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Future Meetings

16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction, 11–15 January 2009, Phoenix, Arizona

Recent Meetings

• Spring 2007: We were a partner organization for the CMOS-CGU-AMS Congress 2007, 28 May - 1 June 2007, St. John's Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Summer 2007: Our last specialty meeting was the 15th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction, 20 – 23 August 2007, Portland, OR, held jointly with the 14th Conference on Middle Atmosphere.

Awards

• 15th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction, 20 – 23 August 2007, Portland, OR:

  Best Oral: 1.4, Observations of large-scale ocean-atmosphere interaction in the Southern Hemisphere. Laura M. Ciasto, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and D. W. J. Thompson.

  Second Place Oral: 11.6, The effects of rainfall on the ocean surface at low wind speed. Emily L. Harrison, University of Delaware, Lewes, DE; and F. Veron.

  Best Poster: P1.13, Using QuikSCAT-derived surface winds and a GCM to improve predicted wind speed variability and ocean surface fluxes. Scott Capps, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; and C. S. Zender.

  Second Place Poster: P1.14 Satellite estimate of specific humidity over the ocean using microwave radiometry. Abdou Aziz Mbengue, CETP, Vélizy Villacoublay, France; and D. Bourras and S. Janicot.

  In addition, each student presenting at the Conference received either an AMS Glossary of Meteorology or Z. Sorbjan's Hands-on Meteorology.