Everyone presenting (both oral and poster) and/or attending the 96th AMS Annual Meeting must register and wear a badge. Early registration rates are valid through Tuesday, 1 December 2015. Registrations forms faxed or mailed to AMS Headquarters will be accepted until 15 December 2015. Online registrations will be accepted throughout the conference. Preregistration forms must be accompanied by one of the following forms of payment: check (personal/business/traveler's), money order, purchase order, or credit card number (MasterCard/VISA/American Express). Foreign checks must be drawn on a U.S. bank and made payable in U.S. dollars. Confirmation of registration will be sent once the form is processed. Refunds (less a $25 processing fee) will be granted only for cancellations received before 22 December 2015. Click here for more information on registration.

This year’s Presidential Forum reflects upon the American Meteorological Society (AMS) annual meeting theme, "Earth System Science in Service to Society" that provides participants a better understanding of living through extreme events. Our society continues to experience the effects of more and more extreme events like hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and drought, some as a result of our changing climate and others as a result of our expanding population. The AMS needs to continue to address lessons learned, and more importantly, identify what future actions it will take to help mitigate the impact of these devastating life-changing events. To highlight this, we’ve invited an outstanding panel of speakers – Admiral Thad Allen, United States Coast Guard (ret), Executive Vice President Booz Allen Hamilton; Max Mayfield, Director, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Hurricane Center (ret); Dr. Kerry Emanuel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Dr. Shirley Laska, Professor Emerita, and founding past Director of the Center for Hazards Assessment, Response and Technology, University of New Orleans. Moderator Maureen McCann, News 13 Orlando, will lead a discussion of the panelists' personal experiences during Hurricane Katrina and Deepwater Horizon. The panel will also address AMS’s current activities that encompass research and forecasting of events and inspire our members to embrace a renewed sense of purpose as they direct our Society in the coming years.

Infectious diseases & climate change; linking earth observations to environmental and human health.

This session will explore research-to-operation concepts and applications that are bringing us closer to understanding how Earth's changing environment can influence the geographic range and incidence of infectious diseases, and will explore how this knowledge can increase our preparedness capacity.

Please join other attendees for the Opening Reception of the 2016 Annual Meeting, sponsored by the exhibiting companies. Local government officials and other dignitaries will be present for the ribbon-cutting event.

Presentations will involve various disciplinary research methods and policies that are currently used for coping with extreme heat risk, and how they could be integrated for more accurate spatial and temporal understanding of extreme heat risk

Presentations will involve various disciplinary research methods and policies that are currently used for coping with extreme heat risk, and how they could be integrated for more accurate spatial and temporal understanding of extreme heat risk.

Presentations will involve various disciplinary research methods and policies that are currently used for coping with extreme temperature risk, and how they could be integrated for more accurate spatial and temporal understanding of this risk

Understanding how to live on other planets first begins with understanding life interactions on Earth. The NASA and R2O session explores concepts and applications that utilize NASA satellites and instruments to improve our understanding of environment and human health.

The sessions will address the interconnectedness of urban growth, climate, and health, and novel research and methods employed to accurately understand these connections. This session will bring in concepts of urban climate from small to large scales.

Extreme temperatures, air pollution & health; Education and health.

Research with focus on how early warnings systems, as applied to weather-health impacts, are developed, implemented, and tested to provide increased resiliency to extreme weather.

Demand for education at all levels that integrates health and climate change science is growing, from the commitments by medical, nursing and public health school deans to incorporate climate change into their curricula to the integration of health in the teaching of earth sciences to K-12 students. There are both challenges and benefits to integrating health and earth science concepts. In joint sessions, the Boards on Education and Environment and Health will explore ideas and best practices.

The focus will be to address how various earth observations, such as satellite, remote sensing, or in-situ, can be implemented to improve earth warning systems specific to disease monitoring. Topics can focus on implementation at various spatiotemporal scales to prepare the nation for the risks of weather and climate health impact.

Research related to how the physical processes of climate variability and change are connected to changing patterns in heat and cold waves, and thus how we can better understand human health response to the increased variability and temperatures