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 consisting of 34 universities.[more]ACTIVITIES & ANNOUNCEMENTS
NOAA Selects New Cooperative Institute to Study Climate and North Atlantic Ecosystems
NOAA’s Oceanic and Atmospheric Research and National Marine Fisheries Service, have selected a consortium of five institutions for the new Cooperative Institute for North Atlantic Region (CINAR). The institutions will join NOAA to conduct ocean and climate research to better understand the correlation between climate change and variability, fishing practices and fish populations, and to develop an integrated capability to research emerging issues from an ecosystem perspective.Led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, the consortium will include Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge, MD; University of Maine, Orono, ME; and Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland, ME. The group was selected through a competitive process. [more]
NOAA Selects Colorado State University Institute to Study Satellite Applications for Improved Regional and Global Weather Forecasts
NOAA announced today its renewed affiliation with the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO. Chosen through a competitive process, the cooperative institute will continue to investigate satellite applications for improving regional and global-scale weather forecasts, water resource forecasts, and provide integrated weather information to meet future aviation and surface transportation needs. [more]Harbor Branch Consortium: NOAA’s Newest Cooperative Institute
NOAA announced the award of a new cooperative institute to focus on ocean exploration, research, and technology development for the U.S. East Coast. The institute is a consortium to be led by and headquartered at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University in Fort Pierce, FL. The University of North Carolina Wilmington will be the co-managing partner and limited partners are SRI International, St. Petersburg, FL, and the University of Miami. [more]HOT ITEMS
CIOSS Researchers Develop Pilot Ocean Prediction System
Supported by NOAA/NESDIS/STAR’s Satellite Oceanography and Climatology Division, Research Fellows led by Alexander Kurapov at the Cooperative Institute for Oceanographic Satellite Studies (CIOSS) at Oregon State University have developed three-day forecasts of ocean conditions off Oregon and Northern California. Forecast fields have been available on the IOOS/NANOOS web site since July 2009 through efforts of CIOSS Fellow Jack Barth and Craig Risien. These fields have been enthusiastically used by tuna fishers since their introduction in late-summer 2008. Improvements (under development) include the assimilation of satellite data, along with the addition of ecosystem components and dissolved oxygen models, to allow forecasts of algal blooms and hypoxic conditions. [more]CIMRS Researchers Discover Burgeoning Life Amidst Acidic Environments at Deep Sea Volcano Eruptions
Comprehending how life may have begun amidst uncertain conditions associated with big bang theories has always been challenging - but our own deep ocean may harbor important clues. The National Science Foundation recently funded the return of researchers from the Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies (CIMRS) at Oregon State University to study the NW Rota-1, an active submarine volcano in the Mariana Arc near the Island of Guam. They found that the volcano has grown considerably during the past three years, and its unique biological community is thriving despite ongoing eruptive activity. [more]CICOR to Host Climate Change and Ocean Acidification Workshop
The Cooperative Institute for Climate and Ocean Research (CICOR) at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Conservation International, NOAA/NMFS, Northeast Fisheries Science Center and Boston University Marine Program are hosting a workshop for scientists and managers from NOAA, the U.S. academic community and developing countries entitled Recipes for Adaptation: Marine Management Under Climate Change and Ocean Acidification to be held in Washington, D.C. on 18-19 May 2009. [more]
CIOSS Researchers Help to Lead West Coast Harmful Algal Blooms Summit
In support of the West Coast Governors' Agreement (WCGA) on Ocean Health, NOAA's Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research convened the West Coast Regional Harmful Algal Bloom Summit in Portland, OR, February 10-12, 2009. Attendees included 80 scientists, resource managers and public health officials from California, Oregon, Washington as well as representatives from NOAA. Harmful algal blooms (HABs) represent a significant ecological and economic threat to coastal communities nationwide. Drs. Peter Strutton and Michelle Wood, Fellows at the Cooperative Institute for Oceanographic Satellite Studies (CIOSS) at Oregon State University, have been funded by NOAA since 2004 to improve our understanding and predictive capability for Oregon HABs. Research in this field uses satellite data to identify and track HABs, including the development of new satellite products. [more]
CICS Developing a Regional Earth System Model to Study Chesapeake Bay Health
Researchers at the Cooperative Institute for Climate Studies (CICS) and Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) at the University of Maryland, College Park, are developing a Chesapeake Bay Forecasting System (CBFS) to provide integrated environmental prediction, retrospective analyses, and climate change projection capabilities for the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed. A major focus of the project is to work closely with the user community to identify products that will meet user needs in the daily to decadal time periods. A recent case study of Hurricane Hanna (September 6-7, 2008) has shown good potential in the forecasting capabilities of the modeling system, providing atmospheric data that resulted in promising watershed-runoff and Bay-condition predictions. [more]
CIFAR Holds “Hands-On” Climate Change Course for K–12 Teachers
In June 2008, researchers from NOAA’s Cooperative Institute for Alaska Research (CIFAR) created and led a novel, hands-on, intensive week-long course in climate change at the NOAA Kasitsna Bay Laboratory (KBL) near Homer, Alaska. Students in this pilot program received graduate or undergraduate credit through the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). They included three teachers from small rural K–12 schools in Alaska, an Alaska resident interested in setting up a citizen environmental monitoring program, and two teachers from large high schools in Virginia and South Carolina. [more]
CICAR Climate Researcher Awarded Balzan Prize
On September 8, Dr. Wallace S. Broecker, Columbia University Newberry Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and principal investigator with NOAA’s Cooperative Institute for Climate Applications and Research (CICAR) was named winner of the 2008 Balzan Prize for his seminal work on global climate change. A statement released by the Milan-based Balzan Prize Foundation cited Broecker’s “extraordinary contributions to the understanding of climate change through his discoveries concerning the role of the oceans and their interactions with the atmosphere, as well as the role of glacial changes and the records contained in ice cores and ocean sediments. His contributions have been significant in understanding both gradual and abrupt climate changes.” [more]
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