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Report
- 6th Annual Meeting
European
Meteorological Society (EMS) General Assembly and Exhibition,
Ljubljana, Slovenia, 3-7 September 2006
The EMS General Assembly was opened by
Mr Michel Jarraud the Secretary General of WMO.
Please click here for
the Secretary General's Opening Speech.
Several HMEI Members attended sessions of EMS. Eight HMEI Members
exhibited at EMS this year.
HMEI
Members exhibiting at the EMS in 2006:
All Weather Inc.
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Biral |
Kipp & Zonen B.V. |
Meteolabor AG
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MicroStep-MIS
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Modem |
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Scintec AG |
Vaisala Oyj
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The HMEI Executive
Secretary and Administrator both attended EMS this year and set up and
manned the HMEI Booth, provided thanks to the EMS. The HMEI booth
welcomed visitors from the conference, who were shown the HMEI online
Member Products Catalogue and given information about HMEI and its aims.
The booth also of course welcomed HMEI Members attending the conference
and the other exhibitors at the conference, most of whom were HMEI
Members.
Lockheed Martin visit the HMEI
booth |
The HMEI
booth at EMS 2006 |
The HMEI Executive
Secretary, Administrator and Members exhibiting at EMS this year,
identified various issues and ideas for improving future EMS exhibiting
experience. The HMEI Chairman, Ben Dieterink and the HMEI Executive
Secretary, Bruce Sumner, met with the EMS President, David Burridge, the
EMS Executive Secretary, Martina Junge, and the Copernicus Meeting
Co-ordinator, Katja Gaenger, towards the end of the EMS conference/exhibition
period. Thanks to the input gathered from HMEI Member exhibitors at this
years EMS, Ben and Bruce were able to give accurate feedback on
the exhibitors perspective of the exhibition and thus to discuss ideas
to continue to improve and raise the profile of the EMS exhibitions in
future years. Bruce has suggested to EMS that earlier and higher profile
mention of the exhibition associated with EMS, in the literature sent
out about EMS in 2007 and posted on the EMS website, could be helpful in
attracting more manufacturers to exhibit, as manufacturers often plan
their exhibition budget and schedule considerably in advance. Early and
higher profile advertising of the exhibition component of the EMS, would
also encourage the attendance of a more technical audience from the
various agencies who send representatives to EMS. The HMEI
Secretariat will continue to liaise with EMS and help to create another,
even more, successful EMS exhibition and conference next year. Ben
Dieterink, as Chairman of HMEI, will attend the first meeting of
the EMS conference committee for the preparation of the 2007 EMS
conference, which will convene in early November this year.
The next EMS and ECAM 2007 will take place 1 - 5 October 2007 in El
Escorial, Spain (50km south of Madrid).
There
was a HMEI Council meeting held during this EMS, on Tuesday 5th September.
Two HMEI Councillors, Gary Wagner - All Weather and Kevin Klustner -
Coastal Environmental Systems, have resigned from the Council.
The Council decided that
new Councillors would be called for from the membership, to be voted on
at the next HMEI General Assembly. This will be held at METEOHYDEX in May, 2007.
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