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541 assets from 19 organizations
541 assets
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Physical Infrastructure
One of five LASP ambient pressure thermal chambers, used for small instrument and subsystem thermal tests, component bake-outs and curing of polymerics; Giant White is 32 x 30 x 36 in, covers 200C to -73C, and has humidity control, cable…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Physical Infrastructure
LASP's largest thermal vacuum chamber, used for thermal vacuum, thermal balance and optical testing of spacecraft and large instruments; 120.6 in inner diameter by 155.9 in depth, five thermal zones, 100C to -170C, capable of 10e-8 Torr,…
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Data & Digital Tools
CloudSat 1B-CPR product: backscattered power as a function of distance from the 94 GHz Cloud Profiling Radar, release P_R05 in NetCDF, with 12 geolocation and 22 data fields, covering the full mission except anomalies and maneuver gaps.
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Data & Digital Tools
CloudSat 2B-CLDCLASS-LIDAR product combining CloudSat CPR and CALIPSO lidar measurements to classify cloud layers into types such as stratus, cumulus, nimbostratus, altocumulus, altostratus and deep convective clouds, with cloud phase;…
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Data & Digital Tools
CloudSat 2B-GEOPROF product identifying the vertical levels with significant radar echo from hydrometeors and estimating the radar reflectivity factor, with a MODIS cloud mask; release P1_R05 in NetCDF and HDF-EOS.
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Data & Digital Tools
CloudSat and CALIPSO Ice Cloud Property Product (2C-ICE) with retrieved ice water content, effective radius and extinction coefficient and ice water path; release P1_R05 in NetCDF.
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Data & Digital Tools
CloudSat 2C-PRECIP-COLUMN product determining the presence and intensity of surface precipitation from CloudSat Profiling Radar observations, with path-integrated attenuation and near-surface reflectivity; release P1_R05 in NetCDF.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
SWPC 3-Day Forecast: a plain-language, single-page text product issued every 12 hours (0030 and 1230 UTC) with observed and forecast conditions for the three NOAA Scale categories and a brief forecaster-written rationale; also available as…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
4-axis CNC lathe with live tooling in the AERO 155 machine shop (primarily for metals); listed in the equipment list without further specs.
Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (NTIA ITS)Data & Digital Tools
5G Aerial RF Radiation Data: measured airborne radiation patterns around 5G MIMO gNodeB base station transmitters, published by ITS on GitHub.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Intellectual Property
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) version of the AirCore technique invented by NOAA: a small pump pulls air through a roughly 50 m stainless-steel tube during flight so air can be sampled along the flight path, and the samples are analyzed…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
JEOL ARM-200F probe-corrected 200 kV analytical electron microscope resolving single atoms, with EELS/EDS chemical analysis and MAADF/HAADF STEM detectors; used for GaN polarity and nanowire interface studies in the Precision Imaging…
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Capabilities & Access
Begelman group led by Mitch Begelman, Professor in Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at CU Boulder and JILA Fellow, researching theoretical and high energy astrophysics.
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Capabilities & Access
Hamilton group theoretical research on black holes, cosmology and supernovae, including general relativistic visualization of black holes and methods for analyzing galaxy surveys to extract cosmological parameters.
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Capabilities & Access
Kapteyn-Murnane group developing probes of quantum matter with coherent X-ray beams, generating laser-like extreme UV and soft X-ray light at short wavelengths.
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Capabilities & Access
Toomre group: Toomre, professor of astrophysics in APS and JILA fellow since 1975 (degrees in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT, Ph.D. in applied mathematics and theoretical physics from Cambridge), working on compressible and…
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Capabilities & Access
Ye group research on quantum science and precision metrology: ultracold strontium in optical lattices for atomic clocks, quantum-state-prepared molecules, and stable lasers and optical frequency combs for precision spectroscopy from mid…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Physical Infrastructure
An airborne cavity enhanced spectrometer that uses two mirrors to create an optical path of several tens of kilometers within a 50 cm cell. It measures glyoxal, nitrous acid and nitrogen dioxide (30 pptv in 10 seconds for glyoxal and NO2)…
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
Atmosphere Control Module (ACM), a SABL insert that holds the experiment volume at 5% CO2 for mammalian cell culture; freshly filled units fly on a rotating basis.
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)Physical Infrastructure
Active Remote Sensing Lab (ARSENL) with a 400 sq. ft. optics lab with two full optical benches, a 600 sq. ft. RF electronics lab and graduate office space, for lidar and active remote sensing research.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Intellectual Property
Broadband electrical-substitution radiometer with thermal isolation platform, electrical thermometer-heater and optical absorber that measures radiant power without external calibration and scales into focal-plane arrays. NIST inventors…
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
Animal Enclosure Module - ECLSS (AEM-E), a middeck locker-sized insert for the Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft that transports up to 40 mice or 12 rats to the ISS for rodent research.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
NASA-funded Smead/LASP CubeSat imaging energetic X-rays to study electrons precipitating from the Van Allen radiation belts and their effect on atmospheric ozone; launched Mar. 30, 2026 on SpaceX Transporter 16; in service since May 13,…
United States Air Force Academy Aeronautics Research Center (USAFA ARC)Capabilities & Access
USAFA Aeronautics Research Center in the Department of Aeronautics, giving cadets research experience on projects for the Air Force, DoD, other agencies and commercial partners in low- and high-speed aerodynamics, combustion and…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
CSL Aerosol Properties & Processes program measuring physical, chemical and optical properties of aerosol particles in the field and laboratory to understand their effects on climate, air quality and precipitation.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Capabilities & Access
What customers of AES Graduate Projects must provide: a responsive contact person, availability for meetings and teleconferences, timely feedback on requirements and design documents, attendance at design reviews (up to two hours), and…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Capabilities & Access
AMReC (formerly the Center for Aerospace Structures, founded 1986) develops analytical models and experiments for next-generation aerospace structures, known for multi-physics modeling and structural optimization and for large deployable…
Aerospace Propulsion and Diagnostics Laboratory (CSU APDL)Capabilities & Access
Industry partnerships with APDL on clean combustion, high-speed aerodynamics, aerospace propulsion and CFD, offering aerodynamic validation in the supersonic wind tunnel and CFD modeling of viscous hypersonic flows, chemically reacting…
Aerospace Propulsion and Diagnostics Laboratory (CSU APDL)Capabilities & Access
Colorado State University's Aerospace Propulsion & Diagnostics Laboratory in the CSU Energy Institute, directed by Ciprian Dumitrache, combining supersonic wind tunnel testing, femtosecond laser diagnostics and CFD for high-speed reacting…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Intellectual Property
Issued patent for an airborne-particle detector with two emitter units (light emitters and imaging elements) that send opposed, antiparallel beams into a scattering region, and a photodetector that detects the scattered light.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
SWPC Alerts, Watches and Warnings bulletins for the public on expected space weather severity, similar to NWS local forecast office bulletins, with current and previous data available as JSON files.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
NOAA Annual Greenhouse Gas Index (AGGI), measuring the climate-warming influence of long-lived trace gases and its change over time; the 2024 AGGI of 1.54 means added heating from long-lived greenhouse gases rose 54% since 1990.
Aerospace Propulsion and Diagnostics Laboratory (CSU APDL)Physical Infrastructure
APDL Hypersonic Wind Tunnel (APDL-HWT), a modular high-speed flow facility for supersonic and hypersonic aerodynamics, propulsion and flow–plasma research with wide optical access; it runs in indraft and blowdown configurations and up to…
Aerospace Propulsion and Diagnostics Laboratory (CSU APDL)Capabilities & Access
APDL-CFD Multiphysics, an in-house proprietary framework coupling compressible Navier–Stokes equations with time-dependent Schrödinger equation modeling, nonequilibrium plasma kinetics, reacting-flow chemistry and nonlinear optical wave…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Intellectual Property
PCT application for an apparatus that charges solid particles with an electron beam and deflects them with an electric field in a sorting corridor to separate them by size, with a second pass sorting same-size particles by surface…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Intellectual Property
Published patent application for a nitrogen dioxide measuring apparatus whose components, pump and power consumption suit use on a UAV, including measuring vertical profiles of ambient nitrogen dioxide from a rotary-wing UAV.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Intellectual Property
Balloon-borne instrument measuring stratospheric turbulence during slow descent, with onboard data compression, telemetry to a ground station, self-calibration and turbulence-parameter extraction; AFRL-supported (HYFLITS project). Inventor…
Aerospace Propulsion and Diagnostics Laboratory (CSU APDL)Physical Infrastructure
Atmospheric Re-Entry Simulation Facility (ARES), APDL's high-enthalpy platform built around a low-pressure plasma torch (Advanced Energy Remote Plasma Source) for studying shock layers, thermal protection system response, nonequilibrium…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
Senior Research Scientist for NCEI who observes, understands and models Earth’s magnetic field from the core and crust to the ionosphere and magnetosphere. He has led development of the U.S./UK World Magnetic Model at CIRES/NCEI since 2014.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Atmospheric Sounding Processing ENvironment: cross-platform (Linux, macOS, Windows) quality control and analysis of dropsonde and upsonde sounding data, with automatic QC, tabular/graphical displays, WMO message coding and transmission,…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP heliophysics and astrophysics research: precise instruments for NASA and NOAA that measure the Sun's light, modeling of solar processes from core to corona and solar variability, the LISIRD solar irradiance archive, and exoplanet…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
Geolocated land-ice surface heights (above the WGS 84 ellipsoid) with quality parameters, from the ATLAS laser altimeter on the ICESat-2 observatory, 14 October 2018 to 2 March 2025, with centimeter-scale precision along 40 m ground-track…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
PSL Atmosphere–Ocean Processes and Predictability division studying how ocean–atmosphere interactions such as ENSO and the MJO shape weather and climate and improving forecasts.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
CSL Atmospheric Remote Sensing program studying boundary-layer dynamics, urban air quality, wildfire behaviour and emissions with lidar and spectroscopic remote sensing instruments.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Autonomous Atmospheric Surface Flux Stations developed at PSL by CIRES and NOAA engineers to measure surface energy budget terms over sea ice and other remote surfaces, with radio communication up to 10 km and a fuel cartridge that can…
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Physical Infrastructure
Atom chip designed by the Anderson group with NASA JPL and ColdQuanta for the NASA Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL), built to enable ultracold atom experiments in the microgravity of the International Space Station, with very high trap…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
PML Time and Frequency group building compact, low-power quantum sensors from precision atomic spectroscopy, silicon micromachining and photonics (thermal vapors, atomic beams, laser-cooled atoms); originators of the chip-scale atomic…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
Short-term aurora forecast from the OVATION model giving a 30 to 90 minute forecast of auroral location and intensity, with gridded auroral data and the Hemispheric Power Index in JSON.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
Dial-up time service (since 1988) that sends an ASCII time code over analog telephone modems so computers can set their clocks, with on-time-marker loopback to correct for line delay; downloadable client files.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
Airborne Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System: parachuted GPS dropsondes launched from aircraft measure high-resolution profiles of temperature, pressure, humidity and wind to the surface, telemetered in real time to the aircraft; used in…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Data & Digital Tools
AVS Lab astrodynamics simulation framework for spacecraft guidance, dynamics and control, installable from PyPI (bsk wheels, with MuJoCo and optional optical navigation) or buildable from source with C++ modules; container images on GHCR…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Data & Digital Tools
Python package (Basilisk + reinforcement learning) for building Gymnasium environments for spacecraft tasking problems on top of the Basilisk simulator; developed by the AVS Lab at CU Boulder.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Data & Digital Tools
Self-contained Python wheel giving external projects what they need to build Basilisk-compatible SWIG extensions (C/C++, Rust, Numba and Python modules) without vendoring the full simulator, with CMake helpers and an ABI/version…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Data & Digital Tools
Open-source Unity project for Vizard, the companion 3D visualization app for Basilisk simulations (spacecraft, celestial bodies, actuators, instruments, orbit lines, pointing vectors, keep-out cones), buildable for macOS, Windows and…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
Bambu Lab X1C Carbon Combo 3D Printer (x5) in the PILOT (AERO 141) rapid-prototyping area; Print size 256 × 256 × 256 mm; 5 units; pay for printing; use by special request.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
Bambu Labs H2S in the PILOT (AERO 141) rapid-prototyping area; Print size 340 × 320 × 340 mm; pay for printing; use by special request.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Intellectual Property
U.S. patent 11,888,660-B2 "Band Filter for Filtering a Discrete Time Series Signal", issued 2024-01-30; NCAR/UCAR inventor(s) Hubbert, John (EOL). Listed on UCAR's current-patents page as available for licensing; no further detail on the…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Binary DataBase of Profiles (BDBP): trace gas and aerosol profiles with almost global coverage from high vertical resolution measurements, provided on latitude, longitude, altitude, pressure and equivalent-latitude grids (1 km steps, 70…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Capabilities & Access
CU bioastronautics program site: study and support of life in space, covering human and organism biology in spaceflight and the design of payloads, spacecraft habitats and life support systems, tied to BioServe Space Technologies (biotech…
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
BioCell, a family of BioServe cell culture hardware analogous to culture flasks or multi-well plates for laboratory-fidelity cell culture on ISS, supporting seedings, fluid injections, media exchanges, passaging, fixation and preservation…
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Data & Digital Tools
BioServe flight history: hundreds of science payloads designed, built and operated on over 110 spaceflight missions across eight spacecraft types (Shuttle, Progress, Soyuz, HTV, Dragon, Cygnus, Orion and New Shepard).
