Office of Science Selections from Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) for the Week of July 31, 2024

Atmospheric System Research (ASR) 

$15 Million awarded for 17 projects

ASR supports research on key cloud, aerosol, precipitation, and radiative transfer processes that affect the Earth’s radiative balance and hydrological cycle, especially processes that affect the predictive ability of regional and global models. These awards support observational, data analysis, and/or modeling studies that use observations supported by the Biological and Environmental Research program, including the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement user facility, to improve understanding and model representation of aerosol and cloud processes and mixed-phase cloud and ice cloud processes. View the Funding Opportunity Announcement.

Research on Environmental System Science

$9 million awarded for 12 projects

The goal of the Environmental System Science portfolio is to advance an integrated, robust, and scale-aware predictive understanding of terrestrial systems and their interdependent microbial, biogeochemical, ecological, hydrological, and physical processes. These awards focus on measurements, experiments, field data, modeling, and synthesis to provide improved understanding and representation of ecosystems and watersheds in ways that advance the sophistication and capabilities of models spanning from individual processes to Earth-system scales. View the Funding Opportunity Announcement. 

Data Reduction for Science

$5.5 million awarded for 14 projects

Scientific observations, experiments, and simulations are now producing data at rates beyond our capacity to store or analyze them. Of necessity, scientists have already begun reducing the size of their data sets via techniques such as lossless and lossy compression, reduced-order models, and filtering. These awards support fundamental mathematical and computational research that will advance the state of the art in data reduction and produce algorithms and tools to address the data explosion. View the Funding Opportunity Announcement.

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