With a new fixed site on the horizon in the Azores, a third ARM Mobile Facility gearing up for action in the Arctic, and more aircraft probes and sensors than scientists can shake a stick at, the ARM Facility continues to expand its considerable suite of assets for conducting climate research. Along with this impressive inventory comes the responsibility to ensure the Facility is supporting the highest-value science possible.
Enter the ARM Science Board. This eleven-member group annually reviews complex proposals for use of the ARM mobile and aerial facilities. To maintain excellence and integrity in the review process, each member serves a renewable term of two years, with membership updated annually.
This year’s board members are:
- Dr. Anna Barros, Duke University
- Dr. Patrick Chuang, University of California at Santa Cruz
- Dr. Pavlos Kollias, McGill University
- Dr. Hugh Coe, University of Manchester
- Dr. Anthony Del Genio, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
- Dr. Richard Leaitch, Environmental Canada
- Dr. Allison McComiskey, NOAA Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
- Dr. J. Marshall Shepherd, University of Georgia
- Dr. Maria Assunção Silva Dias, University of Sao Paulo
- Dr. Jian Wang, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Dr. Matthew Shupe, University of Colorado
With a fresh batch of proposals received for new ARM field campaigns, the members will convene in August to discuss their findings and recommendations with ARM Facility management. Selections are made by DOE and generally announced in the October–December timeframe.
See this brief document, published in March 2013, for more information about the ARM Science Board and its charter.