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
BioServe Microscopy Platform (BSMP): hardware for astronauts to capture high-definition microscopy images and videos on the ISS for downlink, built around an inverted brightfield and phase-contrast microscope; objective lenses are already…
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Capabilities & Access
BioServe payload and mission support: working with NASA, academic, industry and international researchers to develop NASA-approved experiments, flight hardware and operations; researchers should contact BioServe before submitting a…
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Capabilities & Access
BioServe Space Technologies, a CU Boulder center for microgravity life science research and for designing and developing spaceflight hardware, with a full suite of flight-certified hardware for customers and partners.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Physical Infrastructure
One of four LASP bake-out tanks (vacuum ovens) used to verify cleanliness of instruments, subsystems and ground support equipment with residual gas analyzers; BOT-II is 26.75 in diameter by 33.13 in deep, has a shroud, a 150C maximum…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Boulder climate and weather records from NOAA PSL: daily weather data from 1897, daily observations of temperature, rainfall and snow from 1947, and monthly mean, maximum and minimum temperatures from 1893, plus climatologies and records.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Near real-time plot of geomagnetic field fluctuations at the Boulder magnetometer station for SWPC forecasters.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
1,700 m² (18,000 ft²) ISO class 5 cleanroom operated by the Quantum Electromagnetics Division, providing micro- and nano-fabrication for the microelectronic and MEMS needs of NIST-Boulder staff and direct collaborators; about 60% of…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Intellectual Property
Electron gun that uses light sources and the photoelectric effect inside a series of differentially charged stages to emit a field-focused beam with two or more tunable electron energies. Inventors Wilson, Bengtson, Schaub, Turpen;…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Intellectual Property
On-chip photonic bolometer using heat-resistant carbon-nanotube absorbers and a photonic temperature sensor read out by optical frequency shifts, detecting ultraviolet to far-infrared light for thermal imaging. NIST inventors Klimov,…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP business development team builds partnerships with universities and the private sector to form competitive teams for government and industry space missions, projects and programs; contact partnerships@lasp.colorado.edu.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Capabilities & Access
Michael M. Byram Distinguished Visiting Professorship (since 2018): an internationally renowned researcher spends one or two semesters a year in the department with travel, lodging and living support, giving seminars, mentoring and…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
EOL laboratory for evaluating and calibrating in-situ meteorological sensors and instruments, able to simulate pressure, temperature, humidity, altitude and wind-speed conditions using an altitude/temperature chamber, wind tunnel, humidity…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
Fee-based NIST time and frequency calibrations: remote calibration of clocks and oscillators to UTC(NIST) via GPS common view (TMAS, FMAS), geostationary satellite and optical fiber; delay calibration of GPS receivers; frequency-stability…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
NSF-funded Smead CubeSat mapping how VLF energy from lightning and ground transmitters reaches space; launched Apr. 7, 2026 on USSF STP-S29A from Vandenberg; in service; PI Robert Marshall.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
GML Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases group operating the Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network to measure the distribution and trends of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
WMO CO2 X2019 calibration scale for CO2 in air, applied retroactively to all NOAA calibrations, with a strict calibration hierarchy for traceability and published scale-transfer uncertainties.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
CIRES Research Scientist studying how reactive trace gases and aerosols affect atmospheric chemistry, climate and air quality, using cavity-enhanced and cavity ringdown spectrometers in field campaigns such as UWFPS, FIREX and FIREX-AQ.
Center for Laser Sensing and Diagnostics (CSU CLSD)Capabilities & Access
In situ cavity ring-down spectroscopy of barium neutrals and ions in a BaO hollow cathode to validate cathode plasma models.
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)Data & Digital Tools
CCAR's web tool for exploring and comparing GRACE mascon solutions developed at the Goddard Space Flight Center and the Jet Propulsion Lab.
University of Colorado Colorado Springs College of Engineering and Applied Science space programs (UCCS engineering space programs)Capabilities & Access
UCCS Celestial & Orbital Mechanics Lab: orbital analysis, design and control for space missions and astronomy, orbital and rotational dynamics of natural and artificial bodies, space environment forces, debris mitigation risk, space…
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)Capabilities & Access
Celestial and Spaceflight Mechanics Lab, led by Dr. Dan Scheeres within CCAR and the Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department, researching celestial mechanics, astrodynamics, navigation, orbit determination and control, and…
Center for Laser Sensing and Diagnostics (CSU CLSD)Capabilities & Access
CSU research group on laser-based measurement of gases, plasmas and plasma-surface interactions for plasma science and electric propulsion, plus laser ignition, combustion diagnostics, high-power fiber delivery and environmental and health…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Central UV Calibration Facility, operational since 1997 as a joint NOAA–NIST project, providing accurate, long-term repeatable calibrations and characterizations of UV monitoring instruments, including secondary irradiance standards,…
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
BioServe Centrifuge for ISS research in the life, physical and material sciences, based on the Eppendorf MiniSpin with 800 to 13,400 rpm at better than 3% accuracy, for cell separation, microfiltration and pelleting.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
100-member CESM2 ensemble at 1-degree resolution for 1850–2100 under CMIP6 historical and SSP370 forcing, with two biomass-burning forcing variants and AMOC-based initial-state design for ensemble spread; includes extended "MOAR" output…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
10-member CESM2 (1-degree) ensemble in which eastern tropical Pacific SST anomalies are nudged to ERSSTv5 observations over 1880–2019, so the observed ENSO evolution is maintained while the rest of the coupled climate evolves freely…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
CAM-chem simulation output at 0.9x1.25 degree resolution with 56 vertical levels and MERRA2-specified dynamics, intended as chemical boundary conditions for regional modeling; 6-hourly from January 2001 (netCDF).
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus (CGBA), a dual-function incubator/freezer operating between -16 °C and 37 °C that has supported experiments on ISS, Mir, the Space Shuttle and Dragon; 27 L experiment volume in refrigerator mode.…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
CSL Chemical Processes & Instrument Development program using precision laboratory work to study trace gases, aerosols and chemical processes affecting air quality, ozone depletion and climate, and to develop instruments.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
CMP machine in the Boulder Microfabrication Facility that planarizes silicon dioxide layers, enabling more complex multilayer circuitry and polishing of optical films roughened during processing.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
Chromospheric Helium-I Imaging Photometer: a differential imager using the He I 1083 nm line (with nearby calibration wavelengths) via a tunable liquid-crystal Lyot filter and IR CCD, producing images every 3 minutes for CME, coronal-hole…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Intellectual Property
Lithographically fabricated vacuum package producing a collimated atomic beam with on-chip atomic vapor source and passive pumps, aimed at chip-scale atomic clocks and interferometers with better long-term stability than vapor-cell…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Physical Infrastructure
Cloud Imaging and Particle Size Experiment, a four-camera panoramic imager on AIM that measures ultraviolet radiation scattered by polar mesospheric clouds and atmospheric gases to determine cloud occurrence, brightness and particle size,…
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Capabilities & Access
CIRA machine learning group applying ML to satellite data: detecting and nowcasting convection, inferring cloud properties and vertical profiles for aviation, generating simulated radar and passive microwave imagery from geostationary…
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Capabilities & Access
CIRA Software Engineering Group (CSEG), a cross-cutting group since April 2014 with members from CIRA-Fort Collins, CIRA-Boulder, NOAA MDL, the National Park Service and CSU departments, meeting monthly on software tools, data management…
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Data & Digital Tools
Repository for the "CIRA Guide to Custom Loss Functions for Neural Networks in Environmental Sciences", with Python examples; BSD 2-Clause License.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
NASA-funded inner radiation belt CubeSat making fine-grain Van Allen belt measurements; launched Apr. 15, 2023 on Transporter 7 (SpaceX F9), mission success, deorbited Oct. 4, 2024; PI Xinlin Li.
University of Denver Unmanned Systems Research Institute (DU USRI)Intellectual Property
US patent 10,730,607 B2 for a circulation control system for aerial vehicles in which an onboard air supply unit generates mass air flow delivered over the wing; inventors include Rutherford and Valavanis; assignee Colorado Seminary.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
CIRES research area covering the atmosphere from molecular to global scales: the ozone layer, tropospheric dynamics and urban air quality. It is supported by laboratories, the CIRES Center for Atmospheric Chemistry and NOAA aircraft.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
CIRES research area on complex chemical systems in the atmosphere, soil and aquatic environments. It develops observational and monitoring systems, models chemical interactions, and works in both laboratory and field settings.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
CIRES research area on the interplay between weather and climate across hourly to decadal scales and their impacts on biological, physical and social systems, including resilient system design, policy tradeoffs, and contributions to the…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
CIRES research area on how the Arctic and Antarctic respond to global processes, including climate change. It uses drones, remote sensing and on-ice fieldwork, and CIRES hosts the international data repository for Arctic data.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
A CIRES/NCEI group doing basic and applied research on Earth’s magnetic field. It builds field models from low-orbiting satellites and about 200 magnetic observatories that give the field’s direction and strength at any location, for use…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
CIRES research area on the solid Earth (core, mantle and crust): geophysical fundamentals, geological hazards and links to landscape, climate, hydrology and ocean, using fieldwork and remote sensing.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
CIRES research area on the space environment and Sun-Earth system, done in partnership with NOAA: studying the Sun’s influence on the magnetosphere and upper atmosphere, mitigating space weather effects on technology, and using space-based…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
A CIRES program that connects Colorado institutions with CIRES scientists for free, on-site science and career talks (a flash talk, the CIRES mission, a career story and optional Q&A), aiming to build connections and lower barriers to…
United States Geological Survey National Civil Applications Center (USGS NCAC)Capabilities & Access
Interagency Civil Applications Committee, operated and staffed by USGS for the Department of the Interior, that oversees appropriate civil uses of overhead remote sensing data from military, intelligence and commercial sources so Federal…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
CDP, an underwing optical probe (updated FSSP design) that sizes and counts individual cloud droplets from laser-light scattering, giving cloud particle size distributions across 2–50 µm at up to 25 Hz; flown on the GV.
Center for Laser Sensing and Diagnostics (CSU CLSD)Physical Infrastructure
CSU Center for Laser Sensing and Diagnostics laboratory of about 2000 sq. ft. at the Powerhouse Energy Campus, with solid-state lasers, spectroscopic detection equipment and test beds for plasma and combustion experiments.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
Overview of the formal agreement types NIST's Technology Partnerships Office uses with industry, academia and non-profits: NDAs, material, software and data transfer agreements, research collaboration agreements (no outside funding, no…
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)Capabilities & Access
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research, dedicated to astrodynamics and the application of satellites to science, navigation and remote sensing of the Earth and planets.
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Intellectual Property
US patent 6,201,638 B1 for a low-loss comb-generating optical cavity with an optical amplifier and a microwave-driven electro-optic modulator crystal producing equally spaced optical frequency sidebands; inventors Hall, Diddams, Ma and Ye.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Commercial HALO Photonics StreamLine XR scanning Doppler lidar used by CSL to map atmospheric velocity and backscatter for boundary-layer studies, with 1.5 µm eye-safe wavelength, 10 kHz pulse rate, 48 m range resolution and ~5 cm/s…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
NSF NCAR's community-developed Earth system model providing state-of-the-art computer simulations of the Earth system; rooted in the 1983 atmosphere model, with land, ocean and sea-ice components added in the mid-1990s and community…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Physical Infrastructure
A compact time-of-flight aerosol mass spectrometer, originally built by Aerodyne Research in 2002 and customized by NOAA CSL. It measures non-refractory submicron aerosol composition (sulfate, nitrate, ammonium, chloride, organics) in…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Intellectual Property
Electric field mill with a rotor/shaft grounding path through a bearing packed with conductive grease, a removable bearing washer, peak-detection digital signal processing, and a GPS-disciplined sampling clock with cellular connectivity…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools
Composite time series of daily full-disk integrated solar irradiance at 121–122 nm (dominated by H I 121.6 nm) from multiple instruments and models, scaled to SORCE SOLSTICE reference levels at 1 AU; version 4, 1947 to present.
Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (NTIA ITS)Data & Digital Tools
Compound Radar Waveforms Data used by NTIA/ITS report TR-23-566 on the effects of resolution bandwidth when measuring compound radar waveforms, published on GitHub.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Photomixing THz spectrometer combining a fixed cw Ti:sapphire ring laser and a tunable Ti:sapphire laser on a low-temperature-grown Er:GaAs photomixer to generate up to ~5 µW from 0.06 to 4 THz, with cryogenic samples at 4.2 K and a…
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Capabilities & Access
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere vision and mission: interdisciplinary atmospheric research linking NOAA research scientists with Colorado State University staff, faculty and students, moving research between pure and…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
NIST's CRADA mechanism under 15 U.S.C. 3710a for joint R&D with non-federal (especially U.S. industry) collaborators, at NIST or the partner's lab; NIST contributes personnel, facilities and equipment but no funds, protects CRADA…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Data & Digital Tools
CU Scholar dataset for two tests: a static-target test with raw files from Google Pixel 6 smartphones and a dynamic drone test with two .mat files generated from raw smartphone data, plus MATLAB scripts that compute the solutions (Ryan,…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
Compact spaceborne magnetic observatory CubeSat (Smead, LASP, CIRES) for efficient high-resolution magnetic-field data; launched Mar. 30, 2026 on SpaceX Transporter 16; funded via the NGA MagQuest Competition and a CU Boulder Grand…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
K-Cor: an internally occulted refractive coronagraph recording polarization brightness of the low corona (1.05–3 solar radii) at 15 s cadence to study CME formation and coronal density; deployed to the Mauna Loa Solar Observatory in…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
Colorado Student Space Weather Experiment CubeSat studying links between solar flares and energetic particles; launched 9/13/2012 on NASA ELaNa VI, operated to 12/22/2014 (mission success); 20 peer-reviewed papers and 3 PhDs; PI Xinlin Li;…
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Data & Digital Tools
Container environment (Dockerfile multistage build) that obtains and builds EMOSLIB, ecCodes and FFTW for working with the ECMWF Nature Run (ECO1280) data files.
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Data & Digital Tools
mini_cfg, a minimal, dependency-free Python library for storing configuration information in dataclasses without assumptions about code structure; MIT License.
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Data & Digital Tools
tcprimedapi, a CIRA API that pulls TC PRIMED tropical cyclone files based on user requests; BSD-3-Clause license.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
Daniel Murphy, program lead for Aerosol Properties & Processes at NOAA CSL, working on single particle mass spectrometry, the global energy budget, cold-cloud microphysics and the stratospheric aerosol layer.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Data & Digital Tools
Dataset (via Globus, stored on CU Research Computing PetaLibrary) supporting a paper on the CU team's DARPA SubT Challenge system: an independent single-agent autonomy stack on quadruped and wheeled robots with mission management over a…
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Data & Digital Tools
Data for a study of continuous recoil-driven lasing and cavity frequency pinning with laser-cooled atoms interacting with an optical cavity field, a platform for quantum sensing and quantum simulation; 2 downloadable files.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Figure data (MATLAB files) for an Applied Optics paper describing a compact frequency-comb optical time-transfer and ranging node (14 L, 10 kg, 46 W) tested over a 4.4 km free-space testbed, showing potential for sub-femtosecond clock…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Figure data supporting the manuscript on a time-programmable frequency comb and its application to quantum-limited dual-comb ranging (arXiv 2205.01147), from NIST's Spectrum Technology and Research Division.
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Physical Infrastructure
CIRA's Data Processing Centers for NASA's CloudSat and INCUS missions. The CloudSat DPC processes the 94 GHz radar's reflectivity into cloud microphysics, precipitation and cloud radiative products and has distributed more than 105 million…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Data showing increased instantaneous bandwidth of Rydberg-atom RF receivers using a probe optical frequency comb and two-photon EIT on the cesium 56D5/2 state, with modulation sidebands read on each comb tooth (supports arXiv 2402.17942).
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
David W. Fahey, Director of the NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory in Boulder, a physicist leading research on atmospheric chemistry, climate and the ozone layer.
