VOL. 39, No. 10, OCTOBER, 1958 555 MEETINGS OF THE AMS AMS Calendar, 1958-59 El Paso, Tex. Conference on the High Atmosphere October 14-16 New Haven, Conn. Second National Conference on Agricultural Meteorology October 22-24 Miami Beach, Fla. Seventh Weather Radar Conference November 17-20 and National Hurricane Symposium November 20-22 Washington, D. C. With the American Association for the Advancement of Science December 26-31 New York, N. Y. Annual Meeting January 26-29 Chicago, 111. General Meeting March 24-27 Washington, D. C. With the American Geophysical Union May 4-7 San Diego With the Pacific Division AAAS June 15-19 Twin Cities, Minn. Stratospheric Meteorology Aug. 31-Sept. 2 Conference on the High Atmosphere, Meetings with the American Association for 14-16 October 1958 the Advancement of Science, 26-31 The El Paso Branch of the American Meteorological December 1958 Society and the New Mexico-West Texas Section of Washington, D. C., will have a concentration of scien- the American Rocket Society were co-sponsors of the tists from all fields at the end of December as specialists Conference. The program was published in the August gather to attend the 125th Meeting of the AAAS. In BULLETIN. addition to the sessions planned by the sections of AAAS, the Annual Exposition of Science and Industry will again Second National Conference be featured. The General Symposium, Moving Frontiers on Agricultural Meteorology, New Haven of Science III, Part I, will be held at 8 p.m., December 22-24 October 1958 26, and Part II, December 27. Dr. Laurence H. Snyder will give the Presidential Address at 8 p.m., December The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station and 28; a reception will follow. On December 29 at 8:30 the Yale Forestry School at New Haven were host to p.m., the AAAS Smoker will be given for all registrants. the Second National Conference on Agricultural Me- All of these events sponsored directly by the AAAS will teorology held under the Society's sponsorship on 22-24 be held at the Sheraton-Park Hotel, also the location of October. The program was published in the August the press room for the 18 sections and 44 organizations BULLETIN. holding meetings, the AAAS office, Main Registration, Visible Directory of Registrants, and the AAAS Science Seventh Weather Radar Conference and Theatre. Technical Conference on Hurricanes, The American Meteorological Society will participate Miami Beach, Florida, 17-22 in the December meetings of the AAAS through its own November 1958 national meeting and by cosponsorship of sessions in ap- The Seventh Weather Radar Conference and Technical propriate sections. Two of these sessions appear below. Conference on Hurricanes will be held at Miami Beach, Others will be published in the November BULLETIN. Florida, 17-22 November 1958. Ultramodern facilities and living accommodations at moderate rates have been Monday Afternoon, December 29, 2:00 p.m. obtained at the new Deauville Convention Hotel. The South Ballroom, Willard Hotel meeting is to be sponsored jointly by the American Me- teorological Society and the University of Miami. Prof. SYMPOSIUM: WATER AND AGRICULTURE Homer W. Hiser is Chairman of the Seventh Weather PART II: WATER SOURCES Radar Conference, P. O. Box 8003, University of Miami, Program of Section O—Agriculture, cosponsored by Coral Gables 46, Florida. AMS. Arranged by Roy D. Hockensmith, Soil Con- The AMS Committee on Severe Storms is sponsoring servation Service. the Technical Conference on Hurricanes at the Deauville Hotel, 20-22 November 1958. Joint sessions are planned Chairman: H. J. Sloan for Thursday, 20 November. University of Minnesota The programs appeared in the September BULLETIN. Minneapolis, Minn. Unauthenticated | Downloaded 09/25/21 08:32 AM UTC 556 BULLETIN AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY Factors that Affect the Water Cycle. William C. Acker- day instrument clinic on 24 March, featuring problems of man, Illinois State Water Survey, Urbana, 111. (30 wind measurement and problems of temperature and sta- min) bility measurement. Tentative titles for the other session topics, in the order of their appearance, as presently The Effects of Weather Modification on Water Supplies. scheduled, are: Water resources problems; IGY results Howard T. Orville, Beckman & Whitley, Inc., San in Arctic and Antarctic; Thermal circulations in air and Carlos, Calif. (30 min) ocean; Scientific basis of weather modification; Progress Use of Climatic Data in Guiding Water Management. in Russian meteorology; IGY results in high atmosphere C. H. M. Van Bavel, Agricultural Research Service, and space. Raleigh, N. C. (30 min) All topics will be presented in single sessions. The Precipitation Measuring and Analyses as an Aid to Agri- time for each speaker will be divided evenly between talk culture. Gerald L. Barger, National Weather Records and discussion in all sessions where such a division is Center, U. S. Weather Bureau, Asheville, N. C. (30 appropriate. The speakers will be followed at first by min) discussion speakers and then by general discussion. Four invited papers are planned to illustrate the actual Discussion Leader: Vincent J. Schaefer, The Munitalp application of probabilities derived from weather data to Foundation, Schenectady, N. Y. (30 min) business planning or operation in the session on "Weather risk analysis for management decisions." Topics under Tuesday Afternoon, December 30, 2:00 p.m. consideration include the following: Federal Room, Statler Hotel Safety of offshore oil production operations REVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN Maintenance of supply in natural gas distribution, and RADAR METEOROLOGY gas dispatching planning (Session of invited papers arranged Maintenance of electric power transmission free of by Vaughn D. Rockney) interruption Building construction planning and scheduling Chairman: Vaughn D. Rockney Inventory distribution for air-conditioner sales U. S. Weather Bureau Scheduling equipment and labor for stevedoring opera- Washington, D. C. tions Cloud Physics and Propagation. Walter Hitschfeld, Mc- Safety and efficiency of airline operations Gill University, Montreal, Que., Canada. (30 min) Determination of insurance risks for extended coverage Synoptic Meteorology. Edwin Kessler, III. Geophysics Practical principles of handling weather data for risk Research Directorate, Air Force Cambridge Research analysis and others. Center, Bedford, Mass. (30 min) Readers of the BULLETIN are invited to correspond with Severe Storms and Hurricanes. Myron G. H. Ligda, Dr. F. C. Roop, P. O. Box 561, Whiting, Ind. Stanford Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif. (30 min) Instrumentation and Hydrology. Richard D. Tarble, Call for Papers U. S. Weather Bureau, Washington, D. C. (30 min) Spring Meeting, Washington, D.C. The joint meeting of the American Meteorological So- Annual Meeting in New York, N. Y., ciety and the Section of Meteorology of the American 26-29 January 1959 Geophysical Union will be held in Washington, D.C., The Society will return to the Barbizon-Plaza Hotel May 4-7, 1959. This will be the 176th National Meeting for the annual meeting in 1959. Chairman of the Pro- of AMS and the 40th Annual Meeting of the AGU. gram Committee is Prof. James E. Miller, Dept. of Titles and abstracts of papers, and time required for Meteorology and Oceanography, New York University, presentation (in general not to exceed 15 minutes), New York 53, N. Y. The program will appear in the should be submitted as soon as possible but not later November BULLETIN. than January 20, 1959. The Program Chairman is Max A. Eaton, Commander, USN, CNO (Op-583), Navy De- National Meeting in Chicago, 111., partment, Washington 25, D.C. 24-27 March 1959 Final arrangement of the program and selection of This meeting will be held on the premises of The topics and papers will be made by the joint AMS-AGU University of Chicago. It will be started off by an all- program committee. Unauthenticated | Downloaded 09/25/21 08:32 AM UTC.