NOAA Chief Scientist’s Annual Report : 2016

NOAA’s investment in research is critical to continually improving the quality, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of the products and services it provides to end users. These products and services are developed through a dynamic engagement between the agency and its users: stakeholders communicate their needs to NOAA, sparking new research initiatives or improvements to current services, while NOAA continues to improve research and services to meet the needs of the people who depend on them. By integrating research conducted internally with work from our partners, including cooperative institutes, universities, other government agencies, and the private sector, NOAA can transform basic conceptual research into the data, tools, and information our stakeholders rely on. In short, we view the concept for this investment as a focusing effort in which we balance a broad base of research investments to serve a wide diversity of end users. A series for this technical memorandum was not established until 2019. The original series was NOAA Technical Memorandum NOAA Research Council. In 2001 the series was renamed NOAA Technical Memorandum NOAA Science Council is the current series name.