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T he 32nd AMS Conference on Radar Meteorology and the 11th AMS Conference on Mesoscale Processes, held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, during 23–29 October 2005, proved very popular: a total of 552 papers were presented and 525 people attended the joint meeting. The conference was quite busy, including a one-day “Educational Forum,” two occasions with triple parallel sessions, plus evening and Saturday sessions. This was the first time in the history of the AMS that these two naturally related communities in meteorology (i.e., those using radar and those studying mesoscale processes) joined in conference1. The conference was novel in several other ways, and we will focus here on the conference structure and evolving conference archival options, so as to make specific recommendations for future AMS conferences. These recommendations pertain to the organization of short courses, the challenge of poster sessions, trends in conference attendance, and a disturbing trend concerning the changing character and purpose of extended abstracts. EDUCATIONAL FORUM. The novel one-day Educational Forum (EF) titled “A Primer on Radar Analysis Techniques Used in Mesoscale Meteorology” preceded the conference and set the theme for this highly interconnected joint conference. The four EF sessions were devoted to radar instrumentation, the use of radar data in understanding the structure of mesoscale phenomena, and the assimilation of radar data into mesoscale prediction models. The purpose of these sessions was to provide a state-ofthe-art summary and discussion to the attendees of both conferences on new approaches in radar observations as related to mesoscale phenomena. The program chairs developed the forum—they chose the topics, selected the speakers, reviewed the presentation graphics for consistency and completeness, and served as the session conveners. While it is not unusual for the AMS to offer one or more short courses in association with a conference, the EF was unique in that it was offered free of charge to all conference registrants on a first-come first-served basis, with the intent being to draw a large group of mainly graduate students. In practice, the AMS realized this by treating the EF as an additional joint session—and thus, part of the conference—without increasing the conference registration fee. The organizing committee and EF participants were quite pleased with this arrangement. The EF was different from regular conference sessions in two other ways: first, the presentations are not found in the extended abstract CD-ROM, nor were they recorded live by the AMS, so they cannot be found on the AMS conference archive Web site. (Spiral-bound notebooks containing the outlines and presentation slides were produced and distributed to attendees in color at cost-recovery price.) Second, EF attendance was capped at 100—a number reached early during the online registration period despite limited advertising—although 120 people were eventually admitted because space was availAFFILIATIONS : GEERTS—University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming; KOCH—NOAA/Earth Systems Research Laboratory/Global Systems Division, Boulder, Colorado; KREHBIEL—New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico; JORGENSEN—NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma CORRESPONDING AUTHOR : Bart Geerts, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071 E-MAIL: geerts@uwyo.edu DOI:10.1175/BAMS-87-8-1105

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ARE AMS CONFERENCE PRACTICES CHANGING FOR BETTER OR WORSE?: A Report on Developments from the 32nd Radar Meteorology and 11th Mesoscale Processes Joint Conference