Category: Facility News

  • New Home Ready for ARM Aerial Facility’s New Aircraft

    Aerial facility moves into 18,000-square-foot hangar in Pasco, Washington The ArcticShark unmanned aerial system rests in front of the new ARM Aerial Facility (AAF) hangar at the Tri-Cities Airport Business Center in Pasco, Washington. Photos are by Andrea Starr, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Next year, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Aerial Facility (AAF) will welcome…

  • 2020 Highly Cited Researchers List Recognizes ARM Users

    In a nod to their global research influence, seven recent users of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility appear on a new list of highly cited researchers. Clarivate Plc released its latest annual list of highly cited researchers in November 2020. The list recognizes almost 6,200 international researchers, identified based on the number of…

  • 2021 AMS Presentations Featuring ARM Data

    Editor’s note: Attendees of the virtual 2021 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting can log in to the meeting platform to view posters, presentations, and recordings until April 15. With the 2021 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting going virtual, we want to make it easy for you to find ARM-relevant science during the meeting. Below…

  • ARM/EMSL User Facility Proposal Call Now Open

    Call to collect aerosols on tethered balloon flights and analyze samples The first flights of the automated Size and Time-resolved Aerosol Collector (STAC) on the ARM tethered balloon system took place at Oliktok Point, Alaska, in November 2020. Photo is by Brent Peterson, Sandia National Laboratories. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility and Environmental…

  • Spread the Word About Your AMS Presentations!

    There is still time to tell the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility and Atmospheric System Research (ASR) about your presentations at the upcoming American Meteorological Society (AMS) annual meeting. One of the best ways to draw attendees to your AMS sessions is to be highlighted on the ARM and ASR websites. If you or one…

  • 2020 AGU Presentations Featuring ARM Data

    Editor’s note (December 23, 2020): Registrants for the 2020 AGU Fall Meeting can view presentations and recordings on the AGU virtual meeting platform through February 15, 2021. By going virtual, the 2020 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting promises to be different than past meetings. With sessions spread out from December 1 to 17 to…

  • DOE Research and Training Programs Open to College Students and Faculty

    The Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists, within the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science, is currently accepting applications for its undergraduate student, community college student, and visiting faculty research/training programs. For all three programs, applications for the 10-week summer 2021 term (May through August) are due Tuesday, January 12, 2021,…

  • DOE Announces EPSCoR Funding Opportunity Announcement

    The U.S. Department of Energy Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DOE EPSCoR) encourages new and renewal applications for Implementation Grants. EPSCoR grants support early-stage research across a wide range of DOE science and technology program areas. Goals include improving sustainable and competitive energy-related research; establishing foundational research capabilities; building relationships between scientists, engineers, and…

  • DOE Announces Call for White Papers to Advance an Integrative Artificial Intelligence Framework for Earth System Predictability

    This schematic details the MODEX approach to scientific discovery (outer ring) and various DOE data, models, and analysis capabilities that should be linked as community resources based on open-science principles (inner sphere). The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Earth and Environmental Systems Sciences Division (EESSD), within the Office of Science’s Biological and Environmental Research (BER)…

  • ARM Special Announcement: COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) Facility Updates

    ARM has been monitoring the recent rise of COVID-19 cases in the United States. We hope you and your families are staying healthy. ARM is currently planning for the TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER), scheduled to start next year in the Houston, Texas, area. However, with COVID cases increasing, we are concerned about keeping…