Jim Mather Selected as New ARM Technical Director

 
Published: 10 July 2007

Congratulations to Dr. Jim Mather, who will take the position of Technical Director of the ARM Climate Research Facility effective August 1, 2007. The Technical Director is responsible and accountable for the successful overall management of the user facility and works with the other ARM managers to this end. Jim’s leadership will be critical for the successful development and evolution of the technical infrastructure needed to meet scientific user needs.

Dr. Jim Mather will be the new Technical Director for ARM as of August 2007.

Jim has been with the ARM Program since 1994, when he joined the Tropical Western Pacific site scientist office. He worked closely with teams from several labs on developing the measurement facilities that were ultimately deployed at Manus, Nauru and Darwin, and participated in the deployments at each of these sites. He was involved with the development and implementation of data quality procedures which have been applied across all the ARM sites and has used ARM remote sensing and radiation data in his research.

Jim has extensive field campaign experience, both in the operation and data analysis of remote sensing instrumentation. In 2006, he was co-PI for the Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment, and as Interim Technical Director for the new ARM Aerial Vehicles Program he was instrumental in the successful completion of the recent Cloud and Land Surface Interaction Campaign. Jim obtained his education at the Pennsylvania State University, earning a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, an M.S. in Physics, and a Ph.D. in Meteorology.