The US Department of Energy, Office of Biological and Environmental Research, Terrestrial Ecosystem Sciences (TES) program invites you to attend our first Town Hall meeting at the upcoming ESA Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas. The Town Hall (SS-17) will be held on Wednesday, August 10th from 8-10 pm in Room 4 of the Austin Convention Center.
Current and potential PI's are encouraged to attend to learn about TES program activities and hear highlights on program efforts such as the Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment in the Arctic, AmeriFlux, and other related activities. ABSTRACT Recent restructuring of ecological programs at the US Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) have combined the previous Terrestrial Carbon Processes program and Programs in Ecosystem Research into a single Terrestrial Ecosystem Science (TES) program. In this Town Hall meeting, Program Managers will present the new mission focused TES vision and philosophy to the community and discuss future funding opportunities within BER. Specifically, the Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment (NGEE), a 10- year, major program effort in the Arctic will be highlighted for community discussion. NGEE aims to understand, characterize and predictively model the response of permafrost ecosystems in a changing climate. The Town Hall meeting will engage the ESA community members to encourage discussion for synergies and leveraging opportunities within various phases of the NGEE program implementation. In addition, proposed collaborations with the 2014 Atmospheric Radiation Measurement deployment in the Amazon Basin, and future AmeriFlux activities will be discussed. The goal of this meeting is to familiarize the participants with DOE's new TES program activities and vision as well as solicit feedback on how best to communicate and support the ecological scientific community. __________________________________________ Daniel B. Stover, PhD Program Manager, Terrestrial Ecosystem Sciences Climate and Environmental Sciences Division Office of Biological and Environmental Research SC-23.1 / Germantown Building U.S. Department of Energy 1000 Independence Avenue, SW Washington, D.C. 20585 tel. 301-903-0289 fax. 301-903-8519 email: daniel.sto...@science.doe.gov http://science.energy.gov/ber/research/cesd/ BER advances world-class biological and environmental research programs and scientific facilities for DOE missions in energy, environment, and basic research.
