The Environmental System Science (ESS) program supports a number of long-term activities at Department of Energy’s national laboratories. ESS leverages the National Laboratories’ unique technical and organization capabilities and specific areas of expertise in ways that advance the ESS mission. National laboratory projects frequently involve external collaborators (including many universities) and are reviewed every three years by external peer panels.
Projects
| PI | INSTITUTION | Period | Project | Award Type | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jastrow | ANL SFA | 9/1/16 - 8/30/19 | Soil Carbon Response to Environmental Change | SFA | TES | |
| Drewniak | ANL | 9/1/19 - 8/31/20 | Water foraging with dynamic roots in E3SM; The role of roots in terrestrial ecosystem memory on intermediate timescales | TES/DD | ||
| Kemner/McInnes | ANL | 9/1/19 - 8/31/20, RNL | (IDEAS)- Watersheds | IDEAS | SBR-IDEAS/ASCR | 14-0001 |
| Kemner | ANL | 9/1/18 - 8/31/21 | Trace Metal Dynamics and Limitations on Biogeochemical Cycling in Wetland Soils and Hyporheic Zones | FOA Collab | SBR-Biogeochem | |
| Kemner | ANL | 9/15/19 - 9/14/22 | Interactions between molecular-scale biogeochemical processes and hyporheic exchange for understanding coupled Fe-S-C cycling in iron-rich riparian wetlands | FOA Collab | SBR-Biogeochem | 19-2035 |
| Kemner | ANL | 9/1/18 - 8/31/21 | Integration of Omics into a New Comprehensive Rate Law for Competitive Terminal Electron-Accepting Processes in Reactive Transport Models: Application to N, Fe, S, and Contaminant Transformations in Stream and Wetland Sediments | FOA Collab | SBR-Biogeochem | |
| Kemner | ANL | 9/1/18 - 8/31/21 | Interactions between molecular-scale processes and hyporheic exchange for understanding Fe-S-C cycling in riparian wetlands | FOA Collab | SBR-Biogeochem | |
| Kemner | ANL - SFA | 9/1/18 - 8/31/21, RNL | Wetland HydroBioGeoChemistry SFA | SFA | SBR-Biogeochem | |
| O'Loughlin | ANL | 9/15/20 - 9/14/23 | Quantifying microbial roles in environmental iron oxidation via an integrated kinetics, 'omics and metabolic modeling study | FOA Collab | 20-2184 | |
| Serbin | BNL | 9/15/20 - 9/14/23 | Remote Sensing of Plant Functional Traits for Modeling Arctic Tundra Carbon Dynamics | FOA Collab | TES | |
| Rogers | BNL | 9/15/20 - 9/14/23 | Support of New and Existing Manipulation Experiments | TES | ||
| Torn | LBNL | 7/1/15 - 6/30/20, 5-yr RNL | AmeriFlux Network Management Project | SFA | TES-AmeriFlux | |
| Torn | LBNL - SFA | 10/1/11 - 9/30/19 | Terrestrial Ecosystem Science (Belowground Biogeochemistry) SFA | SFA | TES-SFA | |
| Chambers | LBNL | RNL 9/15/19 - 9/14/22 | Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE) Tropics Phase 2 | NGEE | TES-NGEE | |
| Riley | LBNL | 9/15/20 - 9/14/23 | Sticky roots- implications of altered rhizodeposition (driven by cryptic, viral infection of plants) for the fate of rhizosphere mineral - organic matter associations in natural ecosystems | FOA Collab | TES | |
| Riley | LBNL | 9/15/20 - 9/14/23 | Functional-type modeling approach and data-driven parameterization of methane emissions in wetlands | FOA Collab | TES | |
