Spotlight: Weather Band Photo Contest
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"Tx Blue Hour Delight" by Aaron Rigsby won First Prize in the 2021 Weather Band Photo Contest
Submit Your Favorite Image!
The
2022 AMS Weather Band Photo Contest is under way, and everyone is invited! Share your best photos of weather, water, and climate from the subtle to the extreme: clouds, waves, storms, and other atmospheric, oceanic, or hydrologic conditions. You could win one of these cash prizes:
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1st: $500
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2nd: $300
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3rd: $200
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Members' choice: $500
The contest ends 15 August at 5:00 PM Eastern. Submit your photo now!
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AMS Community Input Needed!
The AMS is currently updating its “Bachelor’s Degree in Atmospheric Science” statement, which is updated every 5 years and will be published in 2023. The AMS Bachelor Statement Drafting Committee is conducting a brief (5 minute or less) survey to provide AMS community members an opportunity to provide feedback regarding undergraduate coursework and expectations of atmospheric sciences and meteorology students pursuing related careers and graduate school opportunities. Your participation in this survey is entirely voluntary and anonymous.
Please complete the survey here—your feedback is greatly appreciated. Please address any questions to
Dr. Zachary Handlos. Thank you for your consideration!
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New Opportunities to Advertise with AMS
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AMS just released our
updated Media
Kit, which details new opportunities to advertise with AMS. This is an opportunity for organizations to reach a broad spectrum of weather, water, and climate scientists, educators, policy-makers, weather enthusiasts, and more.
Learn more on our website, where you can also find our advertising order form. Please direct any questions to Visual Design Manager
Sangjun Lee.
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MWR 150 Series
MWR continues to celebrate its
150 years. June's highlight: volunteer peer reviewers, including honoring this year's recipients of Editor's Awards for their service to MWR, and an Editorial detailing what goes into reviews that are "thoughtful, thorough, and constructive." Great tips and insights for anyone wanting to understand peer review, and anyone wanting to be a more effective reviewer.
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Student Travel Grants
Hey there students! The Student Travel Grant Program is still open for applications to the
30th Conference on Severe Local Storms being held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in October. It only takes a moment to apply for the opportunity to experience this AMS conference for free! Current senior undergraduate and graduate students with active AMS membership are eligible. Interested?
Get details here.
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Fall Professional Development for K–12 Teachers
The AMS Education Program is helping teachers to learn more about weather, ocean, and climate science, as well as using real data in the classroom. Don’t miss this chance to be a part of the 54th semester of our online DataStreme Program! Our sponsors, NOAA and Lockheed Martin, are covering the course fees for the first 35 participants successfully matched to a mentor team for each of the three Fall 2022 courses. Participants earn three accredited graduate credits per course. Fill out the DataStreme Interest Form now to get matched with your mentor ASAP for the fall semester. Read more »
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“Looking at the weather page in the newspaper when I was young sparked my interest in meteorology (it was the only page I would read). I always wanted to know why things were happening, like why it was snowing on a given day, or why the temperature in another city was so much warmer than mine in the middle of winter (I grew up in Chicago). I became interested in meteorology because it provided me the opportunity to learn the answers to the questions I had growing up.”
— Emily Pauline (University of Georgia; currently with The Climate Service), whose BAMS article combines climate and demographic data to create the United States’ first extremes vulnerability index. Read more of her interview in your May print or
digital BAMS.
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Recent Podcast Releases
In our June episodes of
Clear Skies Ahead, AMS talked to Nick Cavanaugh, Founder and CEO of Sensible Weather, in Santa Monica, California, and Kristie Ebi, Professor at the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Subscribe to Clear Skies Ahead »
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New Short Course
Sunday, 7 August, at 8:00 AM–3:45 PM Central
The American Meteorological Society, partnering with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, will be hosting this hybrid short course at the Collective Madison Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin (at the Monona Terrace for in-person participants). The short course will provide participants an opportunity to use readily available tools to process, display, and analyze GOES-R, JPSS, and other environmental satellite data products in lake application scenarios. Registration closes on Thursday, 4 August, at 11:45 PM Eastern. Register here »
AMS Certification holders receive professional development points for attending webinars and short courses.
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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 Darren Clabo, who recently earned the CCM designation!
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Congratulations to Alexa Birmingham, Max Crawford, Katie Nikolaou, and Jaclyn Shearer, who recently earned the CBM designation! | | |
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Congratulations to Elizabeth McCauley and Leilani O'Dell, who recently earned the CAT designation!
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Visit our web page to learn more about how AMS certifications can help enhance your career in the private, public, or academic sector.
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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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A halo in the form of a pillar of light extending above or below the sun and usually seen when the sun is low in the sky.
It is explained by reflection by the sides of columnar ice crystals falling with their long axes horizontal. The term light pillar is sometimes used when the source of light is artificial, such as street lamps.
Explore the Glossary »
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