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NOFO at a Glance
General Information
CPO’s grant programs manage a competitive process through a NOFO announcement to make awards supporting high-quality research conducted across the United States and internationally on the most urgent climate science questions. While each program area has its own focus, together they advance understanding of Earth’s climate system through interdisciplinary, integrated scientific research, and leverage the resulting knowledge, data, and systems to enhance society’s ability to plan and respond to climate variability and climate change. Toward this end, CPO also supports partnerships that build end-to-end pipelines of information (e.g., integrated information systems) flowing from scientists to decision-makers.
For FY2025, the Coping with Drought: Understanding and Assessing Drought in a Changing Climate competition will be focused on improving drought indicator performance to account for non-stationarity with the goal of more accurate drought assessments that support communities in preparing for, mitigating, and responding to drought.
Links to Full NOFO and Grants.gov Listing
Important Dates/Deadlines
Letters of Intent:
Letters of intent (LOIs) should be submitted via Google Form by 11:59 pm Eastern Time on September 18, 2024.
Full Applications:
Full applications must be received by 11:59 pm Eastern Time, on December 9, 2024.
Applications received after this time will not be considered for funding.
Applications must be submitted via http://www.grants.gov. For applications submitted through grants.gov, the basis for determining timeliness is the receipt notice issued by www.grants.gov, which includes the date and time received.
Emailed or faxed copies of applications will not be accepted.
Applicants without Internet access:
For applicants without internet access, please contact the CPO Grants Manager Diane Brown by mail at NOAA Climate Program Office (R/CP1), SSMC3, Room 12734, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910 to obtain an application package.
Please allow two weeks after receipt for a response. Hard copy submissions will be date and time stamped when they are received in the Climate Program Office.
Where to Submit
Application packages:
Visit the Grants.gov listing and click on Apply.
Federal Funding Opportunity Number:
Applicants without Internet access:
Send applications to:
Diane Brown
CPO Grants Manager
NOAA Climate Program Office (R/CP1), SSMC3, Room 12734
1315 East-West Highway
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Please allow two weeks after receipt for a response. Hard copy submissions will be date and time stamped when they are received in the Climate Program Office.
For Federal Investigators
Federal lead investigators who wish to apply to this Announcement of Opportunity must prepare a proposal according to the NOFO guidelines and submit the proposal to the program manager directly, instead of to Grants.gov. Federal co-investigators must submit a proposal identical to the proposal lead’s but with personalized budget information.
Letters of Intent for Federal investigators should be received by the Competition Manager by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on September 18, 2024.
Full applications must be received by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on December 9, 2024.
Questions/Who to Contact
For competition specific information please contact the Competition Manager, britt.parker@noaa.gov.
For general questions about the NOFO application process, please contact the CPO Grants Specialist Debbie Galo or the CPO Grants Manager, Diane Brown, by mail (see address below) or at diane.brown@noaa.gov.
Diane Brown
CPO Grants Manager
NOAA Climate Program Office (R/CP1), SSMC3, Room 12734
1315 East-West Highway
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Please allow up to two weeks after receipt for a response.
Additional Links
Webinars/Events
This informational webinar will be an opportunity for interested parties to hear an overview of the competition from the program officer and ask questions
This informational webinar summarizes, at a high level, the feedback on the Letters of Intent received and provides another opportunity for interested parties to ask questions about the competition.
List Of Competitions
NIDIS/CWD are accepting individual applications for 1 competition.
Understanding and Assessing Drought in a Changing Climate. National Integrated Drought Information System Coping with Drought (CWD)
Program Manager(s)
- Britt Parker
- britt.parker@noaa.gov
Grants Specialist
- Debbie Galo
For FY2025, the Coping with Drought: Understanding and Assessing Drought in a Changing Climate competition will be focused on improving drought indicator performance to account for non-stationarity with the goal of more accurate drought assessments that support communities in preparing for, mitigating, and responding to drought.
