Climate Program Office supports research to advance adaptation in a changing climate
High Line Park in New York City Credit: David Berkowitz/Flickr
The NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO) Adaptation Sciences (AdSci) program is excited to announce eight new awards totaling $2,395,476 that will build the nation’s climate resilience.
Through these awards, universities, other research institutions, and agency partners across the United States will conduct newly-funded projects in partnership with NOAA programs, laboratories, research centers, and stakeholders. CPO is committed to funding these awards for two years, conditional on appropriations.
According to the latest figures from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, the U.S. has sustained 400 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters since 1980. This trend underscores the need for greater research that will help society build resilience and enhanced risk management into their planning and preparedness efforts. Substantial improvements are necessary in monitoring, evaluation, and assessment of effective adaptive actions, as well as the development of climate services to best support them.