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The Black Hills Chapter of the American Meteorological society will be having a photo and video contest this spring! Here are the rules for the contest:
Submission rules:
- Up to 10 photos and/or up to one minute of video
- Image media: prints, slides or digital files (tif or jpg only)
- Video media: miniDV tape, VHS tape or DVD (no High Definition
video)
- Digital image files can be sent to John Wetenkamp at
kb9umx@yahoo.com
- Other media can be sent to John Wetenkamp at 4111 Winfield St
#1, Rapid City, SD 57701.
- Please label all media with name, description and contact
information
- Deadline for submission is 11:00 pm, 4/18/08
- Must be a Black Hills AMS member (dues paid) to enter
Photos and videos will be shown at the chapter meeting to be held the
last full week of April. Date and time to be determined. Best Photo and
Best Video, as voted on by the members present, will each receive a
"weather-related" prize.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact John Wetenkamp or
one of the other AMS officers.
Thank you and Good Luck!
We had our last AMS meeting at Godfathers Pizza at noon on Tuesday, February 26.
Dr. Matthew Bunkers (Science and Operations
Officer at the Rapid City National Weather Service Office)
gave a presentation on "Identifying Large Mid Level Updrafts with
Spectrum Width".
We had a Black Hills AMS meeting on Monday December 3rd at Godfather's Pizza in Rapid City.
Lunch Buffet was available for
purchase. We started at 11:30 AM.
Local Pilot Randy Roth gave a presentation on Soaring
Weather. Here is an outline of his presentation:
Subject ... Soaring Weather
1. Sailplanes .. A. always descending. B. Need rising air to
fly.
2. Types of Lift ... A. Thermal. B. Ridge. C. Wave. D.
Orthographic.
3. How types of lift are generated in the atmosphere.
A. Thermals .. Temperatures, Thermal Index and Lifted
Index.
B. Ridge ... Wind direction and velocity required, where
to fly on the ridge.
C. Wave ... How it is formed, weather needed for good
lift, lenticular clouds.
D. Orthographic ... lift due to frontal
phenomenon/interaction.
4. State, National and World soaring records.
5. Conclusion with question and answer period.
If you have any questions please feel free to drop me an e-mail. We
collected dues, $5 ($3 for students). Becoming a local member allows
you to vote for our contests and for our annual officer’s election. It
also helps fund Black Hills AMS events, webpage, and prizes for
contents winners.
The address for Godfather's Pizza is:
110 N Cambell St
Rapid City, SD 57701
(605) 342-0212. John Wetenkamp,
Black Hills AMS
We had our annual Black Hills Chapter of the American Meteorological Society Picnic at Canyon Lake on Thursday, August 30th.
Dr. Walt Lyons presented, "The Hundred Year Hunt for the Red Sprite" on Friday, 4/27/07, 700 pm at the Journey Museum.
We also had an election, with John
Wetenkamp being elected the President, Kevin Cooper the VP, Shawn Jacobs the Treasurer, and Tom
Warner the Secretary.
The Black Hills Chapter of the American Meteorological Society held a photo contest at Godfathers Pizza on Wednesday, 2/7/07 from 1100 am to 1230 pm.
Matt Bunkers
won for best video, with Eric Kurth winning for best photo. Thanks to everyone who submitted photos
and videos!.
We had a meeting of the Black Hills Chapter of the American Meteorological Society on Tuesday, December 5th.
The meeting was held at the
American University Auditorium. Dr. Paul Smith spoke on the scientific contributions/advances made by operation
of the T-28 Storm Penetrating Aircraft.
A meeting was held on
Wednesday, September 27th, at Godfathers Pizza.
Our speaker was Randall Benson,
Click
here for the meeting agenda. Click
here for Randall's PowerPoint presentation.
Dues are being collected this fall, $5 for
regular members and $3 for students. These dues will be used for volunteer
efforts this fall, for prizes for an upcoming photo contest, and potentially
for out of state speaker expenses. If you missed the last meeting,
please mail a check for $5 ($3 for students) payable to the AMS Black Hills
Chapter, addressed to Rapid City NWS, c/o Eric Kurth, 300 E. Signal Dr.,
We had our summer picnic on Sunday, July 23rd, 2006.
Our picnic took place at
We continue to solicit
members interested in helping to setup a weather station at the
Our spring meeting was
held at Godfathers Pizza on May 5th, 2006 at 11:30 am.
Matt Bunkers, the Science
Operations Officer at the Rapid City NWS, gave a very interesting talk on
“Forecasting Thunderstorms and Severe Weather.” Matt used his
considerable experience and insight on severe weather to describe the process
of predicting the location and nature of severe storms. Please see the PowerPoint
which Matt presented if you missed it or would like to review it again.
We held elections
for the
An earlier meeting was held at the Rapid City National Weather Service Office on February 8th,, 2006.
The meeting covered the use of the Interactive Forecast Preparation System (IFPS). IFPS is National Weather Service software which uses a graphical interface to produce text based forecast products. It also inputs to a digital database from which a wide range of graphical and digital forecast products can be generated. National Weather Service forecasters Jeffrey Johnson and Melissa Smith did an excellent presentation explaining IFPS in detail. Pizza was served for lunch.
A meeting was held at Godfathers Pizza on November 17, 2005.
Professor
Andrew Detweiler represented the SDSM&T
Meteorology faculty, giving a summary of current research activities of the
Institute of Atmospheric Sciences (IAS). If you missed the presentation, you
can see what they are working on by looking at the meeting summary,
by viewing the PowerPoint presentation
and by going to the IAS link: http://www.ias.sdsmt.edu/
Annual
dues were collected for membership in the
Information on
the next Chapter meeting will be provided on this site when available.
A brief
history of the
Link
to Chapter information and contacts
Latest Chapter meeting
summaries at AMS page (all chapters reporting listed)
