Jack Townsend, Shepherd of Weather Satellite Technology
The passing of AMS Fellow John W. (“Jack”) Townsend on October 29 serves as a fitting moment to register the evolving...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Upon further reflection…
Here’s a little more reflection on the subject of recent posts: Earth observations, science, and services for the 21st century....
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Belt and suspenders
The American Meteorological Society ran a small workshop this week on a big topic: Earth observations, science and services for...
From AMS Journals, Perspectives
Dealing With a Challenging Science Policy Environment
by William Hooke, AMS Policy Program Director. Adapted from posts (here, here, here, and here) on the AMS Project, Living on...
Latest Readings
From our AMS bookmarks this week (for more, visit AMSFrontPage on Delicious, http://bit.ly/v7dMY2): Sun trackers gather to calibrate instruments…Feds make slow progress...
NASA Mission Monitors Birth of Antarctic Iceberg
Resuming a multi-year mission to map Antarctic ice in mid October, NASA researchers discovered a miles-long crack in a major...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Weather-Ready Nation(al Government)
Maybe you missed that 4:00 a.m. announcement[1]. Yesterday the United States government’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced a change...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Be Promethean
Today we wrap up our AMS workshop on Earth Observations, Science, and Services for the 21st Century. It’s proving to...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
More…on Earth observations, science, and services for the 21st century
A preamble… At the end of the October 31 post, I said we’d focus on unleashing private-sector productivity. But in...
Gliders Do the Wave, in the Air and in the Ocean
One would think that the time when gliders were considered cutting-edge technology for science would have long passed. Yet this...
