The 104th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting in will be held 28 January - 1 February 2024 in Baltimore, MD. This year's theme is “Living in a Changing Environment.” The submission deadline for abstracts is 24 August 2023.

The American Geophysical Union's 2023 Fall Meeting in will be held 11-15 December 2023 in San Francisco, CA. This year's theme is “Wide. Open. Science.” The submission deadline for abstracts is 2 August 2023.

Register now to join this free virtual workshop to be held June 12, 2023!

As part of the NSF Institute for Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment (I-GUIDE) program's Virtual Consulting Office, Unidata MetPy developers Ryan May and Drew Camron will be leading an online workshop titled Realtime Weather Information Visualization using MetPy's Simplified Plotting Interface

In case you missed it — here's a recap of news from the Unidata Program Center for the month of May, 2023.

Registration for the 2023 Unidata Users Workshop
is open through May 15.

The Unidata Users Committee invites you to join Unidata staff, community members, and distinguished speakers this June in Boulder, Colorado. The goal of this year's workshop is to raise awareness about how to access and use Earth Systems Science data, and to explore approaches to tell the stories of our science in a way that is reproducible, responsible, and robust. Scientists and educators from the Earth Systems Science community will present ideas and techniques for making effective use of geoscience data and share activities, course materials, and ideas for improving education and research.

The workshop, titled Storytelling with Earth System Science Data: Challenges and Opportunities for Effective, Ethical, and Reproducible Science, is scheduled for June 5-8, 2023.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Atmospheric Science Program used a Unidata Community Equipment Awards grant to deploy a server that hosts, among other things, a local The Littlest JupyterHub instance. Since its deployment in August 2021, the server, data received through Unidata's IDD network, and the local JupyterHub instance have supported student training and development in four Atmospheric Science courses and through UW-Milwaukee's Innovative Weather student traineeship program.

Bring a poster!

Update: the deadline for students and members of underrepresented groups to apply for travel support to attend the 2023 Unidata Users Workshop has been extended until May 5, 2023. See Information for Student Attendees and Equity and Inclusion Travel Support for details.

The Unidata Users Committee invites you to join Unidata staff, community members, and distinguished speakers this June in Boulder, Colorado. The goal of this year's workshop is to raise awareness about how to access and use Earth Systems Science data, and to explore approaches to tell the stories of our science in a way that is reproducible, responsible, and robust. Scientists and educators from the Earth Systems Science community will present ideas and techniques for making effective use of geoscience data and share activities, course materials, and ideas for improving education and research.

In case you missed it — here's a recap of news from the Unidata Program Center for the month of April, 2023.

Some past student representatives

The Unidata Users Committee is seeking nominations for a Graduate Student representative to join the group of university faculty members who serve on this committee. Nominees should be Graduate Students who use Unidata software, hold a strong interest in the Unidata program, and have an interest in learning how a community-based program like Unidata is governed. Nominations may be made by any community member, and self-nominations are acceptable. This position will be for a two-year term beginning with the fall 2023 Users Committee meeting.

In case you missed it — here's a recap of news from the Unidata Program Center for the month of March, 2023.

Unidata is governed by its community. Our governing committees facilitate consensus-building for future directions of the Unidata Program and establish standards of involvement for the community. Direct involvement in the Program by the academic community helps Unidata stay on top of trends in Earth Systems Science education and research; for example, recent initiatives on Python and cloud-based computing have benefited tremendously from committee advice and involvement.

We are looking for creative people at U.S. universities and colleges who are using Unidata products and services — or who are familiar with Unidata — to help guide the program in addressing the needs of our broadening community. We need the insights of active educators and researchers to spot new opportunities and take advantage of the expanding range of scientific data. We're looking for help identifying new tools and services — along with improvements to our existing offerings — that will advance the scientific and educational goals of the community.