The North American ALMA Science Center (NAASC)

NRAO HQ, aka Stone Hall

Welcome to the North American ALMA Science Center (NAASC).

We are located at the NRAO headquarters in Charlottesville, Virginia, and provide services and support to the North-American scientific community, such as:

  • Direct support to ALMA proposers, program PIs and archival users through the help desk and visits to the NAASC (onsite and virtual)

  • ALMA meetings and workshops, in Charlottesville and across the community

  • Training events and materials

  • Data reprocessing on-demand

  • Computing resources

  • Consultation with our EPO team to explore outreach opportunities (press releases...) Please reach out to jmalusky@nrao.edu

Please explore our services on the NAASC website. For additional details see the guide to the NA ARC

Connect with NRAO

The NSF National Radio Astronomy Observatory and NSF Green Bank Observatory are facilities of the U.S. National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc.

Founded in 1956, the NSF NRAO provides state-of-the-art radio telescope facilities for use by the international scientific community. NSF NRAO telescopes are open to all astronomers regardless of institutional or national affiliation. Observing time on NSF NRAO telescopes is available on a competitive basis to qualified scientists after evaluation of research proposals on the basis of scientific merit, the capability of the instruments to do the work, and the availability of the telescope during the requested time. NSF NRAO also provides both formal and informal programs in education and public outreach for teachers, students, the general public, and the media.

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