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AMS 2
Thu Jan 15, 2004
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Right now, in Seattle, the American Meteorological Society is having its annual meeting. It
is a huge conference, with perhaps 4000 attendees with various weather ties. Here was a first
timer from last year's conference in Long Beach.
MP: My name's Mark Pickett. I'm actually an oceanographer but the weather certainly
influences the ocean so that's why I'm here.
BY: And vice-versa, the ocean influences the weather.
MP: That's right. That's what they keep saying, uh, the El Niņo and the interaction
between the ocean and the atmosphere is really important.
BY: As an oceanographer, what do you get out of a meteorological conference?
MP: Well, actually, there's a lot of discussions about satellites and the satellites able to
measure the near surface, wind speeds and a lot of other aspects of the near surface
atmosphere. And that controls the oceans, too, the circles of the oceans so that's why I'm
interested.
BY: Has it been what you expected? Have you had a good time here?
MP: Yeah, I wouldn't say as much as good time as educationally, you certainly learn a lot
sitting through the seminars and you can, uh, meet a lot of the people that you read in the
scientific papers that they do so it's been very educational for me.
BY: It's a pretty huge thing, isn't it?
MP: Yeah, it is a very big deal. On the first day I got here I didn't know where I was
supposed to go or what I was supposed to do. There's a lot of people going to a lot of
different sessions so, but, as I say, it's a great educational opportunity.
Mark Pickett was working toward his PhD in Oceanography. I'll try to track him down this year
and see how he's doing. The Weather Notebook is generously funded by the National Science
Foundation and Subaru, Driven By What's Inside. Thanks today to The Weather Notebook staff,
Tecnical Producer Doug Sanborn and Marketing Manager
Today's Links
American Meteorological Society:
http://www.ametsoc.org/
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