If you’re a student interested in and or currently studying the field of weather, water, and climate, attending an AMS meeting is an essential and important step in your career path.

• Expand your knowledge.
• Improve your research opportunities.
• Share your own ideas.
• Connect with experts.
• Grow personally and professionally.

AMS wants to help you attend our meetings – we offer several support opportunities to make this possible.

The 36th Hurricane Conference will be awarding presentation awards and travel allowance to selected students.

Travel Grants

Student Presenter Travel Allowance is designed to help offset expenses relating to registration fees, transportation costs, food, and lodging for students presenting poster or oral papers. The committee is pleased to offer two (2) student awards of $955 each to attend the 36th Hurricane Conference in May 6-11, 2024. To apply, students should prepare a short written statement (no more than one page) declaring their financial need and circumstance, relevance of their research to the conference, how they will benefit from attending the conference, and a copy of their abstract for the meeting. Travel allowance applications are due March 8, 2024, and should be submitted to the program co-chairs (Naoko Sakaeda and Pablo Santos) at [email protected] and [email protected]. Students selected to receive the travel allowances will be notified by March 29, 2024. 

Additional details regarding Student Presenter Travel Allowance:

Travel reimbursement will occur after the meeting. Registration should be handled prior to the travel and during the registration period where possible. Winners should work with their AMS lead meeting planner for both reimbursement and registration.

For non-presenting Students: Student Travel Grants are also available for non-presenting students. The application will be available in late February. Please visit Student Travel Grant Page for more information and to apply.  The application deadline is March 8, 2024.

Award Opportunities

• The Max A. Eaton Student Prize is awarded for an outstanding student paper presented at each conference on hurricanes and tropical meteorology. 
• The Outstanding Oral Presentation Awards are awarded to three students with outstanding oral presentations.
• The Outstanding Poster Presentation Awards are awarded to three students with outstanding poster presentations.

Requirements to be eligible for these awards:

• You must be enrolled as a student at a university at the time of abstract submission, and you also must be the lead author and presenter of the work.
• If you graduate between the abstract submission and the conference dates, your presentation must be on work that you have done as a student.
• When submitting your abstract, please select a box “Yes” below “Student Competition”.
• To be considered for the Max A. Eaton Student Prize, you must submit an extended abstract by April 1, 2024. An instruction for an extended abstract can be found here (https://www.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/ams/meetings-events/abstract-author-and-presenter-information/abstract-author-instructions/extended-abstract-instructions/). The extended abstracts must be written independently by the student without major support or feedback by their advisors. The quality of both extended abstract and presentation will be used to select this award.
• An extended abstract is not required to be considered for outstanding oral and poster presentation awards. Those awards will be selected based on the quality of presentation only.

Student Paper Award Judges Needed!

The Student Award Committee is still seeking volunteers to serve as judges for student presentations during the AMS Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology. To successfully reach our goal of giving every student multiple independent reviews with constructive comments, we need at least 2 volunteers for posters, and at least 4 for oral presentations. If you are interested and have not already done so, please fill out this form at your earliest convenience to sign up and state your availability and preferences.

We expect to assign no more than 5 presentations to each judge, depending on their availability, interests, and remaining openings for students. Scoring will include a mix of quantitative sections and qualitative comments. The rubric for the Outstanding Oral Presentation Awards can be found here, and the rubric for the Outstanding Poster Presentation Awards can be found here.

Contact the Student Award Committee Co-Chairs, Jake Carstens ([email protected]) and Alyssa Stansfield ([email protected]), with any questions or comments. Any new judges will be contacted promptly with their assignments and further instructions, to help them plan out their conference schedule. Thank you for your interest in recognizing and supporting students. We look forward to connecting with you in Long Beach!

Jake Carstens ([email protected]) and Alyssa Stansfield ([email protected]) – Student Award Committee Co-Chairs, 36^th AMS Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

Student Assistant

Volunteer students are needed for registration and audio/visual support during the conference. Student volunteers are required to be in attendance the entire conference, and be available to work at least a full day from Monday through Friday (with a training on Sunday). For volunteering, the student will get their registration fee waived and $40.00 per day for food allowance. This program is a first come, first served basis. A limited number of students will be needed for the conference. Those students interested should please contact Cati Iannarilli for details.