Douglas L. Sisterson

Doug joined Argonne in 1975 after earning his B.S. in Physics from Muskingum College and his M.S. in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Wyoming. He is a research meteorologist in the Decision and Informational Sciences Division at Argonne National Laboratory. Currently, Doug is the Operations Manager for the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program's Climate Research Facility, a national user facility composed of three fixed sites and a mobile site. Three Cloud and Radiation (sunshine) national user facility. The user facility represents the largest collection of gro und-based remote sensing in s trumentation in the world. The ARM program is the second largest federally sponsored climate change research program. He has been involved with the ARM program since 1990. The fixed sites are located in the North Slope of Alaska (Barrow and Atqasuk), the Southern Great Plains (Oklahoma and Kansas), and the Tropical Western Pacific (Australia, Papua New Guinea, and Nauru ). ). The mobile site is currently deployed for a year in Niger, Africa , to study the effects of the Sahara dust on the Earth ’s climate and to assess the impact of enhanced observations of West African Monso on s on the prediction of Atlantic hurricanes. Doug has been involved with the ARM program since 1990.

Before turning to climate change, Doug’s experimental work covered fundamental boundary layer meteorology and micrometeorology, wet and dry removal processes, and pollutant transport. His earliest work focused on wind energy. Studies between 1980 and 1990 emphasized the physical and chemical processes that lead to acid precipitation. He was principal author of a corner stone State of Science Report for the National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program.

The author or co-author of more than 75 research papers, conference proceedings, published reports, and extended abstracts, Doug is active in educational outreach programs, talking on weather and climate - including wind energy, acid rain, ozone holes, lightning, tornadoes, and El Nino and La Nina - and on problem solving and critical thinking skills in the classroom. He has addressed district, regional, and state science educator conventions and private and civic groups. He is a science mentor for the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program and the U.S. Department of Energy's Global Change Education Program (GCEP) for college and graduate students, and a 10-year participant in the "We Care Role Model" Program sponsored by the Chicago Police Department and the Chicago Public Schools. Doug has appeared on CNN, the Arts and Entertainment Channel’s "American Science in Review," WGN radio’s Milt Rosenberg Show, and Chicago's National Public Radio WBEZ's "Odyssey," as well as Barrow (Alaska) Public Radio KBRW and has been quoted newspaper and magazine articles.

Email address: dlsisterson@anl.gov