Deadline: 01-Oct-2024
The Climate Program Office (CPO) is calling for applications for the Climate Variability and Predictability Program: TEPEX-C throughout the United States.
Objectives
- The Climate Program Office (CPO) supports this vision as part of the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR). A CPO core function is to support extramural research through a competitive grants process. CPO’s programs span foundational, cross-disciplinary climate sciences, assessments, capacity building, tool development, and education. CPO collaborates closely with partners within NOAA and with the broader academic, Federal, Tribal nations, international bodies, and private sector community.
- CPO works in close partnership with the OAR laboratories and programs to complement and support their in house research. CPO also works with other parts of NOAA to support their mission areas in weather, oceans, fisheries, and service delivery. CPO further builds networks, coalitions, and collaborations, converges around the best ideas, and provides support to accelerate emerging innovation across the climate enterprise. Undertaking a range of climate science and services initiatives, CPO helps their Nation and the world address climate-related challenges and pursue solution-focused opportunities.
- CPO’s grant programs manage a competitive process through a Notice of Federal Funding Opportunity (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. CPO programs play a critical role in advancing science and informing decisions for climate adaptation, resilience, and mitigation as part of NOAA and the U.S. Global Change Research Program.
- CPO research/science programs and activities meet urgent climate challenges, and incubate innovative advancements in Earth system and social sciences; support world-class assessment reports, including the National Climate Assessment; enhance and expand NOAA’s capabilities for integrated information systems for drought, heat and floods to deliver timely science-based information that can reduce the impacts and costs of these climate-driven challenges; educate and grow the next generation of experts in support of NOAA’s climate mission.
Priorities
- This FY25 NOFO is being executed through CPO’s: Earth System Science and Modeling (ESSM) Division. Prior to submitting applications, investigators are highly encouraged to learn more about CPO and its programs, as well as specific program priorities for FY25. In addition, interactions, partnerships, or collaborations with NOAA OAR Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes are encouraged.
- The Climate Variability and Predictability (CVP) Program supports research that enhances the process-level understanding of the climate system through observation, modeling, analysis, and field studies. This vital knowledge is needed to improve climate models and predictions so that scientists and society can better anticipate the impacts of future climate variability and change.
Funding Information
- It is anticipated that $3,000,000 will be available for this competition in FY25. Awards will also be supported with FY26, FY27, and/or later funds depending on facility request schedules and Congressional appropriations. Three-year awards will range between $525,000 and $750,000 total.
- Projects are expected to last 3 years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants are institutions of higher education, other nonprofits, commercial organizations, international organizations, and state, local and federally recognized tribal governments.
- Federal agencies or institutions are not eligible to receive Federal assistance under this notice.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.