Approval of Major NSF Awards
Depending on the size of the proposed award, the Board will review funding of major facilities and projects. The following is a non-comprehensive list of the types of large-scale projects the Board has reviewed and approved:
- ODP (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program)
- TCS (Terascale Computing System) at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
- LIGO Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
- ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter Array)
- HIAPER (High-Performance Instrumented Airborne Platform for Environmental Research)
- LHC (Large Hadron Collider)
- NEES (George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation)
- NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network)
- Polar Cap Observatory
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