Environmental System Science (ESS)
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 (SRAs): 1) plant-microbe interactions in the rhizosphere; 2) consequences of large-scale shifts in vegetation composition; and 3) synthesis studies that focus on legacy effects or the carbon cycle and disturbance.
LIMITATIONS ON SUBMISSIONS: LIMITATIONS ON SUBMISSIONS: Applicant institutions are limited to no more than one pre-application or application as the lead PI at the applicant institution. DOE will consider the latest received submissions to be the institution’s intended submissions.
Internal Review Process: Please submit a pre-application draft per required guidelines in the finding opportunity announcement to Shawn Chester by November 20, 2023 for imitational review and selection in case more there is interest from more one than NJIT faculty to submit.
up to $1,000,000 per year
$8,000,000
A Pre-Application is required by November 29, 2023 at 5 PM ET
February 29, 2024 at 11:59 PM ET
Mr. Paul Bayer
Dr. Gil Bohrer