| Hubbard | LBNL- SFA | 10/1/16 - 09/30/19, RNL | Watershed Function SFA: Hydrobiogeochemical Dynamics from Genome to Watershed Scales | SFA | SBR-Hydrobiogeochem | PAMS Inv. |
| Steefel/Williams/Molins | LBNL | 9/1/19 - 8/31/22, RNL | Interoperable Design of Extreme-Scale Application Software (IDEAS) | IDEAS | SBR-IDEAS | 14-0001 |
| Williams | LBNL | 9/1/19 - 8/31/22 | Advancing a watershed hydro-biogeochemical theory: linking water travel time and reaction rates under changing climate | FOA Collab | SBR-Hydrobiogeochem | 19-2035 |
| Arora | LBNL | 9/15/20 - 9/14/23 | Linking nutrient reactivity and transport in subsurface flowpaths along a terrestrial-estuarine continuum | FOA Collab | 20-2184 | |
| Bouskill | LBNL | 9/1/18 - 8/31/21 | Response of Subsurface Nitrogen-Cycling Microbial Communities to Environmental Fluctuations | FOA Collab | SBR-Microbiology | |
| Chakraborty | LBNL | 9/1/18 - 8/31/21 | Influx of Oxidants into Reduced Zones: Microbiological Controls Governing Metal Oxidation and Reduction | FOA Collab | SBR-Biogeochem | |
| Wainwright | LBNL | 9/1/18 - 8/31/21 | Model-Data Fusion to Examine Multiscale Dynamical Controls on Snow Cover and Critical Zone Moisture Inputs | FOA Collab | SBR-Hydrology | |
| Varadharajan (EC) | LBNL | 9/1/20 - 8/31/25 | Early Career: Investigating the Impacts of Streamflow Disturbances on Water Quality Using a Data-Driven Framework | Early Career | Early Career | |
| McFarlane/Guilderson | LLNL | 9/1/18 - 8/31/20 | Arctic Shrub Expansion, Plant Functional Trait Variation, and Effects on Belowground Carbon Cycling | Early Career | TES | |
| Pett-Ridge | LLNL | 9/1/18 - 8/31/20 | Effects of Hurricane Disturbance and Increased Temperature on Carbon Cycling and Storage of a Puerto Rican Forest: A Mechanistic Investigation of Above- and Belowground Processes | FOA Collab | TES | |
| Kersting/Zavarin | LLNL -SFA | 9/1/18 - 8/31/21, RNL | BioGeoChemistry of Actinides (Environmental Transport of Plutonium) | SFA | SBR-Biogeochem | |
| Visser | LLNL | 9/15/20 - 9/14/23 | Linking nutrient reactivity and transport in subsurface flowpaths along a terrestrial-estuarine continuum | FOA Collab | 20-2184 | |
| Smith | LLNL | 9/1/19 - 8/31/22, RNL | (IDEAS)- Watersheds: Enabling a high resolution integrated terrestrial simulation of the contiguous United States (CONUS) | IDEAS | SBR-IDEAS | 14-0001 |
| Xu | LANL | 7/1/19 - 9/30/20 | Exploring Halophyte Hydrodynamics and the Role of Vegetation Traits on Ecosystem Response to Disturbance at the Terrestrial-Aquatic Interface | Collab with FOA Award | TES/DD | |
| Moulton | LANL | 9/1/19 - 8/31/22, RNL | Interoperable Design of Extreme-scale Application Software (IDEAS) | IDEAS | SBR-IDEAS | PAMS Inv. 14-0001 |
| Yeager | LANL | 9/15/20 - 9/14/23 | Watershed Controls on Uranium Concentrations Tied into Natural Organic Matter and Iron Interactions in Streambeds and Wetlands | Collab with FOA Award | 20-2184 | |
| Yager | LANL | 10/1/12 - 9/30/18 | Natural Organic matter and microbial controls/mobilization/immobilization of I, Pu and other radionuclides in soils and waters affected by radionuclide releases in USA and Japan | Collab with FOA Award | SBR-Geochem | 10-311 |
