Opportunities

Forwarded from Mike Henry, UCAR Director of Government Relations, originally from Keith Seitter at AMS - 

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Colleagues,

AMS is initiating an NSF-funded project to solicit and synthesize input from the AMS community on opportunities and challenges in innovation and entrepreneurship within the community. The project is in response to new initiatives within NSF supporting more work in the innovation and entrepreneurial space.  NSF already has funding opportunities in this area but suggests that relatively few applicants are geoscientists.  We are hoping to determine why more in the atmospheric and related sciences communities are not pursuing these types of opportunities and leading innovation that can lead to commercialization since there so much money out there from venture capital, federal agencies, and other sources that would support it. We are particularly focused on developing new ideas from the AMS community on fostering a thriving geosciences innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem focused on delivering results to society and the economy.

We welcome community input on any activity that falls within the AMS community, either through responses to this post or through a special portal that has been established for this project:

https://www.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/ams/about-ams/input-from-the-ams-community-on-geoscience-innovation-and-entrepreneurship/

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Keith Seitter CCM
American Meteorological Society (AMS)