UPDATED: FY18 Federal Funding Opportunities for Climate and Societal Interactions
The three competitions would fund interdisciplinary research on planning and preparedness to extreme weather and climate.
COCA
Workshop findings: sustainability challenges for northeastern urban coasts
A report of the Sustainable Urban Coasts in the Urban Northeast workshop, hosted in October 2014 at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, was published online by Local Environment.
Sustainable management and resilience of U.S. fisheries in a changing climate: a collaboration between OAR and NMFS
In partnership with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Office of Science and Technology, CPO’s Coastal and Ocean Climate Applications (COCA) program competitively awarded seven grants projects in FY 2015 focused on increasing the understanding of climate-related impacts on fish stocks and fisheries. The roughly $5 million in grants cover a two- to three-year time period.
Supporting Resilient Coastal Communities and Ecosystems in a Changing Climate
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.
Supporting Resilient Coastal Communities and Ecosystems in a Changing Climate
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.
Cultural knowledge and local vulnerability in African American Communities
A paper supported by a grant from CPO’s Coastal and Ocean Climate Applications (COCA) program has been selected for Advance Online Publication in Nature Climate Change. The paper “Cultural knowledge and local vulnerability in African American Communities” appeared on the publication’s website on June 8, 2015.
Laura Petes named ESA fellow
CPO scientist Laura Petes has been named an Ecological Society of America Early Career Fellow. Dr. Petes was inducted as an ESA Early Career Fellow earlier this month.
Scientists awarded grants to study Santa Barbara coastal ecosystem vulnerability
Researchers from California’s leading climatological and ecological programs received two grants totaling more than $278,000 from CPO’s Coastal and Ocean Climate Applications (COCA) program and NOAA Sea Grant to conduct a coastal ecosystem vulnerability assessment in the Santa Barbara area, California Sea Grant announced Tuesday, Feb. 4.
COCA funds Climate Field Notes report
With funding from CPO’s Coastal and Ocean Climate Applications (COCA) program, Oregon Sea Grant has released Climate Field Notes, a report providing insights on climate change from the NOAA Sea Grant Network project.