Typical Ambassador activities will include:

• Hosting awareness sessions for their local institution’s researchers, educators, students, scholars and administrators.
• Meeting with individuals and educating faculty on their campuses who are eager to learn more.
• Establishing and managing partnerships with faculty on-campus.
• Learning from peers by participating in periodic face-to-face meetings and at conferences.
• Sharing information with other Ambassadors.
• Leading the integration of instruments, sensors, shared computational resources, and data repositories at their local institution.
• Plan and submit funding requests.
• Connect Cirrus with useful resources and helpful people on their campus.
• Point interested individuals toward services and resources available at Cirrus.
• Working with the Cirrus Assistantship program on the analysis of supply and demand, to identify what is required to meet future needs.
• Lead the development of key communities of practice, including connections with international communities and initiatives.

The appointment of Ambassadors to establish on campus expertise will ensure:

• Greater visibility for the institution’s research activities.
• Synergy between projects.
• Provision of expertise that is otherwise difficult for individual projects to obtain.
• Lower learning curves.
• Improved retention of top-quality researchers by providing opportunities to collaborate on ground-breaking projects.