| Rowland | LANL | 9/15/20 - 9/14/23 | Nutrient and fine sediment transport driven by perturbations in river bed movement | Collab with FOA Award | 20-2184 | |
| Hanson | ORNL - SFA | RNL 8/1/19 - 9/30/22 | Terrestrial Ecosystem SFA | SFA | TES | |
| Wullschleger | ORNL | RNL 9/15/15 - 9/14/22 | Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE) Arctic | NGEE | TES-NGEE | |
| Walker Norby | ORNL | 5/1/12 - 9/30/23 | Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) Experiment Synthesis Activities | Boutique | FACE | |
| Sulman | ORNL | 9/15/20 - 9/14/23 | Modelling Microbes to Predict Post-fire Carbon Cycling in the Boreal Forest across Burn Severities | Collab with FOA Award | TES | |
| Gu | ORNL | 9/15/20 - 9/14/23 | How does mercury methylation respond to intensive forest management and the creation of anoxia in floodplain soils? | Collab with FOA Award | ||
| Sulman | ORNL | 9/1/19 - 8/31/20 | How will changes in the dominance of arbuscular and ectomycorrhizal trees affect future soil carbon and nitrogen cycling? | Collab with FOA Award | TES/DD | |
| Mayes (EC) | ORNL | Early Career:Comprehensive Framework for Modeling Emissions | Early Career | Early Career | ||
| Pierce, E | ORNL - SFA | 9/1/18 - 8/31/21, RNL | Biogeochemical Transformations at Critical Interfaces in a Mercury Perturbed Watershed Science Focus Area | SFA | SBR-Hydrobiogeochem | |
| Painter | ORNL | 9/1/19 - 8/31/22, RNL | (IDEAS)- Watersheds | IDEAS | SBR-IDEAS | 14-0001 |
| Brooks/Demers | ORNL | 8/1/16 - 8/30/19 | Use of Stable Mercury Isotopes to Assess Mercury and Methylmercury Transformation and Transport across Critical Interfaces from the Molecular to the Watershed Scale | Collab with FOA Award | SBR-Biogeochem | 16-1437 |
| Brooks | ORNL | 9/1/18 - 8/31/21 | Trace Metal Dynamics and Limitations on Biogeochemical Cycling in Wetland Soils and Hyporheic Zones | Collab with FOA Award | SBR-Biogeochem | |
| Brooks | ORNL | 9/1/18 - 8/31/21 | Integration of Omics into a New Comprehensive Rate Law for Competitive Terminal Electron-Accepting Processes in Reactive Transport Models: Application to N, Fe, S, and Contaminant Transformations in Stream and Wetland Sediments | Collab with FOA Award | SBR-Biogeochem | |
| Gu | ORNL | 9/15/17 - 9/14/19 | Methanotrophic-Mediated Methylmercury Transformation: Characterization of Products, Mechanism, and Environmental Significance | Collab with FOA Award | SBR-Biogeochem | 17-1724 |
| Parks | ORNL | 9/1/16 - 8/30/19 | Multi-Scale Modeling Framework for Mercury Biogeochemistry | Collab with FOA Award | SBR-Modeling | 16-1437 |
| Bailey | PNNL | 10/1/17 - 9/30/19 | Pore to Core soil biogeochemistry: Linking protection mechanisms to ecosystem CO2 fluxes under antecedent conditions | Boutique | TES | |
| Scheibe | PNNL-SFA | 8/15/17 - 8/14/20 8/15/15 - 8/14/17 | Influences of Hydrologic Exchange Flows on River Corridor and Watershed Biogeochemical Function Interaction Zone | SFA | SBR-Hydrobiogeochem | PAMS Inv. |
| Campbell | PNNL | 9/15/20-9/14/23 | Coastal Observations, Mechanisms, and Predictions Across Systems and Scales-Field, Measurements, and Experiments (COMPASS-FME) Pilot Study | Coastal | ||
| Chen Scheibe | PNNL | 9/1/19-8/31/22, RNL | (IDEAS)- Watersheds | IDEAS | SBR-IDEAS | PAMS Inv. 14-0001 |