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Deep sky imagery from the 0.6 m SITH telescope at the VADeR Observatory, including observations at ~11:20 UTC on April 9, 2026 of the Artemis 2 Integrity spacecraft returning to Earth after its lunar flyby.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Final, calibrated low-rate (1 sample/s) navigation, state-parameter and microphysics flight-level data from the NSF/NCAR HIAPER GV aircraft during the DEEPWAVE project (May–July 2014), in NCAR/RAF netCDF format with DGPS merged and…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Capabilities & Access
Professor (RECUV, CCAR) and director of the RF & SatNav lab; research in RF signal processing, RF interference, integrated navigation systems and VHF modulation; ION Fellow (2022) and Thurlow Award (2009).
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
NSF NCAR computing for the research community: Derecho, an HPE Cray EX supercomputer (19.87 petaflops, 20% GPU capability) housed with the GLADE storage system at the NSF NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center, plus data analysis and…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
EOL engineering and machine-shop group providing engineering design and fabrication services to support development of scientific instrumentation for observational research projects.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Intellectual Property
Patent publication for a system that forecasts when and where solar flares will occur. It masks an image of the solar disk, builds an intensity histogram, stores full-disk images and sub-images of possible pre-flare signature sites, and…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Intellectual Property
U.S. patent 12,061,287 B2 "Differential Absorption Lidar for Profiling Temperature", issued 2024-08-13; NCAR/UCAR inventor(s) Stillwell, Robert; Spuler, Scott; Hayman, Matthew; Repasky, Kevin S. (EOL). Listed on UCAR's current-patents page…
Aerospace Propulsion and Diagnostics Laboratory (CSU APDL)Physical Infrastructure
APDL's direct-connect solid-fuel ramjet (SFRJ) testing platform, developed in an industry-sponsored project on laser ignition, fuel formulation and aerodynamic flame stabilization in high-speed flow; it demonstrated stable ignition and…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Channel-power and occupancy-rate measurements made by NIST during the COVID-19 pandemic at 13 residential telework sites and a local hospital, covering cellular bands below 1 GHz and unlicensed 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz WLAN/WPAN bands.
Center for Laser Sensing and Diagnostics (CSU CLSD)Capabilities & Access
Dr. Azer P. Yalin, director of the CSU Center for Laser Sensing and Diagnostics (about 10 student researchers) and of the CSU NASA Space Grant program; Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University.
United States Air Force Academy Aeronautics Research Center (USAFA ARC)Capabilities & Access
Dr. Casey Fagley, USAFA aeronautical research engineer working on computational and experimental fluid dynamics, closed-loop aerodynamic flow control, control of large aeroelastic systems, nonlinear systems, reduced-order modeling and…
Aerospace Propulsion and Diagnostics Laboratory (CSU APDL)Capabilities & Access
Dr. Ciprian Dumitrache, CSU Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering improving aerospace propulsion performance with plasma-assisted combustion, ultrafast laser diagnostics and computational fluid dynamics; Ph.D. Colorado State…
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Capabilities & Access
Dr. John M. Haynes, CIRA researcher in clouds and precipitation remote sensing who leads NOAA's GeoXO science expertise project at CIRA, co-leads the OVERCAST project sponsored by the Office of Naval Research and develops algorithms for…
University of Colorado Colorado Springs College of Engineering and Applied Science space programs (UCCS engineering space programs)Capabilities & Access
Dr. Josué Cardoso dos Santos, UCCS assistant professor in celestial mechanics, astrodynamics, space exploration and missions, dynamical astronomy and history of science.
United States Air Force Academy High Performance Computing Research Center (USAFA HPCRC)Capabilities & Access
Dr. Jurgen Seidel, Director of the High Performance Computing Research Center at the United States Air Force Academy, Department of Aeronautics; Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, University of Arizona.
University of Colorado Colorado Springs College of Engineering and Applied Science space programs (UCCS engineering space programs)Capabilities & Access
Dr. Lynnane George, Associate Professor of Teaching in UCCS Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, working in space systems, STEM education and robotics; PhD in Mechanical Engineering.
United States Air Force Academy Aeronautics Research Center (USAFA ARC)Capabilities & Access
Dr. Matthew Munson, Director of the USAFA Aeronautics Research Center; Ph.D. in Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology.
Hypersonic Vehicle Simulation Institute (USAFA HVSI)Capabilities & Access
Dr. Russ Cummings, USAFA professor of aeronautics and director of the DoD HPC Modernization Program’s Hypersonic Vehicle Simulation Institute, which stood up in 2018.
United States Air Force Academy Aeronautics Research Center (USAFA ARC)Capabilities & Access
Dr. Steve Brandt, discipline director for aircraft and jet engine design in the USAFA Department of Aeronautics, teaching aircraft design, performance, stability, control and flight testing, and researching flight mechanics and…
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Capabilities & Access
Dr. Steven J. Fletcher FRMetS, CIRA research scientist with over 20 years in non-Gaussian data assimilation, deriving lognormal and mixed Gaussian-lognormal variational, ensemble and Kalman filter based systems; Fellow of the Royal…
University of Colorado Colorado Springs College of Engineering and Applied Science space programs (UCCS engineering space programs)Capabilities & Access
Dr. Steven Tragesser, UCCS professor in spaceflight mechanics researching satellite formations, tethered satellite formations, proximity operations and orbital maneuvering with electrodynamic tethers; doctorate from Purdue University.
University of Denver Unmanned Systems Research Institute (DU USRI)Capabilities & Access
University of Denver Unmanned Systems Research Institute (DU2SRI), established in November 2012 to advance unmanned systems research, development and education, with a vision of collaborating with Spaceport Colorado on Unmanned Aircraft…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Zeiss Auriga dual-beam instrument combining Ga focused-ion-beam milling/deposition (~10 nm patterning) with field-emission SEM imaging and EDS; used for atom-probe and TEM sample preparation, nanofabrication of probe tips and…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
Dusty plasma research at LASP's IMPACT institute (a SSERVI member), covering charged dust in space and laboratory plasmas, dust acoustic waves and plasma instabilities, through laboratory investigations, rocket experiments and spacecraft…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP studies Earth's atmosphere and climate from space (about a third of its research portfolio), from the troposphere to the thermosphere, using space instruments, rockets, aircraft campaigns, balloons and models; topics include radiation…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
A CIRES center for data-intensive, open and reproducible environmental science, focused on extreme and natural hazards, adaptation science, Earth data across scales, teaching and learning Earth data science, Earth analytics and landscape…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
A CIRES research center dedicated to understanding the Earth system, primarily through air- and space-based remote sensing. Its groups cover lidar, cold clouds and sea ice, water and climate, natural hazards, Greenland hazards and sea…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
A package from Earth Lab and the North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center for downloading downscaled past and future climate data (MACA Version 2) through a USGS API, and organizing it for visualization and analysis.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
An Earth Lab package that simplifies plotting and manipulating raster and vector spatial data: stacking and cropping bands, masking clouds, plotting RGB images, bands and histograms, and calculating vegetation indices and hillshades. Built…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
A command-line tool that classifies fire events from the Collection 6 MODIS Burned Area Product. A user-set space-time window groups burn detections into discrete events, and the tool outputs data tables and shapefiles of event and daily…
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Data & Digital Tools
ECMWF Nature Run (ECO1280) hosted by CIRA/CSU: a single uninterrupted 14-month (10248-h) forecast on the 9-km cubic octahedral O1280 grid made with IFS cycle 43r1 of the operational ECMWF global model; researchers request an account from…
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Physical Infrastructure
Edwards 306 e-beam evaporator in the JILA Keck Lab for thin film coatings of gold, silver, platinum, titanium, chromium, copper, cobalt, nickel, aluminum and other metals, accepting up to 4 coating materials per run; training on request or…
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Physical Infrastructure
JILA Electronics Shop, whose electrical engineers design, build and troubleshoot custom analog and digital devices, specializing in FPGA and reprogrammable circuitry and low-noise circuits, with a component storeroom and a loan pool of…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
AES electronics shop with data acquisition and sensors, ICs, advanced soldering, pick-and-place, a reflow oven, specialized power supplies and oscilloscopes; workshops via Aeroportal.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Physical Infrastructure
Emirates Mars Ultraviolet Spectrometer, a far ultraviolet spectrometer jointly developed by LASP and the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) to determine the abundance and variability of carbon monoxide and oxygen in the Martian…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
A magnetic model compiled from satellite, marine, aeromagnetic and ground surveys. EMM2017 includes ESA Swarm satellite data and a crustal field from EMAG2-v3 at 2-arcminute resolution (degree and order 790), is valid 2000–2022, and comes…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
ESIIL enables a global community of environmental data scientists to use environmental data and emerging analytics to develop science-based solutions in biology and other environmental sciences, through team science, collaborative…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
Scalable EOL services for atmospheric field programs: data management (including the Field Catalog), tiered project-management and operations support (planning, land leases, permits, logistics, operations plans), and operations-center and…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
Epilog Fusion M2 - Laser Cutter in the PILOT (AERO 141) rapid-prototyping area; Bed size 812 × 508 mm; bring your own material; use by special request.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Physical Infrastructure
A vacufuge concentrator (Make/Model 5305) with plate and microcentrifuge tube rotors, in the CIRES Fierer lab. Open to the home department and all university users, and to academic and national lab users case by case.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
ECMWF ERA5, the fifth-generation global atmospheric reanalysis (successor to ERA-Interim), produced with 4D-Var data assimilation in IFS cycle CY41r2 at 31 km and interpolated to 37 pressure levels plus surface fields; hourly data from…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Repository for the Community Atmosphere Model, with officially supported branches for the CESM2.2 and CESM2.1 CAM releases and an unsupported development branch; components are managed with git-fleximod.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Physical Infrastructure
Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment on SDO, which measures the solar EUV irradiance spectrum (0.1 nm resolution, 20 s cadence, 25% accuracy requirement) with grating spectrographs and array detectors plus on-board calibration…
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Event camera recordings of satellites, such as a sidereally tracked recording of the mirror-covered geodesy satellite Ajisai glinting in ~10 millisecond flashes, and two GEO satellites (AMC21 and Galaxy 30) collected with a 0.2 m…
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Data & Digital Tools
Data set for the study of N-terminal mechanical lability as a determinant for Type III secretion, examining how effector proteins of Gram-negative pathogens are unfolded to pass the narrow (~2 nm) T3SS channel; 7 downloadable files, CC0…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Data & Digital Tools
Spreadsheet of Mars upper-atmosphere densities measured by the ExoMars TGO accelerometer during aerobraking (from 8 Sept 2017), with altitude, local solar time, latitude/longitude, MarsGRAM05 model densities, 5 s and 40 s-smoothed measured…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
Fellowships bringing early-career scientists and faculty to NSF NCAR: ASP Postdoctoral Fellowships, the HAO Newkirk Fellowship for graduate students, and RAL's Najeeb E. Halaby Fellowship with the Aviation Weather Research Program.
Center for Laser Sensing and Diagnostics (CSU CLSD)Intellectual Property
US patent 7,340,129 B2 for a fiber-laser-coupled optical spark delivery system that generates a spark from a laser beam delivered through a hollow fiber and launch focusing optics; inventors Yalin, Willson, Defoort, Joshi and Reynolds.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Data & Digital Tools
Figure data (data.zip) for a JGR-Planets paper by D. J. Scheeres on how particle ejection contributes to the rotational acceleration and orbit evolution of asteroid Bennu; the landing page has no abstract.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
Event-level and daily-level fire polygons for Argentina from the FIRED (fire event delineation) product, November 2000 to December 2024. Derived from the MODIS MCD64A1 burned area product with the firedpy algorithm, using 5-pixel/3-day and…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
Data files and plotting scripts (MATLAB or IDL format) supporting a Journal of Geophysical Research article on lidar observations of quasi-biennial-oscillation-induced interannual variations of gravity wave potential energy density at…
Center for Laser Sensing and Diagnostics (CSU CLSD)Physical Infrastructure
Fixed-wing and rotor drones used by CLSD as platforms for atmospheric sensing.
United States Air Force Academy Aeronautics Research Center (USAFA ARC)Capabilities & Access
Flight testing of small air vehicles in USAFA-controlled airspace, including field tests of wind-tunnel concepts on "test mules" and small vehicles designed and built in-house.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
Route for foreign national associates to work directly with NIST staff on mission-relevant projects, supported by their home institution, bilateral programs or researcher-to-researcher collaboration; NIST may give a modest living allowance…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
Formlabs - Resin/UV 3D printer (x1) in the PILOT (AERO 141) rapid-prototyping area; Print size 145 × 145 × 185 mm; 1 unit; pay for printing; use by special request.
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
Fluid Processing Apparatus (FPA), an enclosed test tube for controlled, sequential mixing of two to four fluids (6.5 mL total) in microgravity within NASA containment standards, grouped in GAP units; flown since STS-50 in 1992.
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Intellectual Property
US patent 7,538,881 B2 for frequency comb cavity enhanced spectroscopy: a broadband optical frequency comb coupled to a high-finesse optical cavity holding a sample gas, with the output dispersed into many data channels; inventors Ye,…
University of Denver Unmanned Systems Research Institute (DU USRI)Intellectual Property
US patent 10,145,950 B2 for a frequency shift keyed continuous wave radar for target detection and avoidance, with a microwave front end, analog signal conditioning and digital signal processing modules; assignee Colorado Seminary.
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
Freezer / Refrigerator / Incubator Device for Galley and Experimentation (FRIDGE), a middeck locker-sized unit using thermoelectric elements from -20.0 °C to +48.0 °C for crew galley items and research onboard the ISS.
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Physical Infrastructure
FSM-100P fusion fiber splicer in the JILA Keck Lab, with a how-to video for users.
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)Capabilities & Access
Geospace Data Science Lab research on forecasting near-Earth space conditions for radio communication, navigation and satellite tracking, developing scalable data assimilation, inversion and machine learning methods for geophysical systems.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
SWPC Geospace Geomagnetic Activity Plot showing real-time solar wind propagated from L1 to the University of Michigan Geospace model boundary and the model forecasts of Kp and Dst compared with observed values.
United States Geological Survey National Civil Applications Center (USGS NCAC)Data & Digital Tools
Global Fiducials Library: a long-term archive of images from U.S. National Imagery Systems giving a periodic record of selected scientifically important sites, covering ocean processes, ice and snow dynamics, atmospheric processes, land…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
GML Global Radiation, Aerosols and Clouds division researching Earth surface and atmospheric radiation budgets and aerosol climate forcing, with long-term radiation, meteorological and aerosol measurements.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
GloTEC global total electron content model output, indicating possible GNSS outages and reductions in HF communications, with real-time data available in NetCDF and JSON.
