88th AMS Annual Meeting - January 20 - 24, 2008

GeoResources Institute
November 7, 2007

What: 88th AMS Annual Meeting
When: January 20 - 24, 2008
Where: Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, Louisiana

Enhancing the Connectivity between Research and Applications for the Benefit of Society

The 88th AMS Annual Meeting will be held 20–24 January 2008 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. Ken Carey and Chris Velden are the 2008 Annual Meeting Cochairpersons, leading the organization of the meeting.

The 2008 Annual Meeting is being organized around the broad theme of “Enhancing the Connectivity between Research and Applications for the Benefit of Society.” This is an important topic that will shape our weather, ocean, climate, and environmental enterprise for many years to come. Our nation’s economy, well-being, and safety will depend on successful efforts in this area from all sectors of our Society—academia, private, and government—and will require all of us to participate in and be engaged in discussing how we might enhance mutual interactions between research and applications. A Presidential Forum entitled "Hurricane Katrina: Looking back to look ahead” will consist of presentations from the weather community on the meteorological event, followed by diverse presentations on the social impacts. The Forum will be accompanied by a special 2-day Hurricane Symposium. Several important and complementary events have been planned to leverage the interest, participation, and expertise in this theme, including the following:

• A special WeatherFest focus on hurricanes and other tropical storms on Sunday
• An opening plenary session at noon on Monday (with a cash and carry lunch available) featuring Mayor Nagin of New Orleans
• A special named symposia for Dr. Richard Hallgren on Monday and the late Professor Peter Hobbs on Thursday; a separate luncheon for each will be held in their honor on the day of their symposium
• Joint sessions to begin each day with brief presentations by representatives from selected Scientific and Technological Activities Commissions, followed by an interactive discussion with the audience
• A 1-day Data Assimilation Forum targeted on educating the broad AMS membership
• The Fifth GOES Users’ Conference
• A 1-day Symposium on THORPEX
• A 1-day session examining the "Impacts of 2007's Weather: Major Stories of the Year”
• The AMS Student Conference and Career Fair to take place on the Saturday and Sunday prior to the Meeting
• An opportunity to volunteer for helping the local New Orleans Habitat for Humanity

For more information, registration, author instructions, and much more, visit www.ametsoc.org/meet/annual/.