UPDATE: The abstract submission deadline has been extended to 8 August 2018.

The American Meteorological Society's Board on Environmental Information Processing Technologies (EIPT) wants to let you know that the submission deadline for EIPT papers and posters is 8 August 2018. The conference is soliciting papers and posters a variety of topics including:

• AWIPS system updates
• Application of autonomous observing platforms
• Cloud computing for environmental data processing
• Crowdsourcing tools for gathering and distributing data
• Data stewardship
• and more...

Unidata's AMS booth

This year's annual American Meteorological Society meeting, was held January 7-11 in Austin, Texas. We were happy to see many of the Unidata community members participating in the meeting at our booth in the exhibit hall, and to meet so many prospective community members at the AMS Student Conference.

Read on for some highlights from the conference as recalled by UPC staff members who attended.

If you'll be attending the 98th annual American Meteorology Society meeting, 7-11 January 2018 in Austin, be sure stop by Unidata's booth in the exhibit hall (Booth 520). Software developers and other staff from the Unidata Program Center will be on hand to chat any time the exhibit hall is open. If you're especially interested in seeing a live demonstration of a particular Unidata software package, check the following schedule and time your visit accordingly.

In addition, Unidata staff are presenting talks and posters throughout the conference. If you haven't already, check out the Unidata Staff Conference Schedule.

Members of the Unidata Program Center staff will be attending the 98th annual American Meteorology Society meeting, 7-11 January 2018 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas. Unidata will be in Booth 520 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, IDV, MetPy, and THREDDS Data Server packages. Come and talk with the developers about what's coming up and what you'd like to see.

Read on for a schedule that lists selected sessions at which Unidata staff (and summer interns) will be presenting or attending. See the AMS meeting Conference Program for additional information on the sessions.

Unidata community members Ivo Jimenez and Dr. Carlos Maltzahn from the University of California, Santa Cruz, along with Kevin Tyle from the University at Albany, will be presenting an AMS Short Course titled Reproducible Atmospheric Science Workflows Using Open Source Tools: An Introduction to the Popper Experimentation Protocol. The course focuses on an exciting new open-source toolset developed by researchers at UC Santa Cruz with specific tie-ins to reproducible workflows in atmospheric science modeling using the Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF), both in research and the classroom.