This spring, principal investigators from the Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program joined with users and staff from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility for the first ever 2015 Joint User Facility and Principal Investigators’ Meeting. For those who were unable to make it, as well as attendees who want to learn more, the breakout sessions reports, abstracts and posters, and presentations are available on the meeting website. During the meeting, winners of the student poster awards were selected.
Student Poster Award Winners
- Jeffrey Curtis of University of Illinois, for A 3D Particle-resolved Model to Quantify the Importance of Aerosol Mixing State for CCN Properties
- Maximilian Maahn of University of Cologne, for Using Higher Radar Moments to Study Ice Clouds with Vertically Pointing Cloud Radars
- Matt Wilbanks of North Carolina State University, for Near-surface Density Currents Observed in the Stratocumulus-topped Marine Boundary Layer
More than 300 researchers attended the joint meeting, and more than 150 abstracts and 50 presentations were shown over the course of the four-day event. Held in Vienna, Virginia, from March 16-19, the ARM/ASR joint meeting allowed scientists and technical staff from both groups to provide input and insight on the direction the ARM Facility is moving and the research progress of ASR. Sessions ranged from work group meetings to data tutorials to focus groups.
# # #This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, through the Biological and Environmental Research program as part of the Atmospheric System Research program.