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EDITOR'S NOTE: With this issue we begin a regular column intended to keep AMS members informed of activities and initiatives that are currently under way within the Society and that are being administered by the staff at AMS Headquarters.

Revision of the Glossary of Meteorology required to track the terms through the writing and review processes and the preparation for publication. In 1952 Ralph E. Huschke and a team of principal Funding for the Glossary revision has been ob- and subject volunteer contributors began assembling tained through the National Science Foundation with meteorological, hydrological, oceanographic, math- support from the Environmental Protection Agency, ematical, and physics terms for publication. The col- the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra- lection of 7247 terms resulted in the Glossary of tion, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, and the Meteorology published in 1959 by the AMS. At that Department of Energy. In addition, the AMS is contrib- time, the Glossary contained up-to-date terms found uting more than $90,000 annually to the project, in meteorology and sister disciplines. In the 35 years substantially from its special initiative fund, generated since its publication, more than 10 000 copies of the from interest on reserves, to support overhead and Glossary have been sold. publication costs. Over the decades, the field of meteorology has Publication of the revised Glossary is planned for expanded in the traditional sense and into the new late 1997, with simultaneous publication in an appro- areas of satellite meteorology and numerical weather priate electronic format. The electronic edition will be prediction, among others. Terms such as helicity, regularly updated to ensure that the science has an satellite, remote sensing, Southern Oscillation, up-to-date reference tool. Regular updates on the supercell, and nudging, which are mainstream no- progress of the Glossary project will appear in future menclature today, were not included in the Glossary. editions of the Bulletin. In 1992 an ad hoc committee, chaired by AMS Past-President Werner Baum, was formed to recom- mend a strategy to update the Glossary. Recently, Summer Student Opportunity Program staffing, administration, and policy issues were settled and a Glossary Advisory Board was established to During his year as AMS president, Donald Johnson determine scope, style, and publication formats. Ronald initiated a program intended to be of benefit to stu- Taylor, chairman of the advisory board, and members dents studying the atmospheric and related sciences. Werner Baum, Ralph Huschke, John Stackpole, Ferris The resulting Summer Student Opportunity Program, Webster, Russ Dickerson, and William Bandeen will now in its third year, provides a listing of summer job select a group of experts in meteorological disciplines and internship opportunities free of charge to all to serve as the Glossary s editorial board. The editorial student members of the AMS. Companies offering board will supervise the hundreds of definition writers summer jobs and radio and television stations offering and reviewers who will address the terms in the internships can advertise these opportunities at no current edition of the Glossary and the terms to be charge in the summer opportunity listing. AMS staff added to the second edition. facilitates this program by serving as the liaison be- Todd Glickman, AMS assistant executive director tween students and the companies and stations. The and advisory board member, is overseeing the staff at summer opportunity listing is mailed each March free AMS Headquarters who will be involved with the of charge to all student members of the AMS, to the Glossary project. Glickman has assigned a senior department chairs of programs in the atmospheric and technical editor to the project, who will work with staff related sciences for public posting, and to anyone who copy editors and editorial assistants to review terms requests a copy from AMS Headquarters. This year, for technical accuracy, consistency, grammar, and the listing is also available on the AMS gopher at URL: style. Staff will also administer the computer databases gopher://atm.geo.nsf.gov.

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