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The National Science Foundation EarthCube initiative is a community-driven project aimed at creating an integrated environment for the sharing of geoscience data and knowledge in an open, transparent, and inclusive manner. All members of the geoscience community are invited to participate in the 2017 EarthCube All Hands Meeting (AHM), to be held June 7-9, 2017 in Seattle, Washington.

In case you missed it — here's a recap of news from the Unidata Program Center for the month of January, 2017.

A few deadlines to be aware of:

• Unidata summer student internship applications will be accepted until 3 February 2017.
• Applications for 2017 Community Equipment Awards will be accepted until 31 March 2017.
• We'd like to hear your stories about Unidata by 28 February 2017. (Not only does your story help Unidata — you can win prizes!)

MetPy version 0.4.3 has been released. This fixes a few more minor issues in the 0.4 series. For full release notes see here.

MetPy packages are available for Conda on the conda-forge channel, and for pip from the Python Package Index.

Let us know if you run into any problems, either at MetPy's issue tracker, or on the Unidata python-users list.

In preparation for a routine review of the Unidata Program by our sponsors at the National Science Foundation, we are collecting anecdotes that illustrate the ways in which Unidata's activities have benefitted you, your research, your teaching, your students, or your community.

If you've got a story that hinges on data you received through the Internet Data Distribution (IDD) system, or on visualizations created with the Integrated Data Viewer (IDV), or your experiences with AWIPS, GEMPAK, or metPy, tell us!

Unidata offers equipment grants to support a variety of projects

The Unidata Program Center is pleased to announce the opening of the 2017 Unidata Community Equipment Awards solicitation. Created under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation, Unidata equipment awards are intended to encourage new members from diverse disciplinary backgrounds in the geosciences to join the Unidata community, and to encourage existing members to continue their active participation, enhancing the community process. For 2017, a total of $100,000 is available for awards; proposals for amounts up to $20,000 will be considered.

Wait...wasn't there just a release? Well, yes. Unfortunately, the most recent version of both netCDF-Java and the THREDDS Data Server, v4.6.7 (released last week - 2017-01-03) shipped with a major bug related to reading NCEP GRIB2 tables

Members of the Unidata Program Center staff will be attending the 97th annual American Meteorology Society meeting, 22-26 January 2017 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington. Unidata will be in Booth 426 in the exhibit hall; feel free to stop by to talk with us. The booth will feature live, hands-on demonstrations of Unidata software and services, including a look at the current state of the AWIPS environment. Come and talk with the developers about what's coming up and what you'd like to see.

The NetCDF-Java/Common Data Model (CDM) library and THREDDS Data Server (TDS) version 4.6.7 releases were finished on January 3rd, 2017.

Happy New Year from the Unidata Program Center! In case you missed it — here's a recap of news from the month of December, 2016.

Version 4.6.3 of the netCDF Operators (NCO) has been released. NCO is an Open Source package that consists of a dozen standalone, command-line programs that take netCDF files as input, then operate (e.g., derive new data, average, print, hyperslab, manipulate metadata) and output the results to screen or files in text, binary, or netCDF formats.