ems-message April 2019

Amanda Ruggeri, UK

Amanda Ruggeri wins EMS Journalist Award 2019

Amanda Ruggeri, Editor, London Features and Editor, BBC Future, receives the Journalist Award for her article “Miami’s fight against rising seas” in which she addresses the important issue of the impacts of climate change. She covers various aspects of the subject – environmental, social and political – while presenting different points of view …[more]

March Tweet of the Month

For March 2019, we have picked two Tweets of the Month.

The first tweet is from World Meteorological Day, a day that is celebrated on the 23rd March annually. This year, the European Commission highlighted[more]

IDARE – rescuing old weather data

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) helps rescue your old weather data

Do you have old weather records that are in danger of deteriorating? The WMO wants to know what data need rescuing or are being rescued currently. Help WMO[more]

Marion Maturilli, AWI (photo credit: Carola Detring)

Fourth Job Fair in Berlin

… of the Berlin & Brandenburg Section of the German Meteorological Society

Following the introduction of Bachelor degrees (2005) and Master degrees (2008), which replaced the traditional Diploma degrees in Germany, the employability of those leaving University with a Bachelor degree was quite unclear and almost confusing.[more]

New call for Eduard Fontserè Award 2019

A new call for the international award on meteorology Eduard Fontserè will be opened in the coming weeks. Presented by the Catalan Meteorological Society (ACAM) the goal of this award is to promote and disseminate[more]

Ion Sandu, President of the Romanian Meteorological Society (photo: private)

Interview of the Month: Romania

Interview with the President of the Romanian Met Society, Dr. Ion Sandu. EMS Liaison Committee: If you were to describe your society in one sentence, what would you say? RMS brings together professionals working in the field of meteorology and experts from other fields, who play an important role in disseminating scientific knowledge …[more]