This $557,298 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Climate and Atmospheric Research Federal Grant Program (CFDA 11.431) aims to develop a regional ocean model for the Hawaiian Island Chain. The University of Hawaii, the primary awardee, will collaborate with NOAA's Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center and Office of Ocean and Atmospheric Research to design, build, and validate this ocean model system. The model will serve as a...
The University of Maryland, College Park will provide climate resilience engineering services and products under a $330,726 cooperative agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The award period is from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023. The services directly support the goals of NOAA's Climate and Atmospheric Research program, which aims to establish predictive capabilities for short- and long-term climate fluctuations through cooperative research between...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is providing a $400,000 Cooperative Agreement award to the University of Hawaii at Manoa under the Office for Coastal Management (CFDA 11.473) Federal Grant Program. The funding will build the capacity of the He'eia National Estuarine Research Reserve within the University of Hawaii to implement projects that increase the climate resilience of coastal communities within coastal counties. Specifically, the funds will be used to enhance...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is providing $398,411 in federal funding through the Office for Coastal Management (CFDA 11.473) program to the University of South Carolina. This Cooperative Agreement award will support the North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) in implementing projects, initiatives, and programs that increase the climate resilience of coastal communities in Georgetown County, South Carolina. Specifically, the NERR will use...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is providing $1.2M in federal funding through a Cooperative Agreement under the Office for Coastal Management (CFDA 11.473) program to the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ). This 5-year award, effective May 1, 2024, will build the capacity of the North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve (NC NERR) to implement climate resilience projects and support stewardship, research, education, and training...
This Cooperative Agreement award of $300,000 from the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (CFDA 11.431 - Climate and Atmospheric Research) will support a project conducted by the University of Washington to assess climate change health adaptation efforts in U.S. island jurisdictions in the Caribbean and Pacific. The key objectives are to: 1) evaluate implementation of climate change health adaptation steps, 2) examine barriers and facilitators to...
The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $207,189 Cooperative Agreement to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), which manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), under the Climate and Atmospheric Research program (CFDA 11.431). The project aims to analyze state-of-the-art global ocean model simulations to quantify improvements in forecasting coastal sea level variability over seasonal to annual timescales....
This $3,707,343 Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Sea Grant Support program (CFDA 11.417), will develop new training curricula and identify existing programs to address critical skills needed to improve climate resilience in coastal Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The project, implemented by the minority-owned, non-profit organization Protectores De Cuencas Inc. (PDC), aims to build the capacity of these communities to...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $1,500,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Cooperative Institute (Inter-Agency Funded Activities) program (CFDA 11.405) to the University of Maryland, College Park. The purpose is to develop and deliver a Climate Hub for Analytical Research and Monitoring (CHARM) that will improve access and tools to leverage NOAA's multi-petabyte climate data holdings. This will support NOAA's goal of radically improving the delivery of...
The Southeast Climate & Energy Network Inc. was awarded a $100,000 cooperative agreement from the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Climate and Atmospheric Research program (CFDA 11.431) to capture local climate knowledge for future research in the Southeastern United States. The two-year award running from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2023 will support efforts to develop the knowledge required to establish a predictive capability for short...