Field Project Services

Welcome to the Field Project Services website
EOL's Field Project Services (FPS) facility serves as the coordination point for all scientific field campaigns within the laboratory. FPS provides cost effective, comprehensive and scalable project management support services to all EOL facilities, the NSF-supported scientific research community and others. Scientific, technical and administrative support services are provided for the purpose of planning, organizing and implementing research programs and associated field projects worldwide.
GENERAL INFORMATION FOR POTENTIAL FACILITY USERS
- How to request NSF Observing Facilities
- Field Program Support at UCAR
- User Guide on how to plan a Complex Field Campaign
- NSF User Workshop (2007, Upcoming for 2009!, please check back for details)
PLATFORM SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR POTENTIAL FACILITY USERS
- Index of NSF Observing Facilities
- Summary Report - Satellite Communications Issues on NSF/EOL Aircraft
- CDS Real Time Data Display and Coordination Center (RDCC)
- CDS Virtual Operations Center (VOC)
- CDS Field Catalogs
INFORMATION RELATED TO APPROVED PROJECTS
INFORMATION RELATED TO OFAP
- Current OFAP Panel Membership
- Archived OFAP Material (FY 2006 - 1999)
- OFAP Terms of Reference and Operating Procedures (Nov 05)
- OFAP Feasibility Template
- OFAP EDO Assessment Template
- OFAP Briefing Template for Project Facilitators
- OFAP Briefing Template for PIs
PROJECT INFO FOR EOL STAFF
- EOL Project Management Information
- Projects in Enact
PROJECT OFFICES LINKS
DATA DISPLAY AND DATA MANAGEMENT
- EOL Field Catalogs
- EOL Data and Deployment Archive
- NCAR Community Data Portal
- EMDAC
- EOL Data Policy
INFO FOR STUDENTS
MEDIA COVERAGE
- Boulder Scientist Research Hurricane Forecasting
- T-AMMA - High-Flying Balloons Begin Tracking Emerging Hurricanes
- REFRACTT - New radar technology can predict thunderstorms
- REFRACTT - New radar technique catches storm-fueling moisture
- CuPIDO - Weather pros take hard look under monsoon engine's hood
- T-REX - Catching the Sierra's waves and rotors
- MIRAGE - A Mexican Milagro
- RAINEX - Busy Times in the Tropics
- "In the Field" - UCAR's collection of news releases related to field campaigns
UPCOMING MEETINGS/WORKSHOPS
- START08 Planning Workshop, Boulder, CO
- PASE Data Workshop, Boulder, CO (tbd)
- VOCALS Modeling and Planning Workshop
- Observing Facilities Assessment Panel (OFAP), Boulder, CO (May 2008)
- Second NSF Observing Facilities Users' Workshop (15-17 June 2009)