AmeriFlux Network and Network Management Project

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The largest flows of carbon between land and atmosphere come from terrestrial ecosystem photosynthesis and respiration. These flows have profound impacts on atmospheric composition and climate. Through the AmeriFlux Network—a collection of long-term, eddy flux measurement stations located across the Western Hemisphere—carbon, water, and energy flux measurements and site metadata are gathered, processed, and shared with the scientific community.

The AmeriFlux Network is a grassroots, investigator-driven group of scientists. Measurement sites span the full spectrum of ecosystems and climates across the Americas, from the Amazonian rainforests to the North Slope of Alaska. Some sites are strategically clustered to focus on ecosystem response to climate change over gradients of elevation and rainfall; others observe how land-use and agricultural practices affect carbon, water, and energy fluxes.

The Department of Energy supports the AmeriFlux Network through the AmeriFlux Management Project (AMP) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. AMP works with AmeriFlux scientists and sites to ensure the quality and availability of the continuous, long-term ecosystem measurements necessary to understand these systems and build effective models and multisite syntheses.

Key AmeriFlux science goals include:

Quantifying carbon sources and sinks for diverse terrestrial ecosystems and evaluating how these sources and sinks are influenced by disturbance, land use, climate, nutrients, and pollutants
Advancing understanding of processes associated with photosynthesis, respiration, and carbon storage in ecosystems
Collecting observations that promote understanding and modeling of the current global carbon budget
Enabling improved predictions of future atmospheric carbon concentrations

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Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program 2020 Solicitation 1
Now accepting applications. Pre-Application Due: May 6, 2020, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. [2/20]

DE-FOA-0002230 – Earth System Model Development and Analysis.
Now accepting applications. Pre-Application Due: February 14, 2020, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. [1/20]

DE-FOA-0002215 – ESPCoR Building EPSCOR-State/National Laboratory Partnerships.
Now accepting applications. Pre-Application Due: January 16, 2020, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. [12/19]

DE-FOA-0002173 – Early Career Research Program.
Now accepting applications. Pre-Application Due: January 7, 2020, at 5:00 pm Eastern Time (PDF) [11/19]

2019 TES Awards Announced
Summary of projects awarded in summer 2019 (PDF) [9/19]

2019 ESS PI Meeting
Research summaries from the April 30-May 1, ESS PI Meeting are now available.

More News and Announcements »

Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program 2020 Solicitation 1
Now accepting applications. Pre-Application Due: May 6, 2020, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. [2/20]

DE-FOA-0002230 – Earth System Model Development and Analysis.
Now accepting applications. Pre-Application Due: February 14, 2020, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. [1/20]

DE-FOA-0002215 – ESPCoR Building EPSCOR-State/National Laboratory Partnerships.
Now accepting applications. Pre-Application Due: January 16, 2020, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. [12/19]

DE-FOA-0002173 – Early Career Research Program
Now accepting applications. Pre-Application Due: January 7, 2020, at 5:00 pm Eastern Time

DE-FOA-0002184 – Environmental System Science
Now accepting applications. Pre-Application Due: December 5, 2019, 5:00 pm Eastern Time.

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