Elected 2017 AMS Councilors

Council Candidates

Academic Sector

Ying-Hwa (Bill) Kuo
Ying-Hwa (Bill) Kuo

Ying-Hwa (Bill) Kuo is the Director of UCAR Community Programs at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. In this capacity, Bill oversees eight community programs that provide real-time data, software analysis tools, internship and fellowship programs, and educational resources to support the Earth system science community. Bill holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Meteorology from the...

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Clifford Mass, Candidate by Petition
Clifford Mass, Candidate by Petition

Cliff Mass is currently a Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington. As an undergraduate physics major, he worked with Carl Sagan and Stephen Schneider on planetary atmospheres and climate research. He received his Ph.D. in atmospheric sciences from the University of Washington, with a thesis on African Wave disturbances. After three-years at University of Maryland...

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Government Sector

Gina Eosco
Gina Eosco

Dr. Gina Eosco is the Weather Program Office’s (WPO) Division Chief for Science, Technology, and Society overseeing an interdisciplinary set of WPO programs including the Testbed and Vortex Program, Joint Technology Transfer Initiative, and the Social Science Program. For the last 6 years, she led the development and expansive growth of WPO’s Social Science Program (SSP) from inception to...

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Private Sector

Andrew Humphrey
Andrew Humphrey

Andrew Humphrey serves as chief meteorologist at WHBQ FOX13 Memphis. Humphrey’s informative weather forecasts and updates for the Mid-South region, covering portions of four states and the Mississippi River, can be seen weekdays during the 5 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 6 p.m., 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts. Humphrey’s passion for weathercasting and storytelling began as a child in suburban Washington, D.C., where he...

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Cynthia Atherton
Cynthia Atherton

Cynthia Atherton was most recently the director of the Science program at the Heising-Simons Foundation, where she oversaw a portfolio of research in climate change science, physics and astronomy, as well as an initiative to increase the number of women in physics and astronomy in the U.S. research academy. She was previously a science program director at the...

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