ARM 2026 Summer School: Big Open Data Science

Published: 20 January 2026

The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility will host an open science-focused summer school Monday, May 18, to Friday, May 22, 2026, at the National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma.

Apply for ARM’s 2026 Open Science Summer School. Applications are due Friday, February 13, 2026.

The “Big Open Data Science Summer School” is geared toward students from undergraduates to early postdoctoral scholars. Planned activities include instructional talks, tutorials, and a mentored hackathon 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
• apply artificial intelligence techniques to ARM data applications.