2005 Minutes of the annual meeting of the AMS Board on Women and Minorities
Wednesday, January 12, 2005, 8:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Carlsbad Room – 3rd level of the South Tower/Marriott Hotel and Marina, San Diego, CA
Welcome and Introductions -Howie Friedman (outgoing chair)
(New and outgoing members of the BWM, adjuncts/volunteers, guests)
-Outgoing members: Kathryn Ginger, Henry W. Robinson and Benjamin Watkins
-New members: Sepi Yalda and Sreela Nandi
-New chair: Shirley Murillo
Brief review of the Minutes of the 2004 BWM Meeting – Shirley Murillo
Around the table introductions and brief remarks
-Members and guests introduced themselves and shared some of their outreach work
Invited Speakers:
- Roman Czujko (AIP) – AMS Survey of its Members: Status
Online membership. Membership will be personalized meaning that retiree members won’t see student questions and vice versa. Only members that don’t have e-mail will be mailed a paper copy of the survey. We need to get the word out on the survey.
- John Jones (NWS) – Diversity in NOAA
NOAA’s Educational Partnership Program
- Elizabeth Mills (AMS Education Office) – Geoscience Diversity Project: Update
Presentation on AMS education opportunities
- Ashanti Pyrtle (USF) –MS/PHD’s in Earth System Science Initiatives Program: Background & “Looking for Mentors”
Comments From Special Invited Guests –Julie Winkler (AMS Commissioner, Education & Human Resources)
Julie- In the future will try not to have AMS Board meetings overlap.
-New AMS Science Journalism Award (BOPE) – award a science journalist on a science story. It could be print, radio, or media.
-Battan award will now use reviews in the AMS journals as a guide to nominating books.
-Teaching Excellence Award (BHE) – Given to a professor for lifetime achievement. We need to get more nominations.
-Education Symposium (BOPE) Do we want to add a session on diversity?
-Anderson Award – Work on a small write up in BAMS on this year’s winner
-AMS Corporate Award – We can nominate a corporation that promotes diversity
BWM Activities in 2004:
AMS-Industry Minority Scholarship Program
-Various members spoke about their mentoring experiences both good and bad
-37 applicants; last year only 35. We need to get the word out.
-Send out scholarship info to AMS local/student chapters
-Ideas on how to improve mentor relationship
+ Choosing a student that is close to you helps
+ Be a cheerleader for them
+ Let student know what services you are willing to provide
(advice, internship at work site, scholarship opportunities, networking, etc.)
+ DLSE –send them info about scholarships
+ Have a forum (e-mail listserv) for mentors
+ Send information about scholarships to National Science Teachers Assoc.
+ Promote scholarships at AMS student conference
Charles Anderson Award
2004 recipient - Dr. Ira Geer
Need more nominations for next year
Battan Award –Kathy Strebe
-2004 recipient - The Philadelphia Area Weather Book by Jon Nese & Glenn Schwartz
-Kathy Strebe and Barbara Walton-Faria have decided to continue volunteering in the Battan award committee
-Nominations for ALL awards are due May 1st.
AMS Membership Survey – Shirley Murillo
-Membership survey will ‘go live’ on March 2nd at noon
-February 21-24 Penultimate chance to examine flow and wording of survey
-Feb 28th – 48 hrs to conduct final pretest (need 100 people to test system)
-Get the word out on the survey, talk to your colleagues about it
-AMS members will be notified via e-mail when the survey is available
-A 2nd e-mail notification will go out to those who don’t respond
-Members who don’t have e-mails will get a paper copy
-International members will only do online survey
-Survey will be up for several months
-We should get results from AIP by June or July in time to present
preliminary results in September at the Heads and Chairs meeting.
-We will write several small articles based on the data. Volunteers will be needed
Volunteers to review questions: Mish Michaels (Broadcast/Private Sector)
Lis Cohen and Molly Montgomery (Student)
Leslie Hartten (Academia –research, non tenure track)
Michael Morgan (Academia –tenure track)
-Still need volunteers for retiree and international questions
Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday for AMS Annual 2007 meeting
-AMS annual meeting will land on MLK holiday
-Planning committee to observe the holiday: Ahsha Tribble, Greg Jenkins,
Sreela Nandi and Ed Young
-Some ideas are: have a ‘well known’ keynote speaker, have a special session,
-Have a brunch or luncheon to commemorate the holiday
-Keith mentioned that there might be some money available for a speaker
Meeting Adjourned at 11:30 AM
In Attendance:
Ahsha Tribble, Michael Morgan, Kathleen Strebe, Corinne Kazarosian, Julie Winkler, Mish Michaels, Ashton Robinson, Lis Cohen, Ira Greer, Franco Einaudi, Greg Jenkins, Kathy Strebe, Elizabeth Mills, John Jones, Quinton Williams, Terrence Hartwell, Brandon DeShields, Sreela Nandi, Georgette Holmes, Leslie Hartten, Ashanti Pyrtle, Roan Czujko, Sepi Yalda, Markeitta Benjamin, Ernesto Munoz, Marianne Hayes, Keith Seitter, John L. Shoemake, Shirley Murillo and Howie Friedman.