AGAGE network celebrates 40 years of measuring ozone-depleting and climate-warming gases

AGAGE scientists, collaborators and invited guests from research institutions around the world—many representing dozens more researchers at their home institutions—at the ALE/GAGE/AGAGE network’s 40th anniversary conference on October 7-12 at the MIT Endicott House. (Photo by Kathy Thompson)

AGAGE scientists, collaborators and invited guests from research institutions around the world—many representing dozens more researchers at their home institutions—at the ALE/GAGE/AGAGE network’s 40th anniversary conference on October 7-12 at the MIT Endicott House. (Photo by Kathy Thompson)

Ronald Prinn, co-founder and leader of ALE/GAGE/AGAGE, with Susan Solomon, the 40th anniversary celebration keynote speaker. Both are professors at MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS). (Photo by Kathy Thompson)

Ronald Prinn, co-founder and leader of ALE/GAGE/AGAGE, with Susan Solomon, the 40th anniversary celebration keynote speaker. Both are professors at MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS). (Photo by Kathy Thompson)

Locations of the 10 current AGAGE primary stations (red-highlighted) and the three current AGAGE affiliate stations (green-highlighted) (Source: https://www.earth-syst-sci-data.net/10/985/2018/)

Locations of the 10 current AGAGE primary stations (red-highlighted) and the three current AGAGE affiliate stations (green-highlighted) (Source: https://www.earth-syst-sci-data.net/10/985/2018/)

Derek Cunnold; Hillel Magid, Barbados Station Caretaker; Ronald Prinn and Fred Alyea during a site visit to the early Barbados station during the GAGE phase (Source: AGAGE photo archives)

Derek Cunnold; Hillel Magid, Barbados Station Caretaker; Ronald Prinn and Fred Alyea during a site visit to the early Barbados station during the GAGE phase (Source: AGAGE photo archives)

Peter Simmonds, a visiting professor at the University of Bristol, who has served as an experimentalist throughout the network’s existence, set up two of the first ALE monitoring stations in Ireland and Barbados. (Photo by Dimonika Bray)

Peter Simmonds, a visiting professor at the University of Bristol, who has served as an experimentalist throughout the network’s existence, set up two of the first ALE monitoring stations in Ireland and Barbados. (Photo by Dimonika Bray)

Paul Fraser, an atmospheric chemist who established the network’s first Southern Hemisphere measurements of CFCs in the late-1970s and today calculates emissions using data from the Southern Hemisphere Station in Tasmania (Photo by Kathy Thompson)

Paul Fraser, an atmospheric chemist who established the network’s first Southern Hemisphere measurements of CFCs in the late-1970s and today calculates emissions using data from the Southern Hemisphere Station in Tasmania (Photo by Kathy Thompson)

Ray Weiss, a professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (University of California, San Diego) who has overseen experimental management since joining the network 10 years after its inception—improving station technology and instrumentation calibration, increasing automation of station operations and centralizing data processing over the years (Photo by Dimonika Bray)

Ray Weiss, a professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (University of California, San Diego) who has overseen experimental management since joining the network 10 years after its inception—improving station technology and instrumentation calibration, increasing automation of station operations and centralizing data processing over the years (Photo by Dimonika Bray)

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