CDMP

Proposal Process

This page contains information for NOAA offices which may wish to apply for funding under the CDMP for either new or continuing projects. NCDC's CDMP evaluates all proposals on an annual basis and will decide which to fund, including extending the funding of current tasks.

Proposal Process Guidelines

If you have a project which might qualify for CDMP funding, please see this PDF booklet, paying particular attention to those deadlines and requirements that may apply to you. Please note that this pdf contains information directed toward the FY11 meeting at the NOAA Fisheries Ecology Facility in Santa Cruz, CA on November 9–10, 2010.

Proposals/task orders must be submitted electronically to Tom Ross, the CDMP Program Manager by mid-October 2011. The preferred formats are Microsoft Word or a PDF document.

Continuing Projects
If your proposal is a continuing one without many changes or additional tasks, then you can submit a continuation proposal.

New Projects
If your proposal is new, a proposal and task order should be submitted as one final document.

Proposals for CDMP support must reflect the NOAA Vision:

• An informed society that uses a comprehensive understanding of the role of the oceans, coasts, and atmosphere in the global ecosystem to make the best social and economic decisions.

In addition, proposals are judged against the following criteria:

• Contribution to improved data access and rescue
• Value to global scientific community
• Application to services provided by contractors
• Cost effectiveness

Ongoing projects have top priority; the final selections for new proposals will be based on the criteria above and the available funding.

A decision on approved FY12 tasks will be announced when the CDMP FY12 budget is finalized. New tasks shall begin as early as Spring, 2012.

Examples

The following PDF documents are examples of previous project proposals. They should help you to write a successful proposal and task order:

• Historical Plankton Data Rescue
• Tropical Cyclone 'Storm Wallets'
• Uruguay Surface Daily Records
• Keying of the Surface Airways Observation (SAO) Forms 1965-1981
• NARA Imaging Tasks- Lightships and Meteorological Journals - Imaging task.
• Marine Journal Microfilm Imaging - Imaging task and shows the indexing process.

Powerpoint presentations of proposals from the last proposal meeting are available here.

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