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On the Amazon: A Very Cold Detour
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 knew I had to return to the Amazon, I packed my Hawaiian shirt for a tropical locale. I was thinking about exotic diets, but turns out I was highly unprepared! As…
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MAGIC: An Interns Take
Editor’s note: Ernie Lewis, principal investigator for the Marine ARM GPCI Investigations of Clouds (MAGIC) field campaign, sent this update. Two weeks ago, I was at the Atmospheric System Research (ASR) Science Team Meeting and chaired a well-attended session on MAGIC. I gave a summary of MAGIC status and news and presented a few results…
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On the Amazon: G-1 Take One
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. G-1 flight #1 has successfully been completed! Here’s the big white bird waiting for ARM Aerial Facility (AAF) crew and SOBs, or Scientists on Board, (to the right): Left to right: John…
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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…