Data from uncrewed aerial system flights now available for use The ARM Aerial Facility’s uncrewed aerial system (UAS) team poses with the ArcticShark in July 2022 after two weeks of intensive and hot flights over the Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory. Photo is courtesy of Jason Tomlinson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. As summer temperatures soared…

Team supporting ARM’s TRACER campaign develops technique to map urban heat islands at unprecedented scales The following is based on a story by Stephanie Kossman, Brookhaven National Laboratory. Brookhaven National Laboratory scientist Katia Lamer prepares to release a mini radiosonde balloon in Houston, Texas, as part of a new observational technique to map the city’s…

A Brookhaven National Laboratory atmospheric scientist, with stops in Texas and Alabama, continues his research into aerosol formation and growth In this video, Brookhaven National Laboratory atmospheric scientist Chongai Kuang describes his path to chemistry in a global-scale laboratory. Kuang is a co-investigator for ARM’s TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER), which ends in September…

Projects aim to position underrepresented academic institutions to make major scientific contributions in support of DOE’s science mission The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $4.7 million in funding for 35 new grants to colleges and universities that are underrepresented in DOE’s foundational climate, Earth, and environmental science research investments. These Research and Development Partnership…

Breakout sessions for the 2022 Joint Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility/Atmospheric System Research (ASR) Principal Investigators Meeting are now posted on the meeting website. There are 19 breakout sessions in addition to four ASR working group sessions, all of which have been added to the online agenda.  Breakout sessions give participants an opportunity to discuss…

Two Sandians brave subzero temperatures, frozen tundra to deliver vehicle to ARM observatory The following is based on a story by Sarah Jewel Johnson, Sandia National Laboratories. Fred Helsel (left) and Valerie Sparks Sandia’s arctic and atmospheric research is vital to understanding the effects of climate change in the Arctic and around the world. Every…

Article on ARM’s solar spectral observation capabilities gets BAMS cover The June 2022 cover of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) features the solar spectrum overlaid on a photo of a multifilter rotating shadowband radiometer being calibrated at the NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory’s Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. Laura Riihimaki, the lead author…

Personal profile form features new changes related to demographics, ORCID record integration After logging in through ARM’s Account Management page, navigate to the personal profile form to add your basic demographic information and ORCID record. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility collects information from its account holders to help better serve the ARM community…

Students will conduct research and technical projects at national laboratories Applications are being accepted for the spring 2023 term of two undergraduate internship programs offered by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science: the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program and the Community College Internships (CCI) program. The application deadline for both programs…

Andy Glen (left) and Joe Hardesty The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s North Slope of Alaska (NSA) atmospheric observatory has a new manager, Andy Glen. He succeeds Joe Hardesty, his co-worker at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico. Hardesty was the NSA manager for almost three years before retiring from ARM and Sandia in…