High Plains
Chapter of the AMS/NWA
Minutes of the Regular Meeting
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Meeting Held at Town and Country Kitchen in
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The meeting was
called to order at 1239 pm CST by Christina Hannon, Vice President.
OLD BUSINESS
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Nomination of
officers from the December online Meeting included:
President:
Dave Floyd (WFO Goodland)
Vice
President : Christina Hannon (WFO
Mike Umscheid (WFO DDC)
Secretary:
Mike Lammers (WFO Goodland)
Tim Burke (WFO
Treasurer:
Matt Masek (WFO
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Treasurer’s
Report from Acting Treasurer Aaron Johnson was presented. A motion was made to
accept the treasurer’s report by Jim Johnson (WFO DDC) and seconded by Dave
Floyd (WFO GLD)
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Jared Guyer has agreed
to remain as chapter webmaster for this year.
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Willie Vogt of
Kansas Farmer Magazine will be doing interviews and writing an article on the
drought to appear in the February issue of the magazine. Any way our chapter can
help him with the article would be great.
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We have a new
member Bill Eckrich of Day Weather in
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The North Platte
Conference CD master CD has been sent to CR for copies, and a copy will be sent
out to each CR WFO office, as well as to a few students who attended.
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National AMS
Conference in
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Jim Johnson has
volunteered to spearhead the project of writing guidelines for us to use in
setting up future high plains chapter conferences. Jim will collect this information
for us. All WFO High Plains chapter WFO offices are encouraged to send him
information learned from past conferences held.
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It was mentioned
that a vendor was interested in showing his tornado machine at the last
conference, but the vendor could not attend and ended up wanting someone else
to do this, which would not work. It was discussed whether we would want vendors
to be in our future conferences. After some discussion, it was decided that
usually vendors choose to become part of a conference at short notice which
would not be workable for us.
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The Email
minutes from the October 5 meeting were moved and accepted online.
NEW BUSINESS
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A revised
treasurer’s report was presented by acting Treasurer Aaron Johnson. The only
change from the previous report was to add an additional $60.00 in dues
collected. This report was moved and accepted.
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Jim Johnson has
already started work on planning for the next High Plains Conference which will
be in
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Dodge City
Conference planning committee will meet this Monday. They will report by email
from time to time on progress including a theme, call for papers, session chairs,
and keynoters. The most likely keynoters and session chairs will come from the Norman
area, due to the proximity to
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An e-journal of
meteorology is now available online. This is the first issue. Cost is only
$50.00 to get an article published including color pages. The url for this
document is:
This
journal was set up to allow open comments with all interviewer notes online
rather than being limited to just a few peer reviewers. Anyone can log into
this site. Interviewers will not be anonymous.
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Jim Johnson
encouraged everyone to use our Yahoo High Plains Chapter Chat page. This page
can also be used to discuss meteorological issues and topics rather than just
about meetings and other topics.
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With no other
new business to discuss, the meeting ended at 1259 pm CST.
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Two volunteers
then retired to another area to tally up the votes for officer elections held
today. Election results were announced following the presentation.
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Then today’s
presentation began, which was presented by Christina Hannon due to the absence
of Patrick Burke. Patrick prepared this presentation and sent slides for
Christina to follow. The presentation was entitled “ Fire Weather Operations in
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At the
conclusion of the presentation, results of the election of our new chapter
officers were announced. New officers for our chapter are:
o President = Dave Floyd
o Vice President = Christina Hannon
o Secretary = Tim Burke
o Treasurer = Matt Masek