About CICEET

The Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology (CICEET) develops and applies tools for clean water and healthy coasts nationwide. CICEET is a partnership of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of New Hampshire (UNH).

As a needs-based organization, CICEET works with coastal resource managers around the country to identify their priority environmental challenges. Then we analyze the obstacles—technical, social, political, and regulatory—that stand in the way of solutions. If this analysis reveals that new or enhanced technology would help address a priority challenge, CICEET designs a targeted competitive funding opportunity to meet this need.

CICEET’s funding opportunities are designed to insure a high level of engagement on the part of intended users of the technology under development. All projects include an intended user as a member of the project team. CICEET’s ongoing engagement with the coastal management community indicates that this level of participation on the part of the end user is critical to the successful implementation of environmental technologies and knowledge.

Tools created through CICEET funding opportunities are made available through training, outreach, and an evolving technology utilization program. CICEET has invested in more than 160 environmental technology development and demonstration projects since its inception in 1997. You can learn more about these projects on CICEET’s Project Explorer.

While its administrative offices are located on the UNH campus in Durham, N.H., CICEET sponsors technology development in coastal states (including the Great Lakes) nationwide—primarily through its relationship with the National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS). Many projects funded through CICEET are connected to one or more of the 27 NERRS sites or their watersheds.

You can learn more about CICEET’s mission and goals in our new strategic plan. >