Academic Sector Councilors

John Knox
John Knox

When the AMS was founded in 1919, our field was a small, quirky, out-of-the-limelight science. Today we are at the epicenter of the single most dominant global issue of the 21st century, anthropogenic climate change. My two decades of collective experience on nonprofit and government boards tells me that...

John Lanicci
John Lanicci

I see several challenges to our field over the next 5-10 years, such as employment and proper use of artificial intelligence/machine learning, the rising importance of decision support assistance, and developing resilience to impacts from a changing global climate. However, another challenge that...

Russ Schumacher
Russ Schumacher

One key challenge facing the Society is the responsibility that the AMS community and its members have to produce the best possible weather and climate information, and to make that information accessible and usable by all. This challenge is made even more critical by the disproportionate impacts that extreme...