Spotlight: 103rd Annual Meeting
AMS Annual Meeting starts next week!
Join over 5300 members of the weather, water, and climate community who will participate in the Annual Meeting—either in–person in Denver or online.
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Check out the Online program for sessions and "don't miss" events that will be happening throughout the week.
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Plan to attend the Presidential Forum on Sunday, 8 January at 4pm MT. The Presidential Forum, Annual Meeting Welcome and Awards Ceremony will be livestreamed for everyone. Also, note the Presidential Sessions that will be happening throughout the week.
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Don’t forget to download the 103rd Annual Meeting mobile app! Stay organized with up-to-the-minute speaker and event information, view the maps, and build a personalized schedule to help make the most of your time. To download the app, search for "AMS2023" in the Apple Store (iOS) or Google Play Store (Android). Please note you must log in with your registration Confirmation Number!
- Plan for Your Health and Safety. Review our Commitment to Care statement—masks will be required and all attendees must be fully vaccinated.
Recordings from all sessions will be available for registered attendees 72 hours after the session, and will be open to the public three months after the Annual Meeting ends.
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Teachers: Happy New Year!
While we don’t know what the year will bring, we do know there is still time for you to apply for an amazing summer professional development experience! American Meteorological Society courses Project Atmosphere and Project Ocean are accepting applications through 24 March. These competitive 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. Learn More »
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AMS 2023 Book Drive
With your help, AMS raised $2,900 for our book drive this year. The Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy (BICEP) project is working with local scientists and school districts to distribute 145 books to a number of Title I elementary schools in the Denver area. Thank You so much to everyone who donated to or worked to coordinate this new initiative! We hope to build on this effort at the 104th Annual Meeting next year in Baltimore.
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“House near Rodanthe collapsed” The National Park Service
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Managed Retreat: An Introduction and Exploration of Policy Options
Managed retreat is a tool for community adaptation to repeated environmental threats that involves the physical relocation of people, structures, and infrastructures away from areas exposed to repeat hazards. In this study, we introduce and explore managed retreat as an adaptive strategy to climate hazards with the goal of identifying the policy options for enacting managed retreat and exploring these policies’ strengths and limitations.
Read the full report
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2023 AMS Summer Policy Colloquium
Registration is now open! The
Summer Policy Colloquium is an intensive immersion in policy for Earth system scientists and professionals. Colloquium participants meet with congressional staff, members of Congress, leading officials from the executive branch, and prominent policy experts. Exercises and policy simulations provide additional windows into the interplay of policy, politics, and procedure in the United States Federal policy process.
The Colloquium will occur from June 4-9, 2023 in Washington, DC with additional virtual opportunities throughout the summer. Applications for funding through the National Science Foundation and the Bill Hooke Fellowship are now open, with a deadline of March 15, 2023.
More information is available online.
For updates on policy-related events at the 2023 AMS Annual Meeting, including the William Hooke Symposium and the Policy Program Town Hall, visit the
Annual Meeting Online Program.
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Did You Know?
Deadline Extended!
Tell your friends and students—the AMS Graduate Fellowship Program application deadline has been extended until 15 January 2023! Fellowship recipients receive a stipend for a nine-month period in the academic year, and partial travel support to attend the AMS Annual Meeting. If you plan to attend graduate school in the fall of 2023, head over to the AMS scholarship and fellowship website to apply!
March 2023 TEX Cohort Opportunity
Scientists and community leaders partner together on projects to address local community needs. Most of these projects have significant weather and climate related issues and help to promote community-driven science. Training and support are provided throughout the projects. We are looking for community projects (application deadline 19 Jan 2023) and scientists (application deadline 26 Jan 2023). For more information on this great opportunity and how to apply, visit the Thriving Earth Exchange via the AMS Volunteer website.
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AMS Weather Band JAMposium
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24-25 February, 2023 |12-4 pm ET
Greetings AMS Community! We are very excited for the upcoming 2023 Weather Band JAMposium, a free flowing exchange of weather knowledge. Sitting in will be Band members and guests, all wonderfully knowledgeable in the topics most requested by the Weather Band Community.
The JAMposium will be fully virtual and consist of three 45-60 minute webinars each day where we will discuss forecasting, extreme events, winter weather, climate change, science communication, and more. There will be time for Q&A, and breaks between each webinar (keep an eye out for opportunities to show off your expertise in weather trivia). Save the date! We will be bringing you more details soon.
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“Another deadly Alberta tornado—the Pine Lake tornado on 14 July 2000—pushed my fascination into high gear…. I remember the cover to my portfolio in art class that year was lovingly adorned with a careful scientific sketch of a supercell and tornado in profile, which represented easily more attention and skill than I put into the rest of the class projects combined.”
—Alexandra Anderson-Frey (University of Washington), whose BAMS article asks what is, and what is not, tornado warning skill. Read more of her interview in your December
digital BAMS.
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Upcoming Specialty Meetings
Save the dates for:
Open for Abstract Submissions
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Recent Podcast Release
In our
December episode of Clear Skies Ahead, AMS talked to Matthew Cappucci about his role as a broadcast meteorologist in multiple media markets, navigating science communication challenges around social media, and what it is like to be a first-time published author.
Subscribe to Clear Skies Ahead »
Career Activities at the AMS Annual Meeting
Network in the Exhibit Hall
Don’t forget to visit the exhibit hall throughout the week. Organizations marked with a 'handshake' symbol in the exhibitor list have information on open positions. This is a great way to network and learn more about job opportunities. Participating exhibitors include: AEM, AMS, ASRC Federal Holding Company, Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility, EKO Instruments USA Inc, ERT, EWR Radar Systems, LI-COR Environmental, PSSC Labs, RTI International, SAIC, UCAR, and Vaisala Inc. Learn More »
Fly In and L(a)unch with ARAM
Attention students and early career professionals who have an interest in aviation, range and aerospace meteorology! Please join the ARAM committee at this luncheon and networking event at the AMS Annual Meeting. Meteorologists, pilots and researchers from the ARAM community will be available to meet with students and ECPs to talk about careers and opportunities. Box lunches will be served to the first 60 students/ECPs on a first come, first served basis. A keynote presentation will be given by Dr. Matthias Steiner from NCAR. Event sponsored by Leidos.
Learn about more ways you can advance your skills at the upcoming AMS Annual Meeting in Denver!
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Private Sector Mentorship Program | | |
Applications Now Open!
If you are an undergraduate or graduate meteorology/atmospheric science student and would like to be connected with a mentor in private industry, apply now. The Program is also looking for mentors. By becoming a mentor, you can contribute to a strong and charitable meteorological community while also growing and diversifying your network. The application deadline is 31 January.
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Careers
The AMS Career Center connects employers in the weather, water, and climate community with job seekers. Current opportunities include the following:
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AMS Glossary Word of the Month
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Colloquially an ice crystal, or more commonly an aggregation of many crystals that falls from a cloud.
Simple snowflakes (single crystals) exhibit beautiful variety of form, but the symmetrical shapes reproduced so often in photomicrographs are not found frequently in snowfalls. Broken single crystals, fragments, or clusters of such elements are much more typical of actual snow. Snowflakes made up of clusters of crystals (many thousand or more) or crystal fragments may grow as large as three to four inches in diameter, often building themselves into hollow cones falling point downward. In extremely still air, flakes with diameters as large as 10 inches have been reported.
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