Currently NOAA 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 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 Studies
  University of Maryland
• Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
  University of Wisconsin
• Cooperative Institute for Oceanographic Satellite Studies
  Oregon State University

National Marine Fisheries Service

• Cooperative Institute for Marine Resource Studies
  Oregon State University
• Cooperative Marine Education and Research
  Rutgers University
• Cooperative Marine Education and Research
  University of Massachusetts
• Cooperative Marine Education and Research
  University of Rhode Island
• Cooperative Marine Education and Research
  Virginia Institute of Marine Science & Hampton University

Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research

• Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research
  University of Alaska
• Cooperative Institute for Climate and Ocean Research
  Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• Cooperative Institute for Climate Applications Research
  Columbia University
• Cooperative Institute for Climate Science
  Princeton University
• Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystem Research
  University of Michigan
• Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies
  University of Miami
• Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies
  University of Oklahoma
• Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere
  Colorado State University
• Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences
  University of Colorado
• Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research
  University of Hawaii
• Joint Institute for Marine Observations
  Scripps Institution of Oceanography


• Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and the Ocean
  University of Washington
• Northern Gulf Institute
  Mississippi State University