Maintaining robust cooperative relationships with 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 are the central focus of NOAA Cooperative Institutes.  NOAA currently supports 21 Cooperative Institutes in 17 states whose research portfolios range from satellite climatology and fisheries biology to atmospheric chemistry and coastal ecology. Cooperative Institutes are located at parent institutions whose geographic expanse extends from Hawaii to Massachusetts and from Alaska to Florida.  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.
 
For further information about NOAA Cooperative Institutes, please contact:

John Cortinas Jr., Ph.D., Chair
Cooperative Institute Committee
NOAA Research, R/LCX2
1315 E. West Hwy
Silver Spring, MD  20910
Office: 301-713-9397 X 206
Email: John.Cortinas@noaa.gov