Attendees chatting and networking during break.

Attendees listening to a session.

Attendees chatting during the Dr. Keith Seitter Breakfast Roundtable.

Panelists at the Congressional Keynote and Congressional Roundtable.

That's a wrap on the 2025 Joint AMS Washington Forum and Summer Community Meeting 👋

Thank you to everyone who attended, presented, and sponsored. We hope you had an amazing week and enjoyed connecting with your peers! #AWF25 #SCM25

Program The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.

More info on the event: www.ametsoc.org/ams/meetings...

#AWF25 #SCM25 #WeatherForecasting #InSpire

Attendees chatting during lunch break.

Attendees listening to Session 2: Energy Security and Energy Dominance.

Attendees listening to Session 6: Advancing the Conversation on Open Data vs Data for Profit.

Attendees standing up for questions during Session 7: Open Discussion on Data and AI.

Day 2 completed at #AWF25 & #SCM25 ⏳
Just one more day to go! Join us tomorrow to hear from more amazing speakers for our final day.

Photo taken from the Mahoney Lecture.

Photo taken at the Congressional Roundtable discussion.

Photo taken from the AMS Leadership Panel featuring AMS Past and Current Presidents.

Attendees networking during coffee break.

Day 1 of the Joint Washington Forum & Summer Community Meeting in the books!
✔️ AMS Mahoney Lecture
✔️ Congressional Roundtable discussion
✔️ Enterprise keynote from Dr. Marcia McNutt
✔️ ... and more!

We look forward to hearing from more speakers tomorrow! #AWF25 #SCM25

“The pop-up Festival bookstalls, run by The Women’s Bookshop, sold a staggering 12,000 books over the six days. The most popular title was The Book of Guilt, the highly anticipated new novel from Catherine Chidgey.” @catherinechidgey.bsky.social @thwupbooks.bsky.social #AWF25

Kaliane started by writing to some people she found online, one thing led to another, and now we have what sounds like a wonderful book. On stage, Kaliane was 100% delightful, sharing her obsessions and humour.

#AWF25 #booksky #litfic #ministryoftime #kalianebradley

So, it’s not New York, but I just joined 85,000 people at the Auckland Writers Festival to talk books, and hung out with the likes of Hollinghurst, Adiche, and the legend who actually lived up to it in person: Colm Tóíbín. ❤️ 📚 Huge congratulations to @lfineran.bsky.social and team. #awf25

Book signing with Elin Anna Labba and Lars Mytting. Thanks fab writers & readers!
#AWF25

FFS just let us in to sit down. Theses queues sre just clogging up everything. #awf25

Three people seated on the stage: Alison Fifield (Facilitator), Tom Morell, and Ben MacIntyre.

#AWF25 with Ben McIntyre on ‘Inside the Iranian Embassy’

Really enjoyed the ‘Unfinished business?’ discussion with Colm Toibin, Becky Manawatu and David Nicholls, led by the ever gracious and well prepared Noelle McCarthy. Now we know that sequels are shameful whereas trilogies are cool.😎
#AWF25

Looking across the peach-coloured tiles of Aotea Square, there is a large rectangular yellow plinth featuring some of the events on at the Auckland Writers Festival is. Next to that is a large n-shaped sign with ‘Welcome to the Auckland Writers Festival’ on it.

I’m volunteering at the Auckland Writers Festival, & I’m simultaneously (silently) fan-girling & trying to be welcoming & supportive, while wearing a mask. 😷 #AWF25

The session with Flora Feltham and Tina Makereti was so good - they mainly chatted among themselves, with just the occasional interjection by Jenna Todd. #AWF25

Nice to see moderate interest in books - these are the people swapping from one session to another. #AWF25

A stage with four empty seats is seen from a high up audience view point. Lush ferns sit either side of the stage and there is a podium with “Auckland writers fest” written on an orange and white sign. A slide reads “trump the next four years, Edward Wong, Philippe Sands, and Anna Fifield. Chaired by Georgina Godwin.”

My first #AWF25 session! And for some reason I have a lot of space to myself (maybe I smell) but yay for social distancing!!

For anyone attending Auckland Writers’ Festival: I’ve got two tickets for ‘Japan’s Trailblazer’ on Sunday (1pm) with Asako Yuzuki in conversation with Paula Morris that we unfortunately can’t go to. I can’t get a refund and I’d hate for them to go to waste — any takers? #AWF25

A orange sign reading “Auckland writers festival Waituhi O Tamaki” sits in front of a tapestry on a wall, with a man signing books in the background

I have trekked the great trek and fought the parking demons and ARRIVED AT THE HOLY GRAIL #AWF25
Sitting trying to drop my blood pressure after a long week and watching a stream of lads and lasses leap and cavort out of a kids book event. 🥰

Morning inspiration from Ian Rankin, Dervla McTiernan and Chris Whitaker at Auckland Writers Festival.

#AWF25 #crimewriting

Happiness scales: Whose happiness are we measuring and at whose cost? #AWF25 📚💙

The Happiest Places on Earth? • Auckland Writers Festival

Next up on my schedule for #aucklandwritersfestival, #AWF25 📚💙

www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/e...

Graphic for the 2025 Dr. Keith Seitter Roundtable at the Joint AMS Washington Forum and Summer Community Meeting.

💬 Interested in the rapid changes occurring in U.S. federal science policy and how AMS is helping shape the future of the scientific enterprise?

Join us in person for the 2025 Dr. Keith Seitter Roundtable at #AWF25 & #SCM25!

Learn more and register now: bit.ly/4k1tgTR

A photo of Mike Eilts, General Manager of Spire Weather & Climate.

At the 2025 Joint AMS (@ametsoc.org) Washington Forum & Summer Community Meeting, Spire's Mike Eilts joins NOAA, academic leaders & more to explore building a collaborative AI-driven forecasting ecosystem.

📍 May 22 | 1:30 pm ET
Event info: www.ametsoc.org/ams/meetings...

#AWF25 #SCM25

The Trent Dalton/Michelle Langstone session at Ak Writers fest was absolutely outstanding. If you didn't cry or laugh, you'd really have to go have your heart checked. The enormous fluoro yellow 'slido' screen notification that keeps popping up was horribly intrusive and distracting #AWF25

Listening to Trent Dalton tell stories from his life, with the occasional question from Michelle Langton, was a wonderful start to #AWF25. So much humour, it could have been at the comedy fest, plus emotion, love and optimism. Turning the table, he asks Michelle for her love story.

Ready for my first event at #AWF25.

The Anatomy of Sand’s first outing is Auckland Writers’ Festival!
Excited to be on the NORSE MYTHOLOGIES & FOLKLORE panel w Elin Anna Labba (Sápmi/Sweden) and best-selling novelist Lars Mytting (Norway), led by the wonderful Whiti Hereaka.
Event supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers.
#AWF25