The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Earth and Environmental System Modeling programs are joining the ARM Climate Research Facility, Atmospheric System Research, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Terrestrial Ecosystem Science, and Subsurface Biogeochemical Research programs at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. A selection of research sponsored by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research Climate and Environmental Sciences Division will be presented during the meeting. Public information materials provided in the exhibit are available.

Selected Plans and Reports

DOE Climate Change Research Program: Strategic Plan - January 2009
Complex Systems Science for Subsurface Fate and Transport - March 2010
Atmospheric System Research (ASR) Science and Program Plan - January 2010
Science Challenges and Future Directions: Climate Change Integrated Assessment Research - June 2009
Scientific Grand Challenges: Challenges in Climate Change Science and the Role of Computing at the Extreme Scale - November 2008
ARM Climate Research Facility Workshop Report - November 2008
Ecosystem Experiments: Understanding Climate Change Impacts on Ecosystems and Feedbacks to the Physical Climate - April 2008
Carbon Cycling and Biosequestration: Integrating Biology and Climate Through Systems Science - March 2008
Climate Research Roadmap Workshop - May 2010
GOAmazon2014 Workshop Report - September 2011

Online Resources

CESD research program pages: http://science.energy.gov/ber/research/cesd/
AmeriFlux: http://public.ornl.gov/ameriflux/
Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment: http://ngee.ornl.gov/
ARM Climate Research Facility: http://www.arm.gov/
Atmospheric System Research: http://asr.science.energy.gov/
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center: http://cdiac.ornl.gov/
Earth System Modeling: http://eesm.science.energy.gov
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory: http://www.emsl.pnl.gov/emslweb/
Integrated Assessment Research: http://eesm.science.energy.gov
Regional and Global Climate Modeling: http://eesm.science.energy.gov
Subsurface Biogeochemical Research: http://esd.lbl.gov/research/projects/ersp/
Terrestrial Ecosystem Science: http://tes.science.energy.gov/
United States Carbon Cycle Science Program, Carbon Planning: http://www.carboncyclescience.gov/carbonplanning.php

DOE Opportunities

DOE Office of Science Graduate Fellowship Program – Now accepting applications until January 3.
Scientific Funding – Visit our grants website to learn how to apply.

Held December 5-9, 2011, the meeting attracted an estimated 20,000 attendees, with 12,000 posters and 6,000 oral presentations, a growth of more than 11 percent from last year's meeting.

During the meeting, over 300 people stopped by the division exhibit, which included the Earth and Environmental System Modeling programs. Popular materials at the exhibit included Climate Research Roadmap Workshop report, Complex Systems Science for Subsurface Fate and Transport reports, and a handout providing links to all reports for those who wanted something lighter to take home.

CESD hosted three town hall meetings at the AGU Fall Meeting. The Earth and Environmental System Modeling program's town hall focused on next-generation needs for climate model intercomparison and visualization efforts. With plans underway for the next-generation Earth system grid, the purpose of this town hall was to elicit user community feedback regarding data access and diagnostics methodologies needed for the sixth assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change efforts.

Another CESD town hall meeting was held for the GreenOceanAmazon2014 integrated experiment, which many CESD programs will be sponsoring. Objectives for this town hall included engaging the AGU community by providing opportunities for input to and collaboration with GreenOceanAmazon2014. The campaign centers around the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility deployment and will include process and modeling research components supported across CESD.

CESD's Terrestrial Ecosystem Sciences (TES) program held a town hall to present TES's vision and funding strategy while highlighting the Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiment (NGEE) project, a major 10-year effort in the Arctic. All three town halls were well-attended.

Now considered the largest worldwide conference in the geophysical sciences, the next AGU Fall Meeting will be held December 6-10 in 2012. The Earth and Environmental System Modeling programs plan to be there.