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A June Rain Date: The 2019 Joint Meeting
The annual ARM/ASR joint meeting matched its forecast—a deluge of talks During the 2019 Joint ARM User Facility/ASR Principal Investigators Meeting in Rockville, Maryland, Atmospheric System Research (ASR) Program Manager Shaima Nasiri updated a plenary crowd on program happenings. When more than 300 atmospheric scientists arrived at a conference in Rockville, Maryland, it was raining.…
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Inaugural ARM Service Awards Recognize Staff Achievements
In May 2019, leadership within the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility accepted nominations from ARM staff to recognize colleagues for their exceptional service and key contributions. A month later, the first ARM Service Awards were given out during the 2019 Joint ARM User Facility/Atmospheric System Research (ASR) Principal Investigators Meeting in Rockville, Maryland. Based…
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Changing of the Guard for ARM Aerosol Value-Added Products
Connor Flynn moves out of data translator role, and John Shilling comes in Connor Flynn For 20 years, Connor Flynn of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington, has served as the Aerosol Working Group translator for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility. He has been a liaison between ARM infrastructure staff and…
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ARM’s New Laboratory in the Sky
ARM Aerial Facility Purchases Bombardier Challenger 850 Regional Jet The ARM Aerial Facility’s new Bombardier Challenger 850 will expand scientific data collection capabilities. Higher, faster, farther, and stronger. These four words summarize the future of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Aerial Facility’s (AAF) airborne measurement capability. The AAF recently closed on the purchase of a…
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Save the Date for the 2019 ARM/ASR Joint Meeting!
Join your ARM and ASR colleagues at the 2019 ARM/ASR joint meeting, which is scheduled from June 10 to 13 in Rockville, Maryland. The next Joint Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility/Atmospheric System Research (ASR) Principal Investigators Meeting will take place June 10 to 13, 2019, at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center…
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The Spatial Structure of Cumulus Clouds
A study leverages a new class of convection schemes, ARM data, and supercomputing to look at marine and continental clouds Shallow cumulus clouds gather over ARM’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory. Scientists grapple with understanding and quantifying cumulus cloud distributions. Research into the spatial structure of clouds—their shapes and distribution—goes back decades, and with good…
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U.S. Department of Energy Funding Opportunity Opens Doors for Graduate Students
Applications Now Being Accepted for 2019 Solicitation 1 Since its inception in 2014, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program has been a source of world-class opportunities for up-and-coming researchers. It has funded over 410 graduate awardees from more than 120 U.S. universities to conduct thesis research at…
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New GoAmazon Research Reveals Urban Pollution’s Impact on Natural Particles
This video shows how a pollution plume from the city of Manaus, Brazil, significantly increased the formation of particles that naturally occur within the pristine Amazon rainforest. Video is courtesy of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. During the Amazon rainforest’s wet season (December to May), pristine atmospheric conditions, like those before the industrial age, are found…
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Goodbye, Larry Jones—ARM Tropical Western Pacific Manager and Friend to All
Larry Jones, who passed away in March 2019, worked 15 years in management for the ARM Tropical Western Pacific site office. An engineer and a former Peace Corps volunteer, Larry Jones merged his penchants for science and service while working in management for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Tropical Western Pacific (TWP) site…
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Request for Preproposals for Use of the U.S. Department of Energy’s ARM User Facility
Update February 19, 2019: ARM will consider proposals to fly guest instruments on tethered balloon systems at Oliktok Point, Alaska, or the Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory. Flights will take place in late summer (August) at Oliktok, or summer or fall at the SGP. Submit by March 15 to be considered. Update February 9, 2019:…