Field Instrument Deployments and Operations

• Designing mobile laboratories customized to operate in severe environments including portable shelters, instrument suites, communications equipment and data systems.
• Building partnerships with domestic and foreign universities, research organizations, government agencies and industry.
• Managing mobile and fixed research facilities to collect, process, and distribute continuous climate- and atmospheric-process measurements from high-value locations.
• Utilizing cutting-edge data collection methods by coordinating university mentors, principle investigators and on-site technicians to manage optimal instrument operations.
• Selecting optimal sites for field campaigns in remote and under-sampled regions.
• Capturing high-value information: more than one petabyte of data sets distributed freely worldwide within 24-48 hours of collection and processing.

1. Collaboration and Partnership Building: identifying opportunities for global cooperation and partnerships, relationship building and proposal management.
2. Feasibility Analysis: global site selection, budget estimation, risk analysis, contingency planning, local resources identification and international project liaison work.
3. Deployment Design: infrastructure development and implementation, local contract hiring, OSHA compliance, engineering and design, contracts and procurement and foreign country regulatory compliance.
4. Installation: instrument integration and commissioning, technical implementation and state-side mentor support coordination.
5. Operations: management and technical support, equipment inventory control, operation software tools development, services and supplies management and equipment maintenance coordination.
6. Product Deliverables: comprehensive management, rapid and efficient deployment solutions, logistic management, data availability and reliability assurance.

Manage ARM’s Eastern North Atlantic fixed facility: providing rare, long-term data sets about the response of marine clouds to greenhouse gases and aerosols—a major source of uncertainty in global and regional climate models.

Manage ARM’s Mobile Facility One and Mobile Facility Two.
Recent campaigns:

• Observations and Modeling of the Green Ocean Amazon (GoAMAZON), Brazil, 2014-15. ARM’s largest international tropical research campaign, encompassed 24 institutions, 100 instruments and 100 collaborators gathering unprecedented data on metropolis’ effect on pristine environment.
• ARM West Antarctic Radiation Experiment (AWARE), Antarctica, 2015-17. Most comprehensive cloud and aerosol measurements in 40 years on the rapidly changing West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Gathered sophisticated data on changing air masses, surface energy and cloud radiative forcing.
• Measurements of Aerosols, Radiation, and Clouds over the Southern Ocean (MARCUS), Marine Deployment, 2017-18. Multi-ocean campaign captured first extensive data on supercooled clouds over the Southern Ocean (SO). Taken over four 6000+ mile marine voyages, aerosol and cloud data produce SO forecasts and support accurate GCM in a climate-crucial region.
• Macquarie Island Cloud and Radiation Experiment (MICRE), Southern Ocean, 2016-18. Collected first in-situ dataset measuring seasonal cycles of SO cloud and aerosol features in stormy yet pristine environment. Novel two-year dataset will inform crucial GSM and evaluate accuracy of climatological satellite data.
• Layered Atlantic Smoke Interactions with Clouds (LASIC), Atlantic Ocean, 2016-17. Collected first comprehensive ground-based data on world’s maximum biomass burning emissions path within a remote and cloudy trade-wind regime.

• Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI), Sierras de Córdoba, Argentina, 2018-19. Will amass an unprecedented dataset about storm-environment interactions in subtropical South America, to reduce uncertainty and bias in GCM.
• Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAIC), Marine Deployment, 2019-20. Intensive icebreaker-based observatory will freeze in and drift with Arctic sea ice for full annual cycle taking atmosphere, ocean, and biosphere measurements in crucial climate regime.
• Cold-Air Outbreaks in the Marine Boundary Layer Experiment (COMBLE), Norway, 2020. Will collect comprehensive dataset measuring the dynamics and properties of clouds and precipitation in the high-latitude marine boundary over open water in the Arctic.