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AMS 1
Wed Jan 14, 2004
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Hi, I'm Bryan Yeaton for The Weather Notebook. In the middle of January, of most years, a
unique assortment of men and women gathers, this year in Seattle. It is the annual meeting of
the American Meteorological Society, and it draws 3-4000 weather folks from around the world,
52 last year. Here is last year's outgoing President, Richard Rosen:
"The Society is both a scientific and professional society so it includes people from the
academic world who do research on weather and climate and their applications. A good segment
of our membership does come from the broadcast community but also many other parts of the
private sector are here as well, as well as government meteorologists. We're a total of about
11,000 members in the United States, and internationally as well. This is a very
international subject."
And, says Rosen, lots of students participate too.
"We make an effort to bring students to come to this meeting. We had almost 200 students here
and it's really a wonderful field for people to think about coming into.
But ultimately, communicating scientific ideas is the goal.
"The annual meeting does serve many purposes. Among them are to bring the scientists together
to discuss their latest research and their latest finding. We also bring in the users of
weather information to have a dialogue with them so we make our research relevant. Also, we
have policymakers who came and spoke with, to us and with us about the kinds of information
that is needed for them to make wise decisions in government."
Richard Rosen is presently Assistant Administator for NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric
Research (OAR). We are funded by Subaru of America and the National Science Foundation.
Today's Links
American Meteorological Society:
http://www.ametsoc.org/
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