2011 - Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences ...

60,000,000
50,000,000
40,000,000
30,000,000
20,000,000
10,000,000
1.0
0.8
0.6
Expenditures by NOAA Cooperative Agreement,
individual awards and CU funds
M I L L I O N S
60
50
40
30
20
10
2010/11 TOTAL: $64,522,969
$4,101,134
01/02 02/03 03/04 04/05 05/06 06/07 07/08 08/09 09/10 10/11
1.0
Cooperative Agreement Contracts/Grants University of Colorado
0.8
$29,554,799
$30,867,036
Cooperative Agreement expenditures by Task
09-10 expenditures by task 09-10 task 1 base
CIRES Task 1 base fund expenditures
60,000,000
In recent years, CIRES 0.6 has maintained steady growth,
including a remarkable increase in FY11 of nearly 10 percent.
50,000,000
(bar graph above). The 0.4largest
portion of CIRES’ funding
(48 percent) is provided by the Cooperative Agreement with
40,000,000
Facilities: 3%
NOAA, and expenditures 0.2 in this category have increased every
year for the last decade. CIRES researchers also have had
continuing success in obtaining external research awards (45
30,000,000
Other research
support: 12%
percent of CIRES’ total funding). The University’s monetary
contribution to CIRES primarily covers faculty salaries, and
it varies with year-to-year fluctuations in the CIRES-affiliat-
20,000,000 Visiting Fellows: 29%
ed University faculty appointments.
Agreement expenditures by task for FY11 are shown in
the top figure at right. Task I expenditures include CIRES
administration and internal scientific programs, such as the
Visiting Fellows and Graduate Student Fellowship programs.
Task II provides partial funding for the National Snow and
10,000,000
Ice Data Center, the largest of CIRES’ five interdisciplinary
09-10 expenditures by task
scientific centers. Task III funds CIRES’ collaboration with
09-10 task 1 base fund expenditures 09-10 task 1 base
NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory, National Geophysical
Data Center and Space Weather Prediction Center.
CIRES Task 1 base and ICR-supported expenditures
Task IV was created to serve as an efficient mechanism for
the administration of NOAA research grants and awards,
09-10 task 1 base and icr supported expenses
which would otherwise be stand-alone projects outside
the Agreement, to CIRES researchers in fields aligned with
Administration: 41%
08-09 expenditures by task 08-09 tas
CIRES’ mission. Two Task IV projects have been awarded
through our NOAA “shadow” award, NA08OAR4320914.
Student
support: 3%
The largest share (56 percent) of Task I base funds support
CIRES administration, primarily salaries and benefits for the
Visiting Fellows: 7%
administrative staff (middle figure at right). The Visiting Fellows
program receives the second-largest share (29 percent)
Facilities: 7%
of Task I base fund support and is subsidized by other funding
as well. Task I also provides partial support of CIRES’
Education and Outreach program, other research support
and the physical plant facilities.
Our NOAA Task I base funding is supplemented by
CIRES’ portion of the University’s indirect cost recovery
Outreach: 4%
(ICR), which is distributed annually to University units as a
Other
proportion of indirect costs collected through researchers’
grants and awards (bottom figure at right).
research
support: 38%
0.4
0.2
0.0
Funding
Task I: $3,692,368
11.5%
Task IV:
$653,378
2%
WWA:
$978,876
3%
Task II:
$397,463
1.5%
expenditures by task 09-10 task 1 base fund expenditures 09-10 task 1 base and icr supported expenses
Task III: $25,144,951
82%
Administration: 56%
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