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Scott Goetz

NOAA-funded scientist wins Fulbright Research Scholar Award

Scott Goetz, a scientist supported by the NOAA Global Carbon Cycle program at the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts, was selected for a Fulbright Research Scholar Award to spend time in residence at the Center for the Study of the Biosphere from Space (CESBIO) in Toulouse France.

NOAA & Project 2061 collaborate to promote climate literacy

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) founded Project 2061 in 1985 to help all Americans become literate in science, mathematics, and technology.

In recent years, Project 2061 has collaborated with NOAA to define and promote climate literacy. With NOAA funding in 2007, Project 2061 provided a workshop that began the process of defining climate literacy. Project 2061 later worked with NOAA on the development of the guide Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Science.

NOAA/NSTA Webinars help teachers educate students about climate change

Two NOAA/National Science Teachers Association web seminars designed for high school to undergraduate level teachers will expose participants to online resources to help them educate students about the challenging aspects of climate change and impacts the nation is already facing. The seminar will explore videos, current eastern/western regional impacts from the recently released Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States, and online educational resources to help teachers teach these concepts. The seminar will also focus on current research in the climate change science and show teachers how they can bring this research into the classroom.

IRI publishes two documents on the potential impacts of the current El Niño

The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) website's current spotlight features two documents published by the IRI that are designed to walk policy makers through the potential impacts of current El Niño conditions. Readers can use the documents to not only assess how vulnerable different areas of the developing world are to climate-related socioeconomic impacts, but also to see how recent rainfall patterns in these areas have compared to typical El Niño conditions.

Official Solicitation for Climate Process and Modeling
Teams Proposals

The official solicitation for proposals for the Climate Process and Modeling Teams (CPT) is now available on the NSF website.

The key aim of the Climate Process Modeling Team concept is to speed development of global coupled climate models and reduce uncertainties in climate models by bringing together theoreticians, field observationalists, process modelers and the large modeling centers to concentrate on the scientific problems facing climate models today.

CPT activities are supported by NOAA, NASA and NSF. All CPT proposals should be submitted to NSF by September 24, 2009. Full applications from principal investigators seeking partial or full-funding support from NOAA must be received and validated by www.grants.gov, postmarked, or provided to a delivery service by 5 p.m. ET, September 15, 2009. Applications received after that time will not be considered for funding.