Abstracts are due by 15 August 2024 at 5:00 PM ET
Abstract Fee and Author Instructions
All presenters must also register for the meeting.
The 15th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations is sponsored by the American Meteorological Society and organized by the Board on Environmental Information Processing Technologies.
The rate of meaningful research results in the Weather, Water and Climate disciplines and enterprises has been steadily increasing, especially in this era of “big data”, artificial intelligence, and disruptive, innovative technologies. One of the grand challenges for these enterprises is to find which of these meaningful research results can, and the ways and means to, transition these results to operations and applications [R2O], using efficient and cost-effective techniques and technologies. R2O and O2R can provide those critical links in the transition chain of vast information to usable knowledge. The 15R2O Conference will support extending the chain from R2O to Research-to-Services [R2S] (societal benefits) and the indispensable Services-to-Research [S2R] feedback process. The Conference will discuss some of the progress and advances towards the overall theme established in AMS 2021, “Strengthening engagement with communities through our science and services.” User Engagement will play a paramount role in the 15R2O Conference. Collectively these thrusts will support last year’s Annual Meeting theme, “Living in a Changing Environment” as well as bulwarking the next level of consideration for humanity in this year’s Annual Theme, “Towards a Thriving Planet: Charting the Course Across Scales”
The 15R2O Conference will continue to build on the 2023 and 2022 Themes, "Data: Driving Science. Informing Decisions. Enriching Humanity" and “Environmental Security: Weather, Water and Climate for a more Secure World” by creating a framework for this coming year’s 2025 theme of the challenges, possible resolutions, and adaptation needed, to not only live but also to thrive, in a changing environment. Emphasis will also be given to the data and advanced modelling still needed to implement to drive the critical science for the changing weather, water, and climate environments. One Conference subtheme will be role of water predictions in a thriving world. This 15R2O Conference will demonstrate how traditional and non-traditional observations, modeling and instrumentation, covering both complementary and often disparate, temporal and spatial scales are identified and validated for past, present, and future advances in research, technology and applications that drive transitions to meaningful operations in order to achieve and sustain a more thriving world. 15R2O is seeking papers describing recent advances in research, technology and applications that will support the Nation’s ability to provide more accurate weather, water, and climate information to decision makers and end users around the world. In addition, the 15R2O Conference supports the national and international imperatives for the effective and efficient transition of research into sustained operations and the feedback process of operations back to research.
The 15R2O Conference is inviting oral and poster presentations for the following Session Topics:
Student Presentation Awards
The 15th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations and the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems, are pleased to co-host Student Presentation Awards at the 105th Annual Meeting. Award certificates and cash prizes of up to $200 will be given for the best Student oral and poster presentations. Students who wish to be considered for these awards should indicate so when submitting their abstract. Please indicate your level of education at the time of submission, (examples: graduate student, undergraduate student, high school student). In order to be considered for an award, the Student must be the lead and presenting author.
The basis for an award will be:
Award recipients will be informed of the committee's decision by mid-February 2025.
Student and Early Career Professionals Event
The 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellites will be co-hosting with other Conferences and Symposia the 11th Annual Speed Networking Event [11SPNE]. The Event allows students and early career professionals to network with mentors via “speed networking” where the mentors (meteorology and allied discipline professionals) roam between tables at set intervals introducing the students and early professionals to a wide array of professions in the field of meteorology. The Speed Networking will include a social with heavy hors d'oeuvres, providing a great time for open networking. This allows the students, the early career professionals, and the mentors of their selected discipline to have extended conversations after their speed-mentoring.
For additional information, please contact the program chairs: Martin Yapur ([email protected]); Robert Bauer ([email protected]); Changyong Cao ([email protected]); Amber Emory ([email protected]); Eric Fetzer ([email protected]); Trey Flowers ([email protected]); Sundararaman G. Gopalakrishnan ([email protected]); Young-Joon Kim ([email protected]); Chandra Kondragunta ([email protected]); Eric Miller ([email protected]); John Pereira ([email protected]); Vijay Tallapragada ([email protected]); Thanh Vo Dinh ([email protected]); David Vallee ([email protected]); and Stephen Mango ([email protected])