Members of the ASR and ARM Communities Recognized by Peers at AGU Fall Meeting
At its December 2021 fall meeting in New Orleans, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) recognized its newest award recipients. The honorees included five researchers with recent ties to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric System Research (ASR) and Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility.
ASR Scientists Kerri Pratt and Nicole Riemer received the AGU Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award. The award goes to mid-career scientists affiliated with AGU’s Atmospheric Sciences section or subsection. The award recipients have shown excellence in research and leadership within the atmospheric and climate sciences.
Pratt, an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Michigan, has led ARM aerosol campaigns in Alaska. Her current work includes analyzing particles measured on the North Slope of Alaska and those collected during the 2019–2020 Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. The U.S. Department of Energy’s Early Career Research Program and ASR support Pratt’s ARM-related work.
Riemer is a professor and aerosol modeler at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also co-chair for ASR’s Aerosol Processes Working Group, which tracks developments and emerging needs in aerosol research. As detailed in this ASR News profile from 2020, she has focused on the complexities of how atmospheric particles form, grow, move, and change over the course of several ASR projects.
Riemer also uses ARM data in her research, which involves simulating aerosols down to the level of individual particles.
During the AGU Fall Meeting, Riemer and Pratt presented as part of a session highlighting work by the Ascent midcareer and James R. Holton early career award winners. See the complete list of 2021 AGU section awardees and named lecturers.
AGU Fellows
As reported in the October edition of ASR News, three ASR researchers are among the 59 individuals recognized as part of the 2021 class of AGU Fellows. The honor is awarded to AGU members who have made outstanding scientific achievements while “embodying the AGU vision of a thriving, sustainable, and equitable future for all powered by discovery, innovation, and action.”
Venkatachalam (V.) Chandrasekar, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere at Colorado State University, works on the ASR-funded project “Assessing Secondary Ice Production in Continental Clouds Based on ARM Mobile Facility Synergistic Remote Sensing Observations.”
Paul DeMott, a senior research scientist in Colorado State University’s atmospheric chemistry program, received ASR funding for his project “Understanding the Natural Sources of Aerosols and Their Impacts on Cloud Formation and Climate Across Hemispheres,” which runs from 2020 to 2023. DeMott is profiled in this edition of ASR News.
Harindra Joseph Fernando, the Wayne and Diana Murdy Endowed Professor of Engineering and Geosciences at the University of Notre Dame, was the lead scientist for the “Ice Fog Field Experiment at Oliktok Point (IFFExO),” which took place in 2020 on Alaska’s North Slope.
# # #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.