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ARM Adds Instrument Mentors
New data analyst also joins ARM The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility continues to welcome new staff to its team of more than 80 instrument mentors. This multi-institutional group of scientists and engineers helps oversee the operations of 430-plus instrument systems to ensure that ARM users are receiving the highest-quality data sets possible. Sarah…
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Applications Now Being Accepted for Spring 2025 DOE Student Internship Programs
Students and recent graduates will conduct research and technical projects at national laboratories Applications are currently being accepted for the spring 2025 term of two 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 is…
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DOE Workshop Explores Observing Marine Aerosols and Clouds From Commercial Ships
Experts outline logistical challenges, instrumentation priorities, multi-agency coordination, and science questions The cover of the Observing Marine Aerosols and Clouds from Ships Workshop Report includes an ARM file photo from the 2012–2013 Marine ARM GPCI Investigation of Clouds (MAGIC). During a recent U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) workshop held virtually from March 18 to 20,…
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ARM Honors Staff for Outstanding Service
3 individuals and 3 teams receive 2024 ARM Service Awards The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility recently revealed the winners of its sixth annual service awards. Three individuals and three teams received awards for providing exceptional service to ARM and its users. The ARM Service Awards are typically announced at the Joint ARM User…
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Sessions Announced for 2025 AMS Annual Meeting
Submit your abstracts by August 15, 2024 Sessions for the 2025 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting are being announced. If you are 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.…
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Save the Date for the 2025 ARM/ASR Joint Meeting!
The next Joint Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility/Atmospheric System Research (ASR) Principal Investigators Meeting will be March 3–6, 2025, in the Washington, D.C., area. This meeting will bring together ARM users, ARM infrastructure members, and ASR scientists to review progress and plan future directions for the ARM user facility and ASR research. Please check back…
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A Glowing Review: ARM User Honored by Royal Society of Chemistry
Early career researcher Zezhen “Jay” Cheng named outstanding peer reviewer for society journal Editor’s note: The original version of this article was published on the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory website. ARM user Zezhen “Jay” Cheng was named a 2023 Environmental Science: Atmospheres Outstanding Peer Reviewer. Photo is by Andrea Starr, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Zezhen…
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Two Graduate Students to Work With ARM Users Through DOE’s SCGSR Program
New projects focus on aerosol research To prepare more graduate students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program provides awards to outstanding U.S. graduate students, allowing them to conduct part of their thesis research at DOE laboratories. “The Graduate Student Research program…
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Scratching the Surface of Aerosols with Uncrewed Aerial Systems
New method helps realize the potential of uncrewed aerial systems This story was originally published on the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory website. Uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) can help atmospheric scientists efficiently collect a wide range of samples and data. ARM file photo. Developing a picture of the atmosphere requires measurements from the ground and in…
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Marine Stratocumulus Clouds Seem to Consist of Neighborhoods of Relatively Uniform Properties
Researchers show common reflective clouds are not spatially homogenous In February 2018, ARM’s Gulfstream-159 (G-1) research aircraft gets ready to take off into the stratocumulus clouds above during the Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA) field campaign. A Science paper reports new details on cloud droplets observed by an instrument on…