NOAA awards $42.2M to UC San Diego for climate institute

The cooperative agreement for the Cooperative Institute for Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Systems rose from $24.6M to $42.2M across four revisions, recorded on USASpending.gov on September 10, 2026.

Caleb Mbeki

Planetary Science Reporter

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Stands on 11 first-party readings of USASpending.gov and the Federal Register, not reporting.

NOAA awarded $42.2 million to the University of California San Diego for the Cooperative Institute for Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Systems, the largest single obligation among eight awards recorded on USASpending.gov on September 10, 2026.^[8] The amount moved from $24.6M when first observed to $42.2M across four observed revisions.