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September 11, 2007 -- Dr. Robert Hart, FSU Department of Meteorology

On Tuesday, September 11, 2007, the North Florida AMS held its September general meeting. President Charlie Woodrum made the opening welcome and comments and thanked past president, Jessica Fieux for all of her hard work. Charlie also talked about Emergency Preparedness Week that was currently taking place, and invited members to stop by and to help run the North Florida AMS booth on Landis Green. He also talked about the new designs for the t-shirts and orders will be taken until September 27^th. Kevin McKee gave the treasurer’s report with a starting balance of over $600.00 before dues or sales. After the meeting and 90+ attendees, our balance is now at $2,503.82 from membership dues and AMS t-shirt sales.

Committee reports were then given by Andy Latto, chair of the Programs Committee, Kevin McKee, chair of the Membership Committee, Liane Claytor, chair of the Publicity Committee, and Alec Bogdanoff, chair of the Science and Education Committee. Andy discussed the upcoming golf tournament scheduled for November 4th. In addition to the account balance, Kevin discussed our upcoming fundraiser at Cici’s Pizza which will be September 20th and the chapter will earn a percentage of the sales made between the hours of 6 and 9 in the evening. Also, the car wash which will be held on October 13th at Taco Bell on Tennessee St from 10am-2pm. Liane talked about the bake sale and that it will be held on September 26th from 10am-2pm near the Love building, and Alec discussed a community weather day tentatively scheduled for October. Charlie then proposed to change an amendment so our chapter would include Southeast Alabama, which everyone agreed to.

Our featured speaker was Dr. Robert Hart, speaking on “Taxes, Taxis, Tornados, Tropical Cyclones, Temperature and Global Warming: From coincident correlation to cautious causation and the desperate demand for a devil’s advocate in a dynamic world”. Dr. Hart is an associate professor at FSU, and received his PhD from Penn State. Dr. Hart entertained attendees while speaking about global warming, correlation/causation, predictability, and intensity forecasting for hurricanes.

For more information: Charlie Woodrum, northflams@gmail.com. Report submitted by Liane Claytor, Secretary.