The Early Detection and Follow-up of the Highly Obscured Type II Supernova 2016ija/DLT16am

European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern hemisphere, Chile as part of the ESO large programme [198.A-0915]; Gemini Observatory [GN-2016B-Q-57]; NSF [AST-1412504, AST-1517649, 1313484, AST-1518052]; Carlsberg Foundation; STFC [ST/L000679/1]; EU/FP7-ERC [615929]; Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany; DFG [HA 1850/28-1]; Ministry of Economy, Development, and Tourism's Millennium Science Initiative [IC120009]; Finnish Cultural Foundation; Vilho, Yrjo, and Kalle Vaisala Foundation of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters; VILLUM FONDEN [13261]; NUTS by the Instrument Center for Danish Astrophysics (IDA); US National Science Foundation [AST-1311862]; National Science Foundation [AST-1008343, AST-1613472, AST-1613426]; EU via ERC grant [725161]; Quantum Universe I-Core program; ISF; BSF Transformative program; Kimmel award; STFC through an Ernest Rutherford Fellowship; Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; David and Lucile Packard Foundation