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Spotlight: AMS Election Results

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Congratulations to our new leaders, elected to guide AMS in the coming years:

2022 President-Elect: Bradley R. Colman

2022 Councilors: Kristen Averyt, Mona Behl, Kandis Y. Boyd, Rachel Hauser, and Bernadette Woods Placky

Many thanks to all of the candidates who ran! We appreciate their commitment to AMS and their ongoing service to the weather, water, and climate community.

 

The AMS Nominating Committee welcomes member recommendations of candidates for President-Elect and Council each year. Please send one page describing the proposed candidate’s background and qualifications by the end of December.

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What's New?

Special Opportunities for K–12 Teachers

The AMS Education Program is supporting K–12 teachers to learn more about weather, ocean, and/or climate science and using real data in the classroom. Thanks to our sponsors, NOAA and Lockheed Martin, we are waiving all course fees for the first 36 participants successfully matched to a mentor team for each of the three online Spring 2022 DataStreme courses! Participants earn three accredited graduate credits per course. Fill out the now to get matched with your mentor for the spring semester! Deadline is 6 January.

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Teachers: reward yourself by learning from experts and connecting with other outstanding teachers to learn more about weather or physical oceanography. The American Meteorological Society summer courses, and , are accepting applications through 25 March 2022. These competitive professional development courses are open to K–12 teachers and include online and in-person components and field experiences. All travel expenses are covered and participants receive stipends and earn graduate credit upon successful completion of the courses. This year we are even able to waive the application fee!

Two New Policy Studies

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“con00003” by Brent Koops, NOAA’s National Weather Service (NWS) Collection, CC BY 2.0

The Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador Initiative includes more than 11,000 participating Ambassadors. They're from private industry, local governments, school groups, faith congregations, and many others, and they reach every U.S. state and territory. This study investigates ways to draw from the incredible reach of such a large community, with the goal of ensuring every American receives critical safety messages related to weather, water, and climate hazards and acts appropriately to protect themselves, their property, and their loved ones.

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“Headed out to Sea” by NOAA/CIMAS/CARICOOS

This paper presents and develops the concept of the “weather information value chain”: a means for understanding, discussing, and analyzing the socioeconomic value of Earth Observations, Science, and Services (EOSS). Several brief case studies are presented to illustrate different ways the value chain can help communicate and enhance EOSS. Along with case studies, the paper also discusses how the value chain can be operationalized and how a broad set of social sciences, such as economics, can be applied to improve this process.

Profiles from BAMS

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"I have always found it exciting to see how we humans interact with nature, what resources we consume, what substances we release in return, how we transform whole landscapes, and what effects our behavior have on our environment and therefore also on us. Our planet is a very complicated system in which everything is somehow interconnected. Every action has a lot of different effects that I want to understand."

 

Luise Wanner (Karlsruhe Institute of Technologie) whose BAMS article features CHEESEHEAD19, a regional-scale observational experiment designed to address how the atmospheric boundary layer responds to spatial heterogeneity in surface energy fluxes. Read more of her interview in your October 2021 print or .

Did You Know?

AMS a Sponsor of the Climate Change Knowledge Cooperative

AMS Publications is participating in the Climate Change Knowledge Cooperative (), a collaboration between 20 publishers and others in the scholarly community aimed at helping a broad audience find and understand peer reviewed climate research. are featured so far, with more to follow over the next weeks.

 

AMS Store

—treat yourself or your friends to a cozy hoodie or windbreaker for the winter season!

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Coming Soon!

Do you want to see your science and engineering harnessed to make the world a safer, more sustainable place? Mastery of science policy and its application can help you make that aspiration real. Participate in the 2022 AMS Summer Policy Colloquium and you’ll take a big step toward your goals. Perhaps you’ve been holding back, awaiting a return to face-to-face sessions? If so, your wait may be over. The 2022 AMS Summer Policy Colloquium will be hybrid, with the DC-based sessions scheduled for 5–10 June. Registration opening soon! .

AMS Graduate Fellowships

If you are beginning graduate school in the fall of 2022, ! Receive financial support, an invitation to the AMS Annual Meeting, and ongoing academic and career support from AMS. Those traditionally underrepresented in the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic sciences are encouraged to apply! Deadline is 1 January!

