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The Department of Energy's (DOE) Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program supports many university-led and agency-led projects aimed at advancing climate science and research. These projects not only contribute to our understanding of the complexities of Earth's climate system but also foster collaboration between these institutions and the DOE to address pressing climate challenges.

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AWARDS

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137 Results

Title	Institution	Program Area	Active Dates
A tale of two extremes: Temperature sensitivity of carbon loss from cool and hot soils	USDA Forest Service	Environmental Systems Science	9/1/2023 — 8/31/2025
Aerosol-Cloud Interactions Centered on MAGIC: Insights from Measurements and Lagrangian Large Eddy Simulation	NOAA/OAR	Atmospheric System Research	9/1/2023 — 8/31/2026
Aerosol-cloud interactions driven by primary and secondary biological aerosols during TRACER	University of Michigan	Atmospheric System Research	9/1/2023 — 8/31/2026
Aerosol-cloud interactions in warm clouds using advanced causal discovery	Colorado State University, Fort Collins	Atmospheric System Research	8/1/2022 — 7/31/2025
ANALYSES OF CUMULUS MIXING USING ASR AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS AND LES SIMULATIONS	President and Fellows of Harvard College	Atmospheric System Research	8/1/2022 — 7/31/2025
Applied Geospatial Data-science Initiative for Urban Climate Change Studies (AGDI-UCCS)	Alabama A&M University	Environmental Systems Science	9/1/2023 — 8/31/2026
Are Trees Dormant During the Dormant Season? Determining the Importance of Plant Nutrient Uptake in Changing Cold Seasons in Cold-Region Catchments	Cornell University	Environmental Systems Science	9/1/2023 — 8/31/2026
Assessing greenhouse gas structural and functional resilience of freshwater coastal wetlands subject to persistent saltwater intrusion events	University of Louisiana at Lafayette	Environmental Systems Science	7/1/2022 — 6/30/2027
Assessing Sources of Precipitation Predictability in E3SM with Explainable Artificial Intelligence	Colorado State University, Fort Collins	Regional Global Modeling Analysis	9/1/2023 — 8/31/2026
Assessing the Dependence of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions on Low-Cloud Mesoscale Morphology with ARM Observations	University of Maryland Baltimore County	Atmospheric System Research	9/1/2023 — 8/31/2026
Assessing two modeling challenges, Climate Sensitivity and Arctic Amplification	University of Alabama in Huntsville	Earth & Environmental Systems Modeling	9/1/2022 — 8/31/2025
Atmospheric Regimes and Drivers of Cloud Variability and Aerosol-Cloud-Radiation Interactions Over the Coastal Northeast Pacific	NASA Langley Research Center	Atmospheric System Research	9/1/2023 — 8/31/2026
Boundary Layer Gradients in New Particle Formation and Growth at Southern Great Plains	University of Colorado Boulder	Atmospheric System Research	1/1/2023 — 12/31/2025
Building a Next-Generation Microphysics Scheme for E3SM: a Data-Driven, Physically Constrained, Single-Category Approach	University Corporation for Atmospheric Research	Earth System Modeling Development	9/1/2022 — 8/31/2025
Building Arctic Science Capacity: Establishing an Arctic Climate Data Node in Alaska	University of Alaska Fairbanks	Data Management	8/15/2021 — 8/14/2026
Building Inclusive Capacity and Partnerships to Tackle Soil-Water- Microbe-Root Feedbacks in Forest Regeneration after Wildfires	Washington State University, Pullman	Atmospheric System Research	9/1/2022 — 5/31/2025
California Community and Earth-system Integrated Climate Resilience Center (CalCEI CRC)	San Jose State University Research Foundation	Earth & Environmental Systems Modeling	9/1/2023 — 8/31/2026
Capabilities and Partnerships for Environmental Microclimate Investigations	Jackson State University	Atmospheric System Research	9/1/2022 — 4/30/2025
Catalyzing STEM Training and Partnerships through Comparative Analysis of Transferable Watershed Function in East River and Southern California Watersheds	California State University, Los Angeles	Environmental Systems Science	9/1/2023 — 8/31/2026
Center for Climate Adaptation and Resilience in Baltimore (CCARB)	Morgan State University	Earth & Environmental Systems Modeling	9/1/2023 — 8/31/2026

A tale of two extremes: Temperature sensitivity of carbon loss from cool and hot soils

