Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
Advancing scientific understanding of climate, improving society’s ability to plan and respond
From Southern Florida to Maryland, RISA teams (CISA and SCIPP), Sea Grant programs, and other organizations coordinated a rapid response effort to map coastal flooding during Hurricane Joaquin using a new smartphone app developed by Wetlands Watch.
RISA and Sea Grant team up with states to map flooding during Hurricane Joaquin Read More »
NOAA’s Coastal and Ocean Climate Application Program (COCA) competitively selected four two-year projects totaling $1,102,594 in grants for the FY2015 Supporting Resilient Coastal Communities and Ecosystems in a Changing Climate: Understanding Climate-related Human Health Risks within the Coastal Environment competition.
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NOAA’s Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) Program is announcing five new five-year awards totaling $19 million to research institutions from Honolulu to New York City to improve the ability of those seeking to prepare for and adapt to climate variability and change.
Supporting preparedness and resilience in a changing climate: RISA announces FY15 awards Read More »
The NOAA Sectoral Applications Research Program (SARP) did not hold a competition in 2015 due to severe budget cuts. However, the SARP funding received from NIDIS to support the Coping with Drought Initiative, along with a small contribution from the SARP general funds, will be used to fund five top-rated proposals saved from the 2014
The University of Nebraska’s National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) has been selected as the new home for the Drought Risk Management Research Center (DRMRC). It is being supported with a three-year $2.4 million competitive grant award through NOAA’s Sectoral Applications Research Program (SARP) in support of the National Integrated Drought information System (NIDIS). SARP supports interdisciplinary
Greg Carbone, a RISA PI, is co-author on a paper published in the Journal of Climatology. The paper–“Assessment of NARCCAP model in simulating rainfall extremes using a spatially constrained regionalization method”–appeared online on Sept. 14.
Carolinas Integrated Sciences and Assessments (CISA), the RISA team in the Carolinas region, has launched a new website and logo.
CISA RISA team launches new logo and website Read More »
Dr. Paul Kirshen, a SARP-funded investigator from the University of New Hampshire, has been awarded a Water Resources Research Editor’s Choice Award for his work on “A risk-based approach to flood management decisions in a nonstationary world,” which was published in Water Resources in March 2014. Starting in 2011, Water Resources Research instituted the Editor’s
Dr. Paul Kirshen, SARP PI, wins Water Resources Research Editor’s Choice Award Read More »
**Additional COCA INFORMATION SESSION (8/18 @ 2 PM EDT) Read More »
Work on flash drought early warning systems funded by the Climate Program Office’s Sectoral Applications Research Program (SARP) appeared in the July issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.