Yesterday, NOAA made available its Congressional justification document for its FY2023 budget request. The document, available here, calls for:
- A total of $774.8 million for the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), the research office within NOAA.
- Within OAR, climate research programs would be funded at $256.6 million and climate cooperative institutes would be funded at $108.7 million.
- The base Sea Grant program would receive $76.3 million and the Sea Grant Aquaculture program would receive $13.3 million.
- Within the National Ocean Service, the IOOS Regional Observation Network would receive $40.5 million under the budget proposal.