Announcement Number	Environmental Systems Science
Fiscal Year	USDA Forest Service
End Date	8/31/2025

Aerosol-Cloud Interactions Centered on MAGIC: Insights from Measurements and Lagrangian Large Eddy Simulation

Announcement Number	Atmospheric System Research
Fiscal Year	NOAA/OAR
End Date	8/31/2026

Aerosol-cloud interactions driven by primary and secondary biological aerosols during TRACER

Announcement Number	Atmospheric System Research
Fiscal Year	University of Michigan
End Date	8/31/2026

Aerosol-cloud interactions in warm clouds using advanced causal discovery

Announcement Number	Atmospheric System Research
Fiscal Year	Colorado State University, Fort Collins
End Date	7/31/2025

ANALYSES OF CUMULUS MIXING USING ASR AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS AND LES SIMULATIONS

Announcement Number	Atmospheric System Research
Fiscal Year	President and Fellows of Harvard College
End Date	7/31/2025

Applied Geospatial Data-science Initiative for Urban Climate Change Studies (AGDI-UCCS)

Announcement Number	Environmental Systems Science
Fiscal Year	Alabama A&M University
End Date	8/31/2026

Are Trees Dormant During the Dormant Season? Determining the Importance of Plant Nutrient Uptake in Changing Cold Seasons in Cold-Region Catchments

Announcement Number	Environmental Systems Science
Fiscal Year	Cornell University
End Date	8/31/2026

Assessing greenhouse gas structural and functional resilience of freshwater coastal wetlands subject to persistent saltwater intrusion events

Announcement Number	Environmental Systems Science
Fiscal Year	University of Louisiana at Lafayette
End Date	6/30/2027

Assessing Sources of Precipitation Predictability in E3SM with Explainable Artificial Intelligence

Announcement Number	Regional Global Modeling Analysis
Fiscal Year	Colorado State University, Fort Collins
End Date	8/31/2026

Assessing the Dependence of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions on Low-Cloud Mesoscale Morphology with ARM Observations

Announcement Number	Atmospheric System Research
Fiscal Year	University of Maryland Baltimore County
End Date	8/31/2026

Assessing two modeling challenges, Climate Sensitivity and Arctic Amplification

Announcement Number	Earth & Environmental Systems Modeling
Fiscal Year	University of Alabama in Huntsville
End Date	8/31/2025

Atmospheric Regimes and Drivers of Cloud Variability and Aerosol-Cloud-Radiation Interactions Over the Coastal Northeast Pacific

Announcement Number	Atmospheric System Research
Fiscal Year	NASA Langley Research Center
End Date	8/31/2026

Boundary Layer Gradients in New Particle Formation and Growth at Southern Great Plains

Announcement Number	Atmospheric System Research
Fiscal Year	University of Colorado Boulder
End Date	12/31/2025

Building a Next-Generation Microphysics Scheme for E3SM: a Data-Driven, Physically Constrained, Single-Category Approach

Announcement Number	Earth System Modeling Development
Fiscal Year	University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
End Date	8/31/2025

Building Arctic Science Capacity: Establishing an Arctic Climate Data Node in Alaska

Announcement Number	Data Management
Fiscal Year	University of Alaska Fairbanks
End Date	8/14/2026

Building Inclusive Capacity and Partnerships to Tackle Soil-Water- Microbe-Root Feedbacks in Forest Regeneration after Wildfires

Announcement Number	Atmospheric System Research
Fiscal Year	Washington State University, Pullman
End Date	5/31/2025

California Community and Earth-system Integrated Climate Resilience Center (CalCEI CRC)

Announcement Number	Earth & Environmental Systems Modeling
Fiscal Year	San Jose State University Research Foundation
End Date	8/31/2026

Capabilities and Partnerships for Environmental Microclimate Investigations

Announcement Number	Atmospheric System Research
Fiscal Year	Jackson State University
End Date	4/30/2025

Catalyzing STEM Training and Partnerships through Comparative Analysis of Transferable Watershed Function in East River and Southern California Watersheds

Announcement Number	Environmental Systems Science
Fiscal Year	California State University, Los Angeles
End Date	8/31/2026

Center for Climate Adaptation and Resilience in Baltimore (CCARB)

Announcement Number	Earth & Environmental Systems Modeling
Fiscal Year	Morgan State University
End Date	8/31/2026

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