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BSI senior scientist Dr. Germar Bernhard, will give an oral presentation titled "Hybrid Atmospheric, Land, and Oceanic (HALO) Measurements for Next-Generation Remote Sensing Applications," at the Fall American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting 5–9 December 2011, in San Francisco, California.

The NASA Technical Memorandum written by Biospherical and NASA titled, "Advances in Measuring the Apparent Optical Properties (AOPs) of Optically Complex Waters,” NASA TM-2010-215856, is now available for download. This TM documents the Biospherical systems that support both in-air and in-water AOP determinations and describes the development of the Microradiometer and C-OPS, as well as the SHALLO family of instruments. For your convenience, PDFs of individual chapters from this TM have been included on our Web pages that deal with their respective instruments.

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In February 2010, an article titled "Climatology of Ultraviolet Radiation at High Latitudes Derived from Measurements of the National Science Foundation’s Ultraviolet Spectral Irradiance Monitoring Network" was published in the book UV Radiation in Global Climate Change: Measurements, Modeling and Effects on Ecosystems. The book was edited by W. Gao, D.L. Schmoldt, and J.R. Slusser, and is available from Tsinghua University Press, Beijing, and Springer, New York (ISBN 978-3-642-03312-4).

16 July 2009: NSF awards a grant to the University of Chicago and Biospherical Instruments to perform ultraviolet radiation measurements in the Arctic. As part of the project, the former sites of the NSF UV Monitoring Network become part of the Arctic Observing Network. The key intellectual merit of the project centers on acquiring data that can be used to advance knowledge (1) of the present and future solar radiation climate of the Arctic, and (2) of the factors that drive changes in the UVR. For example, by combining UV data with other measurements and modeling, parameterizations can be developed to predict future UV intensities and improve climate models (e.g., CCMs). The project is overseen by the University of Chicago. BSI will be a subcontractor to UC and will be responsible for operating the instruments and producing quality-controlled data products.