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This funding opportunity, titled Research Partnerships in Support of Regional Climate Adaptation (NOAA OAR CPO 2012 2003304), is a NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO) solicitation focused on strengthening practical, on-the-ground climate adaptation work through regionally focused research partnerships. The core idea is that regions are where climate signals, impacts, and decisions most naturally come together. Many of the climate patterns people rely on for planning and risk management show up most clearly at a regional scale, such as the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO). At the same time, major societal systems and resources are often governed and managed regionally, including water supplies, infrastructure networks, ecosystems, and population centers. Because real-world climate adaptation involves layered governance across local, state, tribal, and federal levels, NOAA is emphasizing research and services that fit these regional contexts and can be translated into decisions that communities and resource managers actually have to make.

The opportunity is built around recommendations from the Presidents Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force (ICCATF), which argued that federal regional climate science and service efforts should be better coordinated so decision makers are not overwhelmed by duplicative, inconsistent, or conflicting information. A major concern highlighted in the announcement is protecting and strengthening trust between scientists and the practitioners managing climate risks. In other words, this is not simply about producing more climate data or research results. It is about ensuring that the information being produced is aligned with user needs, delivered in a way that supports real decisions, and coordinated so it does not inadvertently undermine confidence among the agencies, communities, and sectors relying on it.

This solicitation sits within NOAA CPOs Climate and Societal Interactions (CSI) division and is closely tied to the Regionally Integrated Science and Assessments (RISA) program. RISA is described as a long-running, nationally and internationally recognized network of interdisciplinary teams that focus on user-inspired, regionally relevant climate research that informs resource management and public policy. The announcement reinforces the RISA philosophy that effective climate adaptation support depends heavily on process and relationships: sustained engagement with stakeholders, careful assessment of decision contexts and constraints, and a deliberate focus on partnership and trust building. It also signals NOAA alignment with broader climate services efforts, including partnership work connected to the National Climate Data Center (NCDC) and the idea of an integrated regional climate services framework.

A central takeaway from RISA experience, as described in the notice, is that trust and durable capacity are more likely to be built when researchers and decision makers share resources and collaborate on clearly defined, common objectives. Rather than treating stakeholders as end users who receive a finished product, the RISA model emphasizes co-development, where the people building tools, datasets, and decision support approaches work side by side with the people who will use and maintain them over time. The funding announcement is therefore designed to stimulate partnerships organized around specific, regionally relevant adaptation projects, with an emphasis on collaborative problem solving that produces solutions that last beyond the grant period.

In terms of mechanics, this was a discretionary funding opportunity administered by the Department of Commerce through NOAA, using grants and cooperative agreements as the funding instruments. NOAA anticipated up to 11 awards, with an estimated total funding level of $1.5 million. Individual awards were expected to range from $75,000 (floor) to $200,000 (ceiling). The CFDA number listed is 11.431 (Climate and Atmospheric Research). A cost sharing or matching requirement applied, meaning applicants were expected to provide some level of non-federal contribution consistent with the full announcement details.

Eligibility was intentionally narrow and designed to leverage existing regional capacity. The lead institution on each application had to be one of the institutions holding one of the eleven existing RISA awards, including those operating under no-cost extensions. This design choice reflects the program logic described throughout the notice: NOAA is prioritizing expansion of proven regional partnerships and relationship-based infrastructure, rather than building entirely new regional teams from scratch under this particular call.

Key dates provided in the posting show it was originally posted April 17, 2012, created May 3, 2012, and had an original closing date of May 17, 2012, later extended to May 23, 2012, with an archive date of June 16, 2012. For applicants needing access to the complete announcement, the notice directed users to the full announcement link in the posting, and provided a contact for application download issues (Steve Drescher, Policy Advisor).

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