ARM Staff Changes to Note

 
Published: 22 May 2008

Dr. Martin Stuefer, newest member of NSA team, and his plane.

Martin Stuefer Joins North Slope Team to Help Ensure Data Delivery. Please extend a warm welcome to Dr. Martin Stuefer, the newest member of the ARCF North Slope of Alaska (NSA) site operations team. As the Rapid Response Team Manager for the Barrow and Atqasuk sites, Martin works with NSA operators and mentors to ensure flawless data acquisition and flow.

Martin lives in Fairbanks, Alaska, where he is an atmospheric science research associate at the Geophysical Institute and the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. His research focus is on modeling of wildfire smoke dispersion and aircraft contrail formation in the atmosphere and on atmospheric response of glaciers.

Martin grew up in Tyrol, Austria, and received his masters and doctorate degree in natural science from the Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics at the University of Innsbruck. He is still a visiting professor at Innsbruck, returning about once a year. He enjoys flying his two-seat bush plane, a 1947 Piper Cub, every chance he gets. Welcome to the team, Martin!

Dr. Ed Lorusso, ARM Education and Outreach Manager.

ARM Education and Outreach Welcomes Ed Lorusso. Ed Lorusso replaced Andrea Maestas as the ARM Education and Outreach Manager at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Ed joined the ARM team in March after working in several groups at LANL, including Central Training, Multimedia, and Information Management. He earned his Ph.D. in English from the University of New Mexico (UNM) and has taught literature and writing at UNM, University of Maine, and Trinidad State Junior College in Colorado. Ed looks forward to continuing the ongoing education and outreach activities and working with the various communities that host ARM sites.

Justin Monroe and Karen Sonntag, ARM Data Quality Office.

ARM Data Quality Office Says, “Hello, Justin Monroe!” and “Goodbye, Karen Sonntag.” This spring, Justin Monroe joined the ARM Data Quality Office as Karen Sonntag prepared for her new position at the Bureau of Meteorology in Melbourne, Australia. Karen has accepted a 2-year appointment to work with local Australian governments on their forecasting needs. While Karen will be missed here at the ARM Program, we wish her much success in this exciting opportunity!

Prior to joining the team as a research associate, Justin worked for the Data Quality Office on an hourly basis developing software to process surface-observing data for ARM and researching optimal site spacing for surface-observation stations. Other research activities include participating in the ARM Cloud and Land Surface Interaction Campaign (CLASIC), visiting NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Prediction Environmental Modeling Center, and volunteering to judge the Oklahoma Mesonet/ARM Science Fair. Justin earned an M.S. in meteorology at the University of Oklahoma and has been affiliated with the Oklahoma Mesonet. Please join us in welcoming Justin!