1. CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors' Meeting 1 1 CORE Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., U.S. Navy (Ret.) Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere NOAA Administrator March 9, 2005 CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors’ Meeting

2. CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors' Meeting2 NOAA’S CURRENT ENVIRONMENT NOAA Budget a Highlights a Support to CORE a Grant Profiles a NOAA Ships Current Environment a New Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez a New Congress a Challenges & Opportunities FY04 Current Events/Accomplishments Gutierrez at NOAA’s National Hurricane Center Gutierrez at Earth Observation Summit III

3. CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors' Meeting3 HISTORICAL NOAA BUDGET TRENDS ($ in Billions)

4. CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors' Meeting4 FY06 NOAA BUDGET SUMMARY Reflects Administration’s Support for NOAA’s Strategic Goals Supports Improved Performance in NOAA Maintains Essential Environmental Services for the Nation

5. CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors' Meeting5 FY06 BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS Totals $3,585.8 million, an increase of $242.5 million or 7.3% above FY05 Current Program Provides $53.1 million for Inflationary Costs, Including the 2.3% Pay Raise Fully Funds Planned Satellite Increases for NPOESS and GOES R Funds Fisheries Survey Vessel #4 Ocean Commission Related Activities: Ocean Exploration & Sea Grant Invests in Ecosystems Based Fisheries Management Funds Expanded Tsunami Warning Network Expands Climate Observations and Services Improves NOAA Corporate Management and Administration

6. CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors' Meeting6 NOAA BUDGET BY STRATEGIC GOAL ($ IN MILLIONS) GoalFY05 Enacted FY06 Current Program Net Program Change FY06 President’s Budget % Percent Change Ecosystems $1,351.5$1,017.9$62.8$1,080.76.2% Climate $256.9$220.3$19.6$239.98.9% Weather & Water $852.3$824.3$34.3$858.64.2% Commerce & Transportation $164.7$149.6$20.0$169.613.4% Mission Support $1,376.3$1,226.2$105.8$1,332.08.6% Financing ($83.0)($95.0)— — Total$3,918.7$3,343.3$242.5$3,585.87.3%

7. CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors' Meeting7 NOAA BUDGET BY LINE OFFICE ($ IN MILLIONS) Line OfficeFY05 Enacted FY06 Current Program Net Program Increase FY06 President’s Budget Percent Change NOS $669.3$386.9$27.9$414.77.2% NMFS $823.6$674.7$53.2$727.97.9% OAR $413.8$347.1$25.1$372.27.2% NWS $783.0$803.8$35.5$839.34.4% NESDIS $907.4$891.6$72.3$963.98.1% PS/Other $449.2$369.5$28.5$398.27.7% Financing ($127.6)($130.3)--($130.3)-- Total$3,918.7$3,343.3$242.5$3,585.87.3%

8. CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors' Meeting8 NOAA PROGRAMS OF INTEREST TO CORE—FY04 ACTUAL Program FY 2004 Actual Intramural Funding FY 2004 Actual Extramural Funding FY 2004 Actual Total Funding NCCOS 40,67413,06053,734 OAR Labs & JI 95,29310,501105,794 Climate & Global Change 20,99234,72655,718 Climate Obs & Services 18,08518,40636,491 Sea Grant Research 1,78729,06430,851 Sea Grant Education/Outreach 89629,73630,632 Ocean Ex Research 7,4165,47312,889 Ocean Ex Other —17,154 NURP 1,38914,98916,378 NURP Other —319 EPP/MSI R&D 8356,7597,594 EPP/MSI Other 8356,7597,594 Ocean Health Initiative 4,5609,52414,084 TOTAL194,467196,470389,232 Percentage49.5%50.5% Non-research components of selected programs appear in italics

9. CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors' Meeting9 NOAA PROGRAMS OF INTEREST TO CORE—FY05 REQUEST Program FY 2005 Request Intramural Funding FY 2005 Request Extramural Funding FY 2005 Request Total Funding NCCOS 28,78316,66045,443 OAR Labs & JI 96,4487,851104,299 Climate & Global Change 22,64624,81347,479 Climate Obs & Services 31,98225,82057,802 Sea Grant Research 1,43728,41129,848 Sea Grant Education/Outreach 1,43726,17327,610 Ocean Ex Research 7,5142,60210,116 Ocean Ex Other —1,124 NURP 2,5708,32810,898 NURP Other ——— EPP/MSI R&D 8256,6757,500 EPP/MSI Other 8256,6787,500 Ocean Health Initiative ——— TOTAL194,467155,132349,599 Percentage55.6%44.4% Non-research components of selected programs appear in italics

10. CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors' Meeting10 NOAA PROGRAMS OF INTEREST TO CORE—FY05 ENACTED Program FY 2005 Enacted Intramural Funding FY 2005 Enacted Extramural Funding FY 2005 Enacted Total Funding NCCOS 51,72726,08877,815 OAR Labs & JI 93,2777,280100,557 Climate & Global Change 20,43945,81266,251 Climate Obs & Services 22,68515,42638,111 Sea Grant Research 1,80029,65931,459 Sea Grant Education/Outreach 1,00029,39330,393 Ocean Ex Research 14,0356,40220,437 Ocean Ex Other 28,1288,130 NURP 1,45215,47616,928 NURP Other —320 EPP/MSI R&D 9227,4568,378 EPP/MSI Other 9237,4568,379 Ocean Health Initiative 10,3507,39217,742 TOTAL218,612206,288424,900 Percentage51.5%48.5% Non-research components of selected programs appear in italics

11. CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors' Meeting11 NOAA PROGRAMS OF INTEREST TO CORE—FY06 REQUEST Program FY 2006 Request Intramural Funding FY 2006 Request Extramural Funding FY 2006 Request Total Funding Difference from 05 Request Intramural Funding Difference from 05 Request Extramural Funding Difference from 05 Request Total Funding NCCOS 31,29316,66047,9532,510— OAR Labs & JI 93,2777,280100,5571,483(571)912 Climate & Global Change 20,43945,81266,251(5,414)14,1018,687 Climate Obs & Services 22,68515,42638,111(2,966)(127)(3,093) Sea Grant Research 1,80029,65931,4593638751,238 Sea Grant Education/Outreach 1,00029,39330,393(437)2,9492,512 Ocean Ex Research 14,0356,40220,4376,5462,8319,377 Ocean Ex Other 28,1288,130—2,076 NURP 1,45215,47616,928(1,270)836(434) NURP Other —320 ——— EPP/MSI R&D 9227,4568,378—(293) EPP/MSI Other 9237,4568,379—(293) Ocean Health Initiative 10,3507,39217,742——— TOTAL218,612206,288424,90081522,38423,199 Percentage51.5%48.5% 0.4%14.4%6.6%

12. CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors' Meeting12 NOAA EDUCATION SPENDING PROGRAM FY05 Approp FY06 PBPROGRAM FY05 AppropFY06 PB GOAL 1: ECOSYSTEMPROGRAMS TO SUPPORT ALL GOALS Corals 200 NOAA Management Protected Areas Office of Education and Sustainable Development (Base) 1,5001,700 National Marine Sanctuary Program 2,107 NOAA Education Initiative 5,000 B-WET Monterey 500 JASON 2,500 National Estuarine Research Reserves 1,705 National Ocean Sciences Bowl 1,000 National Marine Protected Areas Center 179 B-WET Chesapeake 2,500 Coastal Resource Management B-WET Hawaii 1,500 Coastal Services Center 1,000 Save the Bay Narragansett 500 Undersea Research & Exploration American Museum of Natural History (PAC Earmark) 1,000 Ocean Exploration 1,370 Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship Program* 3,9193,586 Fisheries Management 100 American Meteorological Society 100 Ecosystem Research Information Technology, R&D, and Science Education Sea Grant 3,000 Education Partnership Program/Minority Serving Institutions** 7,500 GOAL 3: WEATHER & WATER Geostationary Satellite Acquisition 200 Local Warnings & Forecast Fleet Services and Acquisition AMS 100 Teacher-At-Sea 97 $ in thousands *Does not appear under NOAA Education Program in the FY2006 request because it is a percentage of the total NOAA request. **And additional $7.5M is requested for research Satellite Services American Meteorological Society 200 TOTAL37,77723,144

13. CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors' Meeting13 NOAA SPONSORED EARTH OBSERVING PROJECTS Project NameLead Institution / Recipient FY04 Enacted Funding FY05 Enacted Funding Alliance for Coastal Technologies (ACT)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science $2.5M California Center for Integrative Coastal Ocean Research (CI-CORE) California State University System Moss Landing Marine Laboratories $2.5M Carolinas Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction System (Caro-COOPS) University of South Carolina Belle Baruch Institute $2.5M Center for Integrated Marine Technologies (CIMT) University of California at Santa Cruz Institute of Marine Sciences $2.5M— Coastal Ocean Observing and Analysis (COOA)University of New Hampshire $2.5M Coastal Ocean Research and Monitoring Program (CORMP) University of North Carolina at Wilmington $2.5M$2.473M *Alaska Ocean Observing System (AOOS)Seward Association for the Advancement of Marine Science and Alaska Sea Life Center —$2.0M **Wave Current Surge Information System (WAVCIS) Louisiana State University Coastal Studies Institute —— TOTALS$15.0M$14.473M continued on following slide

14. CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors' Meeting14 NOAA SPONSORED EARTH OBSERVING PROJECTS Project NameLead Institution / Recipient FY04 Enacted Funding FY05 Enacted Funding Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System (SCCOOS) University of California San Diego - Scripps Institution of Oceanography $2.0M$1.5M Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System (GoMOOS) GoMOOS $2.0M$1.9M Southeastern Coastal Ocean Observing Program (SCOOP) Southeastern University Research Association (SURA) $2.0M— Long Island Sound Integrated Coastal Observing System (LISICOS) University of Connecticut $1.8M$1.0M Coastal Monitoring and Prediction System (COMPS) University of South Florida $1.25M$750K Central Gulf of Mexico Observing SystemUniversity of Southern Mississippi —$2.0M Joint Ocean Observation Technology CenterUniversity of New Hampshire (expected funding) —$4.0M TOTALS$9.05M$11.15M GRAND TOTALS$24.05M$25.62M continued from previous slide

15. CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors' Meeting15 RE: CORE RECIPIENTS OF NOAA GRANTS, FY03 & FY04 Total Funds to Board of Governors Institutions: $185,105,931 Total Funds to Associate & Interim Members: $ 42,624,254 FY03 CORE GRANTS TOTAL$227,730,185 Total Funds to Board of Governors Institutions: $235,637,888 Total Funds to Associate & Interim Members: $ 51,279,217 FY04 CORE GRANTS TOTAL$286,917,105

16. CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors' Meeting16 NOAA FY 04 TYPES OF FEDERAL FUNDING Discretionary Funding Non-Discretionary Funding Grant Awards (1501) Grant Dollars ($971.9M) 218 (15%) 184 (12%) 138 (9%) 228 (15%) 17 (1%) $129M (13%) $107M (11%) 716 (48%) $279M (29%) $186M (19%) $174M (18%) $95M (10%) Competitive Non- Competitive Soft Earmarks Institutional Formula Discretionary FundingNon-Discretionary Funding Competitive Non- CompetitiveSoft Earmarks Institutional Formula Congressionally Mandated

17. CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors' Meeting17 NOAA FY 04 FEDERAL FUNDING BY GRANTEE TYPE Grant Awards (1501) Grant Dollars ($971.9M) 698 (47%) 285 (19%) 22 (1%) 125 (8%) 371 (25%) State and Local Government Higher Education Non- ProfitFor-Profit Other State and Local Government Higher Education Non- ProfitFor-Profit Other $346M (36%) $195M (20%) $14M (2%) $65M (7%) $349M (36%)

18. CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors' Meeting18 NOAA FY02-04 FUNDING TO INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION Number of Grant Awards Grant Dollars 698 (47%) 662 (44%) 684 (46%) FY2002 1498 FY2003 1506 FY2004 1501 FY2002 $906M FY2003 $854M FY2004 $972M $346M (36%) $332M (39%) $286M (32%)

19. CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors' Meeting19 Weather & Water Climate Commerce and Transportation Mission Support $732,770 $134,394 $69,881 $17,215 $17,697 Ecosystems Total = $972 million FY 2004 GRANT AWARDS BY GOAL (in thousands)

20. CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors' Meeting20 NOAA GRANTS PROFILE 20 YEAR GRANTS HISTORY BY NUMBER OF AWARDS 0 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 Indicates avg. number of FTEs (17) through FY04, Increased to 18 for FY05 FY04—1501 grants

21. CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors' Meeting21 NOAA GRANTS PROFILE FY04—$971.9M 20 YEAR GRANTS HISTORY BY FEDERAL SHARE

22. CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors' Meeting22 GRANTS ONLINE PROJECT Goals a Corporate Unified Web-based Grant Processing & Administration a Direct Interface With Grants.gov, a Mandated Public Law 106/107 Initiative and Integration with E-grants a Corporate Standard Business Processes Contributing to an Efficient, Effective Use of Grants Management Resources Benefits a Increased convenience for NOAA applicants and grantees a NOAA accountability and visibility; www.ofa.noaa.gov/~grantsonline/www.ofa.noaa.gov/~grantsonline/ a NOAA can now enforce common Grant Business Rules using one system a At least 1,500 grants annually, nearing $1 billion total

23. CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors' Meeting23 NOAA FLEET MODERNIZATION ANALYSIS

24. CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors' Meeting24 CURRENT ENVIRONMENT IMPRESSIONS New: Secretary Carlos Gutierrez Changed: Don Evans Committee highlights: a Changed: Ernest Hollings a Changed: Ted Stevens- Senate Appropriations Chair a New: Thad Cochran- Senate Appropriations Chair a New: Jerry Lewis- House Appropriations Chair a New: Ted Stevens- Commerce Chair a New: Inouye, Ranking member: Appropriations and Commerce New Appropriations Subcommittee Structure

25. CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors' Meeting25 OPPORTUNITIES & CHALLENGES U.S. Ocean Action Plan NOAA Research Review Climate Change Science Plan Earth Observing Systems

26. CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors' Meeting26 OCEAN COMMISSION REPORT ADMINISTRATION’S RESPONSE TO THE U.S. COMMISSION ON OCEAN POLICY

27. CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors' Meeting27 NOAA RESEARCH REVIEW UPDATE Research 20-yr Vision & 5-yr Plan are complete and available on the web (http://www.nrc.noaa.gov/Reports.html) and (http://www.spo.noaa.gov)http://www.nrc.noaa.gov/Reports.htmlhttp://www.spo.noaa.gov NOAA Deputy Administrator is serving as the senior management official overseeing NOAA’s research program; NOAA has officially adopted a policy for transferring research to operations and information services; available soon on the web http://www.ofa.noaa.gov/%7enao/index.html http://www.ofa.noaa.gov/%7enao/index.html NOAA is setting up task teams to focus on criteria to determine the location of research within NOAA; NOAA is finalizing a policy and process for awarding and operating Joint and Cooperative Institutes across NOAA; NOAA has conducted an assessment of, and is now developing policy on, reimbursable research.

28. CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors' Meeting28 CCSP STRATEGIC PLAN U.S. Climate Change Science Program 1. An Ambitious Program of Research 2. $2 Billion / Year Climate Science Goals 1. Improve Knowledge of Climate and Environment 2. Improve Quantification of Forces Driving Changes to Climate 3. Reduce Uncertainty in Projections of Future Climate Changes 4. Understand Sensitivity and Adaptability of Natural and Manmade Ecosystems 5. Explore Uses and Limits of Managing Risks and Opportunities Key Approaches 1. Research in 7 core science elements 2. Observations and data management 3. Decision Support 4. Communications www.climatescience.gov

29. CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors' Meeting29 INTERNATIONAL STEPS TO GEOSS EOS I a July 31, 2003, Washington, D.C. a 34 Countries + 20 International Organizations EOS II a April 25, 2004, Tokyo, Japan a 47 Countries + EC + 26 International Organizations EOS III February 2005, Brussels a 60 Countries + EC and 34 International Organizations a 10-Year Implementation Plan a Commerce Secretary Gutierrez led the US delegation Earth Observation Summit I, II, & III EOS I EOS III EOS II EOS I

30. CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors' Meeting30 FY 2004 MANAGEMENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS Issued Strategic Plan for the U.S. Integrated Earth Observing System Began Critical Fisheries Survey Vessel Modernization Issued 5 Year Research Plan and 20 Year Research Vision for NOAA Realigned Administrative Support Services Began Grants On-Line. Improved timely grant issuance by 12% Earned Unqualified Audit Opinion for 6th Year in a Row Updated NOAA Strategic Plan and Improved Internal Planning

31. CORE Public Policy Forum & Board of Governors' Meeting31 FY 2004 SERVICE ACCOMPLISHMENTS Provided Outstanding Service for Hurricane Season Issued Operational Air Quality Forecasts in New England Issued New Operational Climate Forecast Model Rebuilt 4 Fisheries Stocks Restored 5,562 Acres of Coastal Habitat and Wetlands. Charted Over 2,070 Square Miles of Ocean 220 American lives saved with Satellite Rescue System (SARSAT) Hurricane Ivan Gulf of Mexico Yellowtail Snapper