News Archive
April - June 2004
6/7/04 - Extended Abstract Deadline Quickly Approaching!
The deadline for submitting extended abstracts for the 14th ARM Science Team Meeting is approaching quickly! Submissions will be accepted until June 15, 2004, unless an extension has been requested. To request an extension, contact Denice Carrothers. For additional information, see Instructions for Submitting Extended Abstracts. Submitted conference proceedings for this year's meeting can now be viewed at Proceedings of the Fourteenth Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Science Team Meeting.
5/9/04 - Familiar Faces in "New" Places
Kim Nitschke, TWP Operations Manager
In May, new site operations managers were identified for the Tropical Western Pacific (TWP) and Southern Great Plains (SGP) locales. Kim Nitschke was regional coordinator for TWP's South Pacific Regional Environmental Program before taking on the operations manager position at TWP in May. Dan Rusk, currently a project manager at SGP, will take over the operations manager position there when Jim Teske retires in October. Congratulations to Kim and Dan!
5/9/2004 - Rex Pearson presented with TWP Outstanding Service Award for 2004
Rex Pearson
Rex Pearson has been employed by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) since 2001 and was instrumental in establishing the Atmospheric Radiation Cloud Station (ARCS-3) Facility located in Darwin, Australia. Before joining the Australian BOM he worked with the Darwin Police Department as a communications equipment specialist. Rex is currently the lead technician for maintenance and repair for all three ARCS facilities in Papua New Guinea and Nauru as well as Darwin. Rex has become well know not only in Tropical Western Pacific (TWP), but throughout Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program for his broad expertise and capability to keep the TWP instruments producing data. With his positive attitude and dedicated approach to his work he has developed a close relationship with many of us in here in ARM.
Rex joins previous TWP Outstanding Service Award recipients:
- 2000 Francis Anuma - Papua New Guinea National Weather Service
- 2001 Nicholas Duburiya - Republic of Nauru Department of Industry Development
- 2002 Kevin Luana - Papua New Guinea National Weather Service
- 2003 Monty Apple - Los Alamos National Laboratory
5/4/04 - New ARM Home Page Design Coming May 12
On May 12, there will be a new look to the ARM website. Since the website was originally developed almost 10 years ago, information about the Program has become more complex. Also, the current website design is out of date given the decision to designate ARM infrastructure a national user facility. By redesigning the website, we have been able to restructure the site to cover both ARM Science and the ARM Climate Research Facility (ACRF). In addition, it has provided an opportunity to reduce redundancy, apply consistency, and improve content.
During this process, I understand that there may still be some confusion surrounding the difference between ARM and ACRF. Basically, the thing to remember is that ARM still represents the scientific research program that is focused on improving our understanding of cloud and radiation processes using the facility data. ACRF encompasses the infrastructure (sites, instruments, data, etc.) that enables the ARM science, and allows the global scientific community to use that infrastructure for other research as well.
The ARM website development team has been working hard over the past several months to provide you with a website that meets both ARM and ACRF needs. It is inevitable, with a website as large as ARM's, that additional minor changes will be made in the ensuing months, so please be patient as you familiarize yourself with the new design.
4/15/04 - ARM Program Infrastructure Becomes ACRF - A National User Facility
The scientific infrastructure developed through the ARM Program by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is a valuable national and international asset for advancing scientific knowledge of Earth systems. Since 1989, DOE has funded the development of several highly-instrumented ground stations for studying cloud formation processes and their influence on radiative transfer and for measuring other parameters that determine the radiative properties of the atmosphere. These ground stations known as ARM sites, the ARM Mobile Facility currently being developed, and the ARM Data Archive are now being made available for use by scientists worldwide through the ARM Climate Research Facility (ACRF).
The ACRF has enormous potential to contribute to a wide range of interdisciplinary science in areas such as meteorology, atmospheric aerosols, hydrology, biogeochemical cycling, and satellite validation, and to provide potential monitoring sites where remote sensing and modeling related to homeland security can be validated. The ACRF is overseen by the ACRF Science Board, a group of highly respected scientists who will provide direction for the facility and review requests for ACRF Intensive Operational Periods. For more information about the ACRF Science Board, see their charter.
4/12/04 - ARM Mobile Facility Requesting Preproposals by April 30 for Calendar Year 2005 Deployment
Preproposals for the first deployment of the ARM Mobile Facility are being accepted online April 12 to April 30 by using the Preproposal Submission Form. With instrumentation and data systems similar to the ARM sites at the North Slope of Alaska and the Tropical Western Pacific, the ARM Mobile Facility is able to be deployed to sites around the world in various climatic regimes for durations of 6 to 18 months. The first deployment will begin in calendar year 2005 and will be limited to the continental United States, since there is insufficient time to plan for an international deployment. For more information, see the ARM Mobile Facility web page. If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Mark Miller.
