The American Meteorological Society, AMS, promotes the development and dissemination of information and education on the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic sciences and the advancement of their professional applications.
ABOUT THE AMS ANNUAL MEETING: The AMS’s 94th Annual Meeting will be held 2–6 February 2014 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia and is being organized by AMS President Marshall Shepherd along with his cochairpersons Eileen Shea and Phil Ardanuy around the broad theme of “Extreme Weather—Climate and the Built Environment: New perspectives, opportunities, and tools. In addition to presentations, both oral and poster, given within over thirty conferences and symposia on topics related to this theme, the AMS’s 94th Annual Meeting is also home to numerous short courses, town hall meetings, special symposia, a student conference, WeatherFest (our public outreach event geared toward K-12 children), and also the largest exhibit program anywhere in the atmospheric, oceanic, and related sciences.