[Grad-postdoc-assn] Call for a Student Member of the American Meteorological Society Committee on Applied Climatology
Erin Towler
towler at mmm.ucar.edu
Tue Mar 1 17:28:58 MST 2011
*Call for a Student Member of the American Meteorological Society
Committee on Applied Climatology *
The AMS Committee on Applied Climatology seeks a student member to serve
a one- year term starting in Summer 2011, with the possibility of a
renewal for a second year. Both undergraduate and graduate students are
eligible for this position. The ideal candidate should have demonstrated
interest in Applied Climatology through involvement in the field and
participation in past conference and meetings. The student member will
participate in all committee functions including meetings and
teleconference calls, and will attend the Applied Climatology
conference. Funding will be made available to offset travel costs
associated with attending the conference. More details on the role of
the Committee on Applied Climatology are provided below.
Both self-nominations and nominations made on behalf of the student by
professionals/AMS members will be accepted. All nominations should be
submitted to Laura Edwards (laura.edwards at dri.edu
<mailto:laura.edwards at dri.edu>) by March 15, 2011. Nominations should
include a copy of the student's CV, a statement describing why they are
interested in serving on the Committee, and a letter of support from a
faculty member.
The objective of the Committee on Applied Climatology is to further the
application of state-of-the-art knowledge, information, and technology
to real-world socioeconomic and environmental problems.
Committee concerns include, but are not restricted to, the following:
1. development of methods and techniques that identify and describe
climatic patterns and relationships, including such traditional
descriptors of climate as normals;
2. assessment of societal and biological climate impacts and the
historical changes in this impact because of past climate variations;
3. availability of climate information that enhances understanding of
the impact of climate on managed and unmanaged systems;
4. oversight of observational and measurement techniques to maintain
the integrity and representativeness of short- and long-term
databases to permit an accurate and unbiased evaluation of climate
change;
5. increased availability of data, particularly on local and regional
scales;
6. development of climatic models for tailored applications to human
endeavors from micro- to macrospatial scales and from immediate to
long-term temporal scales; and
7. development of improved linkages between applied climatologists
and users of climate data products to facilitate the application
of climatic information in decision making.
The committee recognizes the broad variety of scientific disciplines
concerned with applied climatology and encourages stronger interactions
of climatologists with other scientists and climate data users through
national and international conferences. Many of these conferences are
planned jointly with other American Meteorological Society (AMS)
committees on related disciplines, such as the Committees on Probability
and Statistics, Climate Variations, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology,
and Biometeorology and Aerobiology, as well as the Program Committee on
Global Change Studies.
The committee also recognizes its responsibility to provide advice on
the capabilities and needs of the applied climatologist to other AMS
committees concerned with technique and method development; analysis,
diagnosis, and prediction of climatic variations; and climatic impact
assessment.
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Melissa L. Griffin
Assistant State Climatologist
Florida Climate Center
Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies
email: griffin at coaps.fsu.edu <mailto:griffin at coaps.fsu.edu>
tele: 850-644-0719
fax: 850-644-5092
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