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President's Corner

Greetings! On behalf of AAWE I want to wish all of you a happy and productive 2013. I would particularly like to welcome new members, as well as thank continuing members, both individual and corporate, for their support.

This is my first newsletter as President of AAWE. I’m looking forward to working with you over the next two years to help wind engineering, and our organization, to continue to grow in the Americas region. As I prepared to write this, I heard about a tornado in Bangladesh that took the lives of more than 30 people, injured hundreds more, and was reminded how truly global wind issues are. In this issue we are focussing on wind engineering topics in the Caribbean, from several of our members in that region. I trust you will find this interesting and relevant.

I would like to thank the Board members who have recently completed their terms, Drs. Hector Cruzado, David Prevatt and John Schroeder, as well as our continuing directors, Mr. Steve Camposano, Drs. Anne Cope and Dorothy Reed, for all of their contributions and efforts. I also must thank Dr. Steve Cai who has quietly gone about his work as treasurer for many years. The details he handles truly allows our organization to run smoothly. Finally, I would also like to offer my profound thanks to Dr. Partha Sarkar for all of his efforts as President over the past two years, and also for all of the input he has given to the Board and to me during the transition period over the past few months. So, again, thanks!

Of course, to be successful, we need participation from you, our membership. There are several ways you can participate and contribute:

• First, we will be having an election shortly to fill the 3 empty positions on our Board of Directors and for President-Elect. Please send me your nominations by May 6 for these open positions.
• Second, AAWE is also the sponsor of the 12^th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering, held during June 16-20 in Seattle, and organized by Drs. Dorothy Reed and Anurag Jain. Registration is now open; you can find information at the conference website, http://depts.washington.edu/uwconf/12acwe/. It looks to be an exciting event, with many interesting papers and presentations, at a wonderful location.
• Third, we are always looking for articles for this newsletter. Please do not hesitate to send articles on your research findings or interesting projects, or even ideas for special issues, to either Dr. Hector Cruzado (hcruzado@pupr.edu) or to me.

We are interested in ways we can make AAWE more relevant to you and to enhance the implementation of our mission “to promote and disseminate technical information in the research community”. If you have any questions or comments about AAWE, please do not hesitate to contact me.

With warm regards,

Greg Kopp (gakopp@uwo.ca)

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