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.
Deadlines:
- REQUIRED Pre-application: Dec. 11, 2024
- Application: March 13, 2025
- SCIENCE RESEARCH AREA 1: PLANT-SOIL-MICROBE INTERACTIONS AND BELOWGROUND BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
- SCIENCE RESEARCH AREA 2: SYNTHESIS STUDIES OF U.S. SOUTHEAST COASTAL SYSTEMS
- SCIENCE RESEARCH AREA 3: SYNTHESIS STUDIES OF MARGINAL AND DEGRADED LANDS
Applicant institutions are limited to no more than one pre-application or application for each PI at the applicant institution. There is no limitation to the number of applications on which an institution appears as a subrecipient.
Expected dollar amount of individual awards:
SRA #1: $300,000 to $1,000,000 (total award)
SRA #2 and #3: $100,000 to $400,000 (total award)