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Meteorological Society of New Zealand (Inc.) ISSN 0111-1736 Meteorological Society Of New Zealand (Inc.) NEWSLETTER 119 DECEMBER 2009 Meteorological Society of New Zealand Newsletter - December 2009 - Page 2 Meteorological Society Of New Zealand (Inc.) NEWSLETTER 119 DECEMBER 2009 PO Box 6523, Marion Square, Wellington 6141, New Zealand Please forward contributions to Bob McDavitt, [email protected] CONTENTS Page AGM and Financial Report 3-6 Regional Reports 7 2009 Met Soc conference 8-9 2010 NIWA UV Conference 10-12 Stink 12 Kids Weather on the Internet 13 Winter 2009 14-21 Winter – in the media 22-42 Your new Committee President Kim Dirks [email protected] Immediate Past President Mike Revell Auckland VP Jennifer Salmond [email protected] Wellington VP James Renwick [email protected] Christchurch VP Vacant Dunedin VP vacant Secretary Sam Dean [email protected] Treasurer Cliff Revell [email protected] Circulation Manager Sylvia Nichols [email protected] Journal Editor Brian Giles [email protected] Newsletter Editor Bob McDavitt [email protected] Wed Editor Peter Knudsen [email protected] Hydrological Society Liaison Charles Pearson [email protected] General Committee Jim Salinger [email protected] Stacey Dravitzki (to be confirmed) [email protected] Katrina Richards [email protected] Sally Garrett [email protected] Gareth Renowden [email protected] Simon Kjellberg Views and endorsements expressed in this newsletter are those of the contributors and advertisers, and not necessarily those of the Meteorological Society of New Zealand. The mention of specific companies or products does not imply that they are endorsed or recommended by the Society. Meteorological Society of New Zealand Newsletter - December 2009 - Page 3 Minutes of the 30 th Annual General Meeting of the Meteorological Society of New Zealand (Inc.) Wednesday, November 11 th , 2009 Greta Point, Wellington The meeting opened at 3:00pm The meeting was chaired by Mike Revell (President) and the minutes have been written by Sam Dean (Secretary). 1. Attendance Kim Dirks Mike Revell Sam Dean Tony Bromley Ross Martin Neil Gordon Alan Porteous Richard Turner Errol Lewthwaite Brett Mullan John Sansom Garth England Don Thompson Cliff Revell Sylvia Nicol Abha Sood Colin Fraser Andrew Laing Katrina Richards Rowena Moss Duncan Ackerley James Sturman James Renwick 2. Apologies Bob McDavitt Rupert Wood Brian Giles Frank Drost John Lumsden Mike Harris Alex Neale David Wratt Jim Salinger Peter Knudsen Mikhail Titov Jennifer Salmond Gareth Renowden Stacey Dravitzki Sally Gray Simon Kjellberg Garry Derose Andrew Tait Alex Neale 3. Confirmation of the minutes of the previous AGM (Mike) Motion that “ the minutes of the previous AGM, held at Shantytown, Greymouth on the 18 th of No- vember 2008 be accepted as read ” Kim Dirks / James Renwick -carried 4. Matters arising from the last AGM (Mike) Media awards As agreed at the previous AGM, media awards for TV weather presentations were prepared this year. The winner of the awards was to be announced in a special presentation at the con- clusion of the AGM. The members expressed their thanks to Bob McDavitt for his hard work in organising these awards. 5. President’s Report (Mike) - 30 th since founding of Society in 1979 It seems hard to believe that another year has gone by and I have now served two years as the Meteorological Society president. I have decided to stand down as president and will be the immediate past president for the next two years. Presidential duties during this period have not been particularly onerous – thanks to the fact that during this period the two annual con- ferences (the main focus of the society each year) have been joint affairs, largely run by the other societies (Hydrology in Greymouth in 2008 with key input by Charles Pearson and Freshwater and Marine Science in Auckland in 2009 with key input by Kim Dirks). I hope I have managed the affairs of the Society so that they are in at least as good a state as when I started. One of the reasons I am standing down is that I feel I have not had the time to do much more than act as a caretaker and I hope that there are others out there in the meteorological community with more time, energy and enthusiasm to push us along a bit more. Attracting younger members continues to be an issue as does getting papers submitted for our annual Journal. A proactive series of emails by our secretary Sam Dean has helped the membership a little, but we still seem to struggle to get the required number of journal articles. There are many good papers presented at our annual conferences, but for some reason very few of them are pushed through to publication standard for our journal. Given how topical climate change issues and the weather