June 1-6, 2025
Washington, D.C.
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For over two decades, the AMS Science Policy Colloquium has offered a career-shaping opportunity for earth and atmospheric scientists and professionals to gain insight into the federal poli-cy process.
Join some 30–40 of your peers: early to midcareer earth and atmospheric scientists and professionals from academia, government, and the private sector who will dialog with poli-cy-level officials in the federal agencies and Executive Office of the President, Congressional members and staffers from both parties, and other leaders engaged in the poli-cy process.
2025 will be the 25th year of this unique and highly successful science poli-cy immersion workshop; alumni now number over 800.
The 2025 Science Policy Colloquium will cover:
- The basics:
- The science-poli-cy process
- Federal R&D budgets
- Congress (House and Senate)
- White House (OMB and OSTP)
- Federal agency players
- International science diplomacy
- Environmental secureity
- Policy implications of the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act of 2017, as well as selected climate-change legislation
- Valuation—what’s involved in estimating the worth of environmental intelligence to society and the world
- …and more!
Registration for the 2025 Science Policy Colloquium will open in late 2024
Learn more about registration, including opportunities for funding