FACILITIES & INFRASTRUCTURE
INSTAR Lab maintains research infrastructure designed to support rigorous, reproducible science across its core program areas. Headquartered at 125 Frederick St, Marietta, OH 45750, the institute's computational, analytical, and collaborative resources are available to resident researchers, Consortium partners, and visiting scientists through formal access agreements. Capacity across these facilities reflects INSTAR's commitment to equipping investigators with the tools frontier research demands.
High-Performance Computing
INSTAR's HPC infrastructure provides GPU-accelerated computing, distributed storage, and high-bandwidth networking that underpin computationally intensive research in AI/ML, quantum simulation, materials modeling, and data analytics. Resources scale to meet the demands of individual projects and are provisioned to support reproducible, containerized workflows.
Analytical & Characterization Resources
INSTAR maintains access to analytical instrumentation supporting materials characterization, biological imaging, and physical measurement across its research thrusts. Instrumentation access is coordinated through the Consortium network, allowing investigators to match the right tool to each research question without duplication of capital-intensive assets.
Laboratory Research Environment
INSTAR's laboratory research environment supports experimental work in biology, chemistry, and related life and physical sciences. Lab operations adhere to applicable safety standards and institutional oversight protocols, ensuring that research conducted at INSTAR meets the regulatory and ethical requirements expected of federally compliant research organizations.
Data Management & Open Science
INSTAR operates secure data management infrastructure with policies aligned to open-science principles. Research data is stored, versioned, and documented in ways that support reproducibility and, where appropriate, public sharing. This posture reflects INSTAR's nonprofit mission and positions the institute favorably for collaboration with federal agencies that mandate data management plans.
Collaborative Research Spaces
INSTAR's physical research environment at its Marietta, Ohio headquarters is designed around interdisciplinary collaboration. Shared working spaces, seminar facilities, and project rooms support the cross-pollination of ideas that distinguishes INSTAR's approach. Visiting researchers and Consortium fellows have access to these spaces under formal collaboration agreements.
Consortium Infrastructure Network
Through the INSTAR Consortium, researchers gain access to a broader network of partner capabilities beyond INSTAR's own walls. This federated infrastructure model — coordinated by the seven Consortium partners — extends each investigator's effective resource base, enabling research projects that would be impractical for any single institution of INSTAR's size to pursue independently.
BUILT ON PUBLIC DATA
INSTAR Lab grounds its research in transparent, publicly available datasets so results are reproducible and accountable. Our facilities and data pipelines are designed to ingest, process, and validate data from authoritative public sources, including:
Data.gov
Federal open datasets spanning agriculture, climate, health, and infrastructure — used across INSTAR's social and applied science programs.
NIST
Reference standards and benchmarks used in AI evaluation, materials science, and quantum computing research at INSTAR.
U.S. Census Bureau
Demographic and geographic data informing INSTAR's social science research and regional STEM pipeline studies.
NOAA
Climate, ocean, and atmospheric datasets used in Earth sciences, energy modeling, and environmental research programs.
NASA Open Data
Imagery, telemetry, and scientific datasets supporting INSTAR's outer space and remote sensing research programs.
NIH
Biomedical research data and genomic resources underpinning INSTAR's health, medicine, and life sciences programs.
DOE OSTI
Energy research publications and technical reports informing INSTAR's energy and HPC infrastructure decisions.
OUR PARTNERS
Institutional Partnerships
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INSTAR Lab works with universities, government agencies, and enterprises on joint research programs, sponsored projects, and technology transfer. Build science together.