NEW METHODS OF STUDYING TURBULENCE, reported at the APS meeting, have enabled physicists to track in detail for the first time the accelerations of a particle moving through flows with atmospheric-level turbulence (Eberhard Bodenschatz, Cornell, 607- 255-0794), and to cause magnetically trapped electrons to act like fluid particles on a flat surface (Fred Driscoll, UC-San Diego, 619- 534-2498). Bodenschatz described how a light-sensitive diode measured the movements of a particle jiggling through a fluid at up to 200 times the acceleration of gravity. For upcoming experiments, the group has installed a "silicon-strip detector" used in high-energy physics to make up to 100,000 measurements per second of multiple particles in the fluid, the better to study how particles that are initially close together move apart in a very turbulent flow such as a volcanic eruption. Meanwhile, Driscoll investigated turbulence by using a strong magnetic field to trap a cigar-shaped column of a billion electrons. Viewed from the end of the column, the electrons moved like fluid particles on a 2D surface. Intriguingly, turbulent flows of these electrons spontaneously settled into "vortex crystals," geometric patterns of whirlpool-like eddies that stayed frozen in place. (Also see lay language papers by Bodenschatz and Driscoll.)