Inter- and Multi-agency Research and Funding Opportunities
Background in Funding
Interagency Research and Funding Solicitations constitute priorities of the Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group (CCIWG) and the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program under USGCRP auspices. Examples of such CCIWG priorities are reflected in recent NASA-Research Opportunities in Science of Earth and Space (ROSES) Carbon Cycle Science Solicitations, produced in collaboration with CCIWG members. In recent years, research proposals to improve the understanding of changes in the distribution and cycling of carbon among the active land, ocean, and atmospheric reservoirs and how that understanding can be used to establish a scientific foundation for societal responses to global environmental change were sought in alignment with the research agenda of the USGCRP, and, specifically, its U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program, as well as the goals and objectives of the individual CCIWG agencies participating in the joint solicitations. Proposal solicitations over the past decade have come from NASA (especially within NASA Earth Science), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), the Department of Energy's Terrestrial Ecosystem Science (TES) and Biological and Environmental Research (BER), the Department of Commerce's NOAA's Ocean Acidification (OA) Program, and more.
Current funding opportunities
*For current and recent federal funding opportunities*
NASA
A.36 The Science of PACE: Due January 22, 2025.
A.5 Carbon Cycle Science: Due February 20, 2025.
A.62 FarmFlux Science Team: Due March 7, 2025.
A.69 Earth Action: Ecological Conservation: Due March 14, 2025.
A.63 Ecohydrology: Due March 19, 2025.
A.48: Commercial Satellite Data Earth Science Research and Applications: Due April 9, 2025.
A.64 FORTE Science Team: Due April 21, 2025.
DOE
DE-FOA-0003464. Climate Resilience Centers: Due February 20, 2025.
DE-FOA-0002989. Sensing Exports of Anthropogenic Carbon through Ocean Observation (SEA CO2): Due TBD
Prior Funding Themes
To provide a sense for how carbon cycle science is dynamic and has changed over the past decades as well as what themes have been and remain important, we provide some proposal solicitation topics that were listed since the first U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan. Some themes from prior years that have been federal priorities in carbon cycle science include but are not limited to:
2016
- Carbon in tropical terrestrial ecosystems
- Arctic-boreal terrestrial ecosystems
- North American continental margins
- Blue Carbon and Carbon in Associated Ecosystems
- Carbon dynamics across managed landscapes, especially: urban-rural, forested-agricultural and terrestrial-aquatic
- The impact of rising CO2 on ocean ecosystems
- Carbon cycle science synthesis research
2014
- Carbon in the aquatic-land continuum
- The Arctic and high latitudes
- The tropics
- Urban, suburban, forested, coastal, and agricultural landscapes
- Below-ground Carbon
2010
- Movement of carbon in the environment
- Near-term perturbations in the carbon cycle
- Long-term perturbations in the carbon cycle
- The role of societal actions in the carbon cycle
2007
- Quantifying changes in the distribution and cycling of carbon among the active land, ocean, and atmospheric reservoirs
- Factors that affect changes in the sources and sinks for atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4)
- Carbon management to slow increases of these greenhouse gases.
- Global carbon cycle modeling and analysis
- Regional studies to reduce uncertainty
- Ocean acidification
- Regional carbon studies in North America
2004
- Size and variability of are the dynamic reservoirs and fluxes of carbon within the Earth system
- Change of carbon cycling in future years, decades, and centuries?
- Carbon management in short-, medium- and long-term
- Studies to be conducted as part of the North American Carbon Program (NACP)
- Global carbon cycle modeling
- Remote sensing insights to carbon cycle science
- Regional studies outside of North America
- Emissions and uptake of CO2, CH4, and CO
- Full carbon accounting on regional and continental scales
