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NOAA Climate Program Office
NOAA Research
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Phone: 301-427-2089
Fax: 301-427-2073

Last Updated
September 13, 2005

Climate and Societal Interactions Division (CSI)

OGP's CSI Division stimulates and supports research and applications activities designed to links climate science to society in order to expand regional adaptive capactity in the face of climate change and variability. Specifically, CSI seeks to:

• Identify, explore and communicate the information needs of a diverse suite of decision-makers in order to foster a solution-oriented focus to NOAA research and services;
• Identify, understand and assess the sensitivity and adaptability of managed systems to climate;
• Explore the uses and identify the limits of evolving knowledge to manage risks and opportunities related to climate variability and change; and
• Catalyze and accelerate the development, prototyping and evaluation of tools and methods for productively connecting science to decision-making needs and structures.

Our programs include:

Climate Information Access Program (CIP)

With the growing success of RANET in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific, CIP is helping to communicate imortant climate information in innovative ways with the successful outcomes. more...

NOAA Climate Transition Program (NCTP)

The NOAA Climate Transition Program (NCTP) is a new program within the NOAA Climate Office that supports transition of climate information tools and management insights into user-relevant products. It facilitates the development of new or enhanced regional products, information delivery technology, and sustained and systematic communication and feedback, especially at the grass roots level. more...

Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA)

With eight RISA regions in the U.S., CSI provides long-term funding to support stakeholder focused, integrated multi-disciplinary research to improve regional adaptive capacity to changes in climate across a variety of timescales and impacts in multiple sectors. more ...

Sector Applications Research Program (SARP or Sectors)

The newly established NOAA Sector Applications Research Program (SARP) will identify and promote research and application priorities that foster improved decision support for fundamental climate-related issues in key socio-economic sectors. The SARP effort, which has its roots in the Human Dimensions of Global Change Research (HD); the Environment, Science and Development (ESD); and the Climate Variability and Human Health (CVHH) programs, is complementary to NOAA’s other substantial investment in decision support research: the Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessment (RISA) program. Together, the two efforts seek to provide effective geographical and topical coverage of climate-related issues in a decision-making context. more...

For futher information, contact:
Claudia Nierenberg
Acting Asst Director, Climate and Societal Interactions
1100 Wayne Avenue, Suite 1225
Silver Spring, MD 20910
(301) 427-2089 Fax: 301-427-2082
Claudia.Nierenberg@noaa.gov