Environmental System Science
Funding Agency:
- Department of Energy
The DOE SC program in Biological and Environmental Research (BER) hereby announces its interest in receiving applications for research in Environmental System Science (ESS). The goal of the ESS program in BER 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. The ESS program scope advances foundational process knowledge with an emphasis on understudied ecosystems. This FOA will consider applications that focus on measurements, experiments, field data, modeling, and synthesis to provide improved understanding and representation of ecosystems and watersheds in ways that advance the sophistication and capabilities of models that span from individual processes to Earth-system scales. This FOA will encompass three Science Research Areas: 1) improved understanding of hot spots and hot moments of biogeochemical cycling in terrestrial-aquatic interfaces; 2) investigations of cold-region ecosystem and watershed process responses to changing coldseason climate drivers; and 3) synthesis studies using existing data that address testing of ESSrelevant hypotheses and development of transferable insights across ecosystems, watersheds, and regions.
Multiple awards are expected
$10,000,000
December 22, 2022 at 6:00 PM ET
February 23, 2023 at 11:59 PM ET
Dr. Daniel Stover Daniel.Stover@science.doe.gov Mr. Paul Bayer Paul.Bayer@science.doe.gov Dr. Brian Benscoter Brian.Benscoter@science.doe.gov Dr. Jennifer Arrigo Jennifer.Arrigo@science.doe.gov