HMEI Meetings

Report - HMEI Annual General Meeting held at the 90th AMS Meeting, in Atlanta, GA, USA, 9 January 2010
During the 90th meeting of the AMS the HMEI Annual General Meeting was held at 8am on Tuesday, 19 January 2010 in Room B204 of the Georgia World Congress Center Atlanta, GA, USA. Dr Fred Branski gave a talk updating meeting participants on the current WIGOS status.
The Minutes of this meeting are below.
Forty-three people attended the General Assembly, including both HMEI members and other friends of the Association. Please see the minutes here.

Report - HMEI Members Meeting held at AMS in January 2009, during the AMS Annual Meeting, in Phoenix, USA
Thirty-four people attended this meeting. Please see the Minutes here.

HMEI had booth 812 at AMS, donated by the organizers of the exhibition. Many HMEI members exhibited at AMS see the report and pictures in the February 2009 HMEI Newsletter.

Report - HMEI General Assembly, held during TECO/METEOREX, St Petersburg, Russia, November 2008
Forty-eight people attended the General Assembly, including both HMEI members and other friends of the Association. The meeting was held at 9am on Friday 28 November in the LenExpo Center.

This exhibition center in St Petersburg is where the TECO/METEOREX 2008 was also being held (27-29 November 2008). The Association of HMEI had a booth there (thanks to the METEOREX organizers for that) and 52 HMEI members had displays at the exhibition.

The Minutes of this General Assembly are available here.

Report - HMEI General Assembly at the 88th AMS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, USA, January 2008
HMEI held its 2008 General Assembly of Members at AMS on Tuesday 22 January, 2008 at 9am in Room 232 of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. Thirty -seven people attended. Items discussed included the amelioration of the HMEI Member Product Catalogue to include more detailed information on Members' Products and discussions regarding status of the collaboration between HMEI and WMO in making the Catalogue acceptable for endorsement by WMO.

HMEI had a booth at the AMS 86th General Assembly Exhibition. There was also, as usual, a very good turnout of HMEI Members exhibiting at AMS88.

The full Minutes of this General Assembly are available here.

Report - May 2007 General Assembly Meeting of the HMEI was held in Salle 5 (3rd floor) of the CICG - International Conference Centre Geneva, 7.30 on Wednesday 9 May 2007, during the MeteoHydex at the WMO Congress in Geneva, Switzerland.

Please click here to see the minutes of the meeting.

Report - HMEI open Members Meeting at the 87th AMS, San Antonio, USA, January 2007
This was an informal, open HMEI meeting held 8-30am on Wednesday 17th January, 2007. There were breakfast refreshments available for the members and guests attending.

Mr Dieterink, the HMEI Chairman welcomed the 26 attendees to the meeting. He advised the attendees that the next General Assembly of HMEI will be held during the MeteoHydex exhibition in Geneva in May 2007. The meeting was informed that the membership is now 90 members, with 10 new members joining during 2006. The new members who were present were welcomed to HMEI. Mr Dieterink gave information on the work of HMEI over the past year and also of the various projected work for 2007.
Please click here to see the minutes of the meeting.

Report - HMEI General Assembly January 2006
HMEI held its 2006 General Assembly at the 86^th AMS, on 9.15am on Tuesday 31^st January 2006 in Room A310, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. HMEI also had a booth at the AMS 86th General Assembly Exhibition, where the Executive Secretary was in attendance with the latest edition of the HMEI Catalogue on CD available for visitors and with the HMEI website live on line for visitors to the booth to see.

The HMEI General Assembly was featured in a front-page article of the first day's BAM, the daily paper of the AMS Exhibition and Conference.
Please click here for the minutes of the 2006 General Assembly meeting.

Report HMEI General Assembly 2005, Bucharest, Romania, May 2005
This was held during the CIMO Technical Conference and METEOREX 2005 in Bucharest, Romania in May 2005. The General Assembly was attended by European HMEI members a good number of the members exhibiting at the METEOREX and others attending the TECO conference. The General Assembly saw the new Council and HMEI Chairman and Vice Chairman put in place for the following 4 years. Please click here for the Minutes of the General Assembly meeting.

Report - HMEI at the AMS 85th Annual Meeting in San Diego, January 2005
The Association of HMEI had a strong presence at the 2005 AMS 85th Annual Meeting. This was represented by the HMEI booth in the exhibition hall and the HMEI Open Meeting and the HMEI Member's Meeting both held on the morning of Monday 10th January 2005.
Please click on the links above for the reports and pictures of these events.

Report - HMEI General Assembly at AMS- 84 in Seattle, USA, January 2004
The January 2004 HMEI General Assembly in Seattle, USA, was highly successful. The meeting was well attended and included members, non-member company representatives and guests from WMO, AMS, NOAA, the UK Met Office and all HMEI Council Members. The new Secretary General of the WMO, M. Jarraud, gave an introductory speech, which emphasized the importance of the cooperation between the WMO and HMEI. The full details of the meeting are contained in the Minutes, which can be accessed by Members using the HMEI password, please click here.