Session 1 AMS-NSF Interactions: Looking back, Looking forward

Monday, 13 January 2020: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
104A (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 18th History Symposium
Cochairs:
Anjuli S. Bamzai, NSF, Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, Alexandria, VA and William Easterling, National Science Foundation, Directorate for Geosciences, Alexandria, VA

The Second World War greatly intensified Government-science interactions in the United States, making the case that having a strong scientific and technical research base was in the national interest. The importance of fundamental scientific research to the public good was acknowledged by the American people through their elected representatives when, by an act of Congress, the National Science Foundation was established on May 1950. At that juncture, the AMS had just turned thirty; thus as AMS celebrates its centennial, NSF is poised to turn seventy. 

Through the past decades the AMS has had extensive interactions with NSF in general, and the Geosciences directorate in particular. During the early years, along with members of the University Consortium for Atmospheric Research, AMS leadership played an active role in articulating the case for the National Center for Atmospheric Research. The AMS has also been a venue for the wider dissemination of the scientific outcomes resulting from NSF-sponsored research in Hydrology, Atmospheric Sciences and Geospace Sciences.    

The proposed session will consist of invited talks and time permitting, a panel discussion to brainstorm what future interactions might look like. The talks will cover  (i) the nature of interactions between AMS and NSF during the formative years of the agency; (ii) participation of AMS leadership with National Academy of Sciences Committee of Meteorology during the development of the report articulating for the need of a national center (iii) NSF role in the dissemination of scientific outcomes in AMS journals, including the establishment of the Journal of Atmospheric Sciences; (iv) AMS conferences and workshops aligned with NSF goals and objectives; and (v) joint efforts to enhance diversity and increased participation of traditionally underrepresented communities in the atmospheric and geospace sciences; and (vi) any contemporary issues facing the research community.

Papers:
8:30 AM
1.1
Meteorology and the Federal Patron: Interactions before AMS and before NSF
James Rodger Fleming, Colby College, Waterville, ME

9:00 AM
1.3
The AMS Summer Policy Colloquium: Accelerating and Magnifying the Broader Impacts of Science
William H. Hooke, American Meteorological Society, Washington, DC

9:30 AM
1.5
9:45 AM
1.6
Envisioning Future Interactions between the AMS and NSF
William Easterling, National Science Foundation, Alexandria, VA

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