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ISU AMS Meeting Minutes
http://www.meteor.iastate.edu/ams/
December 04, 2003

* Senior Thesis Presentations will be this coming Monday starting at 8 in the morning and lasting through 4:00 PM. They will be held in Agronomy 3140, about 3 doors down from 3128. All underclassmen are encouraged to attend. All seniors are required to do a senior thesis, so come and maybe pick up an idea or two for your senior thesis, plus have a chance to learn what is expected out of your senior thesis. Check the schedule outside of the map room (Agronomy 3008)

* Spring break trip will be to Oklahoma City to visit SPC, NSSL, NWS, and Oklahoma University. The trip will take place from March 14-18, 2004. We will also be taking trips to the zoo and Oklahoma City Memorial or any other places people choose to visit. Interested in going??? Contact Kevin Sullivan at . The deadline for signing up is January 20th. There are 11 people signed up right now. If you are signed up and discover that you cannot go, let Kevin know, so he can take you off the list.

* The Severe Storms and Dopplar Radar Conference will be held in Des Moines from Thursday, March 25 through Saturday, March 27. If we get at least 10 people registered for the conference, student price for the conference will be $65 for Iowa State Students. Regular price for students is $75. If you are interested in going to the conference, please contact Kevin Sullivan at . LAS may refund part of the price of the conference if you sign up. Registration for the conference can be done online starting sometime in January. The site where you register is www.iowa-nwa.com. There will be speakers talking about the tornadoes in May and June from this past year. There will also be a storm chasing video night where there will be some excellent videos presented.

* We will be hosting an Advanced Storm Spotter Training session sometime in March/April. The NWS has approached our organization about setting this up. Andy Kula with the NWS will be leading the training.

* Feb. 23 we will be presenting a 30-40 minute presentation to a middle school.

* VIESHEA information is beginning to come out. It will be held on April 18th this year which is a Saturday. We will set up an educational booth underneath Cy?s Big Top on central campus. Any ideas for games or other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. More information will be provided on this event in the spring.

* We failed to have a quorum at the meeting tonight, thus, we did not vote for a social chair. We will vote at our first meeting in January. Jon appointed Mike Holts, Kari Kozak, and Elise Johnson to the social chair committee until an election can be held.

* T-shirt/Sweatshirt colors were voted on at the meeting. The winners were red with white lettering and gray with red lettering. We may have some other choices included beyond these two. We will be ordering t-shirts/sweatshirts next semester.

* Finally, Jon Hobbs presented information on the Career Leaders in Science Conference held in Boulder from June 17-23 this last summer. Nate will be posting Jon's presentation on the chapter website. Anyone interested in more information for this conference for next year can visit the following websites:

http://www.ncar.ucar.edu
http://www.ucar.edu/educ_outreach/ulw/ulw2003.html

Most of all, have a terrific, safe holiday season and see you all back here next semester. Our next meeting will be shortly after we return to school. Check the webpage at http://www.meteor.iastate.edu/ams for more details.