Three ESS Scientists Selected for DOE Office of Science 2022 Awards for the Early Career Research Program
June 2022
The Department of Energy (DOE) announced the selection of 83 scientists from across the nation—including 27 from DOE’s national laboratories and 56 from U.S. universities—to receive funding for research as part of the DOE Office of Science’s Early Career Research Program. The program, now in its thirteenth year, is designed to bolster the nation’s scientific workforce by providing support to exceptional researchers during crucial early career years, when many scientists do their most formative work. Profiles of some of the previous award recipients, including information about how the program helped them in their research and careers, can be found here.
The FY22 competition included the ESS topic of Environmental Process Research in Urban-influenced Coastal Systems, as the BER Earth and Environmental Systems Sciences Division (EESSD) Topic. Three selections were made in this topic, including two at DOE national laboratories and one to a university. The three new ESS awardees are:
- Emily Graham of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Urban Resilience across the Terrestrial-Aquatic Continuum: Mechanisms to Mass Balance
- Elizabeth Herndon of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Biogeochemical Controls on Phosphorus in Urban-influenced Coastal Ecosystems
- Jorge Villa of University of Louisiana-Lafayette, Assessing Greenhouse Gas Structural and Functional Resilience of Freshwater Coastal Wetlands Subject to Persistent Saltwater Intrusion Events
Since its inception, 785 awards have been made through the Early Career Research Program, including 508 awards to universities and 277 awards to national laboratories.
To be eligible for the DOE award, a researcher must be an untenured, tenure-track assistant, or associate professor at a U.S. academic institution or a full-time employee at a DOE national laboratory who received a Ph.D. within the past 10 years. Research topics are required to fall within one of the DOE Office of Science’s eight major program offices: Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Basic Energy Sciences, Biological and Environmental Research, Fusion Energy Sciences, High Energy Physics, Nuclear Physics, Isotope R&D and Production, and Accelerator R&D and Production.
Awardees were selected from a large pool of university- and national laboratory-based applicants. Selection was based on peer review by outside scientific experts. Projects announced today are selections for negotiation of financial award. The final details for each project award are subject to final grant and contract negotiations between DOE and the awardees.