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)Data & Digital Tools
CU Boulder's open-source software-defined radio collection: code bases for processing GNSS signals (GPS, GAL, GLO and BDS folders), with sample data sets.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
GOES X-ray flux plots of 1-minute averages of solar X-rays in the 0.05–0.4 and 0.1–0.8 nm bands, used to track solar flares that can black out HF radio on the sunlit side of Earth; archive files on the SWPC warehouse FTP.
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Capabilities & Access
RAMMB research on the GOES-R series of NOAA geostationary weather satellites, whose Advanced Baseline Imager gives 5x the temporal, 4x the spatial and 3x the spectral resolution of the previous imager and whose Geostationary Lightning…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Physical Infrastructure
Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk ultraviolet imaging spectrograph, which images Earth’s disk every half hour to map temperature and composition in the sunlit thermosphere and electron density in the nighttime ionosphere,…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
NIST Time and Frequency Division participation in GPS-based time-transfer experiments and programs (one-way, common-view and carrier-phase techniques) for national and international clock comparisons, including an International GNSS…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP Senior Research Scientist and solar physicist; science team member on CTIM (next-generation total solar irradiance monitoring); 2021 Jack E. Cermak Medal from the American Society of Civil Engineers.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
NSF NCAR distinguished scholar and former director of NCAR's Atmospheric Chemistry Division; expertise in middle-atmosphere photochemistry, chemistry–climate relations, stratospheric ozone, global air pollution and air-quality prediction;…
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Data & Digital Tools
Data for Hamiltonian engineering of collective XYZ spin models in an optical cavity, from one-axis twisting to two-axis counter-twisting, for quantum simulation and entangled-state generation; CC BY 4.0.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Capabilities & Access
Distinguished Professor and Glenn Murphy Endowed Chair (CCAR), NAE member (2025); research in orbital mechanics, relative motion and attitude dynamics and control, charged astrodynamics, astrodynamics simulation software and autonomous…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Maskless optical lithography tool in the Boulder Microfabrication Facility that writes patterns directly onto substrates (1 cm chips to 150 mm wafers) with a 375 nm or 405 nm laser at 0.9 µm resolution, shortening prototyping by…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
Airborne, polarimetric, millimeter-wavelength (94.4 GHz) cloud radar in an underwing pod of the NSF/NCAR HIAPER GV, with a rotatable reflector for 240° cross-track scanning or zenith/nadir staring; provides reflectivity, velocity and…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
HAO visitor program offering short-term visits with financial support for students, postdocs and established researchers (including sabbaticals) in solar, solar-terrestrial and related physics, with access to HAO and NCAR computing,…
United States Air Force Academy High Performance Computing Research Center (USAFA HPCRC)Capabilities & Access
USAFA High Performance Computing Research Center providing local and remote HPC resources, high-speed network access and the expertise to use them, with expertise in CFD, unsteady flows, full aircraft simulation, fluid-structure…
United States Air Force Academy High Performance Computing Research Center (USAFA HPCRC)Physical Infrastructure
HPCRC computing resources for USAFA faculty, staff and cadets: access to DoD supercomputing, local computer and storage systems, high-speed networking and DREN access for all DF research centers.
United States Air Force Academy High Performance Computing Research Center (USAFA HPCRC)Capabilities & Access
HPCRC computational research, with the Aeronautics Research Center, combining experiment and simulation for massively separated flows and turbulence modeling, reduced-order stability and control modeling, fluid-thermal-structure…
Hypersonic Vehicle Simulation Institute (USAFA HVSI)Capabilities & Access
HVSI research area on improved turbulence models for hypersonic flight simulation, including experiments that provide validation data for these models.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Intellectual Property
Localizes radio-frequency interference (RFI) emitters that disrupt GNSS receivers by fusing location estimates from two or more localization techniques for better accuracy than any single method. Inventors Akos, Blay, Shivaramaiah;…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
PSL Hydrology Applications division applying weather and climate research to water management, precipitation, drought, flooding and wildfire.
United States Air Force Academy Aeronautics Research Center (USAFA ARC)Physical Infrastructure
Hypersonic Mach 6 Ludwieg Tube at USAFA: a 0.5 m diameter, 35 m tunnel testing at up to six times the speed of sound to show how hypersonic shapes heat up, used by cadets for hypersonic testing.
Hypersonic Vehicle Simulation Institute (USAFA HVSI)Capabilities & Access
Hypersonic Vehicle Simulation Institute, a national effort managed from the U.S. Air Force Academy and sponsored by the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program, bringing together DoD, DOE, NASA, industry and university…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Physical Infrastructure
Interstellar Dust Experiment on IMAP, a time-of-flight dust impact ionization mass spectrometer that measures the elemental composition, speed and mass distributions of interstellar and interplanetary dust particles.
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Capabilities & Access
Imme Ebert-Uphoff, CIRA machine learning scientist since July 2019 and Research Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at CSU, CSU lead for the NSF AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate and Coastal…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Physical Infrastructure
IMPACT laboratory housing a 3 MV linear electrostatic dust accelerator (Pelletron) that launches micron and submicron particles to velocities approaching 100 km/s for impact research and calibration of space dust instruments; the lab…
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Data & Digital Tools
Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE), a long-term monitoring program started in 1985 under the Clean Air Act to establish visibility conditions, track changes and find the causes of visibility impairment in…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Intellectual Property
SHEEP technique that reconstructs a full interferometer fringe from several phase set points to extract small rotation rates in point-source atom interferometer gyroscopes, for future inertial navigation systems. NIST inventors Kitching,…
Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (NTIA ITS)Capabilities & Access
Institute for Telecommunication Sciences, the research and engineering laboratory of NTIA in the U.S. Department of Commerce, running NTIA's telecommunications research programs and the Table Mountain Field Site and Radio Quiet Zone, with…
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Physical Infrastructure
JILA Instrument Shop, whose instrument makers design and fabricate precise scientific instruments such as custom mounts, chambers and precision mechanical devices using CNC vertical machining centers and mills and tool-room lathes;…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP develops custom instrument and detector technology for remote sensing and in-situ sampling: low-noise and intensified CCD imagers, dust and particle detectors, field DSP electronics, stable silicon photodiodes, an electrometer ASIC…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Physical Infrastructure
The CIRES/Chemistry Integrated Instrument Development Facility combines design, precision machine, electronics and scientific glassblowing shops for complete scientific instrument development, from concept to testing. It serves customers…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
Deployable lower-atmosphere observing system combining radiosondes, radar wind profilers (449/915/1290 MHz) with RASS, a scanning Doppler wind lidar, ceilometers, an infrared spectrometer and surface meteorology; deployable in standard,…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
Deployable surface observing system for atmosphere–surface exchange studies, combining a network of surface weather stations with intensive single-site micrometeorological tower arrays; measures fluxes by eddy correlation, radiation, soil…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Physical Infrastructure
A computer-controlled whole air sampling system (bellows compressor plus rack-mounted modules of twelve 1.4 L electropolished stainless steel canisters) that collects samples for offline GC-MS analysis aboard research aircraft and mobile…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Intellectual Property
U.S. patent 9,952,031 "Interferometer", issued 2018-04-24; NCAR/UCAR inventor(s) Hannigan, James; Mankin, William (ACOM). Listed on UCAR's current-patents page as available for licensing; no further detail on the page.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Physical Infrastructure
A modified TOFWERK/Aerodyne time-of-flight chemical ionization mass spectrometer that uses iodide adduct formation to detect reactive nitrogen (HONO, N2O5, HNCO), halogen, sulphur (HPMTF) and organic species such as formic acid, with…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
NIST group (founded and led to 2017 by Nobel laureate Dave Wineland) that traps atomic and molecular ions in electromagnetic traps and controls them with lasers and fields for quantum information science and precision measurement,…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
ILThermo (v2.0), NIST Standard Reference Database #147, a database of ionic-liquid properties; the cached page is a minimal shell with only the title and copyright line.
Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (NTIA ITS)Capabilities & Access
ITS agreements for outside work: Interagency Agreements (IAAs) for other federal agencies' telecommunications and spectrum research needs and Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) with industry and academia.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Physical Infrastructure
The Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph on the MAVEN spacecraft measures global characteristics of the Mars upper atmosphere and ionosphere by remote sensing, including major molecules, atoms, ions and isotopes, exobase and ionosphere…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Capabilities & Access
Distinguished Professor and Helen and Hubert Croft Professor (CCAR; Space Weather Technology, Research and Education Center); research on GNSS receiver technology for navigation in challenging environments and remote sensing of the…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
Smaller LifeLAB thermal vacuum chamber, donated by Sierra Nevada Corporation, for small-scale testing of spaceflight components; cools to about −190 °C, reaches 2×10⁻⁶ torr, 3–4 h experiment cycle; used to study lunar dust effects on…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and CIRES Fellow who combines observations and models to understand how radiation, clouds, precipitation and sea ice affect the coupled climate system. Her work includes the NASA PREFIRE…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Electron-beam lithography tool in the Boulder Microfabrication Facility allowing wafer-level lithography of features as small as 8 nm, with 1000x better position registration and write speed than the previous tool; supports quantum…
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Physical Infrastructure
JILA Computing Services, operating JILA servers and two small computational clusters for quantum chemistry and molecular modeling software, supporting use of the CU supercomputer with CU Research Computing, and running a computer lab with…
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Physical Infrastructure
JILA Keck Lab, made up of the W.M. Keck Optical Measurements Laboratory and the JILA Micro and Nanofabrication Facility, with a cleanroom, a metrology room and a fume hood/wafer dicing room; instruments are reserved online, and users can…
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Capabilities & Access
Keck Lab usage rules for JILA, CU, NIST and outside users: online equipment reservation, tablet sign-in, trained users only, cleanroom gowning for the Class 1000 (ISO 6) and Class 100 (ISO 5) areas, required EH&S certification, and…
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Capabilities & Access
JILA Keck Lab services: surface metrology (roughness, step heights, feature dimensions), optical properties characterization, metal and dielectric coatings, optical coating design (mirrors, DBRs, bandpass filters), microfabrication up to…
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Physical Infrastructure
JILA Micro and Nanofabrication Facility: a suite of Class 1000 (ISO 6) and Class 100 (ISO 5) cleanrooms for micro and nano fabrication, with optical microscopes, PVD, spin and sputter coating systems, scanning electron microscopes and a…
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Capabilities & Access
NSF-sponsored JILA Physics Frontier Center bringing together 20 investigators to harness light-matter interactions and control diverse quantum systems, spanning many-body quantum matter, novel light sources and molecules, with partnerships…
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Capabilities & Access
JILA research across the physical sciences, including precision quantum measurement of time, length, electromagnetic fields and gravity and the control of complex quantum interactions.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
Joshua (Shuka) Schwarz, NOAA CSL physicist researching black carbon (soot) aerosol, its mixing state and deposition in snow; participated in KORUS-AQ.
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Capabilities & Access
Checkout and validation of Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) EDR Imagery from the NASA/NOAA Joint Polar Satellite System by the NESDIS/StAR VIIRS Imagery and Visualization Team, with user guides, quick guides and orbit…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
Senior scientist at NSIDC specializing in cryosphere remote sensing. She improves satellite retrievals of sea ice thickness and snow depth, studies the impacts of sea ice loss, and does Arctic and Antarctic fieldwork, including radar work…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP tenure-track faculty member researching exoplanets and their host stars, protoplanetary disks and ultraviolet astrophysics instrumentation; PI of the CUTE SmallSat and the ESCAPE mission concept, HWO CSIT member, sounding-rocket PI…
University of Denver Unmanned Systems Research Institute (DU USRI)Capabilities & Access
Kimon P. Valavanis, John Evans Professor, Director of Research and Innovation at the D. F. Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science and Founding Director of the Unmanned Systems Research Institute, researching unmanned systems,…
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Data & Digital Tools
LABRAD tools for KRb experimental control, adapted from the JILA Sr experiment, with servers and clients for cameras, DDS, AWGs, sequencers, wavemeters, LabJack, GPIB and other lab hardware; MIT licence.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Capabilities & Access
Prof. Robert Marshall's LAIR group (people page): research staff and students building electronics and mechanical systems for CubeSats (CANVAS, COSMO, AEPEX), VLF and ground-sensor campaigns (VIPER, AVID), particle-precipitation modeling…
Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (NTIA ITS)Physical Infrastructure
Large Turntable at Table Mountain: a 10.4 m (34 ft) rotatable steel table mounted flush with the ground, with laboratory space underneath for test instrumentation and the control equipment and motors.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Laser-induced fluorescence instrument for sulfur dioxide developed at NOAA CSL since 2015 using fiber laser technology, measuring SO2 at parts-per-trillion levels (detection limit 5 pptv in 1 s) with 5 Hz airborne time response; built for…
Center for Laser Sensing and Diagnostics (CSU CLSD)Intellectual Property
US patent application 2021/0349013 A1 for laser sensing of trace gases: determining species concentration from optical loss data collected over a range of frequencies with a spectroscopy system; inventor Azer P. Yalin.
Center for Laser Sensing and Diagnostics (CSU CLSD)Capabilities & Access
Laser Thomson scattering measurements of electron properties in Hall thruster plasmas, supporting high-power, long-life thruster development.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP Calibration and Testing ("Cal Group") engineers recommend instrument architectures and select detectors and optics, then verify assembled instruments through component testing, shake testing, bake-out and exhaustive performance…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP runs day-to-day operations for dozens of NASA spacecraft and instruments from several in-house mission operations centers, using mission-tailored command-and-control software and 40+ years of operations experience; it also trains and…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP data systems experts design software to create and manage mission science data centers, the community portals for mission data products and tools; LASP manages the science data centers for AIM, MAVEN, MMS and the upcoming IMAP mission.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
Full-cycle SmallSat development from CubeSats to ESPA-class spacecraft: mission and systems engineering, custom instruments and payloads, AI&T with environmental testing (thermal, vibration, EMI/EMC), cleanroom integration, flight…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Physical Infrastructure
ISO Class 7 cleanroom space for assembly, integration and test (AI&T) of spaceflight hardware for external customers, with humidity and temperature control, ESD floors, ISO Class 5 flow benches, overhead cranes, and clean nitrogen purge;…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
Web inquiry form for external projects seeking LASP engineering test facilities (thermal vacuum, bake-out tanks, ambient pressure chambers, cleanroom space, other), asking for contact details, test type and start time-frame; an engineer…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
Production and fabrication services for precision aerospace hardware to NASA standards, covering parts fabrication, precision cleaning, electrical and mechanical assembly, polymerics and painting, and metrology verification, delivered in…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools
Component-based, model-driven framework for building reliable, reusable embedded real-time software, first developed for spacecraft flight software at LASP; models in a YAML-based DSL generate structural code, documentation, unit test…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools
Python module to read and write NASA Common Data Format (.cdf) files without installing the NASA CDF library; the core uses only numpy and needs Python 3.9 or later.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools
Python library for SPICE extensions and geospatial data product generation: wrappers for SPICE routines, automated SPICE kernel creation from JSON definition files, and Level-1 geospatial processing such as geolocation.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools
Python routines for IUVS science: tools for reading and manipulating IUVS data, standardized projections of IUVS data, and integration with spiceyPy; installable from a clone with pip.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools
Astrodynamics simulation framework with installation guides for macOS, Linux and Windows, tutorial scenarios (starting with scenarioBasicOrbit.py), support for custom modules, and an optional Vizard 3D visualization.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools
Middleware and software library that implements the LaTiS Functional Data Model to describe and manipulate scientific datasets in a common way, with extensible readers and writers, relational-algebra operations, and a standards-based web…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Physical Infrastructure
NASA Libera radiometer instrument, four co-aligned electrical substitution radiometers with carbon-nanotube absorbers on elevation and azimuth scan mechanisms, to monitor Earth’s radiative energy budget and continue the CERES data record;…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Cameca LEAP 4000x Si atom probe that field-evaporates tip specimens with voltage and laser pulses into a position-sensitive time-of-flight mass spectrometer, giving 3D composition with near-ppm sensitivity and sub-nm position accuracy;…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
GML LOGOS division making long-term measurements of gases that affect climate, stratospheric ozone and human health, mainly from discrete samples collected worldwide.
