Workshop theme — Reducing Time to Science: Evolving Workflows for Geoscience Research and Education — drew participants from across the atmospheric and other geosciences communities. Attendees took part in a series of presentations and hands-on exercises that explored approaches to data-proximate computing, uses of machine learning techniques in the geosciences, and interaction with data from new satellites and output from ensemble modeling systems.

Data-Driven Geoscience: Applications, Opportunities, Trends, and Challenges

The 2015 Users Workshop theme — Data-Driven Geoscience: Applications, Opportunities, Trends, and Challenges — drew participants from across the atmospheric and other geosciences communities. Attendees took part in a series of presentations and hands-on exercises that explored how trends in cloud computing and Python-based workflows affect how scientists interact with and manage ever-growing data volumes.

Navigating Earth System Science Data

The main goals of the 2012 Users Workshop were to raise awareness of data science in the geoscience academic community and share hands-on activities, course materials, and ideas for improving research and education.

Read the Meeting Summary published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Using Operational and Experimental Observations in Geoscience Education

The 2009 Users Workshop provided participants with an opportunity to learn about the latest advances in observing technologies and techniques and their use in education, research, and operations. Scientists, engineers, and faculty presented an array of educational and instructional sessions showcasing various observing system with special emphasis on their usefulness in teaching and student learning.

Read the Meeting Summary published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Expanding the Use of Models as Educational Tools in the Atmospheric & Related Sciences

The Unidata 2006 Users Workshop focused on the use of models as educational tools in the atmospheric and related sciences. Meteorology faculty, researchers, and model developers presented an array of educational and instructional sessions showcasing real-world modeling applications that would be useful in the classroom.

Read the Meeting Summary published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Expanding Horizons: Using Environmental Data for Education, Research, and Decision Making

The 2003 Users Workshop provided hands-on sessions and lectures demonstrating the uses of Unidata supported software and data (in particular the Integrated Data Viewer) and emerging GIS technologies from leading educators and practitioners in the geophysical sciences, public safety, and public policy communities. This workshop, which coincided with the 20th anniversary of Unidata's conception, highlighted Unidata's historical contribution to the Atmospheric Sciences, as well as mapped a vision of Unidata's future in the broader geosciences.

Read the Meeting Summary published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.