The British Isles continuous GNSS Facility (BIGF) is a unique and secure repository of archived GNSS* data, dating back as far as 1997. All data are in RINEX** files, which are quality-assured and accompanied by metadata, and also form the basis of derived products. BIGF serves all of these data, metadata and derived products to the complete user-spectrum - nationally and internationally across academia, government, and business - with impact on research and development, policy and the wider...

BOSCORF is the UK’s national deep-sea sediment core research facility and provides a unique and strategic service to the environmental science community. It provides an advanced state-of-the-art non-destructive core logging and analysis capability that is unique in the UK. BOSCORF also provides specialised long-term sediment core storage facilities, so that sediment cores collected by NERC ships, and NERC- funded researchers, can be kept under optimum conditions to ensure long-term preservation...

We provide NMR services for researchers within the Chemistry Department, researchers in other departments, researchers in other institutions and external companies. We aim to provide access to world leading facilities and expertise. NMR provides vital structural information to researchers and enables world leading innovation.

CSD3 is a multi-institution service underpinned by an innovative, petascale, data-centric HPC platform, designed specifically to drive data-intensive simulation and high-performance data analysis. The service constitutes a major addition to the UK national e-infrastructure, which will enable large scale simulation and next generation data analytics capability for researchers across a broad range of disciplines. The CSD3 platform has been co-designed with DELL EMC, Intel and NVIDIA. A non...

The Cambridge University Botanic Garden holds a plant collection of over 8000 plant species from all over the world to facilitate teaching and research. The Garden provides resources including plant material, horticultural expertise and facilities to research workers and lecturers. Since its foundation, however, the Botanic Garden has also provided a beautiful place for everybody to enjoy and benefit from - a series of wonderful landscapes through which to discover the drama of plant diversity...

What we do: Cambridge University Libraries forms one of the world's leading research libraries providing access to and support for national and international scholarship based on its research collections. The main University Library is a flagship research library; working within a distributed network of faculty, departmental and College libraries which together form the rich collections for international scholarship.

Who can use the service?: The main University Library is open to all...

The Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory (CVAO) is a World Meteorological Organisation-Global Atmospheric Watch (WMO-GAW) long term monitoring station on the island of Sao Vicente in the tropical east Atlantic. The observatory also supports campaign style field measurements, through the provision of a space, technical support, and a long running dataset to facilitate campaign planning and interpretation. The CVAO is operated collaboratively by the University of York (acting for and funded by the...

Facility providing electron-beam lithography services to semiconductor physics, optics and microelectronics research groups, and to related industrial users. Electron-beam lithography is a well-established means of fabricating the smallest lithographic features required for research and niche production semiconductor and optical technologies. The tools themselves are expensive (>£2m) and require considerable experience to obtain good results, and so are well suited to being providing as a...

WHAT IT DOES The Centre for Cell Imaging (CCI) is a world-class resource for imaging projects using optical microscopy. Our facility is equipped with the latest developments in microscopy. We examine a range of biological samples including malarial parasites, bacteria, mammalian cells, plants, chick embryos and fruit fly. We also have expertise imaging non-biological samples, such as hydrogels, cage nanocrystals and antibacterial surfaces.We also provide image analysis and support with state of...

The Centre of Excellence will provide an insect bioreactor of sufficient scale to enable research and development activities to be undertaken by multiple industries and academia. The facility will also serve for training purposes. • The insect bioreactor will enable studies utilising a diverse range of organic materials for insect rearing and will enable segregation of rearing substrates and end products. • The facility will enable research on both the downstream (organic residues) and...