NOAA Cooperative Institutes are academic and non-profit research institutions that demonstrate the highest level of performance and conduct research that supports NOAA’s Mission Goals and Strategic Plan. Because many Cooperative Institutes are collocated with NOAA research laboratories, there is a strong, long-term collaboration between scientists in the laboratories and in the university. Cooperative Institutes not collocated with a NOAA laboratory often serve diverse research communities and research programs throughout NOAA. Cooperative Institutes serve an additional important function: they help educate and train the next generation of NOAA’s and the nation’s scientific workforce. Many of the cooperative agreements between NOAA and our academic partners provide for formal NOAA sponsorship of students through fellowships.
Currently, NOAA supports 21 Cooperative Institutes in 17 states.[more]ACTIVITIES & ANNOUNCEMENTS
NOAA Accepting Applications for New Cooperative Institute
NOAA is now accepting applications for the establishment of a cooperative institute (CI) that will explore and research continental shelf frontier ecosystems; advance the state of knowledge of both shallow and deep coral ecosystems under U.S. jurisdiction; and develop, test and evaluate advanced ocean technologies and tools. The CI may consist of one or more research institutions with expertise and capabilities in these piority areas. Proposals must be received by OAR no later than Monday, October 6, 2008, 5 p.m., E.T. Proposals submitted after that date will not be considered.
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NOAA Selects Two Universities for Arctic and Climate Research Programs
On June 12, NOAA announced the competitive selection of collaborative
research partners at the Cooperative
Institute for Arctic Research (CIFAR) located in Fairbanks,
Alaska, and the Cooperative
Institute for Climate Science (CICS), in Princeton, N.J. The
groups will join NOAA to conduct research in climate change, greenhouse
gases, and changes to Arctic ice coverage.
CIRES Fellow Solomon Named to Time Magazine's 2008 List of World's 100 Most Influential People
Time magazine has named CIRES Fellow Susan Solomon to its fifth annual list of the world's 100 most influential people. In the Time piece describing Solomon, Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change wrote, "All scientists like to believe they will leave the world better than they found it. Susan Solomon of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration surely will. Having helped save the earth's atmosphere already, she is now playing a role in doing it again."
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CIMAS Researchers Focus on Oceanic Heat to Improve Hurricane Forecasting
Building on prior research conducted in the Atlantic Ocean that has shown that hurricane intensity forecasts are greatly improved when oceanic heat content (OHC) data are included in statistical prediction models, researchers at the Cooperative Institute of Marine and Atmospheric Science (CIMAS) at the University of Miami are now adapting this approach for use in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. [more]
CIFAR Provides Alaskan Input to Climate Change Synthesis Report
The leadership of the Climate Change Science Program, in coordination with the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Council on Environmental Quality, has called for an integrative report, or Unified Synthesis Product that provides a coherent analysis of the current understanding of climate change in the United States. Dr. John Walsh, Director of the Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research (CIFAR), has been appointed to the Synthesis Product Development Committee, established by NOAA and tasked with producing the report by the end of 2008. The committee held its first meeting in Chicago on March 31-April 1, 2008. [more]
CICS/Princeton Research Highlights Northern Hemisphere-Southern Ocean Climate Link
Surface warming in the Northern Hemisphere, particularly amplified at high latitudes, could reduce the formation of cold, deep water (primarily in the North Atlantic), significantly altering the oceans' ability to moderate global climate variability and change. This is the conclusion of Neven S. Fuckar at NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Climate Science at Priceton University and NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, whose research appears in the July 24, 2007 issue of the journal Geophysical Research Letters. [more]
JISAO Researchers Offer New Insights into Productivity of Coastal Gulf of Alaska
Researchers at the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO) and NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, have developed a coupled physical-biological computer model to explain how the coastal Gulf of Alaska supports such large populations of fish, seabirds and marine mammals, despite ecological conditions that would suggest otherwise. [more]
