2003 ARM Science Team Meeting

Meeting Highlights. The Thirteenth ARM Science Team Meeting had near-record attendance. The annual Science Team Meeting was held at the Omni Interlocken Resort in Broomfield, Colorado. A near-record attendance of more than 270 scientists and researchers, including 54 scientists from 20 countries, participated in a series of plenary and poster sessions, and working group meetings.

The Science Team Meeting serves several key purposes--a technical exchange for scientific findings and results, an assessment of the implementation and operation of ARM facilities and instrumentation, as well as a review of the ARM infrastructure, which is important to the success of this large program served by nine U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) laboratories, private laboratories, more than 30 universities, and 21 international collaborations.

Key roles held within DOE's ARM Program include Tom Ackerman, ARM Chief Scientist, and Ted Cress, ARM Technical Director, along with a host of scientists that perform ARM-funded research, and a cadre of support staff across the labs that contribute to ARM. During the opening plenary session, DOE's Office of Biological Environmental Research's Wanda Ferrell, ARM Science Director, thanked the scientists for their expertise and ingenuity, which contributed in fiscal year 2002 to improvements to model parameterizations as well as site data systems, and which resulted in 158 publications in the fiscal year that featured ARM research. Tom Ackerman delivered a "State of ARM" presentation, which included a preview of this year's efforts that will establish a new ARM Science Plan that will advance the scientific agenda of ARM for the next 5 years.

2003 Agenda. This year's speakers included our own Wanda Ferrell, ARM Program Director, and Thomas Ackerman, ARM Chief Scientist. Susan K. Avery, Director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and a professor at the University of Colorado also presented the U.S. Climate Change Science Program. As director, Avery oversees a diverse and rich research agenda in earth system science. She has helped form a regional integrated science and assessment program that examines the impacts of climate variability on water in the interior west. Currently, she is on sabbatical working with NOAA and the Climate Change Science Program in Washington, DC.

The cover competition for the 2003 Science Team Meeting program was a success. Sam Iacobellis's cover submission was chosen that illustrates recent progress in developing more realistic cloud-radiation parameterizations from new theoretical advances and observations from ARM.We would like to thank all our contributors for their interest and participation and encourage everyone to be thinking about next year. All the covers submitted to the competition may be viewed in the ARM Image Library.

Presentations delivered at the 2003 Science Team Meeting.

"The U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan" presented by Susan K. Avery, Director, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and Climate Change Science Program, at the Science Team Meeting in 2003. Available for download in PDF (1MB), 800x600 HTML, or 1024x768 HTML.

"ARM 2003" presented by Tom Ackerman, Chief Scientist, at the Science Team Meeting in 2003. Available for download in PDF (1.5MB), 800x600 HTML, or 1024x768 HTML.

Extended Abstracts and Posters. Reminder! If you did not provide an extended abstract (one to four pages) at the Science Team Meeting, please provide BOTH a printed and an electronic version. Please read the instructions for submitting extended abstracts before you submit your abstract. Late abstracts will be accepted until June 30, 2003.

Completed proceedings and poster abstracts from the 2003 meeting may be viewed by Author or Title, or check out the ARM Program Conference Proceedings web page for past proceedings.

2004 Science Team Meeting. Looking forward to next year's Science Team Meeting? Well then, plan to join us March 22-26, 2004, in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the Hyatt Regency. Registration information will be announced later this winter. Keep an eye on this page for future updates!