Meet CALM
With the recent addition of the Community for All Legal Metrologists (CALM) to the NCWM meeting agendas, we’d like to take a moment to introduce ourselves. You know our faces from Metrology Laboratories across the country where we work hand in hand with State Weights and Measures programs to help companies and regulators meet legal requirements. A few things about State Metrologists you may not know… • There are currently 46 State Metrology Labs in the country. • There are less than 150 US Legal Metrologists keeping those labs running. • We meet in regions each year, but traditionally, we only meet as a national group every 5 years. • More than 5 labs are staffed with only ONE Metrologist with many more by only TWO. Imagine having no immediate colleagues to speak to on a day-to-day basis. Imagine depending only on yourself for brainstorming or collaboration. Not to mention, meeting only every 5 years leaves a significant gap in networking and knowledge sharing opportunities in even the largest labs. Hence, the idea came about for CALM. After the idea materialized and our mission really took shape, one of the main hurdles to achieving that mission was finding an established group that could offer us independent support and shared resources to help us expand our reach. NCWM has graciously provided CALM meeting space at both the Annual Meeting and now the Interim Meeting as well as hosting a ListServ for our members to utilize for questions and other communications. With their support, we’ve been able to increase communication between State Lab Metrologists and even offer skills sharpening collaborative sessions. Single Metrologist labs can now access all their nationwide colleagues with the click of a button. We host monthly ZOOM meetings on various topics presented by State Metrologists, for State Metrologists. On our website, at calm-metrology.com, we list past and present meeting topics ranging from roundtable discussions to our upcoming Basics of Electrical Metrology. As we move forward into the near future with Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) and Mass Flow Meters entering field operations, communication between our small group of colleagues will only become more critical.
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It’s an exciting time to witness the emerging technologies in the Weights and Measures industries. For the labs with new employees, we encourage Directors to put your metrologists in touch with CALM and we welcome your support. Any one of our valued members will be eager to mentor a new Metrologist or even provide insight into what a director might look for in a successful recruit. In closing, we thank you for welcoming our tightknit group of unique scientists. Thank you to NCWM staff, the NCWM Board of Directors, and State W&M Directors from around the country for your continued support. We are all very excited to see where this group can go and how we can effectively contribute to the mission of NCWM. Keep CALM and carry on.
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