Preproposals for FY 2006 campaigns using the ARM Climate Research Facility (i.e., Southern Great Plains, Tropical Western Pacific, North Slope of Alaska, the ARM Mobile Facility, and the ARM Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle) are also welcome at this time. The due date for these preproposals is June 30, 2004. For more information, see the IOP website and planning documents. If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Sylvia Edgerton.
4/7/04 - 2004 Science Team Meeting Has Concluded!
Dr. Ari Patrinos speaks to the opening session of the 2004 Science Team Meeting.
A record-breaking 316 scientists and researchers participated in a series of plenary and poster sessions and working group meetings last month. Traveling from all over the world, 71 scientists from 22 different countries were in attendance! One participant traveled 8,567 miles to attend the meeting. Countries represented include China, South Korea, Nigeria, Russia, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Switzerland, France, United Kingdom, and Canada.
"ARM brought the study of climate change into 'big time' science," Dr. Ari Patrinos, Associate Director of DOE's Office of Biological and Environmental Research, said. Dr. Patrinos kicked off the Plenary session on Tuesday morning with a presentation on DOE's perspective of the ARM Program. "ARM is doing science that is very relevant and important. Keep up the good work!" Dr. Patrinos said as he concluded his speech.
Wanda Ferrell, DOE ARM Program Manager, and Peter Lunn, DOE Atmospheric Science Program Manager also spoke.
2004 ARM Science Team photos are available! Meeting presentations from the Morning Session B: ARM-Like Remote Sensing Sites in Other Countries on March 24 are also available.
Events
6/12/04 - Two AMS Specialty Meetings to be Held in August in Portland, Maine
The American Meteorological Society's 16th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence and 13th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere will be held in Portland, Maine, August 9-13, 2004. The deadline for manuscript submissions is June 15. For more information and session agendas, see http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/FAINST/portland04.html.
4/12/04 - The National Center for Atmospheric Research Announces a Summer Colloquium on Atmospheric Remote Sensing Using the Global Positioning System
Hosted by the Advanced Study Program of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the COSMIC Project of the UCAR Office of Programs, the meeting will be held June 20 - July 2, 2004, in Boulder, Colorado. This two-week colloquium is intended to provide students with an overview from the basic Global Positioning System (GPS) atmospheric measurements to their applications in weather prediction, climate analysis, and ionospheric research. Leading scientists and experts in the fields of space-based and ground-based GPS atmospheric remote sensing and their scientific applications will be invited to give lectures.
Applications and recommendations must be received by the extended date of April 30, 2004. Selected participants will be notified by May 10th 2004. For more information and application requirements and procedures, see http://www.cosmic.ucar.edu/colloquium04.html.
4/5/04 - AGU Spring Meeting Set to Begin May 17
The 2004 AGU Spring Meeting is being held in Montreal, Canada. Sessions related to the uses or applications of the geophysical sciences are being organized. The session on Remote Observation of Earth and Planetary Environments: The Challenge of Spatial Complexity may be of interest to ARM participants. The deadline for Joint Assembly preregistration is 15 April 2004. For more information, see http://www.agu.org/meetings/sm04/.
4/5/04 - International Radiation Symposium to Be Held August 23-28
The International Radiation Symposium on Current Problems in Atmospheric Radiation will be held August 23-28, 2004, at the Busan Exhibition & Convention Center in Busan, Korea. The symposium is organized by the International Radiation Commission and hosted jointly by the Korean Meteorological Society and Atmospheric and Environmental Research Institute of Seoul National University. The symposium will provide ample opportunity for exchanging ideas and experiences on the current problems in atmospheric radiation and for discussing and reviewing the knowledge of spectroscopy, radiative transfer theory and modeling, remote sensing, and weather and climate applications. The official language of this symposium is English. For more information and details about sessions, see http://irs04.org/.
Employment Opportunities
2/3/04 - University of Alaska Fairbanks Offers Graduate Training Program
The University of Alaska Fairbanks offers a graduate training program in Regional Resilience and Adaptation (RR&A). The goal is to educate a new generation of scholars, policy makers, and managers to integrate the perspectives of natural and social sciences in addressing both the basic understanding of regional systems and the application of this understanding to management issues.
Students will focus on a major challenge facing humanity: the sustainability of desirable features of earth's ecosystems and society at a time of rapid change in all of the major forces that shape their structure and functioning.
For further information, please contact: F. Stuart Chapin, III at terry.chapin@uaf.edu or go to http://www.rap.uaf.edu/.
