NCIM Mid-Year Luncheon Meeting Agenda

 Time:  Noon – 2 PM

Date:  Monday, January 12, 2009

Place:  Hyatt Regency Hotel, Remington C/Russell A Rooms

Phoenix, AZ

 

·        President’s Welcome (Lyons)

·        Self Introductions (around the table)

·        Introduction/announcement of newest NCIM members and

introduction of current officers, reviewing new terms (Lyons)

·        Approval of Minutes of Annual Summer Meeting (Lyons)

·        Loren Crow 2009 scholarship winner (Lyons)

·        NCIM Financial Statement (Wagner)

·        NCIM Investment Account (Marsh)

·        Update on NCIM Affiliate Member category definition (Lyons)

·        CWSA Perspectives (VADM Conrad C. Lautenbacher)(tentative)

·        Call for Nominations: NOAA Science Advisor Board Environmental

Information Service Working Group

·        Status of the NCIM Brochure, or just prepare business cards with a

URL? (Wagner)

·        The new NCIM Website (Falconer/Lyons)

·        List of “useful” URLs for website, a membership project (Lyons)

·        The new NCIM Blog (Westergard)

·        Presentation: Government transport and dispersion modeling contracts directed to non-meteorologists (Steve Hanna, CCM)

·        Presentation: What’s New At SPC? Dr. Joseph Schaefer, CCM

(Director, NOAA Storm Prediction Center)

·        Update on 2009 Annual Meeting Planning (Lyons)

o   A decision to be made: split meetings / elections?

o   Front Range in June or Norman in August?

o   Interactions with AMS Summer Community Meeting / CWCE

·        Future Short Course/Workshops at AMS Annual Meetings (brief

discussion)

·        Reminder of AMS Award Nomination process (Lyons)

·        Upcoming CCM Forum highlights (Gerry Mulvey, CCM)

·        Briefing on 2008 Highlights from the AMS Commission on the

Weather and Climate Enterprise (Matt Parker, CCM, AMS CWCE)

Member news items (as time permits)

New AMS Statement on Community Priorities

New AMS Statement on Community Priorities

Received from the AMS on 10/02/2008

With cooperation from many members of our community, CWCE/BEC has collected community input via Town Hall meetings at the AMS Annual Meeting, as well at other CWCE/BEC events. The process culminated in the drafting of an AMS Statement: Enabling National Weather and Climate Priorities, which was approved in its final form in  September by the AMS Council.

You may view and download a copy of this statement via the AMS web site:

http://www.ametsoc.org/policy/2008nationalpriorities_amsstatement.html

AMS urges members of the meteorological community to become familiar with this statement, and to refer to it in conversations with Congress, federal agencies, our user community, students, peers, and anyone else who might be interested. As an official AMS Statement, approved by the AMS Council, this statement represents the official position of the AMS on this topic. Of course, community priorities change over time, and this statement will evolve as the community priorities evolve.