The 94th AMS Annual Meeting will be held 2–6 February 2014 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. As in previous years, the Society will sponsor a Career Fair at the beginning of the meeting.

Spring is in the air in Boulder, Colorado, and hearts and minds are changing as quickly as the trees are blooming! One unnamed developer within Unidata has had his heart enlarge so much that it would make the Grinch blush.

The European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly will take place in Vienna, 22-27 April 2012. Authors are invited to submit abstracts by Tuesday 17 January 2012.

The National Science Foundation is seeking to facilitate the conduct of geosciences research by supporting community-based cyberinfrastructure in an effort called EarthCube. The project is a joint effort between the NSF Geosciences Directorate and Office of Cyberinfrastructure, and seeks to greatly increase the productivity and capability of researchers and educators working at the frontiers of Earth system science.

The project team has set up an EarthCube community web site at https://earthcube.ning.com/. The goal is to create a forum that enables broad participation from the geosciences community and to solicit comments and white paper submissions to the EarthCube project.

The 2011 NOAA Testbed Workshop, originally set for 24-26 May 2011, is being rescheduled to take place after October 1, 2011.

Due to conflicts with many of the testbed activities, as well as budget considerations this year, the NUEC has decided to postpone the NOAA Testbed Workshop until early in the next fiscal year.

Draft proposals are now due to the NWS by 11 April, and final proposals to COMET on 16 May. COMET is currently still accepting proposals for GOES-R Partners Proposals.

To prepare for new products that will be available starting in 2015 when the first GOES-R satellite is launched, the GOES-R Satellite Proving Ground has joined with the National Weather Service (NWS) forecast and warning community to conduct pre-operational demonstrations of selected capabilities.