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.
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NOAA’s Climate Program Office awards $44.3M to advance climate research, improve community resilience
NOAA’s Climate Program Office (CPO) has awarded $44.34 million for 73 new projects designed to help advance the understanding, modeling, and prediction of Earth’s climate system and to foster effective decision making.
NOAA announces $4.5M in funding for new observing technologies for ENSO research and predictions
NOAA is investing $4.5 million over the next four years in four projects testing technology to enhance the Tropical Pacific Observing System (TPOS), which improves understanding of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), how it develops, and how it affects Earth’s weather.
NOAA’s Sectoral Applications Research Program in support of NIDIS: the Drought Risk Management Research Center
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 …
NOAA’s Sectoral Applications Research Program in support of NIDIS: the Drought Risk Management Research Center
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 …
In support of the National Integrated Drought Information System, SARP announces 2015 awards
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 …
Supporting preparedness and resilience in a changing climate: RISA announces FY15 awards
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 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.
Nitrogen Cycle improvements in the GFDL Earth System Models
In FY 2015, CPO’s Atmospheric Chemistry, Carbon Cycle and Climate (AC4) program funded one new multi-institutional award totaling $1.45 million, which consisted of $400,000 in Grants to universities, $974,874 in other awards to universities, and $95,000 in internal NOAA funding to advance Earth System Models.
Advancing a common software infrastructure for NOAA weather and climate models for more efficient modeling
NOAA’s Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections (MAPP) program competitively selected a new 3-year project involving $2.8 million in grants and $249,728 in other awards (for a total of $3 million) to help advance common software modeling and data infrastructure for NOAA’s global models for weather and climate prediction, ultimately resulting in more efficient model development and use of model data.