The Terrestrial Ecosystem Science (TES) program advances fundamental understanding of environmental processes through recognition and collaboration with other U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) programs and user facilities. These include the related Subsurface Biogeochemical Research program, which studies biogeochemical structure and function of subsurface environments. Linkages include other research programs and DOE scientific user facilities within the Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) and other parts of the Office of Science.
DOE's Office of Science oversees the construction and operation of some of the nation's most advanced research and development user facilities, located at national laboratories and universities. These state-of-the-art facilities are shared with the science community worldwide and offer some technologies and instrumentation that are available nowhere else. Guidelines for submitting proposals for access to these facilities are available from the individual centers.
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL)
The TES program currently supports a postdoctoral research assistant position at EMSL to facilitate linking the TES program within the Terrestrial and Subsurface Science Theme. Dr. Malak Tfaily is the current postdoctoral research assistant in EMSL's mass spectrometry group. She has been assisting EMSL users in implementing next-generation, state-of-the-art mass spectrometry and infrared and fluorescence spectroscopy techniques to understand carbon cycling in the environment. Dr. Tfaily has extensive experience especially in applying ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry to characterize organic matter composition from different terrestrial and aquatic systems, and helping users interpret these data to enrich the understanding of biotic and abiotic processes that impact carbon dynamics such as microbial respiration, photo degradation, and anthropogenic activities. She is also interested in investigating the effect of climate change on carbon dynamics in the terrestrial ecosystem. Dr. Tfaily has recently developed extraction protocols for the characterization of carbon compounds in soil organic matter, thereby providing the chemical and structural detail needed to develop mechanistic descriptions of soil carbon flow processes. In addition to her current research, Dr. Tfaily seeks to leverage EMSL capabilities within the TES program.
Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) initiative was established to encourage and enable researchers to more easily integrate the expertise and capabilities of multiple user facilities stewarded by the Department of Energy Office of Science into their research. It current participants include the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), and DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase).
Biomolecular Characterization and Imaging
Structural biology and imaging resources—together with today’s systems
biology approaches—are key capabilities for understanding the relationship
between the genome, structure, function, and environmental interactions
of plants and microbes important for energy and environmental missions.
As part of its fundamental biology portfolio, the U.S. Department of Energy’s
(DOE) Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) supports a suite
of experimental research technologies, methodologies, instruments, and
computational capabilities at DOE facilities. The resolutions and scales provided
by these resources enable studying and understanding biological structures and
functional processes important to BER-funded investigators and centers. Capabilities of and contact information for each station are described at https://www.berstructuralbioportal.org.
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Environmental Research Funding: DoD SERDP
Now accepting applications.
• Core Solicitation for Environmental Research and Development Proposals. Pre-Proposals Due: Jan. 7, 2021, 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time.• SEED Solicitation. Proposals Due: March 4, 2021, 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time. [11/9]
Funding Opportunity Announcement: DOE ESPCoR Program
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Pre-Application Due: Dec. 15, 2020, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. [10/29]
Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program 2020 Solicitation 2
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Environmental System Science Projects Awards Announced Summary [7/20]
FACE report now available Overview [6/20]
DOE announces Early Career Research Program awards for FY 2020. Awardees List [6/20]
DE-FOA-0002482 - Integrated Computational and Data Infrastructure for Scientific Discovery
Now accepting applications. Letters of Intent Due: April 2, 2021, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. [03/21]
Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program 2021 Solicitation 1
Now accepting applications. Pre-Application Due: May 5, 2021, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. [02/21]
DE-FOA-0002431 – DOE EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) Implementation Grants
More details. [12/20]
DE-FOA-0002392-Environmental System Science
Now accepting applications. Pre-Application Due: Dec. 17, 2020, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. [11/19]
ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge.
Call for Proposals Open. Pre-Proposals Due: January 4, 2021, 5:00 pm Eastern Time. [11/19]
Environmental Research Funding: DoD SERDP
Now accepting applications.
• Core Solicitation for Environmental Research and Development Proposals. Pre-Proposals Due: Jan. 7, 2021, 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time.• SEED Solicitation. Proposals Due: March 4, 2021, 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time. [11/20]
DE-FOA-0002431-Established Program To Stimulate Competitive Research (DOE EPSCoR) Implementation Grants
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Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program 2020 Solicitation 2
Now accepting applications. Pre-Application Due: Nov. 12, 2020, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. [9/20]
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