Field Notes

The drifting part of the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) field campaign has started. Matt Boyer and Janek Uin, ARM instrument mentors from Brookhaven National Laboratory, report that the R/V Polarstern is freezing into the ice.

Janek Uin, an ARM instrument mentor from Brookhaven National Laboratory, reports that the icebreaker R/V Polarstern has found its arctic home for the next year. Also, polar bears have been spotted.

Traveling up to the central Arctic for the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) field campaign, scientist Jessie Creamean is mesmerized by all the blue that surrounds her.

Jessie Creamean, a research scientist at Colorado State University, shares why she is going on the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) field campaign.

ARM staff and researchers complete final preparations for the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) field campaign, which starts September 20.

Sébastien Biraud shares UEC activities from the 2019 ARM/ASR joint meeting and an update on a proposed ARM workshop at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.

As the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) field campaign draws closer, the ARM team at Los Alamos National Laboratory works together with researchers to make sure instruments are ready to go.

Sébastien Biraud shares UEC updates, including important events coming up for ARM users.

Mark Ivey, manager of ARM's North Slope of Alaska atmospheric observatory, recounts a visit from Al Roker, broadcast meteorologist for the NBC morning show "TODAY." Roker traveled to Barrow, officially known as Utqiaġvik, for a series on earth system changes in the Arctic.

Bruno Cunha, a native of Graciosa Island in the Azores, assists with science close to home at ARM’s Eastern North Atlantic atmospheric observatory while also getting opportunities to see the world on remote field campaigns.