Spotlight: AMS Education Summer Workshops
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This past July, the AMS Education Program leveraged support from NOAA, NASA, and the Office of Naval Research to hold the 28th Project Atmosphere professional development course for K–12 teachers and the 26th Maury Project, a companion course in physical oceanography. Forty-nine outstanding teachers engaged in what many of them describe as the best professional development experience of their lives.
The success of these courses is the result of AMS collaborations with California University of Pennsylvania and USNA faculty, as well as many partners in all of the sponsoring agencies including the NWS and now the NASA Natural Disasters program too. These teachers will complete their course requirements by leading peer training sessions throughout the coming year. We hope some of the participants will be able to join us at AMS100 in Boston!
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Student Opportunities
If you are an AMS Student member and would like to attend the 100th AMS Annual Meeting, check out the help available through our Student Assistant and Student Travel Grant Programs. See you in Boston!
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Peer Review AMA
Are you curious about how peer review works in AMS journals and the Bulletin? On 17 September, the AMS Community will host an Ask Me Anything session with AMS Publications Commissioner Dr. Anthony Broccoli. This event will be one of the ways AMS
participates in Peer Review Week 2019, an annual opportunity to highlight the importance of peer review.
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Upcoming Webinars
Monday, 23 September 2019, 2:00 pm Eastern: Weather-Related Research Funding Program Manager Q&A Series
The AMS Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting will be hosting the next webinar in the Weather-Related Research Funding Program Manager Q&A Series! This month's webinar features Program Directors Chungu Lu, Jielun Sun, and Nicholas Anderson from the Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Section, Geosciences Directorate, National Science Foundation. Register today!
Thursday, 26 September 2019, 2:00 pm Eastern: Effective Engagement with Local Policy Makers
In this webinar, organized by the AMS Local Chapter Affairs Committee, Andy Miller of the AMS Policy program will share ideas and experiences on how to plan and execute a successful meeting with local decision makers. The webinar will include information on messaging, conduct, and general dos and don'ts. There will be plenty of time for questions after the short presentation. Register today!
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Meeting Dates and Deadlines
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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 |
(Or lenticular cloud.) A cloud species the elements of which have the form of more or less isolated, generally smooth lenses or almonds; the outlines are sharp and sometimes show irisation.
These clouds appear most often in formations of orographic origin, the result of lee waves, in which cases they remain nearly stationary with respect to the terrain (standing cloud), but they also occur in regions without marked orography. This species is found mainly in the genera cirrocumulus, altocumulus, and (rarely) stratocumulus. Altocumulus lenticularis differs from cirrocumulus lenticularis in that, when smooth and without elements, it has shadowed parts while the latter is very white throughout. When undulated or subdivided, the altocumulus species differs from stratocumulus lenticularis in that its elements subtend an angle of less than 5° when viewed at an angle of
more than 30° above the horizon. Read More»
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