Annual Photo-video Night: July 8th, 2014

This year's Photo/Video night will be held on Tuesday July 8th at 6:00 PM here on the SDSM&T campus in Mineral Industries room 222.  We'll plan on having some pizza, snacks and drinks on hand as as we enjoy a nice evening of weather pictures and videos.  Also, we'll be holding elections for next year's officers, so be thinking of nominations for president, vice president, treasurer, and secretary.

As has been the case in the past the rules for the contest are as follows:

-You may submit up to 10 photos and/or (approximately) 1 minute of video.

-Submissions should be made via email to blackhillsams@gmail.com. I'll send you a response once I receive your pictures or video.

-The deadline for submissions is going to be 7/7 at 5 PM, so I have time to organize all the submissions.

-You must be a Black Hills AMS member to enter the contest.

First, second, and third place winners in each category (photo and video) will receive certificates and the first place winners will also win an additional prize!

Please contact me if you have any questions, and start submitting your entries!

-Adam

Upcoming Panel Discussion about last October's Blizzard

The Black Hills AMS, in conjunction with the SDSM&T weather club will be hosting a panel discussion next Tuesday (April 8th, 2014) about last October's blizzard here in western South Dakota. The panel discussion will run from 6-8 PM and is going to be held in room 204 (east and west) in the Classroom Building on the School of Mines Campus.

Panelists include representatives from the National Weather Service, Pennington County Emergency Management, KOTA TV, the SD stockgrowers association, the SD Veterinarian's office, and Black Hills Power.  We will also be hosting a silent auction on items donated from local businesses, with proceeds going to the Rancher Relief Fund. Additional details are on the flier included below

The event is open to the public, so tell your friends, neighbors and coworkers! We hope to see you there!

Fall 2013 meeting: November 13, 2013 at 6 PM at SDSM&T

We will be having our next meeting on Wednesday November 13, 2013 at 6:00 PM. We're going to try out a different venue this time and hold the meeting on the SDSM&T campus in room 222 of the Mineral Industries building.  We'll plan on ordering some pizza and providing some drinks since the meeting will be around dinnertime.

Our speaker for this meeting will be TSgt Will Price of the US Air Force at Ellsworth AFB and he'll speaking to us about weather operations at Ellsworth AFB.

Hope to see you there!

Fall Picnic 9/14/2013

The Black Hills AMS will be hosting  picnic in conjunction with the SDSM&T Weather Club this Saturday, 9/14, at the Steamboat Rock Picnic Area off Nemo Road.

We'll be getting the grill fired up around noon and plan on having hot dogs and hamburgers along with some chips and drinks.  All are welcome, please RSVP to blackhillsams@gmail.com by Thursday, 9/12 if you'll be attending so we can get a rough estimate on how much food to bring.

Hope to see you there!

Next meeting and photo/video contest April 25th

Our next meeting is going to be Thursday 4/25 at 6 PM at the Pizza Ranch here in Rapid City (in the meeting room as usual).  We'll be having our annual photo/video contest along with elections for officers for next year.  We have reserved the room starting at 6PM and we'll plan on starting the meeting around 6:30 so there will be some time to catch up over dinner before the meeting starts.

Rules for the photo/video contest:

-You may submit up to 10 photos and/or (approximately) 1 minute of video.

-Submissions should be made via email to blackhillsams@gmail.com. I'll send you a response once I receive your pictures or video.

-The deadline for submissions is going to be 4/24 at 5 PM, so I have time to organize all the submissions.

-You must be a Black Hills AMS member to enter the contest.

First, second, and third place winners in each category (photo and video) will receive certificates and the first place winners will also win an additional prize!

Next meeting: November 15, 2012

The fall meeting of the Black Hills Chapter of the American Meteorological Society will be held at noon on Thursday, November 15 in the "cow pokes" room at Pizza Ranch here in Rapid City.  Tom Warner, a PhD student at the School of Mines,  will be presenting a talk entitled "Upward Lightning Triggering Study:

First Year Observations" discussing the first year of the UPLIGHTS field study that is taking place here in Rapid City.  Tom will start speaking around 12:20, so feel free to come around noon to have some pizza and catch up before the talk starts.

Hope to see you there!

-Adam

Winners of photo-video contest and new officers

The Black Hills AMS held its annual photo/video contest back at our last meeting back in April.

Congratulations to the following winners:
Photo category:
1st place: Darren Clabo
2nd place: Dan D'Amico
3rd place: Chip Redmond
Video category:
1st place: Dan McKemy
2nd place: Patrick Ealy
3rd place: Chip Redmond
Thanks to everyone who submitted photos!

We also held officer elections, and the new set of officers for the upcoming year are:
President: Adam French
Vice President: Chip Redmond
Secretary: John Hamilton
Treasurer: Patrick Ealy


We'll be having our next meeting once the fall semester begins, so be sure to check back for the time and place!