Preproposal deadline: Friday, 1 February for Scientific Research at the ARM Climate Research Facility U.S. Department of Energy

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) welcomes preproposals from all scientists, worldwide, for use of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility. Scientists can propose to use any of the research sites (http://www.arm.gov/sites/) and the ARM Mobile Facilities or ARM Aerial Facility (AAF). In fiscal year 2014 two new ARM facilities will open, and campaign proposals for these locations are also welcomed now.
Proposals are being accepted for usage of the second mobile facility (AMF2) for fall of 2015 for U.S. deployments or early winter in 2016 for international deployments. The G-1, operated by the AAF, is available beginning in August 2015 for short intensive deployments anywhere or longer-term deployments over an ARM site. Selections for AAF will be considered between August 2015 and the end of fiscal year 2016. Possible instruments and configurations are available at: http://www.arm.gov/sites/aaf/instruments. The first mobile facility (AMF1) is available for deployment in the spring of 2016.
Specific starting dates will depend on the end of previous campaigns. Availability dates and capabilities of the mobile facilities and aerial facility are available at: http://www.arm.gov/campaigns/.
Priority will be given to proposals that make comprehensive use of the ARM facilities and focus on long-term goals of the DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research, which can be reviewed at: http://science.energy.gov/~/media/ber/pdf/CESD-StratPlan-2012.pdf. Successful proposals will be supplied all operational and logistical resources (provided at no cost to the principal investigator). Successful principal investigators may have an opportunity to obtain a research grant from the Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program for the analysis and/or process modeling for three years that supports the science goals and objectives of the proposal.
To submit a proposal, please go to: http://www.arm.gov/campaigns/propose.