United States Air Force Academy Aeronautics Research Center (USAFA ARC)Physical Infrastructure
USAFA low-speed (M < 0.1) and subsonic (up to Mach 0.6) wind tunnels with modern force and moment measurement, used to investigate air-vehicle modifications and new aircraft and UAS designs.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Core software of LROSE, the Lidar Radar Open Software Environment, a CSU–NCAR EOL cooperative project funded by NSF: libraries and applications (including the Radx library and dual-polarization apps) with RPM/DEB/Homebrew installs and…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
LROSE page listing radar/lidar data formats in native polar coordinates supported by the Radx library (read/write), and describing the standardized self-describing formats used, chiefly CfRadial (CF-convention NetCDF for radar moments) and…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP lunar science, including Electron Beam Dust Mitigation (EBDM), first demonstrated at the IMPACT lab, which uses an electron beam to charge and repel dust from surfaces; a TRL 5 prototype exists and the method can clean lunar rocks for…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
AES machine shops: AERO 155 for metals (CNC knee and vertical mills, 4-axis CNC lathe, welding, brazing, hazardous testing room AERO 169) and AERO 152 for wood and composites (lay-up area, composites oven, paint and sanding booths, powder…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
NCEI geomagnetism web calculators for declination, U.S. historic declination, magnetic field and magnetic field component grids, plus a compass correction tool.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP research on the magnetospheres of Jupiter and Saturn: solar wind interaction, Io and Enceladus plasma sources, auroral emissions, and comparison of models with Cassini and Juno particle data.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
CIRES Senior Research Scientist in Geomagnetism working with NOAA’s NCEI. He develops and evaluates models of Earth’s magnetic field (crustal structure, time-varying disturbances, navigation and surveying uncertainty) and leads the…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Capabilities & Access
Joseph T. Negler Professor and Hatfield Endowed Professor in Space Policy & Law (CCAR); research in space situational awareness, information theory, estimation, optimal control, reachability and decision theory, autonomy and robotics.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
NCAR senior scientist emerita in boundary-layer meteorology: surface–cloud interactions, roll vortices and coherent structures, tropical mesoscale convective systems, ~25 field programs (GATE, TOGA COARE, CASES), and evaluation of WRF…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
A Chemistry/CIRES research group studying atmospheric heterogeneous chemistry: aerosols and clouds in the stratosphere and troposphere, their effects on ozone, climate and visibility, and aerosols on early Earth, Mars and Titan. The work…
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Capabilities & Access
Mark DeMaria, CIRA senior research scientist in tropical and satellite meteorology developing tropical cyclone analysis and forecast methods with satellite observations and estimating forecast uncertainty with ensembles and machine…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
MarkForged- Composite 3D printer (x1) in the PILOT (AERO 141) rapid-prototyping area; Print size 320 × 132 × 152 mm; 1 unit; pay for printing; use by special request.
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Physical Infrastructure
Picomaster maskless laser writer in the JILA Keck Lab for direct-write photolithography, currently fitted with a 375 nm optical module and supporting backside alignment from GDS files; usage is charged on a tiered rate schedule.
University of Colorado Colorado Springs College of Engineering and Applied Science space programs (UCCS engineering space programs)Capabilities & Access
Online 30-credit Master of Engineering in Space Operations at UCCS for working professionals in civil, military or commercial space operations, space systems requirements and design, payload and mission support and space systems analysis.
University of Denver Unmanned Systems Research Institute (DU USRI)Capabilities & Access
Matt J. Rutherford, DU professor of Computer Science with a joint appointment in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Deputy Director of the Unmanned Systems Research Institute, working in autonomous systems, embedded systems and…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Atmospheric research observatory on the north flank of Mauna Loa Volcano on Hawaii's Big Island, at 3,397 m, that has continuously monitored atmospheric change since the 1950s. It sits above the marine temperature inversion, so it samples…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
Smead/LASP CubeSat to demonstrate high-rate X-band communications in deep space; launch mid-2026; PI Scott Palo; US Air Force funded, winner of the Air Force University Nanosatellite Program UNP-9 competition; partners include Blue Canyon…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Intellectual Property
US patent 9,804,138 B2 for a compact detector measuring total reactive nitrogen (NOy), NO2, NO and O3 by laser diode cavity ring-down spectroscopy at 405 nm, with conversion of O3 and NO to NO2; inventors Brown, Dubé and Wild.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
WMO X2004A calibration scale for methane, expanded to a nominal 300–5000 ppb range with a multi-point calibration strategy and updated historical calibrations; based on primary standards prepared in 1991–1995.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Intellectual Property
U.S. patent 11,256,000 "Method and System for Determining Cloud Seeding Potential", issued 2022-02-22; NCAR/UCAR inventor(s) Xue, Lulin; Rasmussen, Roy; Tessendorf, Sarah (RAL). Listed on UCAR's current-patents page as available for…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Intellectual Property
Expired patent (filed 1987 by CIRES) for a post-column photochemical reaction that improves HPLC detection limits, to about 0.5–10 pg, for compounds absorbing at 240–800 nm. It uses singlet oxygen reactions with substituted furans, with UV…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Intellectual Property
US patent 11,415,859 B2 for methods and apparatus to detect atmospheric nitric oxide at signal levels that can distinguish NO isotopologues; inventor Andrew Rollins.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Intellectual Property
Granted US patent on cleaning dust from a substrate by irradiating the dust layer with an electron beam, so that secondary electrons charge neighboring particles and the resulting electrostatic repulsion ejects them from the surface;…
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Capabilities & Access
CIRA Meteorological Satellite (MetSat) applications team developing satellite products for research-to-operations use across satellite platforms, supporting RAMMB and NOAA partners on GOES-R and Suomi NPP/NOAA-20 product development and…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Micro-pulse Doppler (MicroDop) lidar for conical or vertical scanning of wind and aerosol backscatter profiles, packaged for aircraft, ship or ground use and installed in a pickup truck on a motion stabilization platform in 2020; 1.553 µm…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
MTP, a wing-mounted scanning microwave radiometer that measures oxygen thermal emission at 56–59 GHz at 10 viewing angles to retrieve temperature profiles above, below and at flight level, with in-flight reference-target calibration;…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
Miniature X-ray solar spectrometer CubeSat measuring the soft X-ray spectrum from 0.4 to 30 keV with <0.15 keV FWHM resolution; launched 12/6/2015 (ULA/Orbital-ATK OA-4), operated 2016–2017, deorbited 5/6/2017; PI Tom Woods; NSF and NASA…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
HAO's white-light K-coronameters at MLSO: Mark-III (1980–1999, linear-array scanning) and Mark-IV (from 1998, built with Rhodes College) with a liquid-crystal polarization modulator and CCD line array, producing polarization-brightness…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Intellectual Property
Patent for a fast digital light source tracker on a moving ground-based or airborne platform: two rotating mirrors, a lens, an imaging camera and a real-time motion compensation system. It can feed UV-Vis and FTIR spectrometers to measure…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Global model on a variable-resolution hexagonal (honeycomb) mesh that allows storm-resolving resolution where needed and coarser resolution elsewhere; NSF NCAR leads the atmospheric component, with community partners on ocean, land-ice and…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
A global daily composite of snow cover and albedo at 500 m resolution from MODIS on the Terra satellite, in 10°x10° tiles on a sinusoidal grid, from 24 February 2000 to the present.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Fully automated dual-chamber MBE system in NIST's Applied Physics Division for growing GaAs-, InP- and GaN-based compound semiconductor heterostructures with sub-nanometer thickness control, used for quantum dots, nanowires, lasers,…
United States Air Force Academy Aeronautics Research Center (USAFA ARC)Capabilities & Access
Mr. Timothy Siefers, USAFA research engineer and undergraduate research team leader since 2010, working on fluid-structure interactions of parachute systems and applied low-speed wind tunnel testing.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
APAR: an airborne C-band dual-polarization phased-array radar in development at NCAR, with four removable AESAs on the NSF/NCAR C-130 providing dual-Doppler, rapid-scan and digital-beamforming observations of storm kinematics and…
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Intellectual Property
US patent 6,831,935 B2 for staged synchronization of two pulsed radiation sources such as mode-locked lasers, first by repetition rate and then at finer stages; inventors Ye, Kapteyn, Hall, Shelton, Murnane and Ma.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
NASA’s NSIDC DAAC distributes cryosphere and related geophysical data from NASA Earth-observing satellite missions, airborne campaigns and field observations: over 1,400 data sets from more than 20 missions. It also offers visualization…
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)Capabilities & Access
Natasha Bosanac, CCAR faculty in astrodynamics and satellite navigation working on trajectory and behavioral prediction; Ph.D. Aeronautics & Astronautics, Purdue University.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
CTL test bed (opened 2016) for wireless coexistence metrology and standards, combining large semi-anechoic and reverberation chambers with live 4G/5G cellular base stations, MIMO transceivers, channel emulators, signal generators and…
United States Geological Survey National Civil Applications Center (USGS NCAC)Capabilities & Access
USGS National Civil Applications Center, which analyzes remote-sensing data from the Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense to support public safety missions and to study land-surface and environmental changes.
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Capabilities & Access
CIRA's National Park Service collaborative group, doing air quality research including technical support for the Western Regional Air Partnership (WRAP), IMPROVE visibility monitoring of protected environments, the EPA VIEWS regional haze…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
The National Snow and Ice Data Center, part of CIRES at CU Boulder, conducts research and provides open data on snow, ice, glaciers, frozen ground and climate interactions in Earth’s cryosphere.
United States Geological Survey National Civil Applications Center (USGS NCAC)Capabilities & Access
NCAC provision of remotely sensed images from U.S. National Imagery Systems and DOD-purchased commercial satellite data to USGS scientists and other civilian Federal agencies, with image interpretation and map compilation, e.g. surge fire…
United States Geological Survey National Civil Applications Center (USGS NCAC)Capabilities & Access
NCAC scientific applications: imagery analysis supporting detection, assessment and mitigation of volcanoes, earthquakes, wildfires, landslides, floods and hurricanes, including monitoring over 150 potentially active volcanoes with the…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Data Assimilation Research Testbed: an open-source community facility for ensemble data assimilation supporting most NSF NCAR community models and many observation types, developed by CISL's Data Assimilation Research Section (DAReS).
