Perspectives
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A New Web Vision
by Tom Champoux, AMS Communications Director You may have noticed that AMS rolled out a new website today, updating content...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Evolving the National Weather Service. 6. Water.
Continuing from the previous LOTRW posts… In the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the 1980’s and 1990’s, it was...
Perspectives
Is This Our Moonshot Moment?
by Douglas Hilderbrand, Co-Chair, AMS Board on Enterprise Communication Have you ever imagined being a NASA scientist back in the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Evolving the National Weather Service. 5. Stakeholders
Continuing from the previous LOTRW posts… There are many reasons to like the NWS Weather-Ready Nation initiative, but perhaps the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Evolving the National Weather Service. 4. People.
“There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Evolving the National Weather Service. 3. What the last fifteen years have to tell us with respect to the technology piece.
…continuing from the previous LOTRW post… Now we find ourselves in 2015. It’s Groundhog Day. Déjà vu. The WSR88D’s, once...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Evolving the National Weather Service. 2. Technology and infrastructure.
“the war to end all wars” – British author H. G. Wells (referring to World War I). “This war, like...
AMS Programs, Perspectives
Federal Funding for Research in Weather, Water, and Climate
by Paul Higgins, AMS Policy Program Director In June, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to cut funding for Earth...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Evolving the National Weather Service? Some reflections (from a distant mirror).
The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future.” – Theodore Roosevelt “This isn’t...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Holism: the first casualty in the climate-change war?
“In war, truth is the first casualty.” – attributed to various authors The recently-released papal encyclical on climate change calls...
