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Research Infrastructure: Category II: MESA (Multidisciplinary Environment for Scientific A — NSF Award to University of Arizona (A

The goal of project MESA (Multidisciplinary Environment for Scientific Advancement) is to build a shared, open-source platform in which scientific data from many fields are automatically described, organized, and connected, so any researcher can find and use them in minutes to hours instead of weeks to months. At its c

Award titleResearch Infrastructure: Category II: MESA (Multidisciplinary Environment for Scientific A
Award ID2608717
AwardeeUniversity of Arizona
CityTUCSON
StateAZ
Amount obligated$4,617,408
Principal investigatorTyson Swetnam
ProgramNAIRR-Nat AI Research Resource
Start date06/01/2026
AbstractThe goal of project MESA (Multidisciplinary Environment for Scientific Advancement) is to build a shared, open-source platform in which scientific data from many fields are automatically described, organized, and connected, so any researcher can find and use them in minutes to hours instead of weeks to months. At its core, metadata-enabled scientific agents read each new dataset, attach descriptions drawn from community-curated standards, and recommend how it can be combined with related informa
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