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ISU AMS Meeting Minutes
http://www.meteor.iastate.edu/ams/
January 26, 2010

Start time: 7:02

President Hatteberg welcomed all present and then invited Carl Jacobson, the Chair of the Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, to present the awards.

Geological & Atmospheric Sciences

We first held the Undergraduate Research Symposium award presentation. A large majority of the meteorology department.s faculty attended to meeting to watch the presentation. Matt Hoffman received the award for best senior thesis and Shannon Rabideau was the runner up. Congratulations for your honors! All the seniors put in an impressive amount of effort on these presentations and the overall quality was equal to that at a professional meeting.

President Hatteberg

President Hatteberg began by discussing all the benefits of becoming a member of the national AMS member. These include:

-a subscription to Bulletin of the AMS

-scholarships and fellowships

-reduced rates to conferences

-access to a special career page

Dues are $20 for the year and you can sign up at: http://www.ametsoc.org/MEMB/index.html. Please contact Rachel if you have any questions at: pres.isuams@iastate.edu

Since schedules change every semester, we sent around a mid-year survey. It included the preferred day and time of the meetings, as well as suggestions for things you would like to see done within the club (e.g. social events, outreach, etc).

It.s the time of the year to create a spring t-shirt design! These designs have included meteorology jokes, cartoons, and much more in the past. Please email pres.isuams@iastate.edu with your design. The person who creates the design that is chosen by the club will receive a gift card!

We have been discussing have a CPR Training Session this spring. CPR training is a great skill to have and its only $25 to become CPR certified. Please think about this as it will be decided at the next meeting.

Please consider joining the NWA! It is a great way to meet professionals in the meteorology field! We will keep the club informed on the meeting time and date of the next NWA meeting.

We are trying to figure out ways to get more involved with the community. It was motioned and passed to donate $500 to the Red Cross to go to earthquake relief in Haiti. Half of the profits from the remaining calendars will be going to this cause. Many club members are also interested in getting involved in the local Ames area. If you have ideas of community service events we can participate in or an organization we can help sponsor, please email secretary.isuams@iastate.edu.

Vice President Hoffman

The 14^th Annual Severe Storms and Doppler Radar Conference in Des Moines, IA is March 25-27 this year. The non-member student rate is $75 and the member rate is $55. Last year we received partial reimbursements from LAS and we will try to do so again this year. Presentations from old events and new research will be given by: Tim Samaras, Roger Hill, Yvette Richardson, Davis Nolan, Greg Carbin, and many others!! Radar workshops are available as well as a tape-swap for those interested in broadcast. Please email vp.isuams@iastate.edu if interested!

The ISU Meteorology Alumni contact list is being updated. This is a great way to get in touch with some of the alumni from ISU that are working in your professional field of interest. This list is above the fridge in the Maproom (Agron 3008) and contains contact information and the alumni.s work information. The updated list should be up within the next two weeks.

Don.t forget to buy an Iowa State Meteorology window cling for $5! It.s a great way to show your support!

Congratulations to Nick Crawl for winning the snowfall contest!

Treasurer Wittrock

The current balance is $3,780.00 and we are still expecting $800 from LAS.

Please pay your intramural and WxChallenge dues ASAP! Justin will be sending out an email to remind you if you owe the chapter.

Sophomore Chair Effertz

This year.s Spring Break Destination is Norman, OK & Galveston, TX. We will leave March 13^th and head down to Galveston first and then Norman. In Galveston, we will hopefully be going to a TV station, the Johnson Space Center, Galveston Beach and Six Flags. In Norman, we will be visiting the National Weather Center. The estimated cost of lodging and traveling is approximately $250. The ISU AMS also usually chips in for the traveling costs. If you are interested, please email sophomore.isuams@iastate.edu.

Secretary Minniear

ISU AMS won 3^rd place poster at AMS Conference! Check out this year.s poster on the bulletin board! Congratulations!

Social Chair Witter

The first social event of the semester will be Childhood Regression Night on Friday, January 29^th at 7:00 pm in Agron 3140. Please bring board games and snacks to share! Childhood regression night consists of board games, play dough, and food! Please come and enjoy past childhood games.

The Ski Trip at Seven Oaks will be either Saturday, February 6^th or 13^th from 4:00 . 9:00 pm. It will cost $25 to ski or $26 to snowboard. Please watch for an email from Rachel for updates.

Intramural Bowling is now open. It is free at the MU Underground. Please email social.isuams@iastate.edu if you would like to sign up.

Academic Chair Rabideau

Please fill out a class schedule slip or send your class schedule to Shannon if you did not attend the meeting. If you would like to be a review leader for any class, please email academic.isuams@iastate.edu.

The Poster Contest is annually held in spring. Please consider helping judge posters this year. Last year.s winners can be seen at http://www.meteor.iastate.edu/~japrenti/09poster_winners.pdf.

