Short Course Information

Whether as an attendee or an organizer/instructor, short courses can enrich your professional experience and help you develop new skill sets, improve your ability to reach personal and professional goals, and keep your present skills relevant in a rapidly changing world.

AMS certification holders receive professional development points for attending or leading a short course. Attendees receive two professional development points per half-day session and presenters receive three points per unique course or workshop. Additional information is available on our Professional Development web page.

Upcoming Short Courses

The following courses will be offered at the upcoming AMS Annual Meeting in Baltimore. Hybrid options are available.

Advancing Open Science: An Interactive Workshop on Harnessing VEDA for Earth Science Research at the U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center

January 28, 2024 at 8:00 AM - 3:45 PM Eastern Time (Hybrid)

Blown Away: A Meteorologist's Guide to Wind Damage

January 28, 2024 at 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern Time (In Person)

Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC) Workshop: Building, Configuring, and Running the Unified Forecast System (UFS) Short-Range Weather (SRW) App in the Cloud

January 27, 2024 at 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM Eastern Time (Hybrid)

GOES-R and JPSS Satellite Data and Tools Available through Cloud Service Providers

January 28, 2024 at 8:00 AM - 3:45 PM Eastern Time (Hybrid)

Laser and Microwave Scintillometry Complementing the Course in Eddy-Covariance

January 28, 2024 at 8:00 AM - 3:45 PM Eastern Time (In Person)

Machine Learning in Python for Environmental Science Problems

January 28, 2023 at 8:00 AM - 3:45 PM Eastern Time (Hybrid)

MetPy: Creating Meteorological Python Workflows from Scratch

January 27, 2024 at 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM Eastern Time (In Person)

Noah-MP Land Surface Model Tutorial: Model Physics, Code Structures, and Simulation Exercises

January 27, 2024 at 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM Eastern Time (Hybrid)

Open Science in ARM: Connecting State-of-the-Art Models with Diverse Field Campaign Observations

January 27, 2024 at 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Eastern Time (Hybrid)

Processing Eddy Covariance Datasets with EddyPro Software

January 27, 2024 at 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Eastern Time (In Person)

Visualizing 2D and 3D Geoscience Data in Python

January 27, 2024 at 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM Eastern Time (Hybrid)

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Short Course Proposals

AMS welcomes short course proposals for hybrid or in-person courses at an AMS meeting on a variety of subjects that would be of interest to the weather, water, and climate community. Prior course topics include machine learning, Python, consulting meteorology, forensic meteorology, catastrophe modeling, artificial intelligence applications, to name a few. Python is in demand so don't hesitate to submit a proposal if you are interested in organizing a course on this topic. Short course attendees range from undergraduate students to seasoned professionals so organizers have the option to choose topics for a specific audience. Short course proposals are reviewed by the AMS Board on Continuing Professional Development (BCPD) and are submitted online.

Submit a Short Course Proposal