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- 14 August 2017
- A Look At What Meteorologists Earn
- 11 August 2017
- 2016 weather report: Extreme and anything but normal
- 11 August 2017
- How wildfire sent Oregon’s eclipse plans up in flames
- 4 August 2017
- Alaska’s North Slope snow-free season is lengthening
- 2 August 2017
- Cal U offers weather courses to teachers
- 7 August 2017
- Associate Director of AMS Education Program to Retire
AMS announces that after 22 years of service to the Education Department, Robert Weinbeck is retiring in August 2017.
- 2 August 2017
- AMS ANNOUNCES NEW PARTNERSHIP FOR K-12 EDUCATOR COURSES
AMS today announced that starting with the summer 2017 semester, AMS will begin a new partnership with California University of Pennsylvania (Cal U) to provide graduate-level credits to K-12 teachers who participate in one of AMS’s courses, allowing these teachers to become science leaders in their schools and in their communities.
- 27 June 2017
- Dr. Richard Alley to be Keynote Speaker at 98th AMS Annual Meeting
AMS is excited to announce that the keynote speaker for the upcoming 98th Annual Meeting will be renowned glaciologist and climate scientist Richard Alley, who serves as the Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at Penn State University.
- 5 May 2017
- AMS President Appointed UCLA Vice Chancellor for Research
Roger Wakimoto, AMS president-elect (acting president), has been appointed the UCLA vice chancellor for research.
- 21 April 2017
- Collective Global Climate Statement Released for Earth Day
An international coalition of 33 meteorological and climate societies and institutions have released a Collective Global Climate Statement to coincide with Earth Day on April 22, which this year is focused on environmental and climate literacy.
- 20 April 2017
- AMS Releases New Flash Flood Statement
AMS issued a new statement today advising on the role of science and communication in reducing loss of life in flash flooding situations. Accurate modeling and forecasting of flash floods combined with effective communication of warnings to the public offer the best hope for mitigating this perennial hazard.
- 1 February 2017
- Amicus Groups File Brief to Protect Climate Scientists
The Climate Science Legal Defense Fund has asked the District of Columbia federal District Court to safeguard roughly 8,000 pages of privileged correspondence between nine climate scientists.
- 25 January 2017
- AMS Announces New Journal Co-Chief Editor
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) announced that Professor Timothy DelSole of George Mason University has been appointed co-chief editor of the Journal of Climate (JCLI).
- 24 January 2017
- AMS Reaffirms Freedom of Scientific Expression
The AMS readopted its official statement on "Freedom of Scientific Expression" during its Annual Meeting this week in Seattle.
- 24 January 2017
- Lockheed Martin to be AMS Corporate Patron
AMS announces that Lockheed Martin Corporation will be a Corporate Patron for 2017.
See complete list of statements in force
- Bachelor's Degree in Atmospheric Science
(Adopted by AMS Council on 30 May 2017)
- Flash Floods: The Role of Science, Forecasting, and Communications in Reducing Loss of Life and Economic Disruptions
(Adopted by AMS Council on 17 April 2017)
- Water Resources in the 21st Century
(Adopted by AMS Council on 30 May 2017)
- 27 June 2017
- Joint Letter to FCC on Sharing of Satellite Spectrum
- 21 June 2017
- Letter to DOE Secretary Perry on Climate Change
- 18 May 2017
- Joint Letter on Proposed Visa Changes
- 21 April 2017
- Collective Global Climate Statement
- 6 April 2017
- Multisociety Letter on FY 2017-2018 R&D Budget
- 3 April 2017
- Letter to House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on Opening Remarks for the 29 March 2017 Hearing
- 28 March 2017
- Multi-society letter on the HONEST Act
AMS Blog, The Front Page
- 30 June 2017
- Improving Tropical Cyclone Forecasts
- Tropical cyclones are usually associated with bad news, but a long-term study about these storms now posted online for publication in BAMS has some good news–about the forecasts, at least. The authors, a Japanese group lead by Munehiko Yamaguchi, studied operational global numerical model forecasts of tropical cyclones since 1991. Their finding: the model forecasts of […]
- 20 June 2017
- Whose Flood Is It, Anyway?
- When water-laden air lifts up the eastern slope of the Rockies, enormous thunderstorms and catastrophic flooding can develop. Americans may remember well the sudden, deadly inundation of Boulder, Colorado, in September 2013. For Canadians, however, the big flood that year was in Alberta. Four years ago this week, 19-23 June 2013, a channel of moist air jetted […]
- 16 June 2017
- Cruising the Ocean’s Surface Microlayer
- Oceans are deep, and they are integral to the climate system. But the exchanges between ocean and atmosphere that preoccupy many scientists are not in the depths but instead in the shallowest of shallow layers. A lot happens in the topmost millimeter of the ocean, a film of liquid called the “sea-surface microlayer that is, […]
- 2 June 2017
- Withdrawal from the Paris Agreement Flouts the Climate Risks
- by Keith Seitter, AMS Executive Director President Trump’s speech announcing the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement emphasizes his assessment of the domestic economic risks of making commitments to climate action. In doing so the President plainly ignores so many other components of the risk calculus that went into the treaty in the first place. […]
- 1 June 2017
- Atlantic Hurricane Season Begins
- The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season has begun. If they haven’t already, people who could be affected by tropical storms and hurricanes should prepare now for the six-month season, which ends November 30 and encompasses the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico. Here’s what you need to know. Follow the links for more detailed information: What’s […]