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
GPU-resident, parallelized large-eddy simulation (LES) model from NCAR's Research Applications Laboratory for accelerated, turbulence-resolving modeling of the atmospheric boundary layer, aimed at microscale and multiscale weather…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmosphere, and Solar Researchers: interactive 3D visualization with animations, a progressive-access data model (VDC) for terascale data on commodity hardware, direct import of WRF, MOM, POP,…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Python package of 30+ diagnostic calculations, interpolation routines and plotting utilities (cartopy, basemap, PyNGL) for WRF-ARW model output, similar in function to the NCL WRF package; installable from conda-forge.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Global surface and upper-air reports collected operationally by NCEP (land and marine surface, radiosonde, pibal, aircraft, profiler and radar winds, satellite winds) after PREPBUFR processing and quality control for assimilation into NCEP…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
NCEP FNL (Final) operational global analyses on 1-degree grids, prepared every six hours from the Global Data Assimilation System (GDAS) with GTS observations, on the surface and 26 mandatory pressure levels; parameters include pressure,…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Historical archive of NCEP Global Forecast System analysis and forecast grids on a 0.25-degree global grid, with 3-hourly steps to 240 h and 12-hourly steps to 384 h from four daily runs, since January 2015 (GRIB2, ~662 TB); a continuously…
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Database of near real-time and historical satellite altimeter data and analyses managed by the CCAR Real-Time group; a new version of the archive is being prepared.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
Near-real-time maps of sea ice concentration for the Northern and Southern Hemispheres from DMSP SSMIS on a 25 km grid, 1 January 2024 to 14 January 2026. Retired as of 18 June 2026 and no longer available for download.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
PML Time and Frequency group researching ultracold-atom optical lattice clocks for future time and frequency standards and calibration of International Atomic Time, with ultra-stable lasers, mobile clocks for geopotential mapping, and…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
Public NTP service from NIST stratum-1 time servers linked to UTC(NIST) for synchronizing computer clocks, plus a UT1 NTP server, client software (nistime-32bit.exe) and guidance on leap-second handling.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
Cooperative-agreement program with participating universities that funds students, recent graduates, postdocs and faculty to do research in NIST labs in Boulder, Gaithersburg or Charleston; PREP Boulder partners include Colorado School of…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
NIST's cesium fountain primary frequency standards: NIST-F4 (under evaluation, approaching 10^-16 accuracy) and NIST-F3 (a high-uptime stable reference with drift below 10^-17/day), successors to NIST-F1/F2; laser-cooled cesium atoms…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
GReenhouse gas And Air Pollutants Emissions System (GRA2PES), modeled emissions maps for NOAA air-quality and greenhouse-gas modeling at 4 km x 4 km resolution with year, month, day-of-week and diurnal detail.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
NOAA Space Weather Scales communicating current and future space weather conditions and their effects on people and systems, with five-level scales for geomagnetic storms (G), solar radiation storms (S) and radio blackouts (R), each with…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
MATS (Model Analysis Tool Suite) from NOAA GSL, a quick and versatile way to view model verification metrics, built with the Meteor Framework and deployed with Docker.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Rocoto Workflow Management System from NOAA GSL for running large numbers of scientific workflow tasks on batch systems.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Reference implementation of the COARE bulk air-sea flux algorithm in Python, MATLAB and Fortran from NOAA PSL.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
pip-installable Python package from NOAA SWPC for processing geoelectric netCDF files into ASCII or GeoJSON format.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Coupled NEMS application for WAM-IPE space weather modeling from NOAA SWPC, combining the WAM and IPE components with SWIO and DATAPOLL builds.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
NOAA’s data stewardship program at NSIDC, preserving snow and ice data for researchers, decision makers and the public. Products include the Sea Ice Index viewer, MASIE-NH Arctic sea ice extent, the Glacier Photograph Collection and…
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Capabilities & Access
CIRA-Boulder team collaborating with all four of NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratories, studying atmospheric processes affecting air quality, weather and climate and turning findings into environmental information products.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Physical Infrastructure
A diode laser cavity ring-down spectrometer measuring NO, NO2, O3 and NOy at 1 second with a 30 pptv detection limit, used in field projects from ACCRONIM 2009 to SUNVEx 2021.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
NSF NCAR AI for Earth system science: shared AI tools for hybrid modeling, emulation and model evaluation, curated AI-ready datasets and computing, responsible-AI practice, and the CREDIT platform.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
NSF NCAR atmospheric-chemistry research on urban air quality and wildfire smoke: field campaigns with airborne instruments (e.g., GOTHAAM), AI-enabled chemistry models, wildland-urban interface fire pollution and the proposed STRIVE…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
NSF NCAR severe-weather research spanning observations, models and forecasting of tornadoes, hurricanes, hail and damaging winds, including experimental high-resolution tropical cyclone forecasts, the LOTOS sensor network and the ICECHIP…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
NSF NCAR research on Sun–Earth connections: solar magnetic fields and storms and their impacts on GPS, satellites, communications and power grids, including the proposed COSMO observatory, chromosphere observations and AI for space-weather…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
NSF NCAR water-cycle research and modeling for floods and droughts: snowpack measurement, streamflow and reservoir prediction, dam safety, the WRF-Hydro model, snow-sublimation field studies and months-ahead drought forecasts.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
NSF NCAR Lockheed EC-130Q Hercules research aircraft, in NSF service since 1992, carrying ~13,000 lb of payload with 8–9 h endurance below ~27,000 ft; suited to lower and middle troposphere and boundary-layer studies, with an in-flight…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
NSF NCAR High-performance Instrumented Airborne Platform for Environmental Research (HIAPER), a Gulfstream GV research aircraft carrying up to 5,600 lb of sensors from the surface to the stratosphere for university-driven field campaigns;…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
A toolkit that lets operations staff and data producers create metadata files conforming to NASA’s Common Metadata Repository UMM-G specification and ingest data directly into NASA EOSDIS’s Cumulus archive.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
A Python library to search, download and access laser altimetry data from (pre-)Operation IceBridge and ICESat/GLAS datasets, with ITRF transformations so datasets can be compared.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
In-development code that creates sea ice concentration estimates from passive microwave data, using code adapted from NASA Goddard’s Bootstrap and NASA Team algorithms, rewritten in modular Python.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
Python functions that convert between longitude/latitude and generic polar stereographic x, y (km) coordinates, and between longitude/latitude and i, j grid coordinates for specific AMSR-E and SSM/I datasets.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
Source code and configuration for building the QGreenland Core zip package, a free GIS mapping tool for Greenland-focused research, teaching, decision making and collaboration. It combines key datasets in an all-in-one analysis and…
Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (NTIA ITS)Data & Digital Tools
U.S. implementation of the Irregular Lunar Model (ILM), shared as an active workspace for the 2024 ITU-R Study Group 3 discussions; its releases have not undergone ITS standard quality review.
Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (NTIA ITS)Data & Digital Tools
ITS Irregular Terrain Model (ITM), predicting terrestrial radiowave propagation from 20 MHz to 20 GHz from electromagnetic theory and the Longley-Rice empirical models; a C++ code base functionally identical to FORTRAN version 1.2.2, with…
Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (NTIA ITS)Data & Digital Tools
U.S. reference implementation of Recommendation ITU-R P.528 for propagation path loss predictions for aeronautical mobile and radionavigation services in the VHF, UHF and SHF bands, buildable as a C++ library with a C#/.NET wrapper.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Observation Package (ObsPack) data products that bring together direct atmospheric greenhouse gas measurements from national and university laboratories, packaged and freely distributed to support carbon cycle modeling studies.
Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (NTIA ITS)Physical Infrastructure
Open Field Radio Test Site at Table Mountain for measuring far-field antenna radiation patterns and the effect of mounting antennas on structures such as buildings or vehicles, inside the Radio Quiet Zone.
United States Air Force Academy Aeronautics Research Center (USAFA ARC)Physical Infrastructure
Operating engines at USAFA, including an F-109 turbofan and several internal combustion engines, used for fuels and flow-quality investigations with an emphasis on ejectors and ducted fans.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Intellectual Property
U.S. patent 11,243,295 "Optical Filter", issued 2022-02-08; NCAR/UCAR inventor(s) Spuler, Scott; Repasky, Kevin; Nehrir, Amin (EOL). Listed on UCAR's current-patents page as available for licensing; no further detail on the page.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Intellectual Property
Two-way exchange of frequency-comb pulses over free-space optical links to compare and synchronize clocks at femtosecond level between terrestrial, airborne or satellite sites, also enabling coherent microwave generation at remote sites.…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Data & Digital Tools
Two-line-element orbital data for cataloged objects between 200 and 650 km, with MSISE00 density ratios between Kp=1 and Kp=6- conditions, B* statistics and orbital track error after 1.5, 3, 18 and 72 hours; associated with the article…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
GML Ozone and Water Vapor division producing long-term records of ozone and water vapor from sites worldwide for assessments of the ozone layer.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
Hourly measurements of near ground-level ozone from separate Arctic sites, 1974–2018, quality checked and used to calculate expected monthly variation; collected to investigate climatological variation in Arctic ground-level ozone.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Intellectual Property
US patent 12,523,598 B2 for an ozone photometer: an absorption cell with a bounded chamber for an ambient air sample and a light source transmitting through it to detect ozone; inventors Ru-Shan Gao and Steven Ciciora.
Aerospace Propulsion and Diagnostics Laboratory (CSU APDL)Physical Infrastructure
Plasma-Assisted Combustion (PAC) Facility built around a Honeywell SER500 burner with a FiD nanosecond-pulsed plasma system, for studying plasma-enhanced ignition, lean flame stabilization and combustion efficiency with optical access.
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)Physical Infrastructure
Panopticon: four 0.2 m f/3 Officina Stellare RH200 astrographs, each with a 10-slot filter wheel, co-aligned for simultaneous measurements with different sensors or pointed off-boresight for a 7 x 7 degree field of view with Kepler KL4040…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Particle Analysis by Laser Mass Spectrometry (PALMS), a CSL airborne single-particle instrument for aerosol composition, with an interactive data display intended to support collaboration on its data set.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
How internal divisions and external organizations engage EOL Design and Fabrication Services: a work statement and cost estimate approved by the EOL Director, written client approval, time-and-materials pricing (optionally capped), and…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
NOAA route for businesses, universities and non-profits to conduct mission-related research and development with NOAA through CRADAs, which require a NOAA lab or program interested in collaborating; also covers public-private partnerships…
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
BioServe Payload Operation and Control Center (POCC), an on-site, dedicated 24/7 remote operations center through which BioServe personnel operate all BioServe ISS payloads.
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)Capabilities & Access
Penina Axelrad, CCAR faculty in astrodynamics and satellite navigation working on GPS/GNSS and alternative positioning, navigation and timing (PNT), satellite orbit determination and space-based timing; Ph.D. Stanford University.
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
Plant Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus (PGBA), a BioServe plant growth chamber for plant physiology in microgravity that flew on three Space Shuttle missions (STS-77, STS-83 and STS-94) from 1996 and operated on the ISS briefly in 2002.
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
Plate Habitat (PHAB) providing secondary biological containment for BioCells and similar third-party hardware such as OmniTrays, configurable with vents, seals and pressure relief for gas exchange, e.g. in a 5% CO2 environment.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP Research Scientist in solar physics and aeronomy (spectroscopy, remote sensing, scientific instrumentation); Co-Investigator on DUSTER (lunar dust and plasma environment) and Institutional PI on SunCET.
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Intellectual Property
US patent 7,660,698 B1 for phytometric intelligence sensors that determine when plants need watering from real-time leaf measurements and signal the grower; assignees University of Colorado Boulder and AgriHouse.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
Practical Innovation Through Learning, Observation and Teaching lab: student workstations with power supplies, multimeters and oscilloscopes and coursework software (MATLAB, SolidWorks, Altium, STK, ANSYS), rapid-prototyping printers and a…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP studies the atmospheres of every planet in the solar system and some exoplanets, including Mars atmospheric evolution with MAVEN, global climate models for Mars and Titan, the early Earth atmosphere, Cassini observations of Titan and…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Planetary K-index (Kp), the 3-hour-range index from 13 geomagnetic observatories at 44–60° geomagnetic latitude, used by SWPC to characterize geomagnetic storms and decide on alerts and warnings; observed values available as chart JSON.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
CubeSat demonstrating atmospheric sounding and polar sea-ice/ice-free-ocean detection and mapping, built on the ALL-STAR CubeSat bus with Colorado Space Grant, CET and NSIDC; launched January 18, 2021 on LauncherOne from Mojave Air and…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Portable Optical Particle Spectrometer developed at NOAA CSL: a small, lightweight, low-power research-grade instrument that sizes and counts aerosol particles from 405 nm light scattering, flown on balloons, aircraft, UAS and the ISS.
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Intellectual Property
US patent 5,947,334 for a post-mix beverage system for space that mixes and optionally carbonates and dispenses beverages in microgravity from chilled syrup, water and CO2 sources; assignee Coca-Cola; inventors include Hoehn and Stodieck.
Center for Laser Sensing and Diagnostics (CSU CLSD)Capabilities & Access
Research on pre-ionization to control laser plasma formation, aiming to make the plasma properties and ignition characteristics of laser ignition sources controllable.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
PSPT, centerpiece of NSF's RISE program on solar radiative-output variability: a 15 cm refractor producing full-disk 2048x2048 images in blue and red continuum and Ca II K bands at 0.1% pixel-to-pixel photometric precision; NSO-built units…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Cooperative NIST Boulder microscopy and microanalysis facility (3,000 sq ft, ARRA-funded) housing an aberration-corrected TEM, a dual-beam FIB/SEM and a local electrode atom probe for imaging and compositional analysis down to the atomic…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
PML Time and Frequency group developing femtosecond laser frequency combs and frequency-stable lasers for optical frequency measurement, optical-to-microwave synthesis and precision spectroscopy, plus stable reference cavities, microwave…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Physical Infrastructure
A modified Aerodyne high-resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometer that measures volatile organic compounds (aromatics, biogenic VOCs, alcohols, ketones, acids, aldehydes, nitriles, dimethyl sulfide) by proton-transfer chemical…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
Monthly mean anomaly proxies (January 1980–December 2025) for dynamical and natural variability: solar cycle, quasi-biennial oscillation, El Niño-Southern Oscillation, Arctic and Antarctic Oscillations, Brewer-Dobson Circulation,…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
miniFlux, a small, light sensor suite for uncrewed aircraft developed by NOAA PSL and the University of Colorado Boulder that measures 3D wind, air temperature, surface and sky temperature and humidity.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
US-01 CubeSat in the Von Karman Institute's multi-nation QB50 initiative, making multi-point measurements of the mid-lower thermosphere; launched 4/18/2017 on Orbital ATK CRS-7, mission success, deorbited 8/12/2018; PI Scott Palo; NSF…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
PML Time and Frequency group doing long-term research on microresonator frequency combs and integrated nonlinear photonics for frequency synthesis, compact atomic clocks and sensors, and photonic-electronic packaging for data-center and…
Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (NTIA ITS)Physical Infrastructure
Radar Test Range at Table Mountain providing power and internet for hosting radar systems for radiated emissions measurements.
University of Denver Unmanned Systems Research Institute (DU USRI)Intellectual Property
US patent 9,971,021 B2 for a UAV radar apparatus for aircraft detection and avoidance with an RF front end and filtering module; inventors Moses, Rutherford and Valavanis; assignee Colorado Seminary.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Capabilities & Access
Prof. Dennis Akos's lab (est. 2005) researching software-defined radio for satellite-navigation receivers across GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou and augmentation systems, focusing on robust high-integrity GNSS, specialized receiver…
Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (NTIA ITS)Capabilities & Access
ITS Radio Spectrum Measurement Sciences (RSMS) program performing time-sensitive RF measurements for NTIA and other federal agencies: spectrum and channel usage surveys and monitoring, equipment characterization and compliance,…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
NIST HF station near Fort Collins, Colorado, broadcasting time announcements, standard intervals and frequencies, UT1 corrections, BCD time code and geophysical alerts 24/7 on 2.5, 5, 10, 15 and 20 MHz (plus experimental 25 MHz); also…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
NIST 60 kHz LF time-code station near Fort Collins, Colorado, broadcasting continuous PWM and (since 2012) BPSK phase-modulated time codes used by millions of radio-controlled clocks in North America; two top-loaded monopole antennas on…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
The Atmospheric Trace Molecule Spectroscopy Laboratory designs, assembles and validates optical spectroscopic instruments for in-situ and remote sensing measurements of trace gases, radicals and aerosol optical properties, from land, ships…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
Larger LifeLAB chamber (about an order of magnitude bigger than JANA) for testing larger components such as a full-scale EVA-suit radiator; pumps down to vacuum but currently lacks thermal control.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
Smead CubeSat to demonstrate path-diagnostic radio and laser communications that would let satellite communications be automated; AFRL University Nanosatellite Program funding (2021); launch TBA; PI Scott Palo.
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Data & Digital Tools
Real-time tropical cyclone products from NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/RAMMB and CIRA scientists for currently active storms in each basin, with season archives back to 2006.
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Data & Digital Tools
SLIDER (Satellite Loop Interactive Data Explorer in Real-time), a RAMMB/CIRA web viewer for exploring large real-time imagery sets from satellites such as GOES-16 and Himawari-8, with loop animation, lat/lon queries, drawing tools and…
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Data & Digital Tools
Raw data for the manuscript on cavity-mediated collective momentum-exchange interactions, relevant to quantum simulation and sensing; 2 downloadable files, CC BY 4.0.
