Federal Agencies and Cooperative Institutes

Suomi Now Smiles Down Upon Us

January 25, 2012

NASA and NOAA announced today at the AMS Annual Meeting in New Orleans that they have renamed the recently launched...

You've Got a Flare for Science

January 23, 2012

Last night while you were out partying on Bourbon Street, the Sun was at work. According to NOAA, our home...

Where Do We Feel at Home Now?

January 15, 2012

You can’t go home again, novelist Thomas Wolfe famously explained in a novel published, ironically, in 1940–the year Franklin Delano...

Have You Modernized Today?

January 13, 2012

Have you swapped out some old incandescent light bulbs for the newfangled LED lights lately? How about upgraded some software?...

The Next Steps for the USGCRP

January 12, 2012

This week, the National Research Council issued a report of a blue-ribbon panel arguing that the United States Global Change Research Program...

iPhone Game Puts Satellite Data in Your Hands

November 30, 2011

The Los Angeles Times compares it to Tetris and calls it “the nerdiest game ever“. As far as we’re concerned,...

Jack Townsend, Shepherd of Weather Satellite Technology

November 8, 2011

The passing of AMS Fellow John W. (“Jack”) Townsend on October 29 serves as a fitting moment to register the evolving...

A Pastime That Can't Be Postponed Due to Weather

October 27, 2011

by William Hooke, Director, AMS Policy Program. Excerpted from a post on the AMS project, Living on the Real World....

UCAR's Next President, Thomas Bogdan

UCAR's Next President, Thomas Bogdan

October 18, 2011

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) announced today that Thomas Bogdan will succeed Richard Anthes as its next president,...

Here Comes the Sun–All 360 Degrees

February 24, 2011

The understanding and forecasting of space weather could take great steps forward with the help of NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations...