CEDAR email: Call for EISCAT Peer-reviewed Program experiment proposals 2011, first closing 1 Dec 2010

Esa Turunen esa.turunen at eiscat.se
Thu Nov 4 07:16:19 MDT 2010


Call for EISCAT Peer-reviewed Program experiment proposals 2011

EISCAT Scientific Association invites applications for observing time  
on the EISCAT facilities in 2011, by individual scientists, research  
groups, and consortia throughout the world on equal, competitive  
basis. This opportunity opens in total 200 h of experiment time for  
international, peer-reviewed competition, and is available for the use  
of any of the current EISCAT facilities. Successful applicants will be  
awarded time on the facilities based on the scientific merit of their  
applications. Assistance with observing programs and data analysis  
will be provided. Please, if you are unfamiliar with EISCAT, contact  
us via the email address given below, and we will be happy to assist  
you, by advising you on the technical aspects of your proposal. We  
welcome applications both by young and established researchers.

Submissions
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Applications for EISCAT PP time should be sent to Dr. Ingemar  
Häggström, by email to:
Ingemar.Haggstrom at eiscat.se,
to arrive no later than at 24:00 UTC on the submission deadline date.  
A confirmation of reception will be sent to the contact e-mail address  
provided in the application.

Submission deadlines
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EISCAT PP experiment applications are considered during two rounds for  
experiments to be conducted during 2011. The first two closing dates  
for submissions are:
-1 December, 2010.
-1 May, 2011.
Submission for a given deadline implies that the observations are  
requested to be initially scheduled during the 6 month period which  
starts in January or July, 1 or 2 months after the respective  
deadline. Please, note that in general EISCAT experiments for a given  
month are scheduled latest by the 10th of the preceding month.

Application contents
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Applications should consist of 2 parts, A) a free-form 2-4 page  
science description to concentrate on the scientific value of the  
proposed work, and B) a standard 1-2 page form to define experiment.

For more information concerning the application contents, review  
process and scheduling, see:

http://www.eiscat.se/Members/Esa/eiscatppexp

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Dr. Esa Turunen
Director, EISCAT Scientific Association
P. O. Box 812, SE-981 28 Kiruna, Sweden
gsm: +46702094384
office: +4698079153
fax: +4698079159
e-mail: esa.turunen at eiscat.se
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