AMS Programs, Conference Spotlight
Building Community to Solve the Big Challenges in Weather, Water, and Climate
Some thoughts following the AMS Summer Community Meeting By Isabella Herrera, AMS Policy Program How can the weather, water, and...
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Nudge Theory and Choice Architecture: Can Weather Social Science Be this Simple?
By Kim Klockow McClain Over the past decade or two, interest has grown rapidly in bringing social science insights to...
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The path to getting climate change sorted goes through babies and toddlers.
My daughter is fond of reminding me that climate change can’t claim to be the #1 challenge facing the world...
Across AMS, Conference Spotlight
“Once in a Generation”: The 2022 Buffalo Blizzard
A Research Spotlight from 32WAF/28NWP/20Meso On 23 December, 2022, David Zaff of the National Weather Service’s Buffalo office walked out...
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The real world – no place for wishful thinking. Part 1. Hazards. An (extended) postscript.
(For starters, I hope that all of you who read the previous LOTRW post on hazards will revisit that post...
Who Creates the Future of AMS Peer Review? Maybe You Do!
By Gwendolyn Whittaker, AMS Publications Director For Peer Review Week 2023, AMS and other scholarly publishers have been asked to...
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The real world – no place for wishful thinking. Part 1. Hazards
This week’s print edition of The Economist includes an article entitled Uninsurable America. The subtitle reads, succinctly: Insurance is supposed...
What Do Non-Scientists Need to Understand about Peer Review?
Thoughts from AMS 2024 Editor’s Award Recipients Understanding the role of peer review in science is vital not only for...
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18-, 19-, 20-years… Time’s up! (sort-of)
At twenty years on, it’s once again time to revisit J.F. Rischard’s 2003 book, High Noon: Twenty Global Problems, Twenty...
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Meteorologues sans Frontieres
(Forgive this post – the idea came to me during last night’s bout with insomnia. And no shaming, please; we...
