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--- Terrestrial Ecosystem Science Program Terrestrial Ecosystem Science Toggle main menu visibility About the Program About TES Overview Strategic Plan Research Abstracts Research Highlights Reports and Documents User Facilities and Related DOE Programs Associated Federal and International Activities Calls for Proposals Announcements Recent Workshops Disturbance and Vegetation Dynamics in Earth System Models Research Priorities to Incorporate Terrestrial-Aquatic Interfaces in Earth System Models Expanding the Use of Plant Trait Observations and Ecological Theory in Earth System Models Model-Data Integration for Environmental System Science All Workshops » Contact Information Dan Stover All TES Contacts Office of Biological and Environmental Research U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Research Research Snapshot Approach Research Abstracts Research Highlights Funding Announcements Submit Highlights (TES-funded only) Research Themes Critical Ecosystems NGEE Arctic NGEE Tropics SPRUCE Belowground Biogeochemistry SFA Soil Carbon Response to Environmental Change SFA AmeriFlux Network Climate Modeling Funded Projects by Type National Laboratories University-Led Projects Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Early Career Awards Funded Projects by Year Terrestrial Ecosystem Science Projects 2019 Environmental System Science Projects 2018 Environmental System Science Projects 2016 Environmental System Science Projects 2015 NASA ROSES 2014 GOAmazon Campaign 2013 Terrestrial Ecosystem Science 2013 Terrestrial Ecosystem Science 2012 Terrestrial Ecosystem Science Carbon Cycle Research 2011 and 2010 Building on the legacy of the Free-Air CO 2 Enrichment (FACE) Experiments Highlights PI Meeting News Site Map Contact Us -- Mission The Terrestrial Ecosystem Science (TES) program seeks to improve the representation of terrestrial ecosystem processes in Earth system models, thereby improving the quality of climate model projections and providing the scientific foundation of solutions for the Department of Energy's (DOE) most pressing energy and environmental challenges. TES is managed within the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER). Program Approach The TES program develops unique, foundational scientific insights about the terrestrial biosphere’s role in the global cycling of carbon, nutrients, and water. The program also supports research examining the feedbacks between the terrestrial biosphere and Earth’s climate system. TES focuses on ecosystems and ecological processes that are globally or regionally significant, expected to be sensitive to climate change, and insufficiently understood or inadequately represented in models. As part of the Climate and Environmental Sciences Division, TES coordinates its activities with BER’s climate modeling program (and research from other federal agencies), ensuring that experimental and observational results are incorporated into Earth system models to improve climate projections. Learn More » Research Themes Within its broad research portfolio, TES works to advance priority research areas and coordinate with other federal programs with shared interest areas. Current examples of this cross-cutting structure include: Critical Ecosystems Focusing on critical areas of uncertainty in our understanding and/or model representation of the global ecosystem. Learn More » Interagency Solicitation for Carbon Cycle Science Image courtesy NASA Improving understanding of changes in the distribution and cycling of carbon among the land, ocean, and atmospheric reservoirs and how that understanding can be used to establish a scientific foundation for societal responses to global environmental change. Learn More » AmeriFlux Network Providing continuous observations of ecosystem-level exchanges of CO 2 , water, energy, and momentum spanning diurnal, synoptic, seasonal, and interannual time scales. Learn More » Climate Modeling Linking process studies and observations to model development and evaluation of improved process representation, initialize multiscale model domains, calibrate models, and evaluate model predictions. Learn More » DOE TES Researchers: Submit Your Research Highlight! Tell us about your research! Submit a brief description of your published TES program research. Additional information Instructions for submission Word template Submission form Search Submitted Highlights Advanced Search List All Funding News Highlights 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 » There are no open calls at this time. -- 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. See Also: Early Career Research Program Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Projects Support: DOE Office of Science Grants and Contracts Funding Announcements Archive » Related BER Research Highlights -- Related BER Research Highlights Please wait highlights loading... More TES Research Highlights » Search Highlights Now Featuring 2019 in Review Overview Abstracts (PDF) Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2) [11/18] Overview Report Report in Brief Document PDF Download individual chapters Disturbance and Vegetation Dynamics in Earth System Models Workshop [11/18] Overview Fast-download PDF High-resolution PDF CESD Strategic Plan 2018 Climate and Environmental Sciences Division (CESD) Strategic Plan 2018 ( PDF; 14MB ) Current Brochures TES Overview NGEE–Tropics NGEE–Arctic SPRUCE Belowground Biogeochemistry Soil Carbon Response to Environmental Change Join AmeriFlux Workshop Reports » More Publications » Citation and Credit Unless otherwise noted, publications and webpages on this site were created for the U.S. Department of Energy Terrestrial Ecosystem Science program and are in the public domain. 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