Cooperative Agreement 106522002Q41883

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $496,422 cooperative agreement to The University of Alabama in Huntsville on July 1, 2026, under the Climate and Atmospheric Research program (CFDA 11.431) to develop an improved operational drought index for the Southeastern United States. The project delivers a modified Standardized Precipitation Index (SPIE) that incorporates effective precipitation—the fraction of rainfall absorbed into soil and available for long-term...

This Project Grant award of $350,000 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Congressionally Identified Awards and Projects program (CFDA 11.469) supports the installation of equipment for the Hawaii Mesonet Network (HMN), a statewide environmental monitoring system. The HMN will consist of 84 automated weather stations across Hawaii that will collect real-time data on conditions such as rainfall, solar radiation, temperature, humidity, and wind speed. This...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808) provides $164,158 to North Carolina State University to advance the utility of regional climate modeling for understanding the impacts of extreme temperatures on human and ecosystem health in the U.S. Caribbean and Southeast U.S. The primary activities include developing regional climate data to fill gaps and better support climate adaptation decisions, leveraging...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $250,001 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Alabama Office for Sponsored Programs Division under the Cooperative Institute (Inter-Agency Funded Activities) program (CFDA 11.405). The goal of this 15-month project is to develop a statistically downscaled, gridded dataset across the U.S. and its territories to quantify the impact of climate change on future extreme precipitation, including both daily and hourly data...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a Cooperative Agreement totaling $499,936 to Mississippi State University on July 1, 2026, under the Climate and Atmospheric Research program (CFDA 11.431) to develop memory-based drought decomposition methods for regionalized drought assessment across the Southeastern United States. The project addresses the limitation that traditional drought indices—Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), Standardized Precipitation Evaporation...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded the University of Hawaii a $600,000 cooperative agreement on February 1, 2026, under the Meteorologic and Hydrologic Modernization Development program (CFDA 11.467) to continue and expand the Pacific Islands Training and Development (PITD) initiative for hydrometeorologists from Pacific Island national meteorological and hydrological services. The PITD, administered and managed by the University of Hawaii's Tsunami and All-Hazards...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Interior Business Center awarded a $799,911 Project Grant to the PUA Foundation, a Native Hawaiian organization, under the Native Hawaiian Climate Resilience Program (CFDA 15.098). The grant, titled "Kapapahuliau Native Hawaiian Climate Resilience Program - 2024", will fund a 2-year initiative (10/1/2024 - 9/30/2026) to enhance the climate resilience of the Native Hawaiian community through integrated environmental, cultural, and community-based...

The Department of the Interior's Interior Business Center awarded a $700,000 Project Grant to The Hawaiian Church Of Hawai'I NEI under the Native Hawaiian Climate Resilience Program (CFDA 15.098). The five-year grant, awarded on October 1, 2024, with a completion date of September 30, 2029, supports the Kapapahuliau Native Hawaiian Climate Resilience Program. The program aims to enhance the ability of the Native Hawaiian community to address climate change impacts through integrated...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) Project Grant award of $290,165 to the University of Hawaii (UH) at Manoa will support a collaborative research project to improve subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) forecasting of extreme hydrometeorological events and their impacts in Hawaii. The project aims to deepen the understanding of intraseasonal climate variability in the central Pacific and develop an S2S forecast system for events like heavy rainfall, flooding,...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Hawaii at Manoa received a $577,875 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), awarded August 15, 2025, with completion targeted for July 31, 2028. This award funds fundamental research into the eyewall replacement cycle (ERC) in tropical cyclones—a critical meteorological phenomenon characterized by the formation of an outer eyewall while the...