SF Bay Area Local AMS Chapter

Northern California
Last Meeting: 7 PM, Thursday, November 2, 2006 Location: KPIX - San Francisco Speakers: John Monteverdi, Professor (picture) San Francisco State University "The Science of Tornado Chasing" Samantha Mohr, Chief Meteorologist (picture) KPIX-5 San Francisco Station Tour Discussion: Community outreach ideas Food banks Speak at grade schools – develop list of speakers/schools Judge science fairs and provide $$ awards if possible Get involved with Science Olympiad Act as science advisors to teachers Develop a teachers resource list Give experiments to classes to engage students (preview at an AMS meeting) Have science fair winners come present at an AMS meeting Advertise AMS resources (grants, training, etc.) to teachers Do something similar to SF Rocks (K-12 teachers collaborate with university faculty) Organizations represented at the meeting Bay Area Air Quality Management District Custom Weather Golden Gate Weather Services KPIX PG&E Weather News San Francisco State University Sonoma Technology Weather Underground
Chapter Contact Info	President: Woody Whitlatch Senior Meteorologist Pacific Gas & Electric 925-866-5758 Wfw2@pge.com	V-Pres./Program Chair Dianne S. Miller Project Manager/ Meteorologist 707-665-9900 dianne@sonomatech.com	Sec./Tres./Web Jan Null CCM Golden Gate Weather 510-657-2246 jnull@ggweather.com
Links AMS Main Website AMS Local Chapters page AMS Employment Announcements		SF Bay Area Weather Company Websites Applied Weather Technology Bay Area Air Quality Management District Custom Weather Golden Gate Weather Services Jeppesen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory National Weather Service - Fremont ARTCC National Weather Service - Monterey Pacific Gas & Electric Sonoma Technology, Inc. Weathernews Americas, Inc.