If you didn't get a chance to make the meeting tonight, here are the important dates for the rest of the year:
-Wednesday, March 2nd at 7pm is the joint meeting with Chicago AMS and College of DuPage AMS at CoD; James Auten from NWS-Lincoln will be coming out to give a presentation on severe weather operations within the NWS. If you're able to go and able to drive, let us know ASAP, we will be leaving from Davis if people need rides at a time TBD. Look for a future email before Wednesday regarding more information once we know more.
-Saturday, March 12th is the St. Louis Conference, also the Advanced Spotter Training at CoD. Registration for CoD is $35 and it includes lunch.
-Our next "official" meeting is THURSDAY, MARCH 24TH AT 5PM IN DH 217; Gino Izzi (NWS-Chicago) will be coming out to give a presentation on the June 5th severe weather outbreak in Illinois (a WAY more detailed presentation than what we had today!). It should be pretty good so this is a meeting you do not want to miss.
-Saturday, March 26th is the Great Lakes Conference in Valparaiso, IN from 10am-7pm. We passed around the flyer today at the meeting, if you are interested in going, let us know and we will email you with more information.
-Thursday, March 31st to Saturday, April 2nd is the Iowa Conference. It's $75 to register. We need to book our hotel rooms ASAP and start coordinating rides out there, so PLEASE let us know ASAP if you are interested in going.
-Tuesday, April 12th at 7pm in FH 144 is Spotter Training. For those of you who do not know, this is a certification to be an "official" storm spotter. It expires each year, so if you went last year, consider going again this year to get re-certified!
-Saturday, April 30th is Tom Skilling's Fermilab Presentation in Batavia Illinois.
-Kids Day is planned for Saturday, May 7th. We will be joining up with the Geography Club to host activities for kids for Geography/Meteorology Awareness. We're planning on having it outside in back of Davis Hall. If you would be willing to help with this (the more people, the better!) please let us know so we can determine how many different activities to have planned. We were thinking only having it either in the morning (sometime around 8am-12pm) or the afternoon (12pm-4pm). This should be a fun day!
-Lastly, our end-of-the-year banquet has not been set yet, but we were thinking it should be one of the last Thursdays or Fridays in the semester. More information will be available later in the semester.
I know that was a LOT of information, but these are the last events of the year! Just remember, besides our joint meeting next week, our next "official" meeting will be Thursday, March 24th at 5pm.
Below is a link for travel opportunities for the rest of 2011. I figured I would pass them onto everyone if anyone is interested in going out of town and seeing some presentations.
Again, thank you all for those of you who came out to the meeting tonight, and we will see you all again (officially) on March 24th.
Have a good weekend!
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