Facility and Instrumentation Request Process
Funds atmospheric research that needs NSF's shared observing facilities — aircraft, radars and community instruments — and is the only route to them.
NSF's atmospheric and geospace sciences division pays for a set of specialised observing facilities that individual researchers could never own: the Lower Atmosphere Observing Facilities and the Community Instruments and Facilities programmes. This notice is how the research community asks to use them.
It is not a side channel. Every proposal to the division that needs one of these assets has to …
Atmospheric and geospace research, education and field campaigns requiring access to NSF-sponsored observing facilities and community instruments, in three tracks: education and outreach, a single facility request, and field campaigns.
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