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Apply for Fall 2021 DOE Undergraduate Internships
Applications are being accepted for the fall 2021 (August through December) term for 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 is May 27, 2021, at 5 p.m.…
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DOE Announces Funding for Data Science and Computation Tools to Advance Climate Solutions
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (DOE ASCR) announced a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) of $13.5 million over three years to support research using data science and computation-based methods, including artificial intelligence and machine learning. Awards under this FOA will develop new software workflows and tools to accelerate the scientific discovery…
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ARM Going Back to California for Mobile Facility Campaign
Yearlong EPCAPE field campaign will study properties of stratocumulus clouds near San Diego The Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier is a proposed ARM instrumentation site for the 2023–2024 Eastern Pacific Cloud Aerosol Precipitation Experiment (EPCAPE) near San Diego, California. The field campaign will study low marine stratocumulus clouds at the coastal edge of the eastern…
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Explosive Origins of ‘Secondary’ Ice—and Snow
Definitive, real-world evidence for “freezing fragmentation” of drizzle as a major source of ice in slightly supercooled clouds has important implications for forecasting weather and climate Data from ARM’s North Slope of Alaska atmospheric observatory indicate that shattering drizzle droplets play a major role in the formation of “secondary” ice in mixed-phase clouds. The results…
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During Pandemic, Science Still Going and ARM Data Still Flowing
Patience rewards one delayed Alaskan field campaign studying ice fog Editor’s note: This is the first article in a series looking at how ARM has continued to support atmospheric science during the pandemic. During a tethered balloon flight for the Ice Fog Field Experiment at Oliktok Point (IFFExO) in November 2020, a laser shines from…
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Triennial Review Highlights ARM’s Aptitude for Enabling Impactful Science
Findings indicate that ARM ‘well positioned’ to keep serving as world-class DOE user facility For ARM’s Triennial Review, an external panel of experts evaluated ARM using a set of 26 questions posed by the U.S. Department of Energy. ARM’s review team prepared a report intended to help the reviewers determine how to answer those questions;…
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ARM Instrument Mentor Updates: Here’s to New Adventures
Two longtime colleagues plot their retirement journeys, a new mentor joins the fold, and another’s lead mentorship becomes official Stephen Springston, right, a Brookhaven National Laboratory chemist and soon-to-be-retiree, poses with longtime lab colleague Tom Watson, a chemist who retired earlier this year. Both have been instrument mentors for ARM. In the fall of 2020,…
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A Focus on Successful and Safe Flight Operations
Tim McLain joins ARM Aerial Facility to oversee flight operations Tim McLain, pictured outside ARM’s new Pasco, Washington, hangar, oversees flight operations for the ARM Aerial Facility. Photo is by Andrea Starr, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Gearing up for resumed operations of the ArcticShark unmanned aerial system and the expected 2022 arrival of its new…
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Chris Cappa: Poised for TRACER
A researcher will bring new ways of measuring aerosol water uptake to a coming ARM campaign Pre-pandemic, Chris Cappa poses near the Cappa Group laboratory. Photo is courtesy of the University of California, Davis. When the sun radiates waves of electromagnetic energy to Earth, about one-fifth is absorbed by clouds and the atmosphere. That fraction…
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MOSAiC: A Sustained Echo of Data
With an epic Arctic Ocean expedition at an end, researchers wrangle with rich ARM measurements During the 2019–2020 Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition, the research icebreaker R/V Polarstern is ablaze with lights during polar night, which lasted four months. Photo by Matthew Shupe, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental…