Research sponsored by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research within the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science.

The NGEE project is a collaboration among scientists and engineers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of Alaska Fairbanks and our partners at leading universities and other state and federal agencies. ORNL is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC.
Staff scientist Dwayne Elias at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) prepares permafrost sample for microbiological analysis and assessment of CO2 and CH4 emissions from soil mesocosms under controlled temperature conditions

Project Updates

  • Process Studies and Observations in the Arctic to Inform a Hierarchical Scaling Framework for Improved Climate Predictability - more info..
  • A Scaling Framework Connecting Models with Process Knowledge for NGEE Arctic - more info..
  • Improved Climate Prediction through Process-Rich Understanding of Arctic Terrestrial Ecosystems - more info..
  • The Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments- Arctic - more info..
  • Predicting CO2 and CH4 Emissions from the Active Layer in Response to Climate Warming - more info..
  • Soil subsidence associated with permafrost degradation in the Arctic - more info..
  • Modeling of lake and pond dynamics in discontinuous permafrost - more info..
  • Transient modeling of permafrost dynamics in a changing climate - more info..

Project Updates

Posters presented at the Terrestrial Ecosystem Science (TES) PI Meeting. April 23-24, 2012 - Washington, DC

                
Department of Energy - Biological and Environmental Research (BER) Program

NGEE Blog Site

NGEE Arctic investigators travel to Barrow Alaska May 2 to 16, 2012 to conduct geophysical surveys and install water monitoring wells at field research sites on the Barrow Environmental Observatory (BEO) Follow trip

Photo Credit: Stan Wullschleger, ORNL

Project Information

DOE Terrestrial Ecosystem Science at American Geophysical Union

Recap of Town Hall Meeting held December 8, 2011
The Terrestrial Ecosystem Science (TES) program within the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science supports basic research to improve representation of critical terrestrial ecosystem processes in Earth System Models. This town hall meeting presented a vision and funding strategy while highlighting the Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiment (NGEE) project, a major 10-year research effort in the Arctic. Terrestrial Ecosystem Science

Presentations:

Overview (Michael Kuperberg, TES Program Manager)
Arctic Science Needs (Larry Hinzman; UAF)
Climate Modeling Needs (Peter Thornton; ORNL)
NGEE Arctic Project (Stan Wullschleger; ORNL)