The Climate Program Office (CPO) plays a critical role in advancing science and informing decisions for climate adaptation, resilience, and mitigation as part of NOAA and the U.S. Global Change Research Program. CPO research/science programs and activities meet urgent climate challenges, and incubate innovative advancements in Earth system and social sciences; support world-class assessment reports, including the National Climate Assessment; enhance and expand NOAA’s capabilities for integrated information systems for drought, heat and floods to deliver timely science-based information that can reduce the impacts and costs of these climate-driven challenges; educate and grow the next generation of experts in support of NOAA’s climate mission. Through these new investments, CPO expands previous efforts focused on climate risks to address a suite of urgent climate-driven societal challenges faced by our Nation — including water availability and quality, marine and freshwater ecosystems, coastal changes and inundation, drought and extreme heat and related cascading hazards like wildfire, and air quality, and climate mitigation (more information about CPO Societal Challenges and Risks framework can be found https://cpo.noaa.gov/climate-risk-areas-initiative/.
In FY 2025, MAPP is soliciting proposals from early career researchers to foster innovative Earth System Modeling research. This award will support early-career scientists who have the potential to serve as research leaders and mentors to future scientists, and who are interested in focusing their research careers on Earth System Model development and application relevant to the NOAA mission. Applicants would be expected to propose a research plan centered around topics prioritized by the MAPP program, which include: advancing climate and Earth system models to better simulate climate variability and change, improving multi-annual to decadal climate prediction systems and products, and multi-decadal projections; and applying Earth system models to better understand, predict, and project drought, extreme heat, sea level change, and marine ecosystems.
Application Deadline: Letters of intent (LOIs) due by 11:59 pm Eastern Time on September 18, 2024; full applications due by 11:59 pm Eastern Time on December 9, 2024.
