{"id":9,"date":"2021-11-15T22:05:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T04:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/sparc-new\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:16:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T20:16:32","slug":"nsf-cif","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/sparc\/nsf-cif\/","title":{"rendered":"NSF CIF"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1019\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/sparc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2025\/07\/NSF_4-Color_bitmap_Logo-1019x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-250\" style=\"object-fit:cover;width:200px;height:200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/sparc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2025\/07\/NSF_4-Color_bitmap_Logo-1019x1024.png 1019w, https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/sparc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2025\/07\/NSF_4-Color_bitmap_Logo-298x300.png 298w, https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/sparc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2025\/07\/NSF_4-Color_bitmap_Logo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/sparc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2025\/07\/NSF_4-Color_bitmap_Logo-768x772.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/sparc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2025\/07\/NSF_4-Color_bitmap_Logo-1528x1536.png 1528w, https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/sparc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2025\/07\/NSF_4-Color_bitmap_Logo.png 1722w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1019px) 100vw, 1019px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The SPARC is part of the U.S. National Science Foundation&#8217;s (NSF) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/geo\/ags\/programs\/fare\/\">Facilities for Atmospheric Research and Education (FARE)<\/a> Community Instruments and Facilities (CIF) program<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to facilitate fundamental research in the atmospheric sciences, the SPARC &amp; SPARClet instruments and facilities are available for request under the <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.nsf.gov\/funding\/opportunities\/facility-and-instrumentation-request-process-firp\">Facility and Instrumentation Request Process (FIRP) solicitation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SPARC field campaigns are typically Track 2 proposals, with dues dates 9-15 months prior to activity<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Field campaign infrastructure is provided by the SPARC team at UW-SSEC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UW-SSEC scientists are available to collaborate on field campaign science<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For inquiries about requesting use of the SPARC, please contact the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/contact-form\/?contact-name=sparc\">CIF Principal Investigators<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SPARC is part of the U.S. National Science Foundation&#8217;s (NSF) Facilities for Atmospheric Research and Education (FARE) Community Instruments and Facilities (CIF) program In order to facilitate fundamental research in the atmospheric sciences, the SPARC &amp; SPARClet instruments and facilities are available for request under the Facility and Instrumentation Request Process (FIRP) solicitation SPARC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/sparc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/sparc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/sparc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/sparc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/sparc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/sparc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/sparc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/sparc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}