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Nicole Riemer: Modeling Aerosol Dynamics With ARM Data
A university modeler of aerosol behavior leans on ARM measurements Nicole Riemer, an aerosol modeler at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, studies the complexities of how atmospheric particles form, grow, move, and change. Nicole Riemer, a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, studies and models how aerosols behave in the atmosphere, a…
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Time to Say Goodbye
The MOSAiC floe’s days are numbered, but Polarstern will continue the expedition farther north MOSAiC team members pack up instruments within the Met City research station, which is situated directly next to a melt pond. Photo is by Lianna Nixon, University of Colorado, Boulder. After exactly 300 days of drifting with the floe, the Multidisciplinary…
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2020 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
Sessions for the 2020 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting are being announced. If you will be leading a session relevant to the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility or Atmospheric System Research (ASR), please let us know. We are collecting this information to be shared on the ARM and ASR websites as it is provided. The following sessions…
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2020 ARM/ASR Joint Meeting a Virtual Success
DOE ARM Program Managers Sally McFarlane and Rickey Petty and DOE ASR Program Managers Shaima Nasiri and Jeff Stehr are on screen during the 2020 ARM/ASR joint meeting. The annual meeting of Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility staff and data users and Atmospheric System Research (ASR) scientists usually draws a sizable crowd to the…
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ARM Names Two New Aerosol Mentors
A senior research duo at Colorado State University will collect and analyze ice-nucleating particles Colorado State University atmospheric chemist Jessie Creamean calibrates a portable aerosol sampler while aboard the Russian support icebreaker Akademik Fedorov during the 2019–2020 Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. In 2020, she joined Colorado State University…
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Jessie Creamean: Sampling Central Arctic Aerosols
An atmospheric chemist investigates the role of biological particles in aerosol-cloud interactions during the MOSAiC expedition Jessie Creamean snaps a selfie in early October 2019 in front of the Russian support icebreaker Akademik Fedorov. She was helping to set up a distributed network of instruments in the early days of the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for…
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AAF’s Challenger 850 Aircraft Moves to Modification Stage
One short year after the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Aerial Facility (AAF) finalized the purchase of its new Bombardier Challenger 850 regional jet, the aircraft lifted off a Texas tarmac and landed in Ontario, Canada. There, it will spend the next 18 months transforming from a business jet into ARM’s new laboratory in the sky.…
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Submit Your ENA Papers Now for Joint Special Journal Issue
Papers using data from ARM’s Eastern North Atlantic atmospheric observatory are being accepted for a joint special issue on marine aerosols, trace gases, and clouds over the North Atlantic. Scientists have a new outlet for publishing papers that use data from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Eastern North Atlantic (ENA) atmospheric observatory. The…
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New ARM Communications Lead and Public Information Officer Named
Rolanda Jundt moves into the top communications role Rolanda Jundt, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, was named ARM communications lead and public information officer beginning June 1, 2020. In June 2020, Rolanda Jundt took a new role in the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility as its communications lead and public information officer (PIO). Jundt leads…
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ARM Announces 2020 Service Award Recipients
Maggie Davis Tami Fairless Brad Perkins Jason Tomlinson In 2019, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility handed out its first set of awards to recognize individuals and teams for their exceptional service and key contributions to ARM. The ARM Service Awards returned in 2020, though the award presentation had a different look. ARM Technical…