Slide title: Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction (MREFC)

Slide words: Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI)
Total MREFC request for FY 2012: $225 million

Slide image: An overview map of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI)

Image credit: Center for Environmental Visualization, University of Washington

Bottom banner images (left to right): Image of an F4 Phantom fighter jet created with a 3D telepresence system; photo of scientists deploying an apparatus for taking sonar measurements from the seafloor; artist's conception showing the newly discovered planet GJ 581g of the Gliese 581 system; artist's conception of a molecular robot; photo of a fifth-grade student; sketch of RNA molecules

Bottom banner images credits (left to right): University of Arizona; Igor Semiletov, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Lynette Cook; Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation; Elsa Head, Tufts University; Dr. Jennifer Henke, Princeton University

FOR PL:
NEON: http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=65930&from=search_list
Slide image: Artist's conception of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
Image credit: Nicolle Rager Fuller, National Science Foundation

OOI: http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=65284&from=search_list
An overview map of the National Science Foundation's Ocean Observatory Initiative.
Credit: Center for Environmental Visualization, University of Washington

Advanced LIGO
http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~ll_news/s5_news/s5article.htm

ATST
http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=64909&from=search_list
Cutaway Rendering of Proposed Solar Telescope
An artist's rendering of the proposed Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST).
Credit: LeEllen Phelps/National Solar Observatory/AURA/NSF

ALMA
http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=65927&from=search_list
The first two North American antennas of the Joint ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) Observatory, undergoing acceptance testing at the mid-level site. In the foreground is an "apacheta"--a historic marker used by the original inhabitants of the region to denote routes to llama grazing areas in the Chilean altiplano. The observatory is being assembled high in the Chilean Andes.

Credit: Dr. Kathie L. Olsen, National Science Foundation