AMS 2027 (Denver): EIPT sessions of interest to the Pangeo community
At next year’s American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, there are several sessions within the 43rd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies (EIPT) that may be of interest to the Pangeo community!
The Meeting
The 107th AMS Annual Meeting will be in Denver, Colorado, January 10–14, 2027: https://annual.ametsoc.org/2027/
This year’s theme is PEOPLE: People Educated On Planet Live Empowered. Denver is an easy one for those along the Front Range in Colorado!
Please take a look at the travel info and the full list of conferences and symposia on the meeting site.
Abstract Deadline
Abstracts are due 11 August 2026 at 5:00 PM ET. This deadline is firm and will not be extended.
Submit here: Call for Papers (choose 43rd Environmental Information Processing Technologies)
The Conference
EIPT is one of many conferences within the meeting, and it’s historically been the most natural home at AMS for the kind of work this community does: cloud-native data, open source tooling, data access and interoperability. The full call is here:
A few sessions stand out as especially good fits:
Python in the Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences
The most direct fit for a lot of Pangeo work. Package development, analysis workflows, teaching and training materials, notebooks, and the scientific Python ecosystem as applied to weather, water, ocean, and climate. If you maintain a package or have built something on top of Xarray, Dask, Zarr, or the broader stack, this is the session.
Cloud Computing for Big Data in Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate (Joint Session)
Analysis of satellite and model data at scale in the cloud, plus scientific visualization and visual analytics applied to large datasets from meteorology, oceanography, and climatology.
Cloud-Based User Services to Support Data Use in the User Community (Joint Session)
Environmental data is increasingly accessible in the cloud, but operating there still largely favors experienced users. This session is aimed at the tools and services that lower that barrier: data recipes, curation efforts, transformation and subsetting APIs, science notebooks, catalogs, discovery tools, and practical tips among developers.
Developing Cloud-Based Tools for Data Analysis and Archiving (Joint Session)
Cloud hosting applied to analysis, visualization, and archiving of environmental information: what you built, what you moved, and what it actually bought you.
Environmental Data Access and Its Future (Joint Session)
Discoverability, access, usability, equity of data and services, user interfaces and engagement, visualization tooling, and reproducibility and provenance after access. A good home for work on removing gatekeepers and making data usable in a meaningful way to a wider range of people.
FAIR and Open Data and Software within the Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences to Support Transparent, Reusable, and Efficient Research and Operations
Open data and open source software practice: FAIR principles applied to both datasets and the code around them, and what it takes to make research and operations transparent and reusable.
From HPC to the World: Modernizing the Distribution of Operational Earth System Data
Very relevant if you work on formats, chunking, or the pipeline between operational model output and downstream users. GRIB, Zarr, Icechunk, Kerchunk/VirtualiZarr, object-store distribution patterns, and the general problem of getting HPC-produced data to people who don’t have HPC.
Connections for Science Data Stewardship, in Service of Science, for All People
Long-term stewardship, metadata, provenance, and the connective tissue between archives and the people who use them.
The remaining EIPT topics (automated vehicles and weather, ICAMS and the federal weather enterprise, interagency coordination, EW4All international hazards, agency services updates, GIS techniques, NWS operational applications, and the R2O/quasi-operational joint session) are listed on the conference page if one of them is a better fit for your work.
Contacts
Program chairs for EIPT this year are Scott Jacobs, Tiffany Vance, and myself. Email addresses are on the conference page. I am happy to talk through which session your abstract fits best if you’re on the fence, and happy to help first-time AMS submitters navigate the process.
Hope to see some of you in Denver!