An Atmospheric Aerosol Short Course for Early Career Scientists

Abstract

The first Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL)/Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user-facility aerosol summer school was held in July 2019 at the EMSL user facility within the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington. The EMSL facility (Laskin et al. 2019; China et al. 2018) operates advanced instruments such as mass spectrometers and microscopes to achieve fundamental understanding and prediction of biological, Earth, and environmental systems. The ARM facility (McComiskey and Ferrare 2016) operates comprehensive atmospheric observatories in diverse climate regimes to improve the understanding of clouds, aerosols, and their interactions with Earth’s surface. The school set out to give graduate students and early career scientists (within four years of receiving their Ph.D.) an overview of atmospheric aerosol science and an introduction to the measurement capabilities available through the EMSL and ARM user facilities.