Due to ongoing and planned field campaigns, there will not be a call for proposals for ARM Mobile Facility and Aerial Facility deployments in fiscal year 2016 (FY2016). More information on the next call for large facility proposals and submission deadlines will be shared in summer of 2016.
As always, smaller field campaigns will continue to be accepted throughout the year; however, these smaller campaign requests will now be reviewed on a quarterly basis. A request for a smaller campaign would be considered a deployment of guest instrumentation, instrument requests for offsite deployments, or special operations, such as enhanced radiosondes or special scanning strategies at a fixed site. This change in the review cycle of small campaigns is part of the new field campaign guidelines shared on the ARM website.
Additional changes to the guidelines include revised expectations for principal investigators with special considerations identified for usage of Oliktok Point, unmanned aerial system, and tethered balloon campaigns. Some of these include:
- Only U.S. citizens are permitted to visit Oliktok Point.
- The U.S. Air Force needs 180 days (6 months) to approve visit requests.
- Unmanned aerial system and tethered balloon campaigns require longer lead times for requests to be reviewed to meet the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and DOE Office of Aviation Management (OAM) regulations.
New review criteria for campaign evaluations are also available. For more information or any questions, please contact the ARM Science Liaison Laurel Chapman.
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