A new five-year cooperative agreement with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration renews funding for the Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies (CISESS), a national research consortium led by the University of Maryland (UMD) and NC State. The consortium includes researchers from more than three dozen academic and nonprofit institutions working on the grand challenge of understanding how human activity interacts with Earth’s environment as a coupled system.
NC State’s North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies (NCICS) will continue hosting the North Carolina anchor of CISESS in Asheville, N.C., under the leadership of NCICS Director Dr. Otis Brown. NCICS is co-located with the headquarters of NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information in the Veach-Baley Federal Building in Asheville.
“We look forward to continuing to support NOAA’s efforts to provide users across the nation and around the world with actionable information,” Brown said. “Our staff will be enhancing and developing datasets by blending information from multiple observing systems, expanding cloud-based access to NOAA data, engaging with users to better meet their needs, and advancing efforts to understand and respond to the challenges of climate change.”