Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Project Summary Title: NSF Support for U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) Support Activities This summary applies to FY13 activities carried out by the USGCRP National Coordination Office (NCO), including its support for GCRIO and International Programs, as well as activities carried out by the Technical Support Unit (TSU) for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Working Group II (IPCC-WGII). USGCRP support activities for FY13 were carried out by a mix of UCAR employees, Federal detailees, and scientific fellows and interns. Under the Cooperative Agreement for FY13, UCAR provided program integration, planning, and coordination support for climate and global change research and related activities across 13 participating Federal agencies of the USGCRP. More specifically, UCAR assisted the broader program in carrying out various requirements in the Global Change Research Act of 1990 (including GCRIO and international coordination), implementing the strategic goals and objectives laid out in the program’s decadal Strategic Plan, and supporting other critical priorities directed by the Subcommittee on Global Change Research (SGCR). UCAR employees provided communication and education support, as well as engagement opportunities with the broader scientific community and general public. "UCAR employees and exempt staff of the Carnegie Institute (via subaward) also provided coordination and support for IPCC WG-II through the TSU, and travel support for non-Federal scientists participating in international assessment activities. In addition to a large array of ongoing activities, in FY 13 USGCRP support activities had special focus on several major efforts. These included development and/or review of the IPCC 5th Assessment Report, development and review of the draft 3rd NCA report, participation in the scoping and strategic planning for a new international program called Future Earth, and planning and commencing the development of an interagency Global Change Information System that will act as a single web-based source of authoritative, accessible, usable, and timely information for climate and global change for use by scientists, decision makers, and the public. The primary focus for GCIS in FY13 was on integrating data and findings from the 3rd NCA Report in support the release of the 3rd NCA Report in the spring of 2014. The full USGCRP Project Outcome Report for 2013 includes objectives, results and outcomes in each of the major project areas agreed to under the Cooperative Agreement FY13 Annual Project Plan. For the NCO, these include management and governance, strategic and implementation planning, NCO operations, strategic goal oriented activities and related interagency working groups (IWGs), cross-cutting activities and related IWGS, the USGCRP Resource Library (formerly GCRIO) and international programs. It also includes similar information regarding the TSU, which provided scientific and technical management all aspects of assessment development cycles for the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), and related IPCC travel. The full report also highlights those few narrow areas where objectives have changed from those initially proposed, by virtue of changing USGCRP priorities and resources.
