Facility Updates

YouTube© Channel and Flickr® Added to Outreach Tools
Aug 31, 2010
Starting this summer, the ARM Communications Team began moving archived ARM photo and video content into both Flickr and YouTube, respectively. These popular and cost-effective social media outlets join ARM’s existing Facebook and Twitter accounts, providing additional options for sharing information with users and the public. All four sites can be accessed from the [...]

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User Facilities in Spotlight at Inaugural Office of Science Graduate Fellows Conference
Aug 26, 2010
This year, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science awarded its first class of fellowships to about 150 graduate researchers in the fields of physics, engineering, biology, and physical sciences. These up-and-coming scientists were introduced to the DOE scientific user facilities during a Graduate Fellows Conference held at Argonne National Laboratory in early [...]

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Micropulse Lidars Get Boost from Recovery Act
Aug 15, 2010
Through funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, ARM is upgrading the micropulse lidars (MPL) throughout the user facility. On July 19, the first official data ingest from the upgraded instrument began arriving at the ARM Data Archive.

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Water Vapor Network at SGP Site Goes Offline
Aug 15, 2010
After nearly eleven years, the Single Frequency GPS Water Vapor Network field campaign at the ARM Southern Great Plains (SGP) site came to a close on July 1, 2010. Installed between 1999 and 2000, this network consisted of 24 GPS stations operating within an 8-kilometer radius around the SGP Central Facility near Lamont, Oklahoma. [...]

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Containers for Aerosol Observing Systems Pass Acceptance Testing
Jul 31, 2010
In a key milestone for the user facility, customized containers for ARM’s new aerosol observing systems (AOS) passed acceptance testing in mid-July. Stephen Springston, a scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory and leader of the AOS development effort, visited Maloy Mobile Storage in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to inspect and approve the containers, which were customized [...]

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ARM Data Management Facility Completes Upgrades from Recovery Act Funding
Jul 31, 2010
The ARM Data Management Facility (DMF) is the initial collection point for raw data from all the ARM sites. In June, the DMF completed installing and testing $643,000 of new computers and equipment purchased through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. These upgrades increase the DMF processing and storage capacity by 6-10 times [...]

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ARM Kiosk Joins International Science Exhibit in Germany
Jul 15, 2010
Joining prestigious company overseas, the ARM kiosk is on display at the Isle of Mainau in Germany as part of an international exhibit of science and technology from May 20 through August 29. The exhibit was featured during the 60th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, which took place June 27 to July 2, 2010, in Lindau, [...]

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