2023 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Conference
CPAESS Deputy Director Cindy Bruyere and Project Specialist Kate Rodd speak with a student interested in our educational opportunities such as internships, fellowships, and the NASA Heliophysics Summer School.
This year the American Meteorological Society’s (AMS) annual conference was held in Denver. As it was so close to home, it provided us with unique opportunities to meet with each other, particularly with staff members normally residing elsewhere in the country. One such event was the UCAR | NCAR’s party at Henry’s Tavern in downtown Denver. This was a wonderful gathering which attracted many of our colleagues, friends, and sponsors enabling us to connect with them informally.
AMS kicked off the conference with events for students the weekend before the conference's official opening. We were fortunate to share a table at the Early Career Fair with NCAR, who was also promoting their educational opportunities for students. Both the SOARS (SciEd) and Unidata tables were close, so we could cross-promote and help the students find the best opportunities for their unique interests and needs at UCAR | NCAR.
Right: SPS | CPAESS Deputy Director Cindy Bruyere, SPS | CPAESS Director Hanne Mauriello, CPAESS Scientist Neil Jacobs, and UCP Director Bill Kuo meet to congratulate Neil on his Kenneth C. Spengler award for his work on the Unified Forecast System. Left: NOAA's EPIC Management and Program Analyst Leah Dubots of NOAA’s WPO, with SPS | CPAESS Deputy Director Cindy Bruyere and SPS | CPAESS Deputy Director Hanne Mauriello in front of the WINGS poster describing our new partnership with NOAA and this unique doctoral dissertation fellowship.
Left: Hanne Mauriello with CPAESS Program Specialist Jose Algarin at NOAA’s Climate Program Office, as well as Cindy Bruyere, and students from Puerto Rico checking out our educational offerings. Right: SPS | CPAESS Director Hanne Mauriello chatting with Ben Johnston, CPAESS Project Scientist at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML).
Left: CPAESS Program Specialist Marina Skumanich who works at National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) managed a town hall on Drought, Megadrought, or a Permanent Change? A Shifting Paradigm for Drought in the Western United States.; Right: NOAA C&GC fellow Isabel McCoy presenting on Mesoscale Cloud Organization: the Role of Meteorology and Aerosols.
Left: Sam Coakley, CPAESS Program Specialist at the US CLIVAR Office helped manage their town hall on the Air-Sea Transition Zone as well as The Behavior of the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer Across the Gulf Stream Sea Surface Temperature Front; Right: Cheyenne Stienbarger who is at NOAA’s Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing (GOMO) presented at AMS on Extreme Maritime Weather - Met-Ocean Services, Science, and Observations to Enhance Decision Making in the Expanding Blue Economy.
CPAESS had numerous staff members giving town halls, oral presentations, and posters as seen in our list here. Of the event and the opportunity to connect with staff and colleagues, SPS | CPAESS Director Hanne Mauriello said “I so appreciated chatting with you at the UCAR booth, the UCAR | NCAR Ready Room, and the UCAR Reception. It is always so wonderful to hear about your ongoing research and to see your lovely faces. Please know that I greatly appreciate spending time with each of you.”
It was truly wonderful to see so many of you there. We congratulate you all on your wonderful research advancing Earth system science!
