News & Events
Did You Hear? Echoes from the Annual Meeting
This year’s AMS Annual Meeting provided no shortage of memorable presentations. The focus on 2017’s hurricanes in particular yielded some of...
Is It Just Us…or Was That the BBQ Talking?
So many conversations at the 2018 AMS Annual Meeting started–and ended–on the same note, and Dakota Smith captures it just right in his “Weather...
A Letter from AMS President Roger Wakimoto
Dear AMS Community, I am delighted to send this letter to you after the wonderful Annual Meeting in Austin. You told...
Revisiting the Hurricane Town Hall Meeting
The all-star panel comprising Monday’s special Town Hall Meeting on the 2017 hurricane season provided a riveting discussion of the science,...
With Floods or Baseball, It's a Game of Percentages
Perhaps no one thought that Game 5 of the World Series would end the way it did. It started with...
Persisting Gender Gap for Weathercasters
While the ranks of women weathercasters are growing slowly, they continue to lag behind their male colleagues in job responsibilities. A new study to...
Perspectives
Building AMS Community, Maximizing Value of Our Information
by Douglas Hilderbrand, Chair, AMS Board on Enterprise Communication Early August seems forever ago. Hurricanes Maria, Irma, and Harvey were...
Peer Review Week 2017: 4. Shifting Demands of Integrity
For Journal of Hydrometeorology Chief Editor Christa Peters-Lidard, peer review upholds essential standards for a journal. “Maintaining that integrity is very...
Peer Review Week 2017: 3. Transparency Is Reproducibility
David Kristovich, chief editor of the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, explains how AMS peer review process, as a somewhat private process,...
Peer Review Week 2017: 2. What Makes a Good Review?
At the AMS Annual Meeting panel on Peer Review last January, journal editors Tony Broccoli, Carolyn Reynolds, Walt Robinson, and...
