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The NSF is broadly organized into four offices, seven directorates, and the National Science Board. [56] It employs about 2,100 people in permanent, temporary and contractual positions at its headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. Prior to 2017, its headquarters were located in Arlington, Virginia. [57] [58]
NSF (an initialism for National Sanitation Foundation) is a public health organization [1] headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan [2] that tests and certifies foods, water, and consumer products. [1] It also facilitates the development of standards for these products, [ 1 ] labeling products it has certified to meet these standards with the NSF mark.
Gemini is a partnership of Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The US holds a 50% share of the project (funded by the NSF) which provides public access time on each of Gemini's two 8-meter telescopes. One telescope is located near CTIO in Chile, and the other is located on the island of Hawaii.
The NSF is the primary funding contributor, providing about 70% of the required resources. The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) manages the operations and maintenance of the observatory through a cooperative agreement with the NSF, acting as the Executive Agency on behalf of the international partners. NSF's NOIRLab ...
NSF International, formerly the National Sanitation Foundation at the University of Michigan, a food safety standards group; North Sea Fleet; North South Foundation, an Indian-American educational organization; Nykterhetsrörelsens Scoutförbund, a Swedish scouting organization; Norges Speiderforbund, a Norwegian scouting organization
Research grants which included undergraduate research assistants have been funded from the very beginning of the NSF. But in 1958, the NSF established the Undergraduate Research Participation Program, and funding for that program continued until FY 1982, when it was abolished in the Reagan Administration cuts of NSF education funding.
Federal support for and cooperation with UNOLS is found in the National Science Foundation (NSF), Office of Naval Research (ONR), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Minerals Management Service (MMS) and other agencies.
The Regional Scale Nodes (RSN) is a component of the National Science Foundation's (NSF's) Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). The NSF's OOI is managed and coordinated by the OOI Project Office at the Consortium for Ocean Leadership (COL) in Washington, D.C. The UW, located in Seattle, Washington, is the RSN Implementing Organization for the COL.