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Off the Amazon: Building Bridges Through Science
Last week, I joined science collaborators from the United States and Brazil in Manaus, Amazonas, as the first intensive measurement phase began for the Green Ocean Amazon (GOAMAZON) field campaign. In their opening remarks on Tuesday, several representatives from sponsoring organizations and participating research institutions emphasized the importance of this research, the relationships and hard…
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Collaborating with MAGIC
Editor’s note: Ernie Lewis, principal investigator for the Marine ARM GPCI Investigations of Clouds (MAGIC) field campaign, sent this update. MAGIC has still been active and keeping me busy, despite my lapse in writing updates. We left off with a description of presentations to be made at the MAGIC session of the Atmospheric System Research…
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CARES Campaign Field Updates
Meet Rahul Zaveri – CARES Lead Scientist Rahul Zaveri is the lead scientist for the CARES—Carbonaceous Aerosols and Radiative Effects Study—campaign taking place June 2-28, 2010, in the central California region to the northeast of Sacramento. This field campaign is designed to increase scientific knowledge about evolution of black carbon and secondary organic aerosols from both…
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On the Amazon: A Day in the Life
Editor’s note: Stephen R. Springston, a scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory and an instrument mentor for ARM’s Aerosol Observing System, sent this update. Here’s me still wearing my field campaign vest in front of the trace gas rack on the G-1. More blinky lights than a Toyota at midnight! From Manaus, Amazonia, Brazil, to Pasco,…
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On the Amazon: Part 1 Complete
Editor’s note: This is a compilation of updates from Stephen R. Springston, a scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory and an instrument mentor for ARM’s Aerosol Observing System. The first part of the GOAMAZON campaign is now in the homestretch. Gunnar Senum, investigator from Brookhaven National Laboratory, and I have now departed the site. From the…
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On the Amazon: Setup
Editor’s note: Stephen R. Springston, a scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory and an instrument mentor for ARM’s Aerosol Observing System, sent this update. I’m part of a major field study of the atmosphere, GOAMAZON, along with dozens of scientists from Brazil, the U.S., and other various countries. We’ve brought along two of the mobile laboratories…
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AMF2 Arrives in Finland
Editor’s note: Mike Ritsche, technical operations manager for the ARM Mobile Facility 2, sent this update in mid-December. After nine months at sea aboard the Horizon Spirit, the AMF2 reached land for an extended stay at the Station for Measuring Forest Ecosystem-Atmosphere Relations (SMEAR II) in Hyytiala, Finland. This nine-month, land-based deployment is in support…
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Thanks for the Great Work – and BBOP Data!
Editor’s note: Drs. Larry Kleinman and Arthur Sedlacek are atmospheric chemists from the Brookhaven National Laboratory, spearheading BBOP. Today marks the conclusion of the field measurement phase of our Biomass Burning Observation Project (BBOP) campaign. In just under 4 months, we sampled 17 wildfires, more than 2 dozen agricultural burns and a handful of urban…
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Final Port of Call: MAGIC Measurement Phase Complete
Editor’s note: Ernie Lewis, principal investigator for the Marine ARM GPCI Investigations of Clouds (MAGIC) field campaign, sent this update. It’s hard to believe that the measurement phase of MAGIC is now complete. It seems like just the other day when it all started. It has been an incredible ride, and it has succeeded beyond…
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A Personal Note to Nauru
Message from the ARM Tropical Western Pacific Site Scientist, Chuck Long: Circa 1998, Chuck Long shares his mood after helping ARM colleagues install the observation site on Nauru Island.I first arrived on Nauru in late 1998 to help install the ARM site. Yes, I had a shovel in hand, digging the trenches to bury the…