-
ARM Staff Engage in Community Science Events in Alaska and Tasmania
Helena Buurman (blue shirt) from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, Alaska Satellite Facility at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, teaches children in Utqiaġvik, Alaska, how to assemble small uncrewed aircraft at the Barrow Arctic Research Center (BARC) Science and Culture Fair in August 2024. This photo is courtesy of Valerie Sparks, an…
-
Launch Event Celebrates Start of CAPE-k in Tasmania
A brilliant blue sky over Hobart, Tasmania, serves as a vibrant backdrop for a tour of the CSIRO-operated research vessel Investigator, which will collect data off the coast of the CAPE-k site in May 2025. Photo is by Sally Taylor, CSIRO. In April 2024, U.S. and Australian researchers, science officials, and dignitaries gathered in Tasmania…
-
CAPE-k Technicians Will Help Keep ARM Data Flowing From Tasmania
Tom Day (left) and Frank Zurek are the technicians for the Cloud And Precipitation Experiment at kennaook (CAPE-k). Portraits are by Nathan Bilow. Site technicians watch over instruments deployed by the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility and make sure they run smoothly in the field. For the next 17 months, technicians Tom Day and…
-
Clock Ticks Down to CAPE-k’s Launch
Editor’s note: Heath Powers, site manager for the second ARM Mobile Facility (AMF2), sent in the following update about ARM’s site installation in Tasmania for the Cloud And Precipitation Experiment at kennaook (CAPE-k). Powers is based at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. These instruments are set up to collect data for CAPE-k. Photo is…
-
First Calibration Activities at the Center for Aerosol Measurement Science at Brookhaven Lab
Editor’s note: Olga Mayol-Bracero, lead mentor of ARM’s Aerosol Observing System (AOS), provided the following post. In addition to being trained on a set of aerosol instruments that will be deployed in Tasmania, ARM site operators received a lesson from instrument mentor Ashish Singh (left) on how to use the scanning mobility particle sizer calibration…
-
ARM Team Gears Up for New Campaign in Tasmania
Editor’s note: Kirsten Fox, communications and external affairs at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), and ARM Mobile Facility manager Heath Powers, LANL, provided content for the following post. ARM contractor Julie Donohue and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) student Luz Salinas test an eddy correlation flux measurement system, which captures atmospheric pressure, temperature, and carbon…