RISA Federal Funding OpportunityFY 2016

RISA Program ObjectivesPartners

FY16 FFO priorities and review criteriaQ&A

Sarah Close and Caitlin SimpsonNOAA Climate Program Office

Regional Integrated Sciences & Assessments

RISA supports research teams that help expand and build the nation’s capacity to prepare for and adapt to climate variability and change.

Central to the RISA approach are commitments to:– Process– Partnerships– Trust

ACCAP RISA SECC RISACLIMAS RISA

INFORM DECISIONS

USABLE SCIENCE (RISA)

ADVANCE UNDERSTANDING

Food production

Forests

Ecosystems

Transportation

Urban

Water

UNDERSTAND CONTEXT

Anthropology

Economics

Decision Science

Climate & Weather

Earth & Hydrology

Ecology & Biology

Communication & Education

UNDERSTANDRISK

INNOVATE SERVICES

LEARN THROUGH PRACTICE

inform

enhance

SUSTAIN KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS

The RISA Program

RISA teams (effective 10/2015)

Competition 1: RISA Existing Regions

The RISA program is soliciting proposals for four existing regions in FY2016:

• Alaska• California/Nevada • Carolinas: North and South Carolina, could also

include southern Virginia for relevant issues• Southeast: Georgia, Florida, and Alabama

Proposal due date: September 23, 2015, 5 pm. eastern

Competition 2: RISA New Regions

• Mid-Atlantic: To include the Chesapeake Bay watershed (could include Delaware, DC, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia or a subset thereof)• Midwest: To include a subset of the region of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, and Missouri (2-3 states would be a manageable RISA region); note that the Great Lakes watershed is already covered by an existing RISA team.

Proposal due date: December 15, 2015, 5 pm. eastern

RISA Historic Funding

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CPO RISA Program NIDIS Coping with Drought

NOAA Assessments (NCA) Number of teams

NIDIS Regional Drought Early Warning System (RDEWS)

NOAA Regional Partners

http://toolkit.climate.gov/help/partners

NCDC's six Regional Climate Services Directors (RCSDs) support the development and delivery of a wide range of place-based climate science and information products and services to help people make informed decisions. RCSDs regularly communicate with stakeholders about climate information needs, and help build and strengthen active partner networks with public and private constituents. http://www.rcsdhome.org/

NOAA’s Regional Climate Centers

Source: RCC Website

The 6 RCCs are “engaged in the production and delivery of climate data, information, and knowledge for decision makers and other users at the local, state, regional, and national levels.”

Interagency Partnerships

http://cpo.noaa.gov/ClimatePrograms/ClimateandSocietalInteractions/RISAProgram/InteragencyPartnerships.aspx

• RISAs are part of an expanding landscape of federally-supported climate science and service networks, which also includes USGS Climate Science Centers, USFWS Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, and USDA Regional Climate Hubs.

• Coordination among these groups happens at federal and regional levels.

• See 4-pager at RISA website (link below)

Costs

Core RISA team work: • $500,000-$700,000 per year for up to 5

years.

Depend upon annual appropriations from Congress and NOAA/CPO priorities

Review criteriaRelevance score

• relevance to program objectives• applicant’s approach for engaging decision makers and building networks of

relationships to help support decision makers with scientific information• sharing data

Technical merit:• scientific merit and innovativeness• applicant’s credibility in capacity-building approaches• how well the proposal clearly identifies an institutional framework for

implementing the research articulated.

Qualifications of investigators• includes the PIs’ record of collaborating with decision-making communities.

Project Costs

More information found at:

http://cpo.noaa.gov/GrantsandProjects/ClimateProgramOfficeFFO.aspx

http://cpo.noaa.gov/ClimatePrograms/ClimateandSocietalInteractions/RISAProgram/RISAFederalFundingOpportunityFY16.aspx

Download:1. Full FFO2. CSI information sheet (RISA- pages 10-18)