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About CoRA
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Overview
Colorado Research Associates (CoRA) is the
Boulder, Colorado division of NorthWest Research Associates Inc
(NWRA). NWRA established CoRA in 1997. CoRA undertakes basic
and applied research in geophysics, planetary physics, and solar
physics. CoRA's expertise is primarily in numerical modeling,
theoretical and analytical problem solving, and atmospheric
observations at all altitudes. CoRA's close proximity to the
National Center for
Atmospheric Research, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, the University of Colorado at Boulder,
and Colorado State
University provides ample opportunities for collaboration
with CoRA's colleagues at those institutions. 
The Company
NWRA is a
principal-investigator-owned company; i.e., the same
people who carry out the company's scientific research also set
the direction and priorities for the company. As a result, NWRA
is an ideal home for a long and productive scientific career
where the focus is on quality science. Funding for NWRA is
provided by the National Science Foundation, the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration, the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, the Air Force Research Lab, the Air Force
Office of Scientific Research, the Army Research Lab, the Office
of Naval Research, the Department of Energy, the Department of
Defense, and more.
Facilities
CoRA is located in the Foothills research park
in Boulder adjacent to NCAR's Foothills Lab. CoRA occupies
approximately 3,400 square feet of private office space, and its
facilities include two conference rooms and kitchens, nearby
recreational facilities, and easy access to Boulder open-space
trails and views of the front range. Computing facilities at CoRA
consist of numerous high performance workstations and servers
including several dual and quad processor compute servers and
visualization workstations. More than two Terabytes of on-line
disk storage are available, as well as several archival storage
devices (tape and CD-RW drives). Modern, redundant network
services are provided to all offices and conference rooms,
including both gigabit and wireless Ethernet.
Questions?
If you have questions about CoRA please
contact one of the staff members on our Contacts page, or send email to our webmaster who will forward
your questions to the appropriate person. You may also wish to
visit our Research and Field Projects
page to learn about some of CoRA's recent research endeavors.
webmaster@cora.nwra.com