Irish Meteorological Society

Lectures and Activities

Lectures

• The Geology of Planet Earth
• Volcanic Ash Clouds, hazards to Aviation
• The Weather on Other Worlds
• Climate and History
• Coping with a Chaotic System..latest developments at ECMFW
• Urban Heat Island
• Hydrology and Extreme Rainfall events in North Antrim

• Earth's Climate over the last 2.5 Million Years
• Flooding
• Winds of Fate - The Wolfe Tone Expedition of 1796
• FASTEX - will it help?
• Bird Strike Hazards at Aerodromes

• Urban Climatology: Past and Future
• Return to Cherrapunji: The Wettest Place in the World
• Satellite Meteorology: New developements
• The BT Global Challenge
• FASTEX 1997

• Up Up and Away ( Ballooning)
• The Indoor Climate
• Meteorology in Antarctica
• Irish contributions to Aerosol Science
• Concepts of Hydrology

• Hurricane Mitch - the Irish Relief effort in Hounduras
• A Bluffer's Guide to Hurricanes
• The Weather Down Under

• Is it possible to understand Dynamic Meteorology?
• Oceans of Opportunity
• remainder of season curtailed due to Foot & Mouth outbreak

• Tornado Watch
• Wild weather and climate change: Observations, predictions and impacts

• Flooding: The Australian Experience

• Climate Change
• Weather Forecasting: from Woolly Art to Solid Science
• Numerical Weather Prediction and its Applications in Agriculture and Environment

One day Meetings

• 1994 -Weather and Health
• 1995 - Weather and Observations
• 1996 - Environment and Climate
• 1997 - Weather Hazards
• 1998 - Weather and History
• 1999 - Meteorology and Sustainable Development
• 2000 - Weather and Food
• 2001 - Cancelled due Foot & Mouth
• 2002 - No Meeting
• 2003 - No Meeting
• 2004 - No meeting

Field Trips

• Fota Wildlife park
• Valentia Observatory
• Mace Head Oceanographic Station
• Armagh Observatory
• 1994 - Birr Castle and Clara Bog Railway
• 1995 - Industry in Wicklow
• 1996 - Ceide Fields and Bellacorric Wind Farm:
• 1997 -  Wexford and Barrow Cruise
• 1998 - Limerick, Foynes and Glin
• 1999 - Strokestown,Lanesborough and Corlea Bog
• 2000 - The Burren
• 2001 - Cancelled due Foot & Mouth
• 2002 - Cancelled