News

2024-08-14

Good afternoon, all.

We want to quickly remind you that we're two weeks into the call for self-nominations to fill upcoming openings on the FPAW Steering Committee. There are five available three-year (October 2024 - September 2027) positions up for your consideration: two representing the Research, Engineering and Development (RED) and Academia community, and one each representing the User, Provider and Regulator communities.

You might be wondering about nominating someone else. We certainly encourage you to identify excellent FPAW SC candidates, but we will ultimately need them to agree with your assessment and go through the simple self-nomination process. What is that simple process, you ask? Well, it consists of sending an email to Matthias (msteiner@ucar.edu) and me (mfronzak@mitre.org) that contains (1) a 1-2 paragraph expression of interest in serving on the FPAW SC, including information about why you should be selected, (2) the constituency (Providers, RED and Academia, Regulators, Users) that you propose to represent, and (3) a current CV/resume. That’s it!

So -- what are you waiting for? Step up and join us as we improve aviation weather on behalf of ALL of its stakeholders!

Matt Fronzak and Matthias Steiner

FPAW Co-Chairs

2024-07-31

Hello, FPAW members.

The FPAW Steering Committee (SC), which was stood up in the Fall of 2022, will celebrate its 2nd full year of existence this coming September. With little in the way of precedence to lean on, it has gotten into a nice and productive rhythm in its approximate monthly meetings. The FPAW SC has played an increasingly large role in the planning of FPAW Meetings and was instrumental in the creation of the first (but surely not the last) FPAW Position Paper. Equally or more importantly, it has proven to be comprised of individuals who care deeply about being Friends and Partners in Aviation Weather. 

We constructed the terms of individual FPAW SC members so that either four or five of its members (approximately 1/3 of its membership) rotate off the committee each year. This means that September 30th marks the end of the current terms of five FPAW SC members. The following table lists our colleagues who are scheduled to cycle off the committee at the end of September, along with the aviation weather constituency that they represent.

 Name

Affiliation

Constituency

David Bieger                           

NOAA NWS

Providers

Ian Johnson

FAA

RED and Academia

Marilyn Pearson

CAE

Regulators

Nathan Polderman

United Airlines

Users

Heather Reeves  NOAA NSSL / CIWRO

RED & Academia

These individuals have made significant contributions to FPAW, as presenters, panelists and session leads at FPAW meetings, and as members of the FPAW SC. Each one has our sincere gratitude, and we hope that they elect to throw their names back into the FPAW SC candidates hat, which members cycling off the FPAW SC certainly can do.

Speaking of names of FPAW SC candidates, if you, too, desire to serve the FPAW community, Matthias and I would like to use this opportunity to encourage you, the members of FPAW, to self-nominate for one of the five open positions. Alternatively, if you know of someone else who you think should serve as a member of the FPAW SC, regardless of whether they are a current FPAW member, feel free to forward this email to them and have them submit their own nomination to us.

The process for self-nomination is simple: send an email to Matthias (msteiner@ucar.edu) and me (mfronzak@mitre.org) that contains (1) a 1-2 paragraph expression of interest in serving on the FPAW SC, including information about why you should be selected, (2) the constituency (Providers, RED and Academia, Regulators, Users) that you would be representing, and (3) a current CV/resume. That’s it!

Self-nominations for the five open FPAW SC slots will be accepted through COB EDT on Friday, August 30, 2024. As soon as possible after that, we will communicate the slate of candidates to the entire FPAW community. No later than mid-September, the FPAW SC will select the individuals who will fill the four open slots, and we will welcome them to the FPAW SC shortly thereafter.

We hope you’ll consider joining us and helping to shape the future of aviation weather!

Matt Fronzak and Matthias Steiner

FPAW Co-Chairs

2024-07-24

Good day, all.

Here is information that may be of interest to some, perhaps many, of you. I think that Gus would assert that it should be of interest to everyone :).

Matt Fronzak and Matthias Steiner
FPAW Co-Chairs

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Dear FPAW Members,

This September, Oklahoma State University and the Oklahoma Aerospace Institute for Research and Education (OAIRE) are hosting the conference for the International Society for Atmospheric Research using Remotely Piloted Aircraft (ISARRA) in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

As you may remember from Jamey Jacob and James Pinto's combined presentation in the FPAW Spring meeting, the conference (SEP/03 - SEP/06) will be followed by a large field experiment combining Mesoscale and Urban Microscale objectives.

If you are interested in submitting your work, visit our call for abstracts and submit your work.

ISARRA Call for Abstracts - Oklahoma State University

The International Society for Atmospheric Research using Remotely piloted Aircraft (ISARRA) 2024 Conference will be accepting abstracts for the conference on this page.

go.okstate.edu

Conference registration and travel information will be posted soon on this year's website.

ISARRA 2024 Tulsa Conference - Oklahoma State University

ISARRA is a member-based, non-profit society for all scientists doing atmospheric and earth science research. The next meeting will be hosted by the Oklahoma Aerospace Institute for Research and Education (OAIRE) at Oklahoma State University. The event will be held in Tulsa, Oklahoma and will include both a Conference and a Flight Week portion.

go.okstate.edu

All the best,

Gustavo B. H. de Azevedo