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The Environmental System Science program, within the U.S. Department of Energy’s Biological and Environmental Research Program, 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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Jun 1, 2022 - Disturbance Legacies Shape Coastal Forest Soil Stability
May 19, 2022 - Where, When and Why: Investigating Nitrate Availability across a Warming Permafrost Landscape
Apr 1, 2022 - Freeze-Thaw Cycles Alter Soil Structure in Thawing Permafrost

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News

Nov 17, 2022 - Funding Opportunity: Early Career Research Program
Nov 8, 2022 - DOE Office of Science Request for Information – Responses due on or before December 23, 2022
Nov 7, 2022 - DOE Announces Fourth Urban Integrated Field Laboratory

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Recent Publications

Integrated Mountain Hydroclimate: Draft Executive Summary

2022 ESS PI Meeting Abstract Book

FACE Results, Lessons, and Legacy

Open Watershed Science by Design

Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report

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