Living on the Real World, Perspectives
20th Biennial Joint AMS/AGU Heads and Chairs Meeting 13 – 14 October 2016 Boulder, CO
Dave Jones is a leading figure in the Weather Enterprise (in fact, the reach of his innovation and influence extends...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
(Incidental) environmental intelligence[1].
Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan, Under Secretary of Commerce for Atmosphere and Oceans, and NOAA Administrator, has throughout her tenure, in...
Looking Back on a Consulting Career
By William Haggard, CCM (This post is adapted from the Introduction to the author’s new AMS book, Weather in the...
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AMS Journals—Better than Ever
by Keith Seitter, AMS Executive Director, and Michael Friedman, AMS Journals Production Manager It is interesting how quickly bad news...
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A Peer Review Conversation
by Jeff Rosenfeld, BAMS Editor in Chief, and Bob Rauber, AMS Publications Commissioner Since this week has been declared Peer...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Hope: GOES-R, the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, and the people behind these achievements.
In the year 2000, Andrew Delbanco, a Harvard professor, published The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope. An excerpt...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Relocating meteorology.
To be a physical scientist is to operate in a very confined world, treating only a small class of variables...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Why Johnny can’t read: and what you can do about it.
Back in 1955, Rudolf Flesch wrote a famous book by this title. In it, he decried a sight-reading approach then...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Remote-sensing nostalgia
“Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Every community needs a weather-ready stress test.
The story is heartbreakingly familiar. Once again[1], weather and water have hammered Louisianans. Figures put the recent death toll at...
