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ARM Site Technician Embraces His Role in Supporting Research
Editor’s note: Anjeli Doty of the Los Alamos National Laboratory ARM team sent in this update. Like many native residents of Graciosa Island in the remote Azores archipelago west of Portugal, Bruno Cunha spends the evenings tending a small bovine herd that grazes on the grassy rolling hills. However, unlike many island residents, animal husbandry…
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Saudades for the Azores
Francesca Gallo, an atmospheric scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, sent in this post. I first arrived in the Azores on a foggy, wintery January day. I remember only clouds and cows everywhere. “It’s just for six months, not a day more than that,” I thought. Almost seven years later, when I left the Azores…
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Two AERI Installs on Two Islands in Two Months
Editor’s note: Jonathan Gero, a research scientist at University of Wisconsin-Madison, sent this update on installing two AERI systems. I just completed the second of two Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI) installations in what is shaping up to be ARM’s year of the islands. The first was at an ARM Mobile Facility site on Ascension…
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Aerosol Observing System Gussied Up to Go Out
Editor’s note: Stephen Springston, a scientist from Brookhaven National Laboratory, shared this update in August 2013 about a new Aerosol Observing System (AOS). Originally deployed in Australia, the next-generation aerosol observing system (AOS) system returned to Brookhaven National Laboratory this summer for an invigorating makeover. With instrument, computer, and infrastructure systems rearranged and updated, and a fresh…