-
New User Executive Committee Gets Down to Business
During the election last fall, ARM’s User Executive Committee (UEC) got an infusion of new blood—and it shows. Ever since, the UEC has been focusing on four goals under the leadership of Larry Berg, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), the new chair (former vice-chair, replaced in that capacity by Sebastien Biraud, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory).…
-
From the User Executive Committee Chair
The User Executive Committee (UEC) is eager to hear from you. This is the first in what will be a quarterly message from the UEC Chair. Just a moment ago, I was trying to find some data from the Two-Column Aerosol Project (TCAP). This was an ARM Mobile Facility and ARM Aerial Facility campaign I…
-
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Puts Out Call for Nominations
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is seeking nominations for the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (BASC). BASC is the focal point within the National Academies for activities related to the atmospheric, meteorological, and climate sciences, including issues related to technology, policy, applications, and services. The Board serves as a source for…
-
The Team of the Arctic Eyes in the Sky
Editor’s note: Joseph Hardin and John Hubbe, ARM infrastructure staff from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, sent in this update. The ARM Facility launched the second year of its Inaugural Campaigns for ARM Research using Unmanned Systems, or ICARUS, an internal initiative at the third ARM Mobile Facility at Oliktok Point, Alaska. These series of short…
-
Within a Pristine Tropical Forest, an Urban Pollution Plume
Atmospheric researchers sharpen comparative measurements with low-flying aircraft The Amazon rainforest is two-thirds the size of the continental United States and an immense repository of carbon comprised of several hundred billion trees. Its green expanse is bisected by the Amazon River, a “river sea” so wide in places that its wet-season width reaches 100 kilometers.…
-
Leadership Changes Coming to the ARM Facility This Fall
After 23 years of working in ARM—most currently as the Chief Operating Officer (COO)—Jimmy Voyles will retire September 30 from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The Office of the Chief Operating Officer is responsible for ensuring efficient, effective, and continuous operation of instruments and data systems and generally provides oversight to operational activities to ensure that…
-
In the Air and on the Ground, an Azores Search for Better Data
Updated February 19, 2018: The Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA) field campaign is coming to a close the week of February 19, 2018. Here is the initial feature article on ACE-ENA from May 2017. In a coming campaign, weeks of interlocking observations on marine clouds and aerosols Low clouds populate…
-
Standard-Setting ARM Data Started in a Pasture 25 Years Ago
This is the first article in a series about the first 25 years of data at the ARM Climate Research Facility. One day in May 1992, four men—two engineers, a scientist, and a local farmer—unloaded a Portable Automated Mesonet II (PAM II) from a truck on a cow pasture between Billings and Lamont, Oklahoma. They…
-
From STORMVEX, Novel and Deep Correlative Data Sets on Cloud Properties
Linking radiosondes, planes, and mountainside instruments to study winter clouds It is rarely a good idea to tell a scientist she has her head in the clouds. But Anna Gannet Hallar, an atmospheric scientist who specializes in aerosol and cloud microphysics, thinks that is a lovely idea. She directs the Storm Peak Laboratory (SPL), a…
-
At Brookhaven, ‘Wide-Eyed’ Visitor Takes in American Science and Culture
In her native Estonia, budding atmospheric scientist Maris Palo is a doctoral student at the University of Tartu. When she is not cracking books or watching over instruments in the field, she works at the university’s Laboratory of Environmental Physics. Her academic specialty is atmospheric aerosols, how local conditions affect them, and in particular the…