Survey Says! User Executive Committee Selected

Published: 20 January 2015

Your votes have been processed and the new ARM User Executive Committee (UEC) selected. Members were selected to represent a set of science thematic areas. This committee will be an independent body charged with providing objective, timely feedback to the leadership of the ARM Facility with respect to the user experience. Reporting directly to the ARM Technical Director in his capacity as chair of the ARM Infrastructure Management Board (IMB), the Committee serves as the official voice of the user community in its interactions with ARM management.

Members are listed below along with their home institution and the area (or areas) they were selected to represent. Where a candidate was ranked high in more than one category, multiple categories are listed with the primary category listed first.

• Larry Berg
  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  Land-Atmosphere Interactions, Aerosol Measurements
• Andrew Gettelman
  National Center for Atmospheric Research
  Aerosol Modeling, Cloud Modeling
• Gannet Hallar
  Desert Research Institute
  Aerosol Measurements
• Pavlos Kollias
  McGill University
  Cloud Measurements
• Ernie Lewis
  Brookhaven National Laboratory
  Aerosol Measurements
• Chuck Long
  NOAA/University of Colorado
  Radiative Transfer, Land-Atmosphere Interactions
• Matthew Shupe*
  NOAA/University of Colorado
  Cloud Measurements, Radiative Transfer
• Dave Turner*
  NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory
  Cloud Measurements, Land-Atmosphere Interactions, Radiative Transfer
• Hailong Wang
  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  Aerosol Modeling
• Robert Wood*
  University of Washington
  Cloud Modeling

Over the next few months, the Committee will begin exploring how to work together to identify the needs of the ARM user community. For more information, read the User Executive Committee Charter.

Note: Members with an * also serve on the ASR/ARM Science and Infrastructure Steering Committee (SISC).

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