The American Meteorological Society's Summer community meeting will be taking place August 8-11, 2011 in Boulder, Colorado. The meeting's theme is "Building a Stronger Weather and Climate Enterprise — Keeping the Economy Moving." Unidata's Linda Miller will be attending and presenting "Towards Open Weather and Climate Services: A Unidata Academic Perspective" during the NOAA Environmental Information Services Working Group session.

The Unidata Program Center will be moving into the Anthes building.

The Unidata Program Center has spiffy new lodgings.

Update: Our move to the new building is (more or less) complete. Come by and visit us in our snazzy (if temporary) new building.

It's only temporary, and it's only across the street, but the Program Center offices (along with the offices of most of the programs that make up the UCAR Community Programs — UCP) will be moving to new digs during the week of August 8, 2011. As a result, we may be slow to respond to phone calls and e-mail support questions during the transition. If all goes according to plan, we'll be in the new space beginning on Monday, August 15th.

The 92 Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society will take place 22-26 January 2012 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The submission deadline for many abstracts is 8 August, 2011. See the Call for Papers for details.

The theme of the 2012 AMS Annual Meeting is "Technology in Research and Operations." This theme will address the profound impact technology has had and will have on research, operations, the business of our environmental sciences, and the public. Technology advancements have greatly lowered the human suffering and loss of life in the United States and around the world from the deadly and costly effects of extreme weather and ecological disasters.

Unidata community members may be especially interested in participating in the 28th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS), held during the annual meeting. See the IIPS conference page for details.

San Francisco, CA 5 - 9 December 2011

Visit the AGU Fall Meeting 2011 Web site for information on deadlines, schedules, guidelines, registration information and more!

The AGU Fall Meeting is the largest worldwide conference in the geophysical sciences, attracting nearly 20,000 Earth and space scientists, educators, students, and policy makers. This meeting showcases current scientific theory focused on discoveries that will benefit humanity and ensure a sustainable future for our planet.

Unidata's Jeff Weber speaks with Denver TV meteorologist Marty Coniglio.

Unidata's Jeff Weber is comfortable making scientific ideas easy for nonscientists to understand — he's one of the NCAR Science Wizards who make learning about the world fun for kids (and adults) during NCAR's annual Super Science Saturday events in Boulder, Colorado. Weber got another chance to explain an interesting phenomenon — the almost-daily lightning displays Coloradans have been seeing this July — to an even bigger audience when a local television meteorologist came to chat.