Early Career Funding Opportunity

 
Published: 21 August 2015

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory researchers and university tenure-track professors are invited to submit applications for the Early Career Research Program, sponsored by the DOE Office of Science. Applicants must have received their doctorates no earlier than 2005.

For the fiscal year 2016 call, proposals to the Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) should focus on climate and environmental sciences research in the following areas:

  • Systems biology-enabled research on the role of microbes and microbial communities in the plant-soil-environment interactions
  • Improved understanding of tropical forest ecosystems to climate change
  • Human component of earth system models.

Awards will be for a five-year period. Proposals are due November 19. For more information, see the full DOE Office of Science announcement.

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The ARM Climate Research Facility is a national scientific user facility funded through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. The ARM Facility is operated by nine Department of Energy national laboratories.