BER News & Resources

Brochures

• Bioenergy Research Centers, An Overview of the Science (July 2010)
• About the DOE Biological and Environmental Research Program (October 2009)
• Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program, Accomplishments from the Science Program and User Facility (633KB)

Reports

• CESD Strategic Plan (732KB) (2012)
• Subsurface Biogeochemical Research Strategic Plan (436KB) (June 2010)
• DOE Office of Biological & Environmental Research: a Strategic Plan for Research at the Interface of the Biological and Physical Sciences (51KB) (May 2010)
• DOE Office of Biological & Environmental Research: Biofuels Strategic Plan (29KB)
• Atmospheric System Research Science Plan (3.1MB)
• DOE Climate Change Research Program: Strategic Plan (333KB)
• Genomics:GTL 2008 Strategic Plan (2.5MB) (September 2008)

• Synthesis and Assessment Reports

  • Scenarios of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Atmospheric Concentrations, 2.1a (12.1MB) (July 2007) and Global-Change Scenarios, Their Development and Use, 2.1b (2.0MB) (July 2007)
  • Climate Models, An Assessment of Strenghts and Limitations, 3.1 (4.6MB) (July 2008)
  • Effects of Climate Change on Energy Production and Use in the United States, 4.5 (3.8MB) (February 2008)

Workshops

• Community Modeling and Long-Term Predictions of the Integrated Water Cycle
  • high resolution version (23.2MB) 
  • low resolution version (8.3MB) 
• Research Priorities for Tropical Ecosystems Under Climate Change
  • high resolution version (25.4MB)
  • low resolution version (4.4MB)
• CESD EU Workshop Report (829KB) 
• DOE Joint Genome Institute Strategic Planning for the Genomic Sciences (2.2MB) 
• Biosystems Design: Report from the July 2011 Workshop
• GOAmazon2014 Workshop Report (Report from the July 26–27, 2011 workshop). (Medium-resolution version (1.4MB) ; High-resolution version  (6.8MB)) BER organized this workshop with the goal of identifying research challenges important for understanding and representing coupled atmosphere-cloud-terrestrial tropical systems in climate models.
• DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase Implementation Plan (8.1MB) September 30, 2010
• Climate Research Roadmap Workshop: Summary Report (1.0MB) (Report from the May 2010 workshop). BER organized this workshop with the goal of identifying research challenges important for developing a predictive understanding of global climate change.
• Complex Systems Science for Subsurface Fate and Transport Report from the August 2009 Workshop
• New Frontiers in Characterizing Biological Systems Report for the May 2009 Workshop
• Science Challenges and Future Directions: Climate Change Integrated Assessment Research (5.5MB) (November 2008) BER organized a workshop to discuss new science directions for Integrated Assessment research. This report outlines the workshop's findings and presents a series of new opportunities for DOE developments.
• Scientific Grand Challenges, Challenges in Climate Change Science and the Role of Computing at the Extreme Scale (4.1MB) (November 2008)
• New Frontiers of Science in Radiochemistry and Instrumentation for Radionuclide Imaging (1.6MB) (November 2008)
  BER organized a workshop to discuss new paradigms for its Radiochemistry and Radionuclide Imaging Instrumentation research that would both advance DOE's missions in biology and the environmental sciences and be useful for medical applications pursued by other agencies and industry. This report outlines the workshop's findings and presents a series of new opportunities for DOE developments.
• Sustainability of Biofuels (2.2MB) (October 2008)
• ARM Climate Research Facility Workshop Report (323KB) (October 2008)
  The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility (ACRF) workshop, held October 21-22, 2008, brought together approximately 30 climate research scientists to discuss the role of ACRF in solving outstanding climate science issues.
• Systems Biology Knowledgebase for a New Era in Biology (14.6MB) (May 2008)
• Ecosystem Experiments, Understanding Climate Change Impacts on Ecosystems and Feedbacks to the Physical Climate (1.2MB) (April 2008)
• Carbon Cycling and Biosequestration, Integrating Biology and Climate Through Systems Science (March 2008)
  BER hosted a workshop to identify priorities for fundamental research on biological aspects of the global carbon cycle and biosequestration of carbon in ecosystems. This report outlines the workshop's findings and highlights key research opportunities.
• ARM Climate Research Facility Workshop (1.3MB) (October 31 - November 1, 2007)

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