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Data & Digital Tools
Raw data for the 3-body oscillation, detuned and resonant 4-body oscillations and state deformation with different interaction phases, from a study of three- and four-body interactions between momentum states in a cavity via optical…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
NIST Reference Fluid Thermodynamic and Transport Properties Database (REFPROP) Version 10: 147 pure fluids, 5 pseudo-pure fluids and mixtures of up to 20 components, using high-accuracy Helmholtz, MBWR and other equations of state plus…
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Capabilities & Access
NOAA/NESDIS Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch (RAMMB) at CIRA, researching the use of satellite data to improve analysis, forecasts and warnings for regional and mesoscale weather events, with training sessions and real-time…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Relativistic Electron Forecast Model (REFM) plot showing about 30 days of observed and forecast daily >2 MeV electron fluence at geosynchronous orbit, to anticipate damaging relativistic electron events.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
Entry point for requesting NSF FARE-supported, NCAR-managed Lower Atmosphere Observing Facilities (aircraft, airborne instruments, ground-based systems such as ISS, ISFS, MPD and S-Pol) through the NSF GEO Core solicitation and FARE…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Capabilities & Access
RECUV: a university–government–industry partnership developing uncrewed vehicle systems for science, commercial use, disaster mitigation, security and defense, with a 12-type uncrewed-aircraft fleet, FAA-approved airspace over 500,000 sq…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
Guide to the support the RAF Airborne Project Office provides for small aircraft projects (scheduling, user-equipment upload, lab and storage space at field sites) versus services requiring other EOL facilities such as the Project…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Physical Infrastructure
A Retsch MM 400 shaker adapted for 96-well plates, used for bead beating during DNA extraction, in the CIRES Fierer lab. Open to the home department and all university users, and to academic and national lab users case by case.
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Physical Infrastructure
RIE in the JILA Keck Lab, recommended with oxygen for removing organics from sample and wafer surfaces; the pump is started manually from the pump controller.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
CTL antenna metrology laboratory built on multi-robot measurement systems (LAPS with two 6-axis arms on an 8 m rail for 0.1–50 GHz; the 13-axis CROMMA for ~50–500 GHz) for antenna pattern, gain and polarization metrology, 5G/6G and…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Data for a review of Rydberg-atom sensors and receivers, discussing capabilities and limits of Rydberg receivers and how atomic properties set sensitivity and bandwidth; figures 6(a) and 8 are new data, the rest drawn from earlier NIST…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
S-band Dual Polarization Doppler Radar: a research-grade, transportable ground-based weather radar (2.7–2.9 GHz, 8.5 m antenna) for precipitation, microphysics and storm-structure studies at remote sites; ships in eight 20 ft containers…
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
The Space Automated Bioproduct Lab (SABL) is a dual-function incubator/freezer on the ISS that keeps biological samples and other experiment materials between -5°C and +43°C. It offers over 23 liters of temperature-controlled, LED-lit…
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
Space Automated Lab Incubator (SALI), a single middeck locker-sized unit using thermoelectric elements to heat and cool its chamber from -20.0 °C to +48.0 °C for research onboard the ISS; EXPRESS-rack compatible.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP tenure-track faculty member working on cosmic dust: dust-plasma interactions, formation and composition of dust, planetary ring dynamics, in-situ dust observation, impact plasmas, laboratory hypervelocity impact experiments, space…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Capabilities & Access
Prof. Jade Morton's lab developing next-generation GNSS receiver and radio-based sensor technologies; runs a global network of GNSS receivers and RF data recorders monitoring space-weather effects, with RF test equipment, RTK receivers and…
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)Physical Infrastructure
Satellite Technology Integration Lab (STIg): a 500 sq. ft. lab with ESD mats and ionizers for spacecraft subsystem testing and integration, with an ultrasonic cleaner, Helmholtz cage, Agilent 480 W solar array simulator, spectrum analyzer,…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Capabilities & Access
Victor Charles Schelke Endowed Professor (CCAR) and PI on several CU CubeSats; research on design, build and operation of small satellite systems, remote sensing of the thermosphere and ionosphere, meteor radar, and Arctic/Antarctic UAS…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
A consistent time series of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice concentrations generated from passive microwave brightness temperatures, on a 25 x 25 km polar stereographic grid, covering 26 October 1978 to 31 December 2025. Forward processing…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
Quick-look sea ice extent and concentration images (PNG) and data values (GeoTIFF and ASCII text) for the Arctic and Antarctic from November 1978 to the present, including trends and anomalies against a 1981–2010 reference period; daily…
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)Capabilities & Access
CU Sea Level Research Group producing global mean sea level (GMSL) estimates from satellite altimetry, with tide gauge, regional and trend-map products, altimeter drift monitoring and steric effects.
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)Data & Digital Tools
CU Sea Level Research Group global mean sea level (GMSL) release 2026_rel2 with seasonal signals removed, updated through 2026.5, downloadable as an ASCII time series with PDF and EPS plots.
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Regional total sea level change grid from the CU Sea Level Research Group (2026_rel2), downloadable as a .nc data file with EPS and PDF maps.
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Physical Infrastructure
SEM in the JILA Keck Lab, with a video training refresher for users; it is not currently supported by Thermofisher and has reached End-of-Life, and options for maintaining it are being evaluated.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
Model output, processed data and analysis files from a global simulation (1901–2025) with the SiBCASA-Hg land surface model, which couples terrestrial mercury cycling with carbon, water, energy, vegetation and soil processes. The files…
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)Physical Infrastructure
SITH (Space Imaging and Tracking Hardware), a 0.6 m f/6.5 PlaneWave CDK24 Corrected Dall-Kirkham telescope on a PlaneWave L-600 mount, used to detect, track and characterize dimmer space objects.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Intellectual Property
Dynamically configured antenna module for dual- or multi-frequency GNSS receivers that detects RFI saturation with a power detector and uses control logic to isolate an unsaturated frequency for positioning. Inventors Akos, Shivaramaiah,…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
PSL snow-level radar operating at 2.835 GHz to measure the altitude where snow changes to rain, a key parameter for runoff in mountainous watersheds; built by CIRES.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
HAO's white-light coronagraph/polarimeter on NASA's Solar Maximum Mission (launched 1980) for studying the corona's relationship to solar flares; repaired in orbit by Shuttle mission STS-41C in 1984, it produced ~240,000 coronal images…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
GML Solar Radiation Calibration Facility (SRCF) calibrating and characterizing pyranometers and pyrheliometers for the GML baseline observatories and BSRN sites (Kwajalein, Bermuda, BAO), with reference cavity radiometers and solar…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Real-time in situ solar wind magnetic field, plasma and energetic particle data from spacecraft upwind of Earth at L1 (ACE since 1998, DSCOVR since 2016, IMAP I-ALiRT and SOLAR-1 from 2026), used by SWPC forecasters to watch for…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools
Daily average total solar irradiance (TSI) measured by the LASP Total Irradiance Monitor (TIM) aboard the SORCE spacecraft since early 2003; absolute accuracy about 350 ppm, with relative changes measured to less than 10 ppm/yr.
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)Capabilities & Access
Space Environment Data Analysis Group (SEDA), part of CCAR and Aerospace Engineering Sciences at CU Boulder, analyzing satellite space environment data.
University of Colorado Colorado Springs College of Engineering and Applied Science space programs (UCCS engineering space programs)Capabilities & Access
Space Systems Lab research topics spanning space domain awareness, CubeSat cybersecurity, interplanetary trajectory analysis, high-altitude balloon flights (DemoSat), human interplanetary flights, ethics in human spaceflight and space…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP space weather expertise: instruments that measure the Sun's energy output (ultraviolet, electric field and energetic particle instruments, from Mariner 6 to GOLD), the AETHER instrument for NASA's Geospace Dynamics Constellation, and…
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)Capabilities & Access
Space Weather Lab studying near-Earth space, including work with the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center to update, improve and use spacecraft datasets on the space environment.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools
Python package for decoding CCSDS telemetry packets according to an XTCE packet structure definition, based on the UML model of the XTCE specification; installable from PyPI or the lasp Anaconda channel, with an optional spp CLI.
University of Colorado Colorado Springs College of Engineering and Applied Science space programs (UCCS engineering space programs)Capabilities & Access
UCCS Spaceflight Mechanics Group researching dynamics and control of tethered satellites, formation flight, cislunar orbital mechanics and space domain awareness.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
Horizontal wind speed and direction profiles retrieved with a VAD algorithm from conical scans by the CLAMPS2 Halo Streamline XR+ Doppler lidar (PPI scans at 60° elevation every 5 minutes), in 24-hour netCDF files, collected during the…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
Solar irradiance data from flights of the HELiX uncrewed aircraft system, equipped with up- and downward-looking pyranometers, at the Avery Picnic and Kettle Ponds sites in the East River watershed of the Colorado mountains during the…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
Daily files from a Vaisala CL31 ceilometer deployed at Roaring Judy in the East River Watershed, Colorado (21 October 2021 to 28 January 2022), during the NOAA SPLASH campaign. Files contain backscatter profiles, cloud base heights and…
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
Syringe Pump for Organs-on-Chips (SPOC), designed for the NIH Chips in Space initiative, holding six Nortis Triplex MPS chips per unit with local heating to 37.0 °C; SABL takes up to two SPOC units plus an ACM.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Capabilities & Access
Industry sponsorship of the required two-semester senior capstone design course (~300 students in seven faculty-led sections): sponsors contribute $15,000 (revenue >$1M) or $5,000 to a central fund, may attend design reviews and serve as…
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Physical Infrastructure
Two sputter chambers in the JILA Keck Lab for coating metals and dielectrics, with a published sputtering target list; staff can help source targets or do e-beam or thermal evaporative coatings instead.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Set of 4340 alloy steel Charpy specimens for indirect verification of Charpy impact machines with an 8 mm striker per ASTM E23 and ISO 148-2; certified absorbed energy (traceable to the SI joule) is issued by NIST in a verification report…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Set of 4340 alloy steel Charpy specimens for indirect verification of Charpy impact machines with an 8 mm striker per ASTM E23 and ISO 148-2; certified absorbed energy (traceable to the SI joule) is issued by NIST in a verification report…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Set of 4340 alloy steel Charpy specimens for indirect verification of Charpy impact machines with an 8 mm striker per ASTM E23 and ISO 148-2; certified absorbed energy (traceable to the SI joule) is issued by NIST in a verification report…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Fiber artifact (bare single-mode fiber in an aluminum housing, serial-numbered) for calibrating direct far-field scanning systems that measure mode-field diameter at 1.31 µm and 1.55 µm, certified by the TIA direct far-field method with…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Fiber-coupled acetylene (12C2H2) absorption cell at 6.7 kPa for wavelength calibration from 1510 nm to 1540 nm, with 56 certified line centers (uncertainties 0.1–0.6 pm) for calibrating tunable lasers and optical spectrum analyzers; issued…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
GML preparation and calibration of standard reference gases (e.g. CO2 adjusted and calibrated between 250 and 3000 µmol/mol), purchased through a project contract (MOU) with listed prices and Net 30 payment terms.
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Reference table of steric-related sea level change estimates with RMS errors (mm/yr) by period and depth range, from Antonov et al. (2005), Ishii et al. (2005) and Willis et al. (2004).
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
Steven Brown, NOAA CSL research chemist studying the chemistry and impacts of nitrogen oxides in the atmosphere, with an emphasis on nighttime chemical cycles.
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Capabilities & Access
Steven D. Miller, Director of CIRA, working on satellite-based remote sensing of the Earth/atmosphere system with active and passive sensors from optical to microwave; earlier work at the Naval Research Laboratory produced satellite…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Data & Digital Tools
Data-publication entry on the SeNSe Lab site: a portion of the data (first ten days of January 2016) from one SeNSe Lab receiver at Poker Flat Research Range, used in the paper "Stochastic TEC Structure Characterization" (Rino, Morton,…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
CSL Stratospheric Modeling & Analysis program (formerly Chemistry & Climate Processes) studying the stratosphere, its chemical composition and links with global systems.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
Program that certifies CU Boulder undergraduates as mission operators after a summer-long course; student operators work under professional staff to operate NASA spacecraft, and about 20 students are selected each spring.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Physical Infrastructure
Europa SUrface Dust Analyzer, a LASP-built instrument on NASA's Europa Clipper that measures the composition of dust around Europa to map organic and inorganic, major and trace compounds and link them to their surface origin.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
EOL paid summer engineering internship for undergraduates at accredited U.S. institutions: interns help develop instrumentation for NSF/NCAR lower-atmosphere observing facilities, mentored by EOL engineers and technicians, with wage,…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
NIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship projects at the Boulder campus (15–20 projects expected for 2026, funding-dependent) hosted by CTL, ITL, MML, PML and other offices; applicants rank four preferences, CHIPS-related projects may…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Boulder station of the SURFRAD surface radiation network, with instruments on the deck of the Table Mountain Test Facility about 8 miles north of Boulder that are also used for annual intercomparisons.
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
Three-CubeSat NSF Ideas Lab constellation led by CU Boulder with five other universities to study how charged and neutral particles interact in the thermosphere; launch Dec. 2026 on ELaNa 59; PI Scott Palo.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
SWOOSH, a merged record of stratospheric ozone and water vapor from limb-sounding and solar-occultation satellites since 1984, with monthly-mean zonal-mean values on a pressure grid and per-instrument uncertainty; freely available.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Intellectual Property
US patent 9,761,431 B2 for expressing the ion path in a time-of-flight mass spectrometer with two successive curved sectors in an S-shaped configuration so the output beam runs parallel to the input; inventor Daniel Murphy.
Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (NTIA ITS)Capabilities & Access
Site access to Table Mountain: badged DoC and USGS employees and authorized affiliates and contractors who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents with a current federal background clearance may apply for unaccompanied access; others must…
Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (NTIA ITS)Physical Infrastructure
Table Mountain Field Site and Radio Quiet Zone, about 680 hectares (1,700 acres) of flat mesa 15 km north of the Department of Commerce campus in Boulder, one of only two federally mandated radio quiet zones in the U.S., used since 1954…
Center for Laser Sensing and Diagnostics (CSU CLSD)Capabilities & Access
Two-photon absorption laser-induced fluorescence (TALIF) of neutral krypton in hollow cathode and Hall thruster plasmas to study neutral particle dynamics and charge-exchange reactions that sputter thruster walls.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Historical tropical-cyclone database built from satellite and aircraft observations with objective state estimation, giving hourly track, intensity, size, radius of maximum winds and extended wind radii with time-dependent uncertainty;…
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Physical Infrastructure
Electronics Shop loan pool of high-quality test equipment, including oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, function generators and other common electrical test and measurement equipment.
