Unfortunately I won't be able to make it to DebConf9, so as an aid to those who are going, here's a summary of current work:

I've just uploaded terralib 3.3.1 to Debian, and its sitting in the NEW queue, as the older version was removed from the archive due to lack of maintenance (it had an RC bug in both including its own copy of libtiff and failing to link against it - now it links against an external copy of libgeotiff and libtiff).

In the NEW queue it joins g2clib, hdf-eos4, hdf-eos5 and udunits. These are there as dependencies of other Meteorology-related packages I'm working on: magics++ needs terralib and gshhs; zygrib needs gshhs (it has a copy built-in). NCL (NCAR Command Language) has a rake of dependencies including udunits, hdf-eos, g2clib and vis5d+ (ITP'd) . I'm also packaging VISIT for visualization.

Then there is the GSHHS issue: I think I'll end up packaging 'gmt-coastline-high', but the format of the coastline maps needs to be decided (netCDF or its own binary format) and updating the sundry packages to read the latest version needs tackling.

I'm packaging these as they are used at ICHEC and i've experience building them. One of the main aims I had in setting up Debian Meteorology (beyond adding the software to Debian) was to help integrate all the Free and Open Source code in the Earth-sciences field, and sort out dependency and build issues. I hadn't expected to encounter quite so many so quickly, though. I don't expect to get more done before vacation-time, but I'll be happy if I get these done this summer.