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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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BAMS Publishes Summary of DOE-Sponsored Aerosol Summer School
Tom Watson, ARM’s lead instrument mentor for the aerosol chemical speciation monitor, teaches a lecture during the 2019 Aerosol Summer School at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Washington state. Photo is by Andrea Starr, PNNL. In July 2019, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), and Atmospheric…
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A Coming Report: Aerosols, Front and Center
An advisory group has recommendations for improving atmospheric aerosol sampling, measuring, and data archiving within ARM Allison McComiskey, an aerosol scientist from Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, discusses the importance of studying aerosols. For the past seven months, a small science advisory group has compiled recommendations on how to improve the instruments, measurement strategies,…