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Capabilities & Access
Anderson Optical Physics group researching ultracold atoms for atomtronics, atom interferometry and neutral atom quantum computing, using window atom chips that trap atoms close to a surface with high numerical aperture optical access.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
The Boulder Atmospheric Observatory, a former NOAA PSL research facility in Erie, Colorado for studying the planetary boundary layer and testing and calibrating atmospheric sensors, centred on a 300-m instrumented tower; it officially came…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
Campaign-customized web catalog supporting field-program decision making with real-time tracking, imagery, GIS overlays, mission tables, status and forecast reporting, and playback; catalogs remain online after campaigns for post-project…
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)Data & Digital Tools
CCAR Sea Level Explorer: an interactive map comparing satellite altimetry and tide gauge sea level time series at any location, with detrend, deseason and smoothing options; the plotted data can be downloaded.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
NOAA-CIRES-DOE Twentieth Century Reanalysis (20CR): a four-dimensional global atmospheric dataset of weather from 1806 to 2015 built from surface pressure observations with an ensemble data assimilation system; V3 gives 8-times-daily…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Physical Infrastructure
LifeLAB's two thermal vacuum chambers for testing spacecraft components in a simulated space environment: JANA (small, pump-down and thermal control) and RALPHEE (about ten times larger, vacuum only).
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
ThermoData Engine (TDE) generates critically evaluated thermodynamic and transport property data for pure compounds, binary and ternary mixtures and reactions from the SOURCE database and prediction schemes, with full provenance, model…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Dual electro-optic frequency comb THz system: phase-coherent chirped pulses drive electro-optic modulators to generate flat THz combs in a photoconductive switch, down-converted to RF below 1 MHz for sensitive, fast (bio)molecular sensing;…
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Historical tide gauge sea level measurements: gauges on piers measure sea level relative to a nearby geodetic benchmark, and the records indicate global sea level rose roughly 10–25 cm over the past century.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Mesospheric and lower-thermospheric winds (80–105 km) observed by the limb-scanning TIDI instrument on NASA's TIMED satellite via the O2 (0-0) band near 750 nm, 2002–2021, in netCDF; published by NSF NCAR HAO.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Physical Infrastructure
Total Irradiance Monitor, which measures total solar irradiance (the spatially and spectrally integrated solar radiation at the top of Earth’s atmosphere) with an ambient-temperature active cavity radiometer, continuing the solar climate…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
Subscription service that installs a NIST-calibrated GNSS common-view measurement system at the customer site to compare its time standard with UTC(NIST) continuously (≈5 ns time, ≈1e-14 frequency uncertainty), with web-viewable data every…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Capabilities & Access
NIST Special Test remote calibration service, launched in response to Executive Order 13905, offering GNSS-independent connectivity to UTC(NIST) atomic time signals over optical fiber from the Boulder and Gaithersburg campuses.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Monthly NIST Time and Frequency Bulletin (PDF, January 1997 to present; 2013 onward shown) with notes on the NIST time scale, primary standards and services, leap-second and UT1−UTC information, and UTC−UTC(NIST) and UTC(USNO)−UTC(NIST)…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools
Daily averages of full-disk solar ultraviolet irradiance from the Solar EUV Experiment (SEE) on the NASA TIMED mission, in 1 nm bins from 0.5 to 194.5 nm, with uncertainties included; this level is filtered to remove flares (Level 3a…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
GML total ozone program using the Dobson Ozone Spectrophotometer, in use since the 1920s, to measure total column ozone from the surface to the edge of the atmosphere, including observations at Mauna Loa and Boulder.
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
Tissue Preservation Kit (TPK), a family of hardware for returning preserved rodent tissue samples from NASA's Rodent Research missions.
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Capabilities & Access
CIRA's training team runs three satellite training programs, coordinated with NOAA and other U.S. and international partners: VISIT, which uses web-based audio/video modules and live teletraining to bring remote sensing research into…
Center for Laser Sensing and Diagnostics (CSU CLSD)Intellectual Property
US patent 8,740,432 B2 for transmitting high-beam-quality laser pulses through large-core step-index silica fibers whose thick cladding suppresses diffusion of modal power to higher-order modes; inventors Yalin and Joshi.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Monthly mean atmospheric carbon dioxide at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii, the longest record of direct CO2 measurements, with growth rates and global trends for CO2, CH4, N2O and SF6.
United States Air Force Academy Aeronautics Research Center (USAFA ARC)Physical Infrastructure
USAFA 1-by-1-foot Trisonic Wind Tunnel testing aircraft and missile shapes at transonic and supersonic speeds up to Mach 4.5.
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)Capabilities & Access
RAMMB tropical cyclone research to improve understanding through observations, develop and test satellite products for tropical cyclone analysis and forecasting, and evaluate model output with satellite diagnostics; products include TC…
Center for Laser Sensing and Diagnostics (CSU CLSD)Physical Infrastructure
Truck-mounted methane sensor used by CLSD for oil and gas emission measurements (pictured Feb. 2023).
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools
Version 2 of the TSIS-1 Hybrid Solar Reference Spectrum, a solar-minimum (cycles 24/25) reference spectrum from 202 to 2730 nm built by normalizing high-resolution solar line data to the TSIS-1 SIM and CSIM irradiance scale; the original…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools
Daily average solar spectral irradiance (SSI) from the LASP TSIS-1 Spectral Irradiance Monitor (SIM) on the International Space Station since March 2018, covering 200–2400 nm at about 1–35 nm resolution, with absolute accuracy under 0.4%.
University of Colorado Colorado Springs College of Engineering and Applied Science space programs (UCCS engineering space programs)Capabilities & Access
UCCS Space Systems Laboratory giving students hands-on spaceflight research, including Colorado Space Grant DemoSat flights, space domain awareness projects with the U.S. Space Force SDA TAP Lab, CubeSat development and cybersecurity, and…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
UHSAS optical aerosol spectrometer (DMT) measuring size-resolved aerosol concentration in 99 bins over ~55–1000 nm by light scattering; the rack (UHSAS-G) version is modified by RAF for in-flight pressure variation, and the wing (UHSAS-A)…
Aerospace Propulsion and Diagnostics Laboratory (CSU APDL)Physical Infrastructure
ULTRA (Ultrafast Laser Technologies for Research and Analysis), a femtosecond laser system with nonlinear wavelength conversion covering deep ultraviolet to near-infrared, for laser diagnostics and spectroscopy of reacting flows, plasmas…
University of Denver Unmanned Systems Research Institute (DU USRI)Capabilities & Access
Research on teams of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) flying in 3-D formations such as diamond, wedge, sphere and ellipsoid, developing a mathematical model of the formation geometry that avoids collisions and handles agents leaving or…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Physical Infrastructure
UCoMP: a 20-cm Lyot coronagraph with a Stokes polarimeter and electro-optically tuned birefringent filter imaging intensity, polarization, Doppler shift and line width across visible and near-IR coronal emission lines (530–1083 nm); an…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
US television coverage of climate change or global warming from 2000 to August 2026, one of the Media and Climate Change Observatory data sets that monitor 131 newspaper, radio and TV sources in 59 countries using the Lexis Nexis, Proquest…
United States Air Force Academy Aeronautics Research Center (USAFA ARC)Physical Infrastructure
USAFA Aeronautics Laboratory used by the Aeronautics Research Center, described as the best-equipped aeronautics facility in academia.
United States Air Force Academy Aeronautics Research Center (USAFA ARC)Capabilities & Access
USAFA Broad Agency Announcement FA7000-21-S-0001 topic for the Aeronautics Research Center: academia and industry may submit white papers and proposals at any time for research contracts, grants or cooperative agreements, with two to four…
United States Air Force Academy High Performance Computing Research Center (USAFA HPCRC)Capabilities & Access
USAFA Broad Agency Announcement FA7000-21-S-0001 topic for the High Performance Computing Research Center, funding physics-based modeling and simulation research; engagement with the center director before submitting a white paper is…
Hypersonic Vehicle Simulation Institute (USAFA HVSI)Capabilities & Access
USAFA Broad Agency Announcement FA7000-21-S-0001 topic for the Hypersonic Vehicle Simulation Institute, which funds and performs hypersonic research for the DoD HPC Modernization Program on turbulence, boundary-layer transition,…
United States Air Force Academy Aeronautics Research Center (USAFA ARC)Capabilities & Access
USAFA Research Collaboration Questionnaire for organizations exploring a research partnership with the Academy, covering research interests, capabilities and agreement types such as CRADA, MOA and EPA.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Data acquisition program for NIST transition-edge-sensor (TES) microcalorimeters, replacing ndfb_server and matter; written in Go, built with a Makefile, and supporting TDM systems (Lancero device) on Ubuntu.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Python suite for analyzing pulse records from high-resolution cryogenic microcalorimeters (x-ray and gamma-ray spectrometers): TDM and microwave-multiplexed data, cuts, optimal filtering, line-shape fitting and absolute energy calibration;…
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Collection of wrappers for calling the NIST REFPROP shared library (a compiled FORTRAN DLL) from Python, MATLAB, Excel, LabVIEW, C/C++, C#, Mathematica and other environments; contributions welcome.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Laboratories (NIST Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
UTC(NIST), NIST's realization of Coordinated Universal Time and the official time for the United States under the America COMPETES Act, with NIST and USNO as official U.S. timekeepers; built since the 1960s and used by stock exchanges and…
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR)Physical Infrastructure
VADeR Lab Space Domain Awareness Observatory with two telescopes, Panopticon (4 co-aligned 0.2 m f/3 telescopes for simultaneous multi-phenomenology observations) and SITH (0.6 m f/6.5), providing data for space situational awareness…
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)Physical Infrastructure
Variable Gravity Machine (VGM), a SABL insert for variable-gravity experiments up to 7.1G in microgravity aboard the ISS, covering Moon, Mars and 1G levels for on-orbit comparisons.
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Capabilities & Access
Competitively awarded JILA Visiting Fellows program giving internationally prominent scientists financial support for strongly collaborative visits of up to 6 months, with a stipend of up to $1,250 per week for local expenses; applications…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
CIRES-sponsored visiting fellowships, funded mainly through the CIRES cooperative agreement with NOAA: two-year postdoctoral terms ($70,000 first-year salary, up to $8,000 research budget) and sabbatical terms of up to 12 months for senior…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Highly sensitive 95 GHz W-band radar designed and built by NOAA and CIRES researchers at PSL to detect small cloud water droplets that longer-wavelength weather radars miss; deployable on aircraft and ships.
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Physical Infrastructure
W. M. Keck Optical Measurement Laboratory (JILA Metrology lab) maintaining shared optical measurement and characterization instruments, including an atomic force microscope, beam profilers, optical microscopes, polarimeters, spectrum…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
WAM-IPE Forecast System (WFS), giving ionosphere and thermosphere specifications and two-day forecasts in response to solar, geomagnetic and lower-atmosphere forcing, with NetCDF output of neutral temperature, winds and density.
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Capabilities & Access
NSF NCAR distinguished scholar and pioneer of atmospheric general circulation and coupled climate models (with ocean and sea ice), using the Parallel Climate Model and CESM to study 21st-century climate change; National Medal of Science…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
EOL reference overview (Vömel, 2025; DOI 10.26023/S2SX-K278) of the main saturation vapor pressure equations over liquid water and ice (e.g., Goff-Gratch, WMO/CIMO, Hyland-Wexler, Hardy, Buck, Sonntag, Magnus-Tetens, Bolton), with…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Mesoscale numerical weather prediction system for research and operations, with two dynamical cores and a data-assimilation system, spanning tens of meters to thousands of kilometers; extensions include WRF-Chem, WRF-Hydro, WRF-Fire,…
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Capabilities & Access
LASP Web Services team builds websites, portals, tools and underlying technologies for space missions, from converting raw instrument data to calibrated products and delivery portals to telemetry plotting software for mission operators.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools
Browser-based, multi-mission tool (Web-based Telemetry, Checking, Analysis, and Display) for ad-hoc visualization and analysis of spacecraft and instrument telemetry, including searching, filtering, plotting, limit checking and trending,…
Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (CU Smead AES)Capabilities & Access
Partnership letting students earn a CU Boulder bachelor's in aerospace engineering entirely on the Western Slope: first two years taught by Western Colorado University faculty, last two by CU Boulder faculty based full-time in Gunnison,…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
Comprehensive numerical model from the surface to the thermosphere, runnable with active or specified land, ocean and ice; WACCM-X extends it to the upper thermosphere and ionosphere, bridging weather and climate to space weather.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Data & Digital Tools
Solar irradiance reference spectra for the 2008 Whole Heliosphere Interval (Carrington Rotation 2068), at 0.1 nm intervals, for three periods (moderately low activity with sunspot blocking, with faculae brightening, and a quiet-Sun…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
NOAA Wide Swath Radar Altimeter, carried on a NOAA P-3D Orion Hurricane Hunter aircraft to map ocean wave height, speed and direction and rain rate beneath hurricanes, with data sent in real time to National Hurricane Center forecasters.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Doppler wind profiler radars that transmit vertical pulses scattered by clouds, precipitation and turbulence to measure wind speed and direction at various heights; PSL fields profilers in the 915 MHz and 449 MHz bands.
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)Physical Infrastructure
Wire bonders in the JILA Keck Lab cleanroom and metrology room, with a maximum wire size of 0.002" diameter.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
NOAA GML serves as the WMO Global Atmosphere Watch Central Calibration Laboratory for CO2, CH4, N2O, SF6 and CO, maintaining the calibration scales and offering calibration services for these gases for a fee.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
The Working Group on Space-Based Lidar Winds advocates the earliest possible deployment of a space-based Doppler wind lidar to provide accurate global tropospheric wind data for climate studies and weather forecasting. It also discusses…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
The standard model for navigation, attitude and heading referencing systems that use the geomagnetic field, also used in civilian navigation. Updated every five years; the current WMM2025 was released December 17, 2024 and expires December…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
An advanced geomagnetic field model, more detailed than the WMM, with core field and secular variation coefficients for degrees 1–15 plus crustal field through degree 133 (18,210 non-zero coefficients). NGA recommends that all DoD systems…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
A large-scale, physics-based model of the inner heliosphere that the Space Weather Forecast Office uses to give 1–4 days’ advance warning of solar wind structures and Earth-directed coronal mass ejections. It couples the WSA near-Sun…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
A research group that develops new lidar technologies and laser spectroscopy and studies physical and chemical processes across the whole atmosphere, with lidar observations in Antarctica (McMurdo) and lidar development on campus in…
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)Data & Digital Tools
RAF post-flight plotting program (Mac, Linux) for displaying 2D images from PMS2D and other optical array probes, developed in the 1990s for quick-look data review.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)Physical Infrastructure
X-ray Ultraviolet Photometer System, one of four solar irradiance experiments on SORCE, continuing solar XUV irradiance measurements from earlier versions flown on SNOE and TIMED with improved accuracy.