generally are in the media these days I find this surprising. Clearly we are failing to convince people that there are sufficient benefits from joining the Society. How- ever on a positive note the Society is in a healthy financial state (see the financial report) and is able to assist students attend the annual conference and provide significant prizes. Summary of activities: Committee meetings There were five of these roughly every two months as in previous years, plus a special meet- Meteorological Society of New Zealand Newsletter - December 2009 - Page 4 ing to change the status of the society. Again there have been no major initiatives but we are now officially a charitable organisation, which will give us some tax advantages. The issue of falling numbers in the society has continued to be raised at every meeting and several sugges- tions made to try and improve things. A personal approach from our secretary Sam Dean to Wellington based NIWA staff has helped counteract the inevitable loss of members each year. This year’s Auckland conference joint with the society for Marine and Freshwater Sciences This was largely handled by the Freshwater and Marine Sciences committee in Auckland ably assisted by our immediate past president Kim Dirks. Thank you Kim for doing such a great job. We were able to subsidise several students’ attendance at the conference and provided two prizes worth $500 for best student and open papers presented by a MetSoc member. I thought it was an excellent meeting with many papers of a high standard including many stu- dent presentations. Can I reiterate that it would be great to see some of these appear in our journal! Branch meetings One of the most active society branches (at least in terms of a regular series of talks) has been Christchurch. Unfortunately Mikhail Titov now works outside the University of Canterbury and is not able to organise these talks anymore. This is a great pity, but thanks Mikhail for your fine effort over the last few years. Again I think we should make an effort to reinvigorate the talks at our branches as this is one of the key things we offer as a society to our members, along with the newsletters, journal and annual conference. Retiring of committee members As mentioned last year Cliff Revell (treasurer) would like to step down but we have not been able to find a replacement. Please put on your thinking hats to help find someone suitable. I’m sure you will all join with me in thanking Cliff very much for his continuing valuable contribu- tion to the society. Newsletter/Website Bob McDavitt continues to do an excellent job here. This is one of the main ways we communi- cate with members. Thanks to Peter Knudsen also for maintaining the web site. I believe this will become the key way people access information about our society so it is important that we keep it up to date. Journal Another issue of “Weather and Climate” went out in July. Brian is always looking for more pa- pers and feels the new A4 format could handle an extra paper per year. Any of the papers pre- sented at the 2009 MetSoc conference could become journal papers. I encourage you to con- sider this as currently there is only one paper in the pipeline for next year. Upcoming conferences 2011 MetSoc conference joint with the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society in Wellington. Details (venue and date) are yet to be finalised by incoming committee. Kidson Medal Two papers were put up for consideration (thanks to the nominees for their efforts) but it was decided not to award a Kidson medal this year. Royal Society Fellow nomination This year we nominated David Wratt to be a fellow of the royal society. Thanks to James Ren- wick and Geoff Austin for their hard work on this. We will find out this month if the nomina- tion is successful for this year (it will be valid for five years). Media Awards Bob McDavitt will present the media award entries and announce the winners at the MetSoc AGM. Finally, I thank all the committee members who have helped run the society over the last year. I hope you have all have a good break over the Christmas New Year period. Best Wishes for the coming year. Mike Revell Meteorological Society of New Zealand Newsletter - December 2009 - Page 5 6. Annual Report from the Treasurer (Cliff) Meteorological Society of New Zealand: Balance Sheet. Meteorological Society of New Zealand Newsletter - December 2009 - Page 6 Meteorological Society of New Zealand: Income and expenditure statement. Cliff had not yet prepared a budget for the next financial year but would do so shortly. Cliff noted that the final balance had come in ahead of budget and that this was mostly due to the conference profit which is not budgeted for.
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