| Chen | PNNL | 9/15/2019 - 9/14/21 | Resolving Aquifier Controls on Larger River-Groundwater Exchanges of Mass and Energy | Collab with FOA Award | SBR-Hydrobiogeochem | PAMS Inv. |
| Chen | PNNL | 9/15/17 - 9/14/20 | Respiration in hyporheic zones: connecting mechanics, microbial biogeochemistry, and models | Collab with FOA Award | SBR-Hydrobiogeochem | 17-1724 |
| Arntzen | PNNL | 9/15/19 - 9/14/22 | Particulate organic matter (POM) transport and transformation at the terrestrial-aquatic interface | Collab with FOA Award | SBR-Biogeochem | 19-2035 |
| Schmid Kraucunas | PNNL-Coastal | 9/15/19 - 9/14/21 | Integrated Coastal Modeling | Boutique | MD/ESM/RGMA/SBR | |
| Ward | PNNL | 9/1/18 - 8/31/21 | The Influence of Microbial Priming Effects on the Hydro-bio-geochemistry of Large River Reservoirs | Collab with FOA Award | SBR-Biogeochem | |
| Tartakovsky, A | PNNL | 9/1/18 - 8/31/21 | M&M: A Multi-Fidelity & Machine-Learning approach to model hydrologic-biogeochemical processes in the groundwater-surface water interaction zone | Collab with FOA Award | SBR-Modeling | |
| Stegen | PNNL | 9/1/18 - 8/31/21 | Transient cycling of nitrogen, organic carbon and oxygen within the free-flowing Columbia River corridor: Linking exposure time dependent biogeochemical reactions to river stage fluctuations | Collab with FOA Award | SBR-Hydrobiogeochem | |
| Stegen | PNNL | 9/1/18 - 8/31/21 | Physical, resource supply, and biological controls on nutrient processing along the river continuum | Collab with FOA Award | SBR-Hydrobiogeochem | |
| Stegen | PNNL | 9/1/18 - 8/31/21 | Quantifying hydro-biogeochemical controls on watershed dissolved organic matter flux and processing | Collab with FOA Award | SBR-Hydrobiogeochem | |
| Stegen | PNNL | 9/1/18 - 8/31/21 | Scaling hyporheic nitrogen cycling in large river alluvial aquifers | Collab with FOA Award | SBR-Hydrobiogeochem | |
| Stegen | PNNL | 9/15/17-9/14/18 | Accounting for hydrological and microbial processes on greenhouse gas budgets from river systems | Collab with FOA Award | SBR-Biogeochem | 17-1724 |
| Stegen (EC) | PNNL | 9/1/20-8/31/25 | Early Career:Multi-Watershed Perturbation-Response Traits Derived Through Ecological Theory | Early Career | Early Career | |
| Barger | SLAC | 9/1/18-8/31/21 | Influx of Oxidants into Reduced Zones: Microbial Controls Governing Metal Oxidation and Reduction | Collab with FOA Award | SBR-Microbiology | |
| Barger | SLAC - SFA | 10/1/17 - 9/30/20 | Groundwater Quality Science Focus Area (SFA): Hydrologically driven biogeochemical processes controlling groundwater quality SLAC SFA Science Plan: Coupled Cycling of Organic Matter, Uranium, and Biogeochemical Critical Elements in Subsurface Systems | SFA | SBR-Geochem | |
| Heroux/Hammond | SNL - ALBQ | 9/1/19 - 8/31/20, RNL | (IDEAS)- Watersheds | IDEAS | SBR-IDEAS/ASCR | 14-0001 |
| Kaplan | SRNL | 9/15/20 - 9/14/23 | Watershed Controls on Uranium Concentrations Tied into Natural Organic Matter and Iron Interactions in Streambeds and Wetlands | Collab with FOA Award | SBR | 20-2184 |
| Kaplan | SRNL | 4/1/19 - 9/30/22 | Wetland HydroBioGeoChemistry SFA | SFA (collab with ANL SBR SFA) | SBR-Biogeochem |