Program News

Read this message from Gary Geernaert, director of the Climate and Environmental Sciences Division within the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research.

A Whirlwind Researcher of Cloud Updrafts: Neil Lareau journeys from oil painting to studying cold-air pools, wildfires, and how pulses of surface air help make clouds.

For decades, Stephen Springston has grappled with consequential tiny particles in the atmosphere. “Aerosols affect the climate in a variety of complex ways that we are still trying to understand and model,” he says.

See how ice presented a momentary roadblock to the start of Leg 3 of the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition.

One researcher’s early fascination for computers and severe weather led to confronting the uncertainties of modeling shallow clouds.

Adam Theisen leads ARM into a new era of data gathering and checks in with ASR along the way.

DOE's SCGSR program is accepting applications for the 2020 Solicitation 1. The deadline is 5:00 pm Eastern Time on Wednesday, May 6, 2020.

Jeff Stehr joined DOE as an ASR program manager in late November 2019. With a diverse research background that includes atmospheric aerosols and air quality—most recently at NASA—Stehr brings an added depth of expertise and experience to ASR program management.

Roger Marchand, a research professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington, is a student of the low clouds that blanket the world’s oceans and play a critical role in the Earth’s radiative balance.

Deadlines are posted for the next Joint Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility/Atmospheric System Research (ASR) Principal Investigators Meeting, taking place June 22 to 26, 2020, in Rockville, Maryland.