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Last Update 03/21/07 |
January 29, 2003 General Meeting The North Florida Chapter of the AMS held it’s first meeting of 2003 on Wednesday, January 29, 2003. Approximately thirty members attended, with all officers present except for President Stephanie Abrams, who was away on business. Treasurer Joe Smith called the meeting to order at 7:10pm. To start the meeting, Treasurer Joe Smith read the list of chapter members who had paid their chapter dues ($5 students, $10 non-students) to date and asked that those who had not paid their dues to please do so as soon as possible. In a related topic, Joe noted that he was in the process of setting up a non-profit bank account for the chapter and should have previously collected dues (in the form of checks) deposited as soon as possible. Finally, Joe noted that his subcommittee, the Science/Education Committee, had met recently and will be electing a head of the committee at their next meeting in February. At 7:15pm, our featured speaker, Dr. Scott Goodrick from the USDA Forest Service took the floor for his presentation on fire weather. His very informative and interesting presentation encompassed approximately fifty minutes and broached a wide variety of fire weather topics, ranging from what fire weather is to efforts to model the evolution and life cycle of a fire. Included during the presentation was a short video detailing a firewhirl from a previous fire in Brevard County, Florida. A full report from his presentation can be found on the chapter's website. Vice-President Jeff Wood and the chapter membership thanked Dr. Goodrick for his presentation and then moved on to the remainder of the agenda for chapter business for the night. To begin, Vice-President Jeff Wood called upon a member of the Social Committee to detail the Valentine’s Day bowling event that the chapter will be holding on Saturday, February 8, 2003 at noon at Capitol Lanes on Capitol Circle NE in Tallahassee. Secretary Clark Evans provided directions to the bowling alley and asked for a show of hands from those interested in the event. Interest was minimal - about fifteen people - though the event will go on as planned. In addition, Jeff received, through Dr. Fuelberg of the FSU Dept. of Meteorology, several previous t-shirts used for the Dept. of Meteorology and local chapters of the AMS. These were the first submissions received for the chapter t-shirt and, unless other designs are submitted soon, one of the designs may form the basis for the current chapter t-shirt. With that, the meeting was turned over to Secretary Clark Evans for the final business of the evening. Clark began by asking for new members to provide their contact information to complete the member directory for the chapter and reiterated the fact that people can opt-out from having their information placed on the chapter’s website by e-mailing me, as others have since the last meeting. Regarding the webpage, the Love Building and entire FSU campus suffered a momentary power outage during the afternoon on January 29, rendering yet another Dept. of Meteorology webserver useless. Thus, until the webserver can be fixed, updates posted to the chapter website will be sparse, if not non-existent. Also on the web, but on the actual AMS webpage (http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS/), it was noted that members can find a report from our November 2002 chapter meeting by clicking on Local Chapter Information, then on Chapter Minutes, then on November 2002 and scrolling down to the North Florida chapter. To conclude the meeting, Clark noted that there had been minimal interest in the Newsletter committee and asked that those interested in the committee please e-mail him with their information. With several meetings and social functions completed, there is now enough information for a newsletter and the Newsletter Committee will be meeting in the near future to discuss where to head with the forthcoming newsletter. With business for the meeting completed, Vice-President Jeff Wood adjourned the meeting at 8:15pm. |
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