Call for Papers: AMS Eighth Presidential History Symposium

The Eighth Presidential History Symposium sponsored by the American Meteorological Society, and organized by the AMS History Committee, will be held 17–21 January 2010, as part of the 90th AMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Preliminary programs, registration, hotel, and general information will be posted on the AMS Web site (http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/annual) in late-September 2009.
Papers for this conference are solicited on environmental history and the history of atmospheric sciences (broadly conceived). Papers addressing historical aspects of observational and modeling efforts, climate change and its impacts, scientific partnerships, and science policy as it pertains to atmospheric, oceanographic, and hydrological issues are especially welcome.

The 2010 Presidential History Symposium will be holding three joint sessions. The first joint session will be an invited co-sponsored event with the special symposium on Meteorological and Environmental Satellite Observing Systems: from 50 years ago to 15 years ahead held on Monday, January 18, 2010. The second joint session will be held in conjunction with the Joachim P. Kuettner Symposium on Tuesday, January 19th (please see the calls for these special symposia for more detail). The third session held on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 will be co-sponsored with the American Science Librarians International on weather and history. Papers are invited focusing on the role of weather in history, unique historical weather archives and collections, and societal benefits of decades of satellite meteorological research among others.

The $90 abstract fee will now include the submission of your abstract, the posting of your extended abstract, and the uploading and recording of your presentation which will be archived on the AMS Web site. We will no longer be producing a CD-ROM, allowing us to extend the deadline date for extended abstracts.

Please submit your abstract electronically via the Web by 3 August 2009 (refer to the AMS Web page at http://ams.confex.com/ams/). An abstract fee of $90 payable by credit card or purchase order) is charged at the time of submission (refundable only if the abstract is not accepted). Authors of accepted presentations will be notified (via e-mail) by late-September 2009. All extended abstracts are to be submitted electronically and will be available on-line via the Web; Instructions for formatting extended abstracts will be posted on the AMS Web site. Manuscripts (up to 3MB) must be submitted electronically by 13 January 2010. All abstracts, extended abstracts and presentations will be available on the AMS Web site at no cost.

For additional information please contact the program chairperson, Sepi Yalda, History Committee Chair, Department of Earth Sciences, Millersville University, P.O. Box 1002, Millersville, PA 17551. E-mail: Sepi.Yalda@millersville.edu. Office phone: 717-872-3293; Fax: 717-871-4725.