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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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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 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.
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)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)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…
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.
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.
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)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.
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 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 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.
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…
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.
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.
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)Capabilities & Access
EOL engineering and machine-shop group providing engineering design and fabrication services to support development of scientific instrumentation for observational research projects.
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…
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)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…
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.
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…
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)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.
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…
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;…
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 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)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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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.
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…
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…
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)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,…
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…
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)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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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 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…
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.
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 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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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)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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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 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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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 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…
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.
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,…
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)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…