Next Meeting October 15th!

The next meeting of the Central Virginia Chapter of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) will be at 7:00 pm EDT, Thursday, October 15, 2020. <-- Note this is a change! This meeting will be held virtually via Zoom. Our speaker will be Amber Verstynen from George Mason University. Ms Verstynen is a junior at George Mason University where she is majoring in Atmospheric Science.  For the past two summers she has been serving as a student intern at the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia performing atmospheric research.  As a senior in high school she also served as an intern where she performed research wildfires activity.  Amber is the president of the George Mason Chapter of the American Meteorological Society.  She is also a member of the George Mason woman’s softball team and is on the Student Athletic Activities committee.  She is originally from Poquoson, Virginia.

She will speak to us about " "Analysis of Measurement Variability During the 2017 Ozone Water–Land Environmental Transition Study (OWLETS) Campaign Caused by Boat Emissions and a Comparison to the National Air Quality Forecast Model".

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/tZMrcOCqqzwrG92Rd6eB4HF_D9Tagv3I71sm After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. The Zoom meeting will be open starting around 6:30 pm for pre-meeting discussion.

Revised meeting agenda, subject to change: 1. Welcome/Introductions: Chapter President Peter Effertz 2. Budget update 3. 2020 Mid-Atlantic ChaserCon update. There will a series of virtual presentations and discussions each Saturday at 11:00 am from October 24th through November 14th:

October 24: Jeff Halverson (University of Maryland Baltimore Campus)/Host: Brent Watts, WDBJ7 Roanoke October 31: Jeff Orrock (NWS Wakefield)/Host: Jim Duncan, WWBT12 Richmond

November 7: Karen Kosiba (Center for Severe Weather Research)/Host: Aubrey Urbanowicz, WHSV3 Harrisonburg

November 14: Chris Jackson (storm chaser), Peter Forister (storm chaser), Roger Riggin IV (storm chaser)/Host: Brent Watts,     WDBJ7 Roanoke 4. NASA Research Projects Overview: Margaret Pippin/Tim Berkoff, NASA Langley Research Center 5. Speaker: Amber Verstynen, George Mason University, "Analysis of Measurement Variability During the 2017 Ozone Water–Land Environmental Transition Study (OWLETS) Campaign Caused by Boat Emissions and a Comparison to the National Air Quality Forecast Model". Next meeting: December 2020, date/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.