FY 2020 Notice of Funding Opportunity

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In FY20, to continue and expand its investments in the urban atmosphere, the AC4 program invites proposals focused on one or more of the following:

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In FY20, CVP is interested in coupled- or ocean-model process studies linked with observational data analysis to better understand physical changes in the ocean in direct support of the needs of NOAA Fisheries research in one or both of the following Large Marine Ecosystems (LMEs): California Current, and/or Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf. Specifically, CVP seeks focused studies to better understand the following questions with respect to physical properties of the ocean (such as heat, freshwater, and momentum, the two-way exchange with the atmosphere; globally and/or regionally) and the impact on marine ecosystems:  1) how does a particular climate phenomenon (with a timescale of months or longer, e.g., ENSO, PDO, AMO/AMV, NAO, etc.) drive physical ocean conditions (sea surface and subsurface temperature, salinity and currents)? and, 2) how are ocean conditions changing in response to changing climate conditions and why? The goal of this work is to strengthen the fundamental understanding of physical mechanisms that affect ocean conditions in the context of climate variability and change, and how it impacts marine ecosystems. Outcomes of this project should clearly describe how changing climate conditions may affect marine ecosystems and habitats for living marine resources (e.g., protected species and U.S. fisheries) in one or both Large Marine Ecosystem (LME) regions: California Current and/or Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf.

[Note, there are additional coordinated solicitations through the Modeling, Analysis, Predictions and Projections (MAPP) Program and the Coastal and Ocean Climate Applications (COCA) Program. Please see these Programs’ Information Sheets for details.]

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In FY 2020, the MAPP program will continue to support NIDIS development via a new set of DTF activities that focus on emerging priorities. As climate and human systems evolve, the face of U.S. drought changes in ways that we don’t fully understand and anticipate. Droughts are triggering chains of complex interactions that involve natural and human systems. Some of these interactions may also affect the way drought itself evolves. For example, drought conditions can favor wildfire occurrence; in turn fire occurrence can affect snowpack and hydrology, and also air quality which in turn can affect clouds and precipitation. Long term surface temperature increases also importantly influences such processes. Drier land surface and decreased snowpacks can exacerbate droughts by triggering an array of Earth system processes.

 

MAPP Programmatic Webinar: The MAPP Program and its FY20 Competitions: https://youtu.be/ytLSiFoDYIA

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In FY 2020, the Climate Program Office (CPO) MAPP Program in partnership with the NMFS Office of Science and Technology solicits proposals for research to improve the modeling of how climate impacts the predictability of fisheries and other living marine resources across timescales. [See the CVP and COCA programs solicitations Information Sheets for related research opportunities]. Proposals can focus on one or more of the Priority Areas A-C below:

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In FY 2020, the OAR/Climate Program Office (CPO) MAPP Program solicits research investigations to constrain climate model sensitivity focusing on clouds, convection and aerosol processes and their role within the coupled Earth system, with the goal of reducing overall uncertainties in future climate projections.

Proposals can focus on one or more of the Priority Areas A-C below:

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In FY20, the COM program is soliciting proposals that develop, or significantly improve upon, oceanic, atmospheric, sea-ice, and/or terrestrial, physical or biogeochemical datasets from existing observations that will advance modeling efforts (development/improvement, assessment, and/or performance evaluation) of the terrestrial-, marine-, or sea ice-atmosphere boundary layer (BL), advancing understanding and representation of the BL in models. Projects should promote collaboration and coordination between the observation and modeling communities and include at least one named collaborator with modeling expertise. Proposed dataset development should focus on at least one of the priority areas: (a) Explore and apply state-of-art techniques to upscale surface-based network data and point data for model use, (b) Integrate observations from different platforms for model use (e.g. in-situ, satellite), (c) Enable implementation of new metrics, such as process-based model diagnostics. Please see the information sheet for a detailed description of specific requirements.

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In FY20, a number of CPO programs (CVP, COM, Assessments) are collaborating to support research and development activities around the topic of explaining extreme events. Two types of research proposals are solicited under this effort: 1) small individual proposals that increase our process-based understanding of the climate mechanisms that influence particular extreme events, and 2) a large proposal that develops and tests a potential rapid event analysis and assessment capability. Proposed research for both types of proposals should focus on particular types of extreme events -- extreme heat or cold events, droughts, and/or marine extremes impacting the Nation’s blue economy, and should focus on the United States and outlying territories.

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For FY20, COCA, in partnership with the NMFS Office of Science and Technology, is soliciting proposals for multidisciplinary projects to better understand the impacts of climate variability and change on marine ecosystems and implications for fish stocks, fisheries and the communities and economies that depend on them in the following Large Marine Ecosystems (LMEs): California Current LME, Gulf of Alaska LME, Eastern Bering Sea LME, and Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf LME. Projects that cross LME boundaries (e..g Northeast and Southeast, Gulf of Alaska and Eastern Bering Sea, etc.) are welcome. [See the MAPP and CVP programs solicitations Information Sheets for related research opportunities].

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For FY20, the Coping with Drought competition will be focused on research to improve our understanding and use of drought indicators, thresholds and triggers, and drought impact reporting to inform more deliberate and expanded decision-making to prepare for and respond to drought. Preference will be given to those proposals that focus on industry and economic sectors beyond agriculture (e.g. tourism and recreation, navigation, water utilities, manufacturing, ecosystem services, public health). For the purposes of this competition, drought indicators represent the variables or parameters used to describe drought conditions (e.g., precipitation, temperature, streamflow, groundwater or reservoir levels, soil moisture, snowpack), while triggers represent the actions taken at specific thresholds defined for those indicators guiding drought recognition and response (e.g., water restrictions, burn bans, activate state drought task force).

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In FY20, the CPO/CEE Division seeks one non-profit organization to conduct and manage an annual competition for organizations to collaborate within the Resilience Ecosystem and to support projects that address recognized goals and gaps in the Resilience Ecosystem. The successful applicant will receive between $150,000 and $250,000 per year, for three years, aimed at improving collaboration of work, and scalability of tools and services, among a broad array of actors in the Resilience Ecosystem in five focus areas:

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