Editing Atacama Large Millimeter Array (section)

==Global collaboration==
[[File:ALMA Greater than the Sum of its Parts (cropped).jpg|thumb|Several ALMA dishes]]
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international astronomy facility, is a partnership of Europe, North America and East Asia in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. ALMA is funded in Europe by the [[European Southern Observatory]] (ESO), in North America by the U.S. [[National Science Foundation]] (NSF) in cooperation with the [[National Research Council (Canada)|National Research Council]] of Canada (NRC) and the [[National Science Council]] of Taiwan (NSC) and in East Asia by the [[National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan|National Institutes of Natural Sciences]] of Japan (NINS) in cooperation with the [[Academia Sinica]] (AS) in Taiwan. ALMA construction and operations are led on behalf of Europe by ESO, on behalf of North America by the [[National Radio Astronomy Observatory]] (NRAO), which is managed by [[Associated Universities, Inc]] (AUI) and on behalf of East Asia by the [[National Astronomical Observatory of Japan]] (NAOJ). The Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) provides the unified leadership and management of the construction, commissioning and operation of ALMA.<ref>{{cite web |title=First Light for Band 5 at ALMA - New receivers improve ALMA's ability to search for water in the Universe |url=https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1645/ |publisher=European Southern Observatory |access-date=9 June 2018 |date=21 December 2016}} [[File:CC-BY icon.svg|50px]] Material was copied from this source, which is available under a [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License].</ref> Its current director since February 2018 is [[Sean Dougherty]].<ref>[https://www.almaobservatory.org/en/announcement/alma-selects-new-director/ ALMA Observatory: ALMA Selects New Director]</ref>