The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is a federation of the research components of 13 federal departments and agencies that supports the largest investment in climate and global change research in the world. USGCRP is steered by the Subcommittee on Global Change Research (SGCR) of the National Science and Technology Council’s Committee on Environment, Natural Resources, and Sustainability (CENRS), which is overseen by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). USGCRP is overseen by the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Council on Environmental Quality, the National Economic Council and the Office of Management and Budget (see organizational chart.) USGCRP coordinates research activities across agencies and establishes joint funding priorities for research. USGCRP’s Strategic Plan, adopted in 2012, focuses on four major goals: advance science, inform decisions, conduct sustained assess¬ments, and communicate and educate.1 The USGCRP agencies maintain and develop observations, monitoring, data manage¬ment, analysis, and modeling capabilities that support the nation’s response to global change. The agencies that comprise the USGCRP are:
-- U.S. Department of Agriculture [Global Change Research Program (United States. Agricultural Research Service)]
-- U.S. Department of Commerce
-- U.S. Department of Defense
-- U.S. Department of Energy [Global Change Research Program (United States. Department of Energy)]
-- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
-- U.S. Department of the Interior [NPS Global Change Research Program (U.S.)]
-- U.S. Department of State
-- U.S. Department of Transportation
-- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
-- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
-- National Science Foundation
-- The Smithsonian Institution
-- U.S. Agency for International Development