ARM 2025 Summer School: Open Science in the Forest

Published: 4 December 2024

The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility will host an open science-focused summer school Monday, May 19, to Friday, May 23, 2025, at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Apply for ARM’s Open Science Summer School. Applications are due Friday, February 14, 2025.

The “Open Science in the Forest Summer School: Connecting State-of-the-Art Models with Diverse Field Campaign Observations” is geared toward students from undergraduates to postdoctoral scholars. Planned activities include instructional talks, tutorials, and mentored hackathon sessions for attendees to work with ARM data and open-source software.

The overarching mission of the summer school is to enhance the scientific impact of ARM observations through the instruction of students in new techniques to gain insight into atmospheric processes using open science tools.

Objectives of the summer school are to:

• increase knowledge about the range of ARM observations, demonstrate innovative and methodologically sound use of those observations, and connect students to a variety of knowledgeable resources (e.g., ARM instrument mentors)
• introduce students to resources within ARM for high performance data-proximate computation
• equip students with a variety of techniques for comparing high-resolution model output with ARM observations to study a range of atmospheric processes.