Virtual Zoom Meeting June 16th!

The next meeting of the Central Virginia Chapter of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) will be at 7:00 pm, Tuesday, June 16, 2020. This meeting will be held virtually via Zoom. Our speaker will be Dr. Brian Batten from Dewberry, a nationwide firm of planning, design, and construction professionals. Dr Batten will be presenting on planning and mitigation of sea level rise in Virginia Beach. He is a senior coastal scientist and project manager with Dewberry's resilience solutions group and leads the firm's sea level rise practice. He has more than 20 years of experience in coastal marine sciences and is an expert in coastal hazards, including coastal flooding, coastal erosion, and sea level rise. He has been leading a comprehensive flood resilience study for the City of Virginia Beach.

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/tZAtcu-gqTwuEtDqMwr_8d3TpwWM4sGpTC-r

Meeting Password: CVAAMS

Meeting agenda, subject to change: 1. Welcome/Introductions: Chapter President Peter Effertz 2. Chapter elections. 3. Metro-Richmond STEM Fair award winner.

4. 2020 Mid-Atlantic ChaserCon update - Saturday, November 7, 2020, Science Museum of Virginia. 5. Budget update: Secretary/Treasurer Dan Salkovitz.    6. Speaker: Dr. Brian Batten, Dewberry, Planning and Mitigation of Sea Level Rise in Virginia Beach. Next meeting: Thursday, August 20, 2020. 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. Dan Salkovitz Meteorologist Virginia Department of Environmental Quality dsalkovi@yahoo.com Secretary/Treasurer, Central Virginia Chapter AMS