Scholarships for high school seniors and junior undergraduate students are available!

"The AMS undergraduate scholarship has allowed me the funds to further explore and immerse myself in the field of meteorology to a depth that I would otherwise be unable to. Funding not only helped with educational expenses, this generous contribution on behalf of the AMS will grant me the opportunity to travel to the annual American Meteorological Society conference, providing an invaluable chance to network and interact with scores of atmospheric scientists working across all sectors of the discipline." —Matthew Cappucci, Plymouth, MA.

The deadline for the freshman, minority and named undergraduate scholarship programs is fast approaching!! Applications must be submitted or postmarked by February 5, 2016. Supporting materials are allowed additional time to arrive. Don’t miss out on your chance to receive additional funding for school! The scholarship information and applications can be found on the AMS website.

The 96th AMS Annual Meeting was a great success and had record-breaking attendance! The meeting had 3861 Registrants, 749 Student Conference attendees, 86 Early Career Conference participants, 114 Short Course attendees, 55 participants in the Teacher Workshop, and 96 Exhibitors! 1729 Oral Presentations were given, and 1036 Posters were presented.

Highlights:

Select recordings of sessions from the Annual Meeting including are now available online. More will be posted in the coming weeks.

If you missed the 23|5 Talks on Monday night or the Presidential Town Hall Meeting with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, you can view them on YouTube.

Two recent posts on the Front Page blog highlight the informative experience of the AMS Annual Meeting: Alex Adams, a student at Western Illinois University summarized the session covering weather Apps available for use in “There’s a (Weather) App for That” and Kyle Brown, studying at Valparaiso University describes the opportunities for career building and networking discussed at the AMS Presidential Town Hall meeting in his post “Be Diverse and Follow Opportunity”.

See you next year in Seattle 22–27 January 2017!

The Journal of Hydrometeorology (JHM) is now a monthly journal! After several years of steadily increasing submissions and the resulting climb in annual published pages total, JHM is now a full monthly journal in 2016. Previously published every other month, JHM has had a corresponding increase in its Thompson-ISI Impact Factor Score as well, moving up five places to rank #10 overall in the Meteorology and Atmospheric Science category in the most recent (2014) rankings. Congratulations to the whole JHM team!

Registration is open for the AMS Summer Policy Colloquium held 5-14 June in Washington, DC. Colloquium slots fill up well in advance, so register now! Grad students (and faculty from minority-serving institutions) can apply for NSF support to attend. The deadline for those funding applications is 31 March. Recently Alice Alpert (MIT/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) shared her impressions of last year’s colloquium on the Front Page blog.

The Program for the 32nd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology has been posted to the AMS web site. Students interested in attending this meeting can apply for a travel grant. Deadline date to apply is March 4, 2016.

The AMS Education Program celebrates 25 years of fostering Earth science literacy nationwide! The Education Program serves the AMS membership by bringing atmospheric, oceanic, climatic, and related sciences into places it may not otherwise reach: K–12 classrooms, community colleges, online programs, and minority-serving institutions. The courses introduce teachers, pre-college students, and young adults to the Earth system sciences and encourage future study and careers. For more information, read "The AMS Education Program: 25 Years of Promoting Earth System Science Literacy" that was published in the December 2015 issue of BAMS and the blog post on the concluding AMS Climate Studies Diversity Project Workshop.