by Fred Carr, AMS Past President
Dear Paper and Poster Presenters at the AMS Annual Meeting,
As you know, the theme of the 2017 AMS Annual Meeting is “Observations Lead the Way.” Even though there are several conferences, symposia and sessions dedicated to identifying the greatest observational needs in many disciplines within the weather, water and climate community, we want the advice of all presenters in the 42 conferences and symposia comprising this year’s Annual Meeting.
The intent is to obtain a community consensus on what observations we need to advance our research, applications, products and services. This information, hopefully from you and the 2000 other presenters at this meeting, will be organized and summarized
- to write an article for the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society on our community’s consensus on the greatest observational needs across the weather, water, and climate enterprise;
- to create a document using the same data that would be presented to Federal and State agencies that support environmental measurements, platforms, and networks; and
- to create a similar document tailored for policy makers, especially for Congress and their staff, to give them the community consensus they are often looking for.
To help us in this effort, we are asking you to create one slide or set of bullets near the end of your talk or poster that includes
- observations (or networks) that are needed to benefit your future research, application or product development;
- recommended instruments that are needed to make these observations;
- your view on the greatest observational needs for your discipline in general.
If you have co-authors, please seek their opinions on these questions as well. We have signed up 100 student volunteers who will attend your sessions and help “harvest” and organize all of your recommendations in a form we can use for the aforementioned publications. I also encourage all poster presenters to upload an image of their poster to the Presenter’s Corner.
I hope you decide to assist us in this very important effort to improve our nation’s observing capacity. Thank you!
Fred Carr
President, American Meteorological Society