BAMOS Vol 31 Special Issue October 2018 Bulletin Vol 31 Special Issue 01 2018

8 BAMOS Special Issue Letters of congratulations Australian Academy of Science Ian Potter House, Gordon Street, Canberra ACT 2601 President: Professor Andrew Holmes AC PresAA FRS FTSE 2 August 2017 Ms Mary Voice President Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) GPO Box 1289 Melbourne VIC 3000 Dear Mary Congratulations from the Australian Academy of Science The Australian Academy of Science is delighted to extend its warm congratulations to the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) on its thirty years of outstanding achievement in fostering and promoting atmospheric and oceanic science in Australia. From its earliest years in the 1950s, the Fellowship of the Academy included a number of eminent Australian meteorologists and oceanographers who became Fellows of the Australian Branch of the Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS) when the Branch was established in 1973 and who subsequently helped guide the Branch's transition to AMOS in 1987. These and their successors provided distinguished scientiﬁc leadership in both Academy and AMOS work over the years on such important national challenges as natural hazard mitigation, drought warning, ozone layer protection and climate change assessment. They also helped ensure eﬀective Australian collaboration in such major international scientiﬁc initiatives as the Global Atmospheric Research Programme (GARP), the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme (IGBP). The Academy's links with AMOS have thus been long-standing and productive and both organisations can take legitimate pride in the achievements of the Australian meteorological and oceanographic community over the past thirty years. The Academy is delighted to join in applauding and honouring the leadership and accomplishments of AMOS over the past thirty years and looks forward to continuing and strengthening our partnership in the atmospheric, oceanographic and related Earth system sciences over the coming decades. I am pleased to convey the congratulations and good wishes of the Academy on this important milestone in Australian meteorology and oceanography. Yours sincerely Professor Andrew Holmes AC PresAA FRS FTSE President

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