Please distribute among your respective communities. The US Department of Energy's Earth System Modeling (ESM) Program has just issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) that will support community input into the Accelerated Climate Model for Energy (ACME) design and development, by inviting applications that would improve and investigate ACME's climate system, with focus in the following areas: atmospheric chemistry, convection, ocean biogeochemistry, tidal and estuary representations, representations of land disturbances, and improvements to particular system-coupling treatments.
More information can be found at: http://science.energy.gov/grants/foas/open/ http://science.energy.gov/~/media/grants/pdf/foas/2016/SC_FOA_0001482.pdf Pre-Application Due Date: 01/19/2016 at 5 PM Eastern Time Encourage/Discourage Date: 01/29/2016 at 5 PM Eastern Time Application Due Date: 03/14/2016 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time Note that Federal Laboratories are not eligible for support under this FOA. Please share with colleagues who may have an interest in this opportunity. Please direct questions to Dr. Dorothy Koch, ESM program manager (dorothy.k...@science.doe.gov<mailto:dorothy.k...@science.doe.gov>). __________________________________________ 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/ http://tes.science.energy.gov/ BER advances world-class biological and environmental research programs and scientific facilities for DOE missions in energy, environment, and basic research.
