December 6, 2023  |   

Outdated! Please see updated guidance here.

This is a regular reminder about our suggested affiliations for CIRES people based at NOAA. More detailed information is now available on this google doc, but the basics are:  

  1. You are a CIRES employee. 
  2. CIRES remains CIRES, the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, an institute of the University of Colorado Boulder, and we collaborate closely with NOAA.
  3. The NOAA cooperative agreement that funds ~50% of our institutional research is NA22OAR4320151, for the Cooperative Institute for Earth System Research and Data Science (CIESRDS). 
  4. Most CIRES people embedded in NOAA teams are officially part of this new CIESRDS, and remain employees of CIRES at CU Boulder.
  5. The CIESRDS/CIRES/CUBoulder/NOAA relationship will be confusing to many audiences. Please simplify accurately, eg: “I am part of CIRES at CU Boulder. We partner with NOAA.” Or, “I work in a NOAA laboratory as a CIRES/CU Boulder employee.” 
    1. It is important to use CIESRDS in some occasions: grant proposals to NOAA, for example, and annual reports to the agency.
  6. Specific suggestions for publications and other occasions, such as conference presentations:
    1. Acknowledgements in papers. Eg: “This research was supported (in part / by / etc.) NOAA cooperative agreement NA22OAR4320151. “
    2. Affiliations in papers: You should use your CIRES/CU Boulder affiliation, and you should also use the affiliation your NOAA laboratory or center requests, eg: 1=Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, CU Boulder; 2=NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (or PSL, NCEI, etc.) 
    3. Please use your CIRES affiliation (and NOAA affiliation, as appropriate) on other communications, too, including emails, presentations, conference abstracts, seminar announcements and conversations with journalists. Please do not represent yourself as a federal employee.
    4. CIRES Visiting Fellows should acknowledge CA funding in papers, eg: [NAME] was supported by the CIRES Visiting Fellows Program and the NOAA Cooperative Agreement NA22OAR4320151. 
    5. Every publication that includes a CIRES employee and has at least some funding under task II of our Cooperative Agreement include the following disclaimer in acknowledgements: “This research was supported [in part / by / etc.] cooperative agreement NA22OAR4320151, using federal funds from NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce. The statements, findings, conclusions, and recommendations are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of NOAA or the U.S. Department of Commerce.“

Questions? Email Kari Bowen (kari.bowen@noaa.gov) or the CIRES Communications Team (ciresnews@colorado.edu).