Climate Change Science & Technology Management Structure (Organizational Chart)

CCSP Officials

Working Group Members

CCSP Coordination Office Staff

Program budget information

CCSP Coordination Office

Committee on Environment and Natural Resources
(of the National Science and Technology Council)

For a more detailed overview, see:
Overview of U.S. Research on Climate and Global Change.

During the past thirteen years the United States, through the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), has made the world's largest scientific investment in the areas of climate change and global change research -- a total investment of almost $20 billion.   The USGCRP, in collaboration with several other national and international science programs, has documented and characterized several important aspects of the sources, abundances and lifetimes of greenhouse gases; has mounted extensive space-based monitoring systems for global-wide monitoring of climate and ecosystem parameters; has begun to address the complex issues of various aerosol species that may significantly influence climate parameters; has advanced our understanding of the global water and carbon cycles (but with major remaining uncertainties); and has developed several approaches to computer modeling of the global climate.

Because of the scientific accomplishments achieved by USGCRP and other research programs during a productive "period of discovery and characterization" since 1990, we are now ready to move into a new
"period of differentiation and strategy investigation", which is the theme of the President's Climate Change Research Initiative (CCRI). In announcing the CCRI, the President directed the reestablishment of priorities for climate change research, including a focus on identifying the scientific information that can be developed within 2 to 5 years to assist the nation's evaluation of optimal strategies to address global change risks.  The President also called for improved coordination among federal agencies, to assure that research results are made available to
all stakeholders, from national policy leaders to local resource managers.

The President's direction for CCRI, focusing on the development of near-term decision-support information, requires close integration with the many existing programs managed under the U.S. Global Change Research Program.  This will ensure internal consistency of the CCRI research with the full body of global change information developed under the
USGCRP.

To accomplish this integration of USGCRP and CCRI activities, the Interagency Climate Change Science Program has assumed oversight of both
programs, with a single interagency committee responsible for the entire range of science projects sponsored by both programs.  The Interagency
Climate Change Science Program retains the responsibility for compliance with the requirements of the Global Change Research Act of 1990, including its provisions for annual reporting of findings and short-term plans, scientific reviews by the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council, and periodic publication of a ten-year strategic plan for the program.

For a more detailed overview, see: Overview of U.S. Research on Climate and Global Change.

See also: Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 2009. A report by the Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research. A Supplement to the President's Budget for Fiscal Year 2009. (posted August 2008). Strategic Plan for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program.  A Report by the Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research. (posted 24 July 2003)  In particular, see Chapter 16: Program Management and Review. See also CCSP InfoSheets: CCSP Overview. Research Elements Overview. Strategic Plan Overview. CCSP Budget Overview. CCSP Synthesis and Assessment Products. CCSP Annual Report to Congress: Our Changing Planet. See also the U.S. Climate Change Technology Program