On August 10, NOAA's Climate Program Office (CPO) announced its FY 2013 federal funding opportunity. Individual programs within CPO will now be accepting letters of intent and project applications. The full announcement of opportunity is available on the CPO Funding Opportunities page and on the Grants.Gov website.

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CPO-Funded Scientist Helps Update USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map

Gardeners and landscapers may want to rethink their fall tree plantings this year. The U.S. Department Agriculture has released an updated Plant Hardiness Zone Map, which indicates which trees and perennials can survive the winter in a given region. A CPO-funded researcher has recently published a method for improving plant hardiness zone estimates that fully accounts for rapidly rising temperatures

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Students from Monterey, California, and the Dominican Republic Co-Adopt a NOAA Drifting Buoy

Students at Santa Catalina High School in Monterey, California, and Loyola High School in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, will co-adopt a drifting buoy on September 25, 2012, as part of NOAA's Adopt a Drifter Program (ADP). Forty students from local schools will participate in a dockside program just before student essay/art contest winners launch their school's drifter from the R/V Fulmar, the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary's (MBNMS) research vessel. The drifter will be deployed more than 10 miles offshore in the Pacific Ocean.

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New Modules from COMET

The COMET Program, part of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research's Community Programs, has recently released three brief modules that describe impacts of climate change. Each narrated presentation takes about 20 minutes. They should be of particular interest to broadcast meteorologists, although operational forecasters and the general public interested in climate change will also find them useful. The modules are free, but require a simple registration.

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Dr. Chet Koblinsky to retire as Director
of NOAA's Climate Program Office

On August 3, Dr. Chet Koblinsky will retire as the Director of NOAA's Climate Program Office (CPO). Dr. Koblinsky joined the agency in 2003 and worked with NOAA leadership to build the Climate Program Office, which consolidated earlier climate programmatic and goal activities. As its first and only Director since 2005, he led the development of, and oversaw, a robust, integrated program of competitive climate research efforts across NOAA and in partnership with the university community.

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