Giving Tuesday

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Many thanks to all who contributed to the AMS for ! Your generous donations will allow us to boost our diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, provide resources to teachers inspiring the next generation, and give a hand up to college students, early career meteorologists, and others in our community who are just starting out.

 

Meetings Notes and Deadlines

10 January 2022 - deadline to submit your abstract to the

14 February 2022 - abstract submission deadline for the

7 March 2022 - deadline to submit your abstract to the

 

Abstract submissions for the Collective Madison Meeting will open in early December. for more information.

 

Abstract submissions for the will also open in early December!

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102nd Annual Meeting

Registration

Have you registered yet for our fully hybrid meeting? Early bird pricing ends today! (1 December). You’ll be able to change your participation method until 15 December. and plan your busy week!

Already Registered?

Build Your Skills

AMS Short Courses are an engaging and efficient way to increase your skills and knowledge in your chosen area of expertise, or to learn about another. Several courses are planned in person in Houston on Saturday and Sunday, 22-23 January 2022, prior to the Annual Meeting.

 

Accessibility, Safety, and Inclusivity

AMS is committed to creating an environment for meetings that “embraces diversity through the inclusion of individuals across age, gender, race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, physical ability, marital status, sexual orientation, body shape or size, gender identity and expression, socioeconomic status, and other facets of social diversity.” to find resources and information on events related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

 

Check out the Program for the Student Conference!

This special event—available exclusively to current AMS student members—takes place the weekend prior to the Annual Meeting (22 and 23 January). !

 

Don’t Miss the Early Career Conference

More than ever, Early Career Professionals in the weather, water, and climate industry are faced with challenges. Whether you are moving from school to your first job or transitioning across sectors, the is for you! Sessions begin on Sunday, 23 January, and registration is included in the full week 102nd Annual Meeting package.

 

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Do you want to hear about the latest developments in the Annual Meeting planning process straight from the Overall Program Chairs and AMS staff? Save the dates and register for the next two webinars in the 102nd Annual Meeting Webinar Series: Thursday, 16 December, at 10 AM Eastern and Wednesday, 5 January, at 2 PM Eastern. You can also review past recordings in the .

Career Development News

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Recent Podcast Releases

In our November episodes of , AMS talked to Isha Renta, a Management and Program Analyst, Oceanic and Atmospheric Research at NOAA in Washington, DC, and Morgan Yarker, a Certified Consulting Meteorologist and founder and owner of Yarker Consulting in Cedar Rapids, IA.

 

New Webinars Coming Up in December:

 

A Windstorm Resilience Success Story: The IBHS FORTIFIED Home Program

3 December at 11:00 AM Eastern

 

Downscaling Ensemble Climate Projections to Urban Scale

8 December at 11:00 AM Eastern

 

AMS Short Courses

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Take a look at our list of upcoming short courses. We are offering both in-person and virtual options starting in January 2022. Interested in organizing a short course? We can help!

Certification Corner

AMS certifications are respected credentials that provide you with professional recognition and strengthen your connections to the public, the atmospheric science community, and its resources.

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Congratulations to Damon Matson, who recently earned the CBM designation!

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Congratulations to Bryan Mroczka, who recently earned the CCM designation!

to learn more about how AMS certifications can help enhance your career in the private, public, or academic sector.

Career Opportunities

 

The connects employers in the weather, water, and climate community with job seekers. Current opportunities include the following:

Salt Lake City, Utah

Atmospheric Sciences

 

Andover, Massachusetts

The Weather Company

 

East Lansing, Michigan

Michigan State University Enviroweather

 

Dallas, Texas

Southern Methodist University

 

Boulder, Colorado

UCAR/NCAR

Boulder, Colorado

UCAR/NCAR

 

El Segundo, California

Spectrum Networks

 

Boston, Massachusetts

American Meteorological Society

 

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Louisiana State University

 

Bothell, Washington

University of Washington Bothell

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AMS Glossary Word of the Month

Thundersnow is a compound of the words ‘thunder’ and ‘snow’ used informally to describe an observation of snow at the surface that occurs with lightning and thunder.

 

In the mid-latitudes, thundersnow is prevalent downwind of lakes (e.g., the U.S. Great Lakes) due to sensible and latent heating of the boundary layer, and also in mountainous regions when the environment is sufficiently unstable and/or when significant orographic lifting occurs in preferred areas.

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