Whenever I attend an AMS event, I'm always delighted by the positive energy and engagement. We have a great community of professionals and students engaged in all aspects of the weather, climate, and water enterprise.  Whether from academia, government, or industry, we are working together to advance our knowledge and to apply it to critical issues. Thus, I see the important challenge of AMS is to harness this knowledge and energy in the most effective way to work together with our diverse skills and abilities to address human and environmental needs and to support each other.  There are issues and questions to tackle, and AMS can be a center for solutions. In our evolving environment, how do we collaborate to provide the information and support to the populace on our ever-changing weather and climate?  How do we leverage the expertise of our members and diversity of thought to engage in multidisciplinary conversations and efforts to advance the way we support society's needs?  How can we better organize and act to address the challenges of the future as well as some of the more recent direct challenges to the community?  AMS has been a leader in bringing the sectors together; but since the world is not static, we must be willing to evolve to meet emerging needs.

As AMS President Elect, I would work with colleagues within the framework of the council, commissions, boards, and committees to foster yet deeper collaborations and seek to engage the capabilities of the individual members as well as the various sectors to develop the synergy of this great Society in order to accomplish things not possible alone, thus engaging our weather, climate, and water expertise to make the world a better place.

Sue Ellen Haupt is a Senior Scientist in the Research Applications Laboratory (RAL) of NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). She leads projects in renewable energy prediction and coupling mesoscale models to microscale models as well as ones that emphasize machine learning applications. She is a Fellow of the AMS and a Contributing and Founding Director of the World Energy and Meteorology Council. Until June 2023, she served as Deputy Director of RAL, after being Director of the Weather Systems and Assessment Program of RAL. Before that, she headed the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics at the Applied Research Laboratory of Penn State where she remains an Affiliate Professor of Meteorology. She earned her Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from the University of Michigan, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, M.S. in Engineering Management from Western New England College, B.S. in Meteorology from Penn State, and did a postdoctoral fellowship with the Advanced Study Program of NCAR. She has been on the faculty of the University of Colorado/Boulder; the U.S. Air Force Academy (visiting); University of Nevada, Reno; and Utah State University and previously worked for the New England Electric System and GCA Corporation.

Haupt is an expert in boundary layer meteorology, large scale atmospheric dynamics, applications of artificial intelligence in the environmental sciences, renewable energy, dynamical systems, numerical methods, and computational fluid dynamics. Her specialty is in applying novel numerical techniques to problems in the environmental sciences in both basic and applied research. She enjoys mentoring early career scientists as well as developing and directing research programs and projects.

Haupt recently served as Commissioner of the AMS Commission on the Weather, Water, Climate Enterprise. She currently chairs the AMS Committee on AI Ethics and Policy and served on AMS Council, the Energy committee, and chaired the Committee on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science, as well as other AMS service.