This session is organized to provide an opportunity to the AMS community including all levels (students, grads, post-docs, faculty/scientists) to be informed about the existing systems of funding and research opportunities, current scheduled experiments to engage on, observational
networks and current monitoring facilities and datasets. The session covers the global areas of earth system sciences predictability related to weather, ocean, climate and interfaces. The session hosts leaders in observation research programs to expand the access of observation platforms to a broader atmospheric science community, enable
experimental research and education in earth systems science, broaden participation of underrepresented groups in experimental learning and to provide pathways and detailed explanations of facility request to early career and new faculty. Presentations from program managers from funding
organizations, program directors from national centers and observational network leaders regarding established opportunities as well as potential ways of engaging students and early career faculty in observational research are welcome.