After the Presidential Forum, please join AMS President Roger Wakimoto for his review of major events from the past year. Each of the AMS Commissioners will give a brief report highlighting the key elements of the many programs and initiatives that are a success owing to the efforts of hundreds of volunteers in the Society. Join us as we introduce and honor the newly elected AMS Fellows and present several featured awards. Jenni Evans will then present her goals and vision for her upcoming year as AMS President.

This session will create a space where interested readers can talk with biographers and creators of other projects that explore the lives of historical atmospheric scientists. We seek panelists both who are writing in established biographical genres, as well as creators exploring ways to "tell lives" in less familiar formats, like creative non-fiction, life history oral interviews, digital collections of personal papers, and prosopography (collective biography). The session will offer a chance for writers to get a sense of what readers want from science biography today. Our hope is that presenters will briefly introduce their projects, and then invite a conversation with the audience around questions like: *What can today’s atmospheric scientists learn from the biographies of previous atmospheric scientists? *How can we make stories centered around historical individuals engaging, provocative, inspiring or transformative? *Who has been excluded from previous biographical projects, with what consequences? *What can (or should) scientific biography look like in "new media," like blogs, digital archives, and content designed for sharing on social media?