The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science is now accepