Nov. 5, 2024: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Biological and Environmental Research (BER) Program announced its interest in receiving applications for research in Environmental System Science (ESS).
The deadline for pre-applications is Wednesday, Dec. 11 at 5 pm ET; the dealine for applications is Thursday, March 13 at 11:59 pm ET.
Learn more about this opportunity and eligibility at: funding opportunities website.
DOE’s Office of Science, under the Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program, also issued a $6 million funding opportunity announcement for atmospheric system research.
Learn more about this opportunity and eligibility by visiting the funding opportunities website. The pre-application deadline is Tuesday, Jan. 7 at 5 pm ET; the application deadline is Thursday, Feb. 27 at 11:59 pm ET.
Atmospheric System Research (ASR) supports research on key cloud, aerosol, precipitation, and radiative transfer processes that affect the Earth’s radiative balance and hydrological cycle, especially processes that limit the predictive ability of regional and global models. This solicitation solicits research grant applications for observational, data analysis, and/or modeling studies that use BER-supported Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility observations to improve understanding and model representation of: 1) Atmospheric processes from ARM’s Coast-Urban-Rural Atmospheric Gradient Experiment (CoURAGE) and 2) High latitude and Southern Ocean atmospheric processes using ARM observations.
All research supported by awards under this solicitation is intended to benefit the public through increasing our understanding of the Earth system
Environmental System Science:
The ESS program goal is to advance an integrated, robust, and scale-aware predictive understanding of terrestrial systems and their interdependent microbial, biogeochemical, ecological, hydrological, and physical processes. To support this goal, the program uses a systems approach to develop an integrative framework to elucidate the complex processes and controls on the structure, function, feedbacks, and dynamics of terrestrial systems, that span from molecular to global scales and extend from the bedrock through the soil, rhizosphere, and vegetation to the atmosphere.
This FOA will consider applications that focus on improving the understanding and representation of ecosystems and watersheds in ways that advance the sophistication and capabilities of local, regional, and larger scale models. Research funded through this solicitation will address the following Science Research Areas: 1) plant-soil-microbe interactions and their influence on belowground biogeochemical processes; 2) synthesis studies using existing data that address testing of ESS-relevant hypotheses and development of transferable insights into knowledge gaps for U.S. southeast coastal systems; and 3) synthesis studies on contributions and vulnerabilities of Earth system processes in marginal and degraded lands.
All applications are required to clearly address integrative, hypothesis-driven research and describe the existing needs/gaps in state-of-the-art models in a Model-Experiment (ModEx) approach. Applicants should provide details on how the results of the proposed research will be used to improve the predictability and sophistication of integrated watershed systems and/or terrestrial ecosystem models.
