The University of Maryland will lead a new $93 Million climate research partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) along with 17 other institutions. The Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS) will receive funding over the next five years as part of NOAA’s vision for a National Climate Service.

The new institute will focus on collaborative research into satellite observations and Earth System modeling conducted by scientists in the consortium institutions together with researchers in NOAA’s Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR) and in the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) of NOAA and the National Weather Service. Work to turn this data acquisition and modeling research into applications and services will be led by institute researchers working with those in the National Climatic Data Center of NOAA/NESDIS.

The CICS Consortium will be led by scientists from the University of Maryland and NC State University and will include researchers from Princeton University, Howard University, the University of California Irvine, Columbia University, the City University of New York, University of Miami (Florida), Colorado State University, Duke University, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Oregon State University, Remote Sensing Systems, the Renaissance Computing Institute of the North Carolina University System, and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Additional capability for public and community outreach and engagement will be provided to the institute by partnerships with Climate Central in Princeton, the North Carolina Arboretum and the Centers for Environmental and Climatic Interaction, a non-profit corporation representing Asheville, North Carolina community interests and organizations related to climate impacts on the environment.

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