Currently NOAA supports 22 Cooperative Institutes consisting of 45 universities and research institutions in 26 states whose research portfolios range from satellite climatology and fisheries biology to atmospheric chemistry and coastal ecology. Cooperative Institutes are assigned to a NOAA Line Office, whose responsibility includes the oversight of the initial competition process, performance, funding throughout the award period, and managing the renewal and termination process, if necessary. Cooperative Institutes are located at parent institutions whose geographic expanse extends from Hawaii to Massachusetts and from Alaska to Florida.
Annual Reports from
each Cooperative Institute are also available.
Complete list of research vessels operated by Cooperative Institutes.(PDF)
National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
- Cooperative Institute for Climate and
Satellites (CICS-M)
University of Maryland - Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) University of Wisconsin
- Cooperative Institute for Oceanographic Satellite Studies (CIOSS) Oregon State University
National Marine Fisheries Service
- Cooperative Institute for Marine Resource Studies (CIMRS) Oregon State University
- Cooperative Marine
Education and Research (CMER-NJ)
Rutgers University - Cooperative Marine
Education and Research (CMER-MA)
University of Massachusetts - Cooperative Marine
Education and Research (CMER-RI)
University of Rhode Island - Cooperative Marine
Education and Research (CMER-VA)
Virginia Institute of Marine Science & Hampton University
Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
- Cooperative Institute for Alaska Research
(CIFAR)
University of Alaska - Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region (CINAR) Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Cooperative Institute for Climate Applications Research (CICAR) Columbia University
- Cooperative Institute for Climate Science
(CICS-P)
Princeton University - Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystem Research (CILER) University of Michigan
- Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) University of Miami
- Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS) University of Oklahoma
- Cooperative Institute for Ocean Exploration, Research, and Technology (CIOERT) Florida Atlantic University
- Cooperative Institute for Research in the
Atmosphere (CIRA)
Colorado State University - Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences (CIRES) University of Colorado
- Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric
Research (JIMAR)
University of Hawaii - Joint Institute for Marine Observations
(JIMO)
Scripps Institution of Oceanography - Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and the Ocean (JISAO) University of Washington
- Northern Gulf Institute (NGI)
Mississippi State University
