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ISU AMS Meeting Minutes
http://www.meteor.iastate.edu/ams/
September 02, 2003

Here is the information from the first ISU American Meteorological Society meeting of the year from Tuesday, September 2nd.

**If you didn't turn in your survey, contact Jon, me, or another officer to turn it in.

Officers for the year were introduced. These include Jon Hobbs president, Kevin Sullivan vice-president, Adam Kuban treasurer, Stephen Konarik secretary, Janet historian, Chase social chair, Nate webmaster, and Jeremy past-president.

Upcoming social events include the Geological and Atmospheric Sciences Picnic, which will be held Thursday, September 4th (tomorrow) from 5-10pm. Foot will be served at 6. Its location is at Innis Grove Park, and if you are interested in giving or receiving a ride, please contact Jon (jhobbs@iastate.edu) as we will be meeting at Agronomy to carpool. Intramurals are also beginning. The deadlines for signing up for Cross Country, Curling, and 8-Player Soccer is Wednesday, September 10th. Contact Chase at chaseman@iastate.edu if you are interested in signing up. Picnics and other activities are in the works. Also, AMS basketball will take place in Leid Rec Center Thursday nights at 9pm.

AMS Dues need to be paid in order to be a member, participate in social activities, and to vote. They MUST be paid by the 2nd meeting of the year, and were voted at this meeting to be $5. These can be paid to Adam (ajkuban@iastate.edu) in the form of cash or check.

Jeremy will be in charge of the National Collegiate Weather Forecasting Contest this year, with Janet helping. The contest consists of 1000 or so participants (undergrads, grad students, and professors) from 38 institutions. It consists of forecasting 4 days a week in 2 week blocks for 13 cities around the nation. You only need to participate in 8 of the 13 periods to be eligible for the annual prize. The cost for entering the contest is $4, which can be paid to Adam. If you want to write one check for both AMS and NCWFC dues, that's fine. There will be a meeting on Tuesday, September 9, at 7pm in 3128 Agronomy to discuss the rules and techniques of the contest, as well as insight on how to better your forecast. A sign-up sheet was passed out at the meeting for those interested, but if you didn't get a chance to sign, contact Jeremy at jgrams@iastate.edu to do so. There will also be a local AMS forecasting contest and an ISU contest, with Dr. Gallus helping. This contest will consist of a more rigorous 4 days a week all year forecasting for Des Moines. For more information on that, come to the NCWFC meeting Tuesday.

Cy's Eyes producers this year will be Mitch and Ryan. Cy's Eyes is a bi-weekly, 15 minute weather show on ISU-TV 20, that consists of 4 on-air people and numerous camera/set crew and technical crew. The show will take place Mondays and Wednesday at 6:30pm, in Studio B of the Communications Building. A training/orientation session will take place Wednesday, September 10th, in Studio B at 6:30. For more information contact Mitch (mjkeegan@iastate.edu) or Ryan (rwest@iastate.edu).

Mitch is also Treasurer and Secretary of the Central Iowa National Weather Association. The organization is hoping for more ISU AMS involvement year. Central Iowa NWA includes a collection of students, NWS employees, television personalities, and professors. The hold a Severe Storms Conference every March in Des moines. The meetings generally take place on Mondays in the Des Moines area. The first meeting is at 6pm, Monday September 22 at Godfather's Pizza in Ankeny. If you are interested in getting a ride, or would like more information, contact Mitch. Feel free to check out CINWA's website at www.iowa-nwa.com.

Everyone can join the National American Meteorological Society. Members receive the bulletin of the AMS and discounts on journals and conference fees. Visit the website at www.ametsoc.org/AMS? for more information. There will also be a National AMS Conference/Annual Meeting on January 10-15th, 2004 in Seattle, Washington. Undergraduate Juniors and Seniors have the opportunity to give research presentations. Applications are due in October. Students are also able to work and help out with the conference. Contact Jon for more information.

Spring events were also briefly mentioned. We will be participating in Cy's Big Top at VEISHA. We will host a Spotter Training Seminar in the spring. A spring break trip is also a possibility. (Locations for the previous 3 trips were Oklahoma, Colorado, and Florida).

If you are interested in storm chasing, contact Kevin at ksully01@iastate.edu

**If you have ordered t-shirts last year but haven't paid for them yet, PAY. If you haven't been contacted about this yet, you WILL BE. (contact Jon to pay)

Upcoming events on the calender:

SEPT 4: G&AS PICNIC
SEPT 9: Forecast Contest Meeting
SEPT 10: Cy's Eyes Meeting
SEPT 22: NWA Meeting
week of Sept 22-26: next AMS meeting
early Oct: National Weather Service trip
Oct: TV station trip