Perspectives
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The economic value of the Weather and Climate Enterprise
“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want...
AMS Programs, Perspectives
Hanging Together: The AMS Washington Forum
by Ellen Klicka, AMS Policy Program “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” – Benjamin...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Better advocacy for the Weather and Climate Enterprise
“Let someone else praise you, and not your own mouth; an outsider, and not your own lips.” Proverbs 27:2 (NIV) These...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Between Good Friday and Easter: meteorologists (and mankind) in need of The Resurrection
On this Easter weekend, and with the Passover just a few days behind us, it’s perhaps worth a pause to...
Perspectives
NOAA Hiring Freeze: Capabilities Head Down a Slippery Slope
by J. Marshall Shepherd, AMS President. The full text was posted earlier today on his blog, Still Here and Thinking. This week...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Meteorology’s greatest achievement over the past decade? It’s not what you think.
[and you have an opportunity April 1-5 to play a part in it.] Ask this question of any member of...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Drones for Science
Another guest post contributed by George Leopold… Drone technology has understandably raised safety and privacy concerns. Regulators are working feverishly...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
U.S. infrastructure overall gets a D+. What grade would you give U.S. weather infrastructure?
This morning’s print edition of the Washington Post contains a piece by Ashley Halsey III entitled U.S. infrastructure gets D-plus...
AMS Programs, Perspectives
For Science and Discovery, Videoconferencing Won't Get It
by J. Marshall Shepherd, AMS President. The full text was posted earlier today on his blog, Still Here and Thinking....
Perspectives
AMS Policy Colloquium: Where Science, Policy, and Communication Collide
by Jen Henderson, Skywarn storm spotter, writer, and grad student at Virginia Tech in Science and Technology Studies. Republished from...
