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Members of the Association of Certified Meteorologists (ACM) are very active within the American Meteorological Society (AMS). ACM is well represented on the Board of Certified Consulting Meteorologists (BCCM). The purpose of the board is to evaluate educational requirements and standards, professional competence, professional level, and reputation of all applicants for certification by the Society, and to make recommendations for approval or rejection of applicants for certification to the Commission. The board also fosters the establishment and maintenance of a high level of professional competency and mature and ethical counsel in the field of consulting meteorology, and to nominate recipients for the Henry T. Harrison Award.

ACM member Gary Ellrod was included as a co-inventor on a patent for a technique to identify possible severe aircraft turbulence well downstream from thunderstorms (>30km). The patent (#US9564055B2) was granted 7 February 2016 with a priority date of 15 June 2015. The technique uses satellite InfraRed (IR) imagery, global real-time lightning data, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Air Resources Laboratory (ARL) Hybrid Single Particle Lagrangian Isentropic Trajectory (HYSPLIT) model, along with projected aircraft routes on long-haul flights.

Dr. Matthew Bunkers earned his CCM designation in January 2017, and within a few months he started his consulting business, Northern Plains Weather Services, based out of Rapid City, South Dakota...

111th Annual Convention and Exposition of the Air and Waste Management Association convened in Hartford, June 25-28 at the Connecticut Convention Center. Gale F. Hoffnagle, CCM was the general Chairman...

Our consulting meteorologist member, David Moran CCM, was featured in Forbes article, "Stephen Hawking Overcame Challenges. Two Meteorologists With Disabilities Have Too."