Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

CIRES Strategic Plan

A roadmap for 2022-2027

Three hikers with backpacks walk on a rocky shore along water's edge.
Navigating wild terrain, scientists carry gear to install land-based instruments on a small rock island in northwestern Greenland in August 2018.
- Twila Moon/CIRES

In 2021, several CIRES Fellows and other staff embarked on an effort to revise the institute's strategic plan. Our strategic imperatives are described below.

Strategic Imperative #1: Advance our robust and creative research capabilities to further knowledge in the environmental sciences and the realization of its benefits.

Strategic Imperative #2: Strategically link research groups and improve the mobility of our people and ideas to enhance innovation and interdisciplinarity across CIRES. 

Strategic Imperative #3: Promote access and cultural innovation through robust workforce development programs, inspiring engagement, collaboration, and leadership at all levels.

Strategic Imperative #4: Enhance the impact, accessibility, and reach of our science and data to the broader scientific community, NOAA, educators and students, policymakers, and the general public.