The LAOF Long-Term Planning Schedule or "Queue" below lists, in chronological order, funded, requested, and prospective field campaigns that require LAOF support. The chart is primarily used to plan ahead and to allow NSF and the LAOF Partner Organizations to assess future facility demand and resource needs. It is not intended to discourage investigators from submitting a facility requested for a desired time slot, even if other potential field campaigns are already included. NSF jointly with the LAOF Partner Organizations will make a concerted effort to maximize field support.
To be included in the LAOF long-term planning schedule, please submit a Letter of Interest (LoI) to the LAOF Request Coordinator and NSF LAOF Program Director, no later than four months ahead of the request documentation submission deadline. Please see the Current Letters of Interest.
The campaign category (Cat) is classified as S for small or L for large, and the funding status of each campaign is highlighted in green for funded, orange for requested, and yellow for a letter of interest submitted. NCAR support services include Data Archive (DA), Data Management (DM), Education & Outreach (EO), Field Catalog (FC), Forecasting (F), Networking & Data Communications (Net), Operations Center (OC), and Project Management (PM).
With the development of the Next Generation King Air, the University of Wyoming will be unable to support any flight requests for a 12 to 18 month period beginning in May of 2022. This includes projects that utilize the UWKA or projects requesting the WCR on the NSF/NCAR C-130.
The Next Generation King Air is expected to come online in the Spring of 2023. Those wanting to request either the UWKA and/or the WCR for projects beginning in May 2023 should work closely with UWKA facility management team. They expect support for limited payload projects will be available in May 2023 at the earliest. More complex payloads and/or project logistics will likely become supportable later in 2023. The University of Wyoming will continue to update the Next Generation King Air webpage throughout the development of the project.
