American Meteorological Society / National Weather Association
Welcome to the professional meteorology headquarters of the U.S High
Plains! We are a local chapter sponsored jointly by the AMS and NWA. Our coverage area spans western
Oklahoma to western/central Kansas and Nebraska. If
you are a resident of this area, or just have an interest in
its wild weather, you've come to the right cyberplace!
The 14th Annual High
Plains Conference is scheduled for August
12-13, 2010 in Dodge City,
KS. A Call
for Papers is now available, with one-page abstracts (including
student competition entries) due August
4. A tentative Conference Agenda is
available
(MS Word format).
Keynote speakers for
the conference tentatively include:
Don Burgess - OU/CIMMS and Vortex2
"Doppler" Dave Oliver -
KFDA-TV 10, a CBS
affiliated television station in Amarillo, Texas
Pam Heinselman -
NSSL/Phased Array Radar Innovative Sensing Experiment (PARISE)
Please see the Conference Webpage
for additional information including online registration and lodging.
Latest News and Chapter
Meetings
An electronic
virtual meeting is currently ongoing for May 2010 -- please see the
available Word document.
The next chapter meeting is
tentatively scheduled for early July. 13th Annual High
Plains
Conference
The 13th Annual High
Plains Conference was held August
27-28, 2009 in North Platte, NE. Thanks to all of our 77
attendees and speakers! Click
here for highlights and photos from the conference.
Presentations
from the conference are now available for online viewing and
download.
Jim Johnson Scholarship
The High
Plains Chapter of the AMS/NWA is pleased to announce that Jennifer
Uhrich of North Platte, NE is the 2009 recipient of the Jim Johnson
Scholarship. She is planning to major in Meteorology at the
University of Nebraska in Lincoln. This scholarship was
established to honor Jim Johnson, retired
Lead Forecaster at NWS Dodge City, for his contributions to the
founding of the High Plains AMS/NWA chapter and 1st Annual Conference
in Dodge City in 1996.
Jordan
Carroll of Atwood, KS was the 2008 recipient of the Jim Johnson
Scholarship. William L.
Friesen was selected as the first recipient of the Jim Johnson
Scholarship in 2007. Chapter Officers
The
officers for 2010 are:
President - Mike Umscheid (Dodge City)
Vice-President - Al Pietrycha (Goodland)
Treasurer - Corey King (Hastings)
Secretary - Tim Burke
(Dodge City)
See
our officers
page for contact info and "mug shots."
Past Meetings
Click here
to go to the past meetings webpage, which includes regular meeting
minutes and
past conference information.
Please
inquire into our related links page!