Check out the Career page at http://www.meteor.iastate.edu/ams/careers.php. Updates for deadlines of scholarships and REUs will be posted! Keep on top of things!

Webmaster Carletta

If you have not already done so, please sign up for the ISU AMS forums at http://www.meteor.iastate.edu/ams/forums/ .

Historian Lueck

Please send all photos to Ryan or upload them at http://www.meteor.iastate.edu/ams/Photos/. You can also upload the photos to the ISU AMS group on Facebook. Bring cameras to all social events to take pictures and help Ryan out! Thanks!!

Check out .This Week in Weather History. in Agron 3008! Ryan updates this weekly and has some very interesting weather facts.

The AMS Scrapbook has been starting! Thank you Liz Suess for helping Ryan get started! This will be brought to future meetings as it is worked on more.

Cy's Eyes on the Skies Update

Dues for broadcasters will be $2 and backstage helpers will pay $1. Please pay the Cy.s Eyes treasurer ASAP!

There will be a critique session for broadcasters coming up soon. Watch for an email updates from Ryan Alliss for more information.

WxChallenge Update

Thank you to all that forecasting almost daily last semester. Remember, if you do not forecast, you are hurting the ISU team! Please keep forecasting. We are currently forecasting for Atlanta, GA.

Forecast discussions will be held weekly on Tuesday at 5:00 pm in Agronomy 3128. These sessions are a great way to learn new techniques and improve your forecasting!

Past President Hobbs

Congratulations to Nick Carletta for winning the last two periods Iowa Forecast Contest!

You can still join contest! IT.S FREE!!! This contest provides experience in aviation forecasting as well as the usual forecast.

Outreach Chair Suess

There are Science Nights coming up, so if have ideas for new activities please email outreach.isuams@iastate.edu.

The first Calendar Committee meeting was held Thursday, January 21. We currently have over 200 photos submitted, but many were eliminated due to bad quality. The deadline for submitting pictures has been extended due to the current ice storm and snowfall. If you have winter pictures, please send them in! If you are interested in joining the Calendar Committee, please email outreach.isuams@iastate.edu.

Calendars are now available for $10. Half of the proceeds from the sales will go to Haiti earthquake relief.

K-Quiz is coming up on March 5 at 4pm to the 6^th at 7pm! For those of you who have never participated in KQ, it is a 26-hour radio quiz show. Trivia questions are asked every 6 minutes and other tasks need to be completed during these questions. To do so, we would like to have 15 people actively involved at all times. Please email outreach.isuams@iastate.edu if you have any interest in participating in this great event!

Presentation - JoBeth Minniear & Rachel Hatteberg

JoBeth and Rachel were chosen to be student workers for the 90^th Annual AMS Conference in Atlanta, GA from January 16^th to 21^st. The first attended the Student Conference, then worked daily for a few hours and attended different presentations and evening events.

The Student Conference was on Saturday and the first half of Sunday. It began with some ice breakers so the students could meet other students from different schools. Invited speakers talked about the many different types of job opportunities in meteorology and how to prepare for graduate school. There were sessions where the speakers interacted with the students and a panel of young meteorologists talked to the students also. Some of the less known areas of meteorology include: space weather, forensic meteorology, and emergency management. There were over thirty schools represented at this conference.

The benefits of being a student worker is the networking, a $25 stipend daily, and the hotel and registration fees are covered. JoBeth worked the registration desk: checking people in and answering general questions. The best part of her job was networking: meeting many researchers, professors, and professionals in the field. Rachel worked with the A/V crew. She ran a computer and timer and assisted with technical difficulties. She also helped speakers upload their presentations. She enjoyed working with the different speakers and making contacts.

There were many different aspects of meteorology covered, including: climate, forecasting, modeling, policy and society, hydrology, oceanography, chemistry, history, instrumentation, aviation, and many others. In the Exhibition Hall, graduate schools and a lot of meteorology companies tried to find new recruits. These companies included: SAIC, Lockheed Martin, NASA, NOAA, Vaisala, Harris, Raytheon, and a lot more.

Several evening events took place also. There was a party sponsored by Harris and many other companies at the Atlanta Aquarium one night. Another night consisted of company and school receptions. These receptions were great ways to meet Alumni from potential grad schools and potential employers. The award banquet took place on Wednesday night.

Overall, this conference was a great way to meet professionals in the meteorology field. Many ISU alumni attended and were very interested in how the program was doing and what the students were interested in. Both JoBeth and Rachel would like to see more Iowa State students attend next year.s conference because it was such a great experience.

End time: 8:15

NEXT MEETING: To be Announced! Check your emails!!

Any questions regarding the meeting minutes can be directed at Rachel Hatteberg (president.isuams@iastate.edu) or JoBeth Minniear (secretary.isuams@iastate.edu).

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