Environmental System Science (ESS)

Department of Energy - Office of Science DE-FOA-0003475

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. The ESS program scope advances foundational process knowledge with an emphasis on understudied ecosystems. This NOFO 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 NOFO will encompass three 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.

Award Ceiling:    $1,000,000

$6,000,000

Please contact the program director

December 11, 2024 at 5:00 PM ET A Pre-Application is required.

March 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM ET

SC.GrantsandContracts@science.doe.gov

Brian Benscoter (Brian.Benscoter@science.doe.gov)  Daniel Winkler (Daniel.Winkler@science.doe.gov)  Dan Stover (Daniel.Stover@science.doe.gov)  Paul Bayer (Paul.Bayer@science.doe.gov)