The work is devoted to the problem of organizing university infrastructure, which allows students to be involved in projects related to instrumental observations of irregular natural phenomena. The purpose of the work is to study factors that simplify the process of organizing and conducting regular measuring experiments, allowing students and teachers of higher Education institutions to study and research rare natural phenomena. At the beginning of the work, an overview of literature is given, which describes the experience of using the project approach as part of the educational process and additional education. The main part of the paper describes an example of creating an educational measuring polygon the GASU. The method of design interfaces is proposed as a technology that allows you to simplify the process of creating a polygon and maintaining it in working order. The final part of the work is devoted to a detailed analysis of an example of a scientific study of an irregular natural phenomenon, the data on which were recorded as a result of the measurement experiments. The discussion section of the work concludes that the project approach and the method of project interfaces make the process of introducing instrumental observations into the educational process effective and beneficial for students.