AMS Community Synthesis for Geo-Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Accelerating Geoscience Impact to Society and the Economy

极端天气事件，降水模式的变化，更强和更频繁的龙卷风和飓风/台风，由于大气中温室气体的增加而导致的全球变暖，以及许多其他现象为创业活动和大气和气象科学竞技场的初创公司的产生提供了肥沃的土壤。然而，很少有大气科学家成为企业家，创造既有益于社会又有助于推动经济发展的新产品和服务。为了找出创新生态系统参与度低的原因，美国气象学会（AMS）将举办一系列虚拟活动，以调查其广泛的会员。对话将阐明阻碍他们开展商业活动和成为企业家的因素。这项工作的更广泛影响包括揭示激励措施，培训，机会和教育工具，最有可能创造一批大气科学和气象企业家和创业公司创始人，包括来自早期职业科学家和代表性不足群体成员的强大代表性。美国气象学会（American Meteorological Society）是美国最大的气象和气候科学家专业协会，拥有12，000多名会员，将举办一系列广泛、包容和结果驱动的虚拟活动，以征集关于培养创业人才和加快大气科学创新步伐的想法。这些活动的重点是让大气和空间科学以及气象界的所有部门参与进来，特别侧重于那些职业生涯早期的人和来自传统上在科学领域代表性不足的群体的人。信息将通过在线调查、成员虚拟会议、众包活动、一对一对话和专家小组获得。目标是收集和综合AMS成员的想法，了解需要采取哪些激励、培训或填补空白，以增加和加速大气科学家更多地参与创业过程，以及增加由来自这些领域的创始人和首席执行官领导的大气和气象相关企业的数量。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得支持通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估。

Extreme weather events, changing patterns of precipitation, stronger and more frequent tornados and hurricanes/typhoons, global warming due to increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and many other phenomena provide fertile ground for entrepreneurial activities and the generation of startups in the arena of atmospheric and meteorological science. However, there are very few atmospheric scientists becoming entrepreneurs and creating novel new products and services that both benefit society and help drive the economy forward. To identify the reason for this paucity of participation in innovation ecosystems, the American Meteorological Society (AMS) will hold a series of virtual events to survey its broad membership. The conversations will illuminate the factors that prevent them from initiating commercial ventures and becoming entrepreneurs. Broader Impacts of the work include uncovering the incentives, training, opportunities, and educational vehicles most likely to create a cadre of atmospheric science and meteorological entrepreneurs and startup founders, including robust representation from early career scientists and member of underrepresented groups. The AMS will made public the report of their findings by posting it on the AMS website.To solicit ideas on developing entrepreneurial talent and speed the pace of innovation in the atmospheric sciences, the 12,000+ member strong American Meteorological Society, the largest professional society of weather and climate scientists in the US, will run a series of broad, inclusive, and results-driven virtual activities. These are focused on engaging all segments of the atmospheric and space science and meteorological communities, with a specific focus on those who are early career and from groups traditionally underrepresented in science. Information will be obtained via online surveys, virtual convenings of members, crowdsourcing events, one-on-one conversations, and panels of experts. The goal is to collect and synthesize ideas from AMS constituents on what incentives, training, or gap filling needs to take place to increase and accelerate more involvement of atmospheric scientists in the entrepreneurial process, as well as increase the number of atmospheric and meteorologically relevant enterprises led by founders and CEOs coming from these fields.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.