[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 62 (Thursday, March 31, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18597-18598]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-07208]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


United States Global Change Research Program

AGENCY: Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Department of Commerce 
(DOC).

ACTION: Request for Public Nominations for Technical Contributors.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is initiating 
an Interagency Special Report on Physical Climate Science (referred to 
as ``the Report'' throughout this notice). The focus of the Report will 
be an update to the physical climate science presented in the 2014 
National Climate Assessment (NCA). Specifically, the Report will update 
Chapter 2 and Appendices 3 and 4 of the 2014 NCA (http://www.globalchange.gov/nca3-downloads-materials). The report will provide 
updated climate science findings and projections, and will be an 
important input to the authors of the next quadrennial NCA, expected in 
2018.
    The Report will be a product of the USGCRP, organized and led by an 
interagency team. This request for public engagement seeks nominations 
for technical contributors with expertise in climate data sets and 
trends, climate processes and feedbacks, global/regional climate models 
and associated projections, climate extremes, attribution and detection 
studies, and particular components of the Earth system, as well as 
other physical science disciplines. Refer to the Report prospectus 
(accessible via www.globalchange.gov/notices for further information on 
the goals, outline, and timeline for the report, as well as the process 
for technical contributors' involvement.
    The report will adhere to the Information Quality Act requirements 
http://www.cio.noaa.gov/services_programs/info_quality.html for 
quality, transparency, and accessibility as appropriate for a Highly 
Influential Scientific Assessment (HISA).

DATES: Nominations for technical contributors must be received by the 
USGCRP within 15 days after the publication date of this notice.

ADDRESSES: Nominations for technical contributors must be submitted 
electronically via a web form accessible via https://www.globalchange.gov/notices. A short CV of no more than 4 pages must 
be included.
    Instructions: Response to this notice is voluntary. Responses to 
this notice may be used by the government for program planning on a 
non-attribution basis. NOAA therefore requests that no business 
proprietary information or copyrighted information be submitted in 
response to this notice. Please note that the U.S. Government will not 
pay for response preparation, or for the use of any information 
contained in the response.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: USGCRP Contact: David Dokken; 
telephone 202-419-3473; or email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Call for Nominations for Technical Contributors

    This notice seeks nominations for technical contributors to the 
Report with pertinent subject matter expertise and scientific 
background. Potential technical contributors should be accomplished 
scholarly writers and have demonstrated scientific and technical 
expertise and academic proficiency in at least one of the physical 
climate science topics outlined in the prospectus, accessible via 
https://www.globalchange.gov/notices. Submissions must demonstrate that 
nominees have demonstrated technical backgrounds such that they could 
contribute to the development of a robust scientific, technical 
assessment as subject matter experts in one or more of the topics 
listed in the prospectus.
    Responses to this request must be made within the 15-day call for 
nominations for technical contributors, beginning the publication date 
of this notice. Users can access the nominations form via 
www.globalchange.gov/notices. Interested persons may nominate 
themselves or third parties, and may nominate more than one person. 
Each nomination must include: (1) The nominee's full name, title, 
institutional affiliation, and contact information; (2) the nominee's 
area(s) of expertise; (3) a short description of his/her qualifications 
relative to contributing to the report; and (4) a current resume 
[maximum length four (4) pages]. Nominations will be reviewed by a 
scientific steering committee, and nominees may be invited to 
participate as technical contributors to the Report. Selected experts 
would be informed no later than two weeks after close of the 
nominations window.

    Dated: Wednesday, March 16, 2016.
Dan Barrie,
Program Manager, Assessments Program, NOAA, Climate Program Office.
    Dated: March 25, 2016.
Gary C. Matlock,
Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator, Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Research.
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