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The Environmental System Science program, within the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research, examines complex ecological and hydro-biogeochemical processes within terrestrial and coastal systems to understand inherent and emergent properties of changes to Earth and environmental systems.

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Oct 5, 2021 - A Starting Guide to Root Ecology
Aug 23, 2021 - New Model Rapidly Predicts Rates of Soil Drainage in Complex Tundra Landscapes
Aug 18, 2021 - Filling Gaps in Our Understanding of Belowground Plant Traits across the World

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News

Nov 18, 2021 - ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC): Call Open for 2022–2023 Allocation Year
Oct 26, 2021 - DOE’s Office of Science Accepting Applications for Summer 2022 Undergraduate Internships
Oct 15, 2021 - Funding Opportunity: Environmental System Science

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Recent Publications

2021 ESS PI Meeting Abstract Book

FACE Results, Lessons, and Legacy

Open Watershed Science by Design

Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report

Disturbance and Vegetation Dynamics in Earth System Models Workshop

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