On the history of the AMS AOFD conference

In an earlier post celebrating the 100th anniversary of the ASME Fluids Engineering Division, I expressed some confusion about the history of the American Meteorological Society's Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics Conference.  I wondered if it had not always been called by that name.

Indeed, the first Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Waves and Stability was held in 1976 in Seattle, WA; with the second in 1978, held in Boston, MA.  The 10th was held in Big Sky, Montana in 1995. For the 11th conference in 1997 in Tacoma, WA, the name changed to the Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics, a name that has stuck ever since.  I'm not sure at what point the meeting became annual rather than every 2 years.

Anyway, the conference is 50 years old this year, another celebration worthy of note!