Next Meeting August 20th via Zoom!

The next meeting of the Central Virginia Chapter of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) will be at 7:00 pm, Thursday, August 20, 2020. This meeting will be held virtually via Zoom. Our speaker will be Dr. Jeff Love from the US Geomagnetic Survey (USGS) in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Love is a Research Geophysicist within the Geomagnetism Program of the USGS and the USGS Advisor for Geomagnetic Research. His research has covered a variety of subjects related to the Earth's magnetic field. He concentrates on using geomagnetic monitoring data and magnetotelluric (electromagnetic geophysical method for inferring the earth's subsurface electrical conductivity from measurements of natural geomagnetic and geoelectric field variation at the Earth's surface) survey data to evaluate geoelectric hazards that are a concern to the electric-power grid industry. He serves on a number of committees, the most important of which is the Space Weather Operations Response and Mitigation (SWORM) Subcommittee of the United States National Science and Technology Council. He will speak to us from Denver about "Geomagnetic History Recorded at Fredericksburg, Virginia".

You will have to download Zoom to your computer or smartphone to participate in this meeting. Register in advance for this meeting via: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqcOigqjorGtbcnRl_XXMaJzaHZNweK-g2 The Zoom meeting will be open starting around 6:30 pm for pre-meeting discussion. Please vote for chapter officers at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeI1acVCE18AH-KR_jEUfA2ypAjL89oUPQJbHK-DGLvTMDoKA/viewform

Meeting agenda, subject to change: 1. Welcome/Introductions: Chapter President Peter Effertz 2. Chapter elections. 3. 2020 Mid-Atlantic ChaserCon - will either be a virtual conference or postponed until 2021. 4. Budget update: Secretary/Treasurer Dan Salkovitz.    5. Speaker: Dr. Jeff Love, Research Geophysicist, United States Geomagnetic Survey, Denver, Colorado,"Geomagnetic History Recorded at Fredericksburg, Virginia". Next meeting: Saturday, October 10, 2020, time to be determined. All Central Virginia Chapter AMS meetings are welcome to all with an interest in meteorology/weather (professional meteorologists and weather enthusiasts). Although encouraged, chapter members do not need to be members of the AMS. If you know anyone who would like to be included in chapter email notifications or if you would like to be removed from the email notification list, please let me know. Please feel free to invite others and distribute this email.