105th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting (Hybrid)

Don’t miss the Largest Annual Gathering of the Water, Weather, and Climate Community.

Theme: Towards a Thriving Planet: Charting the Course Across Scales

Society today is facing pressing global environmental change that is manifesting across spatial and temporal scales in complex ways in the coupled Earth System. Extreme weather events such as heat waves, floods, and wildfires are likely to exacerbate impacts on regional and local spatial scales. On longer timescales, communities are increasingly facing chronic stressors such as drought, ecosystem transformation, and sea level rise. Climate change is also taking a toll on human health and well-being. The annual cost of weather and climate disasters is on the rise; such events reduce property values, raise the costs of insurance, and pose national and global economic risks from supply chain disruptions to forced human migration. The AMS community has tremendous expertise and capability to provide actionable science for society-at-large to chart a future course for a more hopeful and thriving planet.

The AMS community plays a vital role ranging from research to applications to services to policy-relevant science. The goals of the 2025 AMS Annual Meeting are:

• To assess how the state-of-science, -practice, and -art can be brought to bear in addressing the afore-mentioned challenges; and
• To identify remaining challenges that need to be resolved in the journey to achieve resilient communities and a thriving planet.

The scope of the 2025 AMS annual meeting will include, but not be limited, to the following topics:

• At local scales, actionable science informed by stakeholder interactions and co-production of knowledge.
• At regional scales, sharing of knowledge, tools, and techniques across the footprint of a critical process and/or phenomena.
• At global scales, policy-relevant science that informs decision-making at national and international levels and across geopolitical boundaries.
• Across time scales, improved usability of short-term deterministic forecasts as well as insights of the Earth System on longer time scales that enable decision-making within a risk assessment framework.

WEST Presence

• Senior technical advisor, David C. Curtis, PhD, will be attending.