Adaptation Sciences (AdSci) Program
Funds research integrating acute and chronic weather-climate stressors into decision tools for fisheries, water, coastal flooding, and heat.
NOAA's Climate Program Office (CPO), under NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, runs the Adaptation Sciences (AdSci) Program. CPO's mission is to advance understanding and prediction of climate and its impacts so decisions can be shaped around risk, preparedness, and adaptation. The office sits inside NOAA's wider climate mission and supports work across the United States and beyond. AdSci funds competitive grants for research that turns climate and weather stressors into usable decision tools. The program is open to universities, nonprofits, research organizations, and for-profit teams, and the structured record allows U.S.-registered and U.S.-operating applicants. Its sectors include fisheries, water treatment, coastal flooding, heat waves, and climate adaptation, with annual competition timing and no match requirement. The program's value is in applied climate science that can move into operational use. CPO describes a portfolio that supports strategic vision, leadership, and grant funds producing timely tools, data products, and expertise, and it works with sectors ranging from municipal planning and health to commercial fisheries and resource managers. AdSci is the right fit when a team can connect climate stressors to a concrete decision workflow rather than a purely academic question.
No upcoming rounds verified. Cadence: Annual.