Image: Last January, students and faculty from UGA’s chapter of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) attended the 105th AMS Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. This year’s meeting, held from January 17th – 22nd, was the world’s largest gathering of weather and climate professionals and students with over 6000 participants in attendance. This year’s meeting featured discussions on renewable energy, extreme weather, environmental health, and was focused around the theme “Towards a Thriving Planet: Charting the Course Across Scales.” UGA’s chapter of AMS was represented by 14 undergraduate students, 3 graduate students, and 3 faculty, the following of whom presented at the meeting: Undergraduate Students Jacob Hamil (Poster) - “Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) Teleconnections and their Impact on Precipitation in South America” Ethan Leclerc (Poster) - “Environmental Risk on Social Media: Communicating Heat Wave Risk with Numerical and Non-Numerical Messaging” Emma Benedict (Poster) - “Assessing the Characteristics of Extreme Rainfall Events in Climate Models” Lilly Cargile (Poster) - “Comparing a Weather App and On-Site Measurement for High School Sports Safety” Shania Green (Poster) - “Using Probabilistic Rainfall Totals from the HRFF to Improve Flash Flood Messaging” Jada Lamar (Talk) - “Understanding the Implications Comparing Categorical and Continuous Forecast Graphics” Graduate Students Kelly Neighbour (Poster) - “Assessment of Radar-Derived Tropical Cyclone Structure using Different Quality Control Methods” Alex Music (Poster) - “Characterizing the Hazard of Rainfall-Diverse Hurricane Profiles in the Southeast United States”
