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ISU AMS Meeting Minutes
http://www.meteor.iastate.edu/ams/
September 19, 2002

***We will be cleaning out the mail list after this email is sent. Those people who have been to one of the meetings will stay on the list. If you haven't been to a meeting but still want to be on the list, please email me.

We had another great turnout for the meeting tonight. I don't know an exact number, but there were around 60 people.

Speakers: We are working on lining up speakers for some of our meetings. Some idea have been : Jason Parkin, KCCI weather, Erik Rasmussen, NSSL i believe, Jim Moore from Missouri, Paul McKowsky from Penn State, or Jeff Johnson on Andy Kula from DSM NWS. We are looking into getting funding from national AMS to bring a speaker in. We'd probably have more luck getting this if we got more people being members of the national chapter. Applications should be available at the next meeting.

Banner/T-shirts: Jenny is looking into costs for a banner. T-shirts: there are a few sweatshirts left. A paper was sent around for more orders, and we will be ordering more soon. If you did not make it to the meeting and want to order a shirt, email Jenny Riese ( ). T-shirts will be $10, and sweatshirts $20.

We also want to get designs for this years AMS t-shirts. if you have any design ideas, draw or write them up and get them to a cabinet member or to the AMS box in the Meteorology office by next Thursday. We will vote on a design at the next meeting.

There is a local boy scout troop that would like us to speak to them about severe weather. Brandon will be getting more information about this.

First Snow contest: We're going to try it again...hopefully we actually get snow (not that i want snow...but last year it was won by default because it didn't snow until January or February.) Entries will be $1 each. You pick a day you think we will get our first official inch of snow. To make it easier we use the national weather service official measurements in Johnston. Whoever is closest to the day will get a portion of the money. Details have not been decided on for sure. More information will be sent about this later...or we'll wait until the next meeting.

National AMS: Brandon will get applications for this and have them for the next meeting.

Intramurals: There were not enough people for a volleyball team. There are two Curling teams. The teams are: Brian Tentinger, Jenny Riese, Jeremiah Birdsall, and Chase VanValkingberg and team 2: Penny Zabel, Chris Paxton, Jeremy Grams, and Aaron Toddy. Team 1 plays Sunday at 11:30pm, and team two plays Tuesday at 11:30pm. If you can, go root on our teams. I know that team 2 plans to go watch team 1's game...so if you want to go and need a ride get ahold of someone from team 1.

Bowling: We're planning a social bowling event Sunday Sept. 29 at the Memorial Union bowling alley. If you did not sign up at the meeting but still want to attend, email Brandon () or Brian () we want to get an idea of how many people plan to attend so we know how many lanes to reserve. If you have questions about this email Brandon or Brian also.

Tailgate: We're planning our annual tailgate for homecoming weekend...October 12. It's before our next meeting, so more details will probably be sent out as it gets closer. We NEED a truck! and it anyone has a grill they'd let us borrow, that would be good too. We do have one. More than one wouldn't be a bad thing.

Forecast Contest: 32 people are signed up for the contest...all paid. We're doing pretty well so far for Corpus Christi...though as I type this they've jumped up to cat 5 precip on a day when not one person in the contest forecasted cat 5. We were tied for first place as a group, but that may change if other schools forecasted more precip then we did for today. The next city is Fargo starting next week. If you don't want to forecast for a period you need to let Jeremy know by the Thursday before so he can take you out for that city.

Trips:

Minnesota: November 9th, science museum...more details later TV Station/NWS: In December...again...more details later.

NEXT MEETING:

October 17 at 6:30.

The location may change due to our attendance and the not-so-expansive space we have in the meteorology department. Stay tuned for details on this also.

That's it for now.

-Penny