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AMS Blog, The Front Page
- May 9, 2025
- Research Spotlight: T-REX and the Quest for Sustainable Almonds
- The T-REX project helps farmers monitor and sustainably reduce water use in California, with lessons for Mediterranean climate regions around the world. We speak with project lead Nico Bambach.
- April 28, 2025
- Impact and Reward
- Hear from AMS volunteers about what they get from their experience, and what they’d tell others about volunteering!
- April 24, 2025
- Without a Strong Weather Enterprise America’s Economic Leadership Is at Risk
- Summary and recommendations of a special AMS report. The Federal agencies in the public sector provide a foundational role in supporting the rest of the weather enterprise. A failure of these systems would be catastrophic.
- April 21, 2025
- Earth Day 2025
- We at the American Meteorological Society have never lost our sense of wonder, and we hope that everyone takes a few moments on Earth Day to feel the sun and wind on their face and to see the stars twinkle at night.
- April 18, 2025
- Advancing the Enterprise
- April is Volunteer Month! In the first of two blog posts, we hear what some of our volunteers have been working on!
- April 17, 2025
- Stand Up for NOAA Research — The Time to Act Is Now
- The 2026 budget passback plan calls for eliminating NOAA Research. If this happens, the scientific backbone and workforce needed to keep weather forecasts, alerts, and warnings accurate and effective will be drastically undercut, with almost certainly disastrous consequences for public safety and economic health.
- April 17, 2025
- Stand up for NOAA research -- the time to act is now
- April 8, 2025
- AMS science preview: Fire weather, bumpy hurricane flights, climate extremes and protests
- March 3, 2025
- The U.S. Weather Enterprise: A National Treasure at Risk
- February 4, 2025
- AMS Science Preview: Wind and wildfire, EF5s, "sitting ducks"
- January 3, 2025
- AMS Science Preview: Tall hurricanes, snow and wildfire
- December 23, 2024
- AMS 2025 Meeting Promotes Atmospheric Science for a "Thriving Planet"
- February 28, 2025
- Multi-organization letter to the FCC on supplementing the record on proposal rules to reallocate 1675-1680 MHz band
- February 12, 2025
- Coalition letter of support for science and scientific integrity
- February 11, 2025
- Multi-organization letter to Congress regarding availability of public scientific data
- November 22, 2024
- Comments of the American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society, National Weather Association And University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
- March 4, 2024
- Multi-organization letter to the FCC on modifying emissions limits for the 24.25-24.45 GHz and 24.75-25.25 GHz bands
- April 17, 2023
- AMS Inputs to National Spectrum Strategy
- October 28, 2022
- Letter to Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on Radiofrequency Spectra Vital to Earth System Observation and Emergency Management
- September 13, 2022
- Multi-organization letter on the SPRES Program Report
- April 25, 2022
- Multi-organization letter to Congress on the Ligado Order