New ARM Exhibit Makes Debut at Fall Meeting of American Geophysical Union

 
Published: 15 January 2007

The new ARM display made its debut at the 2006 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in December in San Francisco.

ARM staff returned to San Francisco in December 2006 for the 2006 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, this time with a new exhibit. With over 1,120 sessions and 13,023 abstracts to choose from (an increase of more than 15 percent over the 2005 Fall Meeting), another attendance record was set. Nearly 14,000 scientists from around the world crowded the halls of the Moscone Center to share their research on Earth and space sciences. Former Vice President Al Gore also made an appearance on December 14, holding a Town Hall Meeting on “Climate Change: The Role of Science and the Media in Policymaking.”

Meeting attendees were drawn to the new, modern exhibit, where ARM staff fielded questions regarding ARM data availability and accessibility. ARM staff also shared the ARM mission and goals with interested participants and provided information regarding the ARM science program and the newly formed ARM Aerial Vehicles Program. And once again, the ARM Education and Outreach climate change coloring and activity book was a popular item for visiting teachers and students.

ARM researcher Dr. Jennifer Comstock shares her ARM experience with an interested postdoctoral applicant.

Numerous posters and talks at this year’s AGU meeting used data from many of ARM’s field campaigns, such as the Tropical Warm Pool-International Cloud Experiment, the Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment, and the ARM Mobile Facility’s deployments at Point Reyes National Seashore and Niamey, Niger, West Africa. ARM researchers, including ARM’s Chief Scientist Warren Wiscombe, presided over several sessions. Dr. Wiscombe was also an invited speaker during the Atmospheric Sciences session on Light Scattering and Radiative Transfer: Basic Research and Applications. Researchers sponsored by ARM/ARM routinely attend the regularly scheduled AGU meetings each year. The AGU is an international scientific society of over 41,000 members, and is a leader in the increasingly interdisciplinary research area of geophysical sciences.