NOAA extends CU’s Western Water Assessment funding with $4M commitment

BOULDER – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced on Thursday that it has agreed to fund the University of Colorado Boulder-based Western Water Assessment for another five years with about $4 million.

WWA, which is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado, has been funded by NOAA’s Climate Program Office since 1999. WWA is one of 10 teams operating under NOAA’s Regional Integrated Sciences & Assessments program that is aimed at expanding the country’s ability to deal with climate change by engaging scientists and local stakeholders as research partners.

Recent work by WWA,…