UCAR signs agreement to continue managing NCAR

BOULDER — The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research has signed an agreement with the National Science Foundation to continue management of the National Center for Atmospheric Research for five years.

The agreement is up to $630 million, depending on the availability of funds.

“NCAR is among the nation’s greatest scientific success stories,” William Easterling, the head of the NSF Directorate for Geosciences, said in a prepared statement. “NCAR’s success is, in no small measure, a product of its consistently excellent oversight by UCAR, and I am delighted to see the long-standing and highly successful collaboration…