ISU AMS

CABINET HIGHLIGHT🌦️❗️

Our next cabinet member highlight is our incredible vice president, Grant!
Grant is a senior from Highland, IL. He is interested in Broadcast, NWS, or Emergency Management, and his favorite meteorology class is MTEOR 4060. His favorite artist is John Mayer, and his favorite movie is Step Brothers. Grant is also involved in Cy's Eyes on the Skies and a multitude of intramural sports. His favorite weather phenomenon is tornadoes, and his favorite part about AMS is "The review sessions (they have saved me) as well as getting to know everyone at Social Events!" If you can't find Grant studying, you'll likely find him watching football. His favorite sport to play is trap shooting. A fun fact about Grant is that he's gone black bear hunting in Canada and Maine! 🌪️🏈🐻

OFFICER HIGHLIGHTS⛈️

Meet our amazing president, Carly Campbell! Originally from Williamsburg, Iowa, her favorite class is MTEOR 3600, and she’s interested in pursuing a career with the NWS. Outside of meteorology, she's involved in Club Softball and Central Iowa NWA. Carly's favorite weather phenomenon is any type of winter weather, and her favorite part of AMS is getting to attend all the events and meet new people! When she's not studying or hanging out with AMS, you can probably find her reading and giving out book recommendations. ⛈️🥎📚

Here is our schedule for 08/31/2026-09/05/2026. Have a great week everyone!

Huge thanks to everyone that came for our first meeting of the year. We are so happy to have set another new record for attendance with 112 students! Can’t wait to see everyone next month!

From internships to vacations and everything in between, our AMS students sure know how to soak up the summer☀️

Here are our Photo of the Month contest winners for Spring 2026!

March Weather Photo: Wedge tornado near Kankakee, IL - Will Roth
April Weather Photo: Cone tornado near Rockton, IL - Caleb O’Gara

March Club Photo: Chilling at the Central Iowa NWA Conference - Grant Rednour
April Club Photo: Selfie in front of a tornado near Webb, IA - Andrew Griffiths

March Weather Video: Power-flashes from a tornado near Kankakee, IL - Sophie Miller
April Weather Video: Timelapse of an approaching shelf cloud outside of Ames - Will Roth

For our final cabinet member spotlight is our Cy’s Eyes Representative, Evan McWhirt! Cy’s Eyes on the Skies is a student led broadcast meteorology club here at Iowa State. Evan is a junior in meteorology from Schertz, TX. His favorite band is the Bear Naked Ladies and his favorite sport is curling. His favorite movie is Pokémon Ranger & The Temple of the Sea.
Evan’s favorite class so far at Iowa State has been MTEOR 2270. He has an interest in numerical data models. Evan’s favorite weather phenomena are clouds. Evan’s favorite part of AMS is community outreach. Outside of AMS and Cy’s Eyes, Evan is involved with intramural curling and volleyball and is a Pokémon TCG Judge.
One last fun fact about Evan is that he is a private pilot and flies small planes for fun in his spare time!

Our Forecast Chair for the 2025-26 academic year has been Sophie Miller! The role of the forecast chair is to organize events that encourage chapter members to improve their forecasting abilities and manage involvement in contests such as WxChallenge. Sophie is a senior in meteorology at Iowa State University. She is from Cincinnati, OH. Her favorite musical artist is Mother Mother, favorite movie is Wall-E, and favorite sport is tennis.
Sophie is interested in mesoscale dynamics with a focus on supercells and mesoscale convective systems. Her favorite classes in her time here at Iowa State have been Radar Meteorology and Dynamic Meteorology II. Her favorite part of AMS is being able to attend social events and the annual AMS conference.
One last fun fact about our forecast chair is that she once led a storm chasing caravan that found a six inch hailstone that they stored in a cooler and later cut open for research purposes!

This evening marks our final monthly meeting of the semester! Because we met our Fund ISU goal we will be having ice cream at our meeting tonight! After the meeting we will wrap up elections for our 2026-27 cabinet. We hope to see you all in Agronomy 2050 at 7 PM!