Partners
Facilities

The National Science Foundation's investments provide state-of-the-art tools for research and education such as multi-user research facilities, distributed instrumentation networks and arrays, accelerators, telescopes, research vessels, aircraft and earthquake simulators.

• Academic Research Fleet
  http://www.nsf.gov/od/opp/support/usacship.jsp
  
  
• Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar (AMISR)
  http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13546
  
  
• Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR)
  http://www.lns.cornell.edu/public/CESR/
  
  
• Gemini Observatory
  http://www.gemini.edu
  
  
• Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS)
  http://www.iris.washington.edu/
  
  
• Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP)
  http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13524
  
  
• Large Hadron Collider
  http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Content/Chapters/AboutCERN
  /CERNFuture/WhatLHC/WhatLHC-en.html
  
  
• Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO)
  http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/
  
  
• National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
  http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/index.html
  
  
• National Nanofabrication Infrastructure Network
  http://www.nnin.org/
  
  
• National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory
  http://www.nscl.msu.edu/
  
  
• Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)
  http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=6192
  
  
• Polar Facilities and Logistics
  http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=OPP
  
  

FEDERALLY FUNDED R&D CENTERS

• National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center
  http://www.naic.edu/
  
  
• National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
  http://www.ncar.ucar.edu/
  
  
• National Optical Astronomy Observatory
  http://www.noao.edu/
  
  
• National Radio Astronomy Observatory
  http://www.nrao.edu/