Spotlight: Planning for Boston!
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The 100th Annual Meeting will feature some very exciting changes—plan to attend these NEW events!
All 2020 AMS awards will be presented on Sunday afternoon immediately following the Presidential Forum and will be followed by a welcoming reception to honor awardees and kick off the meeting. This new event is called the Presidential Forum, Annual Meeting Welcome, and Awards Ceremony and it will take place Sunday, 12 January 2020, 4:00 p.m.-6:30p.m., Ballroom East, BCEC.
New to the annual meeting this year is Awardee Way, a photo gallery showing 2020 awardees and newly elected fellows, located in the convention center near the skybridge to the Westin Waterfront. Be sure to visit Awardee Way during the week to learn more about these outstanding leaders of the weather, water, and climate community!
All badged attendees and guests are invited to join us in the Grand Ballroom of the BCEC on Wednesday evening for our highly anticipated Centennial Celebration. During this once in a lifetime event, we’ll "travel back in time" and party through the decades of AMS. This event takes the place of the AMS Awards Banquet and will give you the opportunity to relax with friends old and new while we celebrate AMS's first hundred years. You can sample foods and drinks from 1919 to the present as well as enjoying music and activities from each time period. We hope you can make it!
In addition to our usual Presidential Forum on Sunday and Presidential Town Hall Meetings during the week, we have planned new Presidential Forum Sessions as a way to illustrate how the annual meeting theme of "The AMS Past, Present and Future: Linking Information to Knowledge to Society (LINKS)" carries across our profession. These seven sessions will take place during the week in rooms 210AB and 252B.
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New AMS Statements
On 27 September AMS Council approved an updated Policy Statement on The Energy Sector and Earth Observations, Sciences, and Services, which details how improvements in Earth observations, sciences, and services can provide direct benefits to the United States’ energy sector, and makes recommendations to help reduce the energy sector’s vulnerability to anomalous weather events and longer-term climate change.
A new statement on Best Practices for Data Management was also adopted by AMS Council. It provides guidance on a broad spectrum of activities in the data lifecycle, including data collection, governance, sharing, storage, and archival practices.
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20 Years of JHM
The Journal of Hydrometeorology (JHM) was launched in 2000 to provide a dedicated AMS Journal in the interdisciplinary space linking hydrology and meteorology. Read Chief Editor Wade Crow's editorial in the October issue, Marking JHM’s 20th Anniversary.
New Policy Memo
How Trustworthy Are Scientific Assessments of Climate Change?
Scientific evidence relating to the climate system and the impact that people might be having on it spans dozens of fields of study and includes work from tens of thousands of individual scientists. Over the past few decades, there have been hundreds of independent scientific assessments of this body of evidence. This recent AMS Policy Program memo finds that many assessments are scientifically rigorous, produced using transparent processes, and include evaluation of uncertainty and confidence. Efforts to discredit scientific assessments with audiences that are unfamiliar with the underlying science or the processes used in preparing them are a disservice to science and the public.
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Eye Towards the Sky Lecture Series
Gavin Pretor-Pinney kicked off this series with Cloudspotting for Beginners on 10 October. The Boston Public Library was a wonderful venue for this visually stunning tour of our skies. For all not able to attend, the video is available for viewing here.
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Child Care Grant
The American Meteorological Society offers childcare grants of up to $400 per family to assist conference attendees with additional expenses incurred by attending the Annual Meeting. Limited funds are available, and preference is given to applicants in the early stages of their career. As a secondary criterion, preference will be given to applicants who explain clearly why a grant to support childcare, dependent care or their own assistance is necessary. To apply, please fill in the form and email it to Christine Card. The deadline has been extended to 8 November! Recipients will be notified this month and reimbursement distribution will be in mid-February 2020.
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AMS Teacher Professional Development Courses
Fall may be in the air, but it’s not too early for teachers to get connected to a DataStreme Mentor Team for spring semester 2020! Participants earn three low cost graduate credits and learn about weather, ocean, and climate science. More than 22,000 teachers have completed a DataStreme course, helping them leverage real time data in their classrooms, advance their careers, and become science leaders in their schools and communities. Teachers can fill out the Datastreme Interest Form now to get matched with a mentor for the spring semester! Read More»
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Annual Meeting sponsorship opportunities
Our Centennial celebration concludes in grand style with the 100th Annual Meeting. Several sponsorship and advertising packages are available to promote your organization to approximately 5,000 attendees from academia, research, government, and the private sector. Choose from a specific package or mix and match to create a bundle that works best for you. We're looking ahead to the next 100 years of AMS—and your organization is going to want to be a part of it!
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Meeting News and Deadlines
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Upcoming Webinars
November 12, 2019 - 11:00am Eastern
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Discussion: Unconscious Bias
Join presenter Richard "Pete" Hill, Director, Equal Opportunity and Diversity Management Division at the National Weather Service for this webinar organized by the AMS CWWCE Executive Committee. Learn what unconscious bias is, how it can be identified, and how our decisions and everyday actions can be improved by recognizing these biases exist. Register here.
November 13, 2019 2:00pm Eastern
History of the AMS
In this webinar, organized by the AMS Local Chapter Affairs Committee, AMS Archivist Sophie Mankins will cover the AMS history timeline, including the history of local chapters. To get a good feel of the history being covered, refer to the AMS timeline featured on the Centennial webpage. Register here.
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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 2020 Membership
AMS members are scientists, researchers, students, educators, broadcasters,
and other professionals working together to make a difference in the fields of weather, water, and climate. Join AMS now to be part of a vibrant community sharing knowledge, improving technology, promoting understanding, and disseminating science to ensure that our planet can thrive.
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AMS Glossary Word of the Month |
Indian Summer
A period, in mid or late autumn, of abnormally warm weather, generally clear skies, sunny but hazy days, and cool nights. In New England, at least one killing frost and preferably a substantial period of normally cool weather must precede this warm spell in order for it to be considered a true "Indian summer". It does not occur every year, and in some years there may be two or three Indian summers. Read More»
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