National Capability Services, facilities and Data (NCSFD) funding supports the UK environmental research community by providing specialist services, of which high performance computing, measurement facilities, sample repositories and data centres are examples, whose ‘centralised’ regional or national provision delivers a critical mass in operation, technical innovation and financial efficiency.
NERC-UKRI expects the provision of data and services to be accessible to the entire UK research community, and to support research from all NERC-UKRI funding streams. NERC-UKRI services, facilities and data may be used by industry partners, where appropriate, to generate additional external revenue, and provide a source of capability and expert advice to government and wider society.