Oregon Chapter, American Meteorological Society

Schedule of Monthly Meetings

Upcoming Meetings and Events

(In general, the planning date for our meetings is the third Thursday evening of a month)

Summer Picnic... July 27, Sunday. Go to "Event" section!

2007-2008 Meetings and Events

Dinner Meeting, May 4th (Sunday), George Taylor's Retirement Party, Old Spaghetti Factory, Clackamas (over 50 attend!). Event-flyer ; George-Dinner, Cake-for-George, Note-from-George.

NEW!...Photos by Phil Pasteris: SLIDE SHOW

Dinner Meeting, April 9 (Wednesday evening), Joint OR-AMS and OR-AIH meeting, "Assessing Risk and Vulnerability for Water Resources in a Changing Climate", Phil Pasteris (retired NRCS Hydrologist and Meteorologist). Location: Izzy's Pizza-Gateway. Event-flyer ; Powerpoint ; Phil-Photo

Technical Meeting, March 20 (Thursday evening), "December 2007 High Impact Storm" by Tyree Wilde and Andy Bryant (NOAA-NWS), Location - KPTV/FOX-12 Studio. Event-flyer ; NOTES

President Kyle Dittmer is cited in the March 20th Oregonian: Front-page-article

Field meeting, February 23 (Saturday 7am), "4th Annual Temperature Trek" by Drew Jackson (FOX-12/KPTV) and Bobby Corser. Event-flyer (and routes) ; Summary ; Contoured Map

Oregon-AMS President Kyle Dittmer flew to Idaho on Feb. 4th-5th to give climate change lectures at Boise State University and ISU-IMNH .

Dinner Meeting, January 22 (Tuesday evening), Louise Lague, "Rain and your Brain - How Weather Affects You." Location: Old Spaghetti Factory - Clackamas. Event-flyer ; NOTES ; John+Louise , Dinner , Dinner2 , Presentation

88th Annual AMS meeting, New Orleans, Jan. 20-24, 2008: Notice

Event, November 9th (Friday morning), "15th Annual Winter Weather Meeting", OMSI Auditorium. Event-flyer ; OMSI Press Release: OMSI-PR

Presentations Mark's 2006-07 Review ; NOAA-NWS (Steve) ; CRITFC (Kyle), Handout ; ODA (Pete) ; OSU (George)

Photos: Audience , Mark , Mark-N , Steve , Steve-T , ST3 , Kyle , Kyle-D , Pete , Pete-P , PP3 , George-T , GT

Snowflake-Contest: Rules ; Ballot-Box. Winning date/time: Dec. 1, 7:30 am! Contest Winners: Marcus Hathcock (Dec. 1st, 10:14 am), Mindy Fisher (Dec. 1st, 1 pm), Brett Nelson (Dec. 1st, 2:35 pm). Big thanks to OMSI for donating eight admission passes as prizes!

Technical meeting, October 20th (Saturday), Noon to 5 pm, Climate Change Forum, Marylhurst University. NOTES ; Event-flyer ; Event-agenda

Photos: Jan, Dr.H, Dr.F, Dr.F2, Dr.S, Dr.C, JS, JS2

SHF Friday night Lecture at PSU, "Climate Change in Denmark and Greenland", October 5th: Info-Flyer ; Photo

Social meeting, September 20th (Thursday, 6:30 pm), "2nd Annual Weather Sampler" by any OR-AMS member. Event-flyer ; NOTES

For a listing of past meetings and events, click here: Past Meetings