Deadline: 18-Sep-2024
The Climate Program Office (CPO) has announced a notice of funding opportunities for leveraging uncrewed systems data in climate applications.
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 inhouse 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.
Program Priorities
- The Climate Observations and Monitoring (COM) program supports continuing, focused activities that leverage NOAA’s large volume of in-situ and remotely-sensed observations to develop data products of essential climate variables and processes needed to understand the climate system on time scales ranging from days to a century, and longer. Primary objectives are to support work that 1) provides usable and findable datasets to enable further monitoring and modeling efforts by research and operational communities and 2) builds authoritative, long-term datasets and analyses for assessment activities.
- The ERB program in CPO is the competitive research arm of NOAA’s ERB Initiative to investigate natural and human activities that might alter the reflectivity of the stratosphere and the marine boundary layer, and the potential impact of those activities on the Earth system. ERB seeks to improve the understanding of aerosol impacts on Earth’s energy balance through: establishing a capability to observe and monitor stratospheric conditions; detecting and accurately simulating the impacts of natural and human-caused aerosol injections in the stratosphere and troposphere; and deriving co-benefits for Earth system prediction through a better understanding of aerosols and clouds.
- AC4 is a competitive research program in CPO that incorporates research on atmospheric chemistry and the carbon cycle. In collaboration with the NOAA Laboratories and the academic community, the AC4 program supports research to determine the processes governing atmospheric concentrations of trace gases and aerosols in the context of the Earth System. The program aims to contribute a process-level understanding of the Earth System through observation, modeling, analysis and field studies to support the development and improvement of models and to inform carbon and air pollution management efforts.
Funding Information
- In FY25, approximately $1,600,000 will be available for approximately 8 new awards pending budget appropriations. It is anticipated that most awards will be at a funding level between $50,000 and $200,000 per year.
- Projects are expected to last up to 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.