Conference on Empowering Excellence: Building Collaboration and Innovation for a Thriving Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise

Abstract Information

Abstracts are due by 14 August 2025 at 5:00 PM ET

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All presenters must also register for the meeting.

The Conference on Empowering Excellence: Building Collaboration and Innovation for a Thriving Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise is sponsored by the American Meteorological Society.

Call for Papers

The American Meteorological Society (AMS) is dedicated to advancing science and services for the benefit of society. As highlighted in the theme of the 106th Annual Meeting, Fast and Slow Thinking: The Human Factor in a Rapidly Changing World, we recognize that a thriving and innovative weather, water, and climate enterprise is strengthened by the well-being of it’s people - students, researchers, practitioners, forecasters, volunteers, and the workforce. The AMS champions workplace environments that foster creativity, innovation, respect, and impactful collaboration. The Conference on Empowering Excellence invites papers that explore actionable strategies, lessons learned, best practices, and transformative ideas for building workplace environments that empower excellence, foster innovation, strengthen collaboration, and maximize societal impact.

Papers for the Conference on Empowering Excellence are solicited around the following topics:

  • Cultivating a talented and engaged workforce across sectors, career stages, and experiences 
  • Addressing and eliminating constraints to enable all talent to thrive
  • Developing robust support and pathways to success for students and early career professionals
  • Building psychologically safe work, research, and field environments that foster and promote innovation
  • Ethical practices for AI-driven forecasting
  • Mechanisms that promote the knowledge and experience of public, community and/or participatory science and create innovation in research 
  • Collaborative models for interdisciplinary and convergence research and practice
  • Supporting Mental Health During Fieldwork and Remote Operations
  • Other topics that address ethics, building trust among teams, promoting mental health, successful mentor models for any/all career stages, and workforce trends that promote creativity, innovation, and respect

Conference Contacts

For additional information, please contact the program chair: Melissa A. Burt ([email protected]).