Author: Michelle Prichard

  • DOE Issues Funding Opportunity Announcement for Historically Underrepresented Institutions

    New FAIR initiative will support research at Minority Serving Institutions and emerging research institutions The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $35 million to build research capacity, infrastructure, and expertise at institutions historically underrepresented in science, including Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) and emerging research institutions (ERIs). This funding spans all of the DOE Office…

  • 2022 AGU Presentations Featuring ARM Data

    Editor’s note (December 20, 2022): Registered in-person and virtual attendees of the 2022 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting can log in to the meeting platform to view recorded presentations through February 2023. The 2022 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting will be held from December 12 to 16 in Chicago, Illinois, as well as…

  • DOE Issues Funding Opportunity Announcement for Climate Resilience Centers

    FOA will provide $5 million to Historically Black Colleges and Universities, non-R1 Minority Serving Institutions, and emerging research institutions Editor’s note (October 17, 2023): Awards have been announced. Read more about the awardees here. A new funding opportunity announcement (FOA) has been issued by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science. With total estimated…

  • DOE Expands Visiting Faculty Program to Include Historically Underrepresented Groups

    As part of RENEW initiative, faculty from HBCUs, minority-serving institutions, and others to collaborate with national laboratory researchers As part of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science’s Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce (RENEW) initiative, the Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS) is expanding the Visiting Faculty Program (VFP).…

  • DOE Accepting Applications for Summer 2023 Undergraduate Internships

    Students will conduct research and technical projects at national laboratories Applications are being accepted for the summer 2023 term of two undergraduate internship programs offered by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science: the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program and the Community College Internships (CCI) program. The application deadline for both programs…

  • Growing the ARM Community Through Python Training

    Editor’s note: Max Grover, a software developer at Argonne National Laboratory, led a Python workshop as part of the 2022 Midwest Student Conference on Atmospheric Research (MSCAR). Grover provided the following blog post about the workshop. MSCAR 2022 was held October 1 and 2 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. This is a conference planned…

  • Upcoming Field Campaign Processes Webinar

    Register now to learn more about proposing an ARM mobile deployment Editor’s note (November 16, 2022): The recording of the field campaign processes webinar is available for viewing now. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility is accepting preliminary proposals for field campaigns that require the deployment of an ARM Mobile Facility. ARM’s three mobile…

  • Applications Now Being Accepted for Japan-U.S. Science Communication & Policy Fellowship Network Program

    The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Foundation is looking for early-career scientists for their new program, the Japan-U.S. Science Communication & Policy Fellowship Network. Supported by the Japan Foundation, the 1-year fellowship will bring together early-career scientists from Japan and the U.S. to engage in bilateral training and exchange for effective communication towards…

  • Aerosol Measurement Science Group Names New Co-Chairs

    Gannet Hallar and Timothy Onasch were recently named the new co-chairs of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Aerosol Measurement Science Group (AMSG). Chartered in 2015 and made up of experts from ARM and the aerosol science community, the AMSG provides guidance on measurements and processes to enhance the science impacts of ARM aerosol…

  • Agenda Updated: Attend ARM/ASR Open Science Virtual Workshop

    There is a growing effort in the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility, Atmospheric System Research (ASR), and other communities to make scientific research, data, and software more open and accessible to the larger atmospheric science community. The ARM/ASR Open Science Virtual Workshop 2022 will serve as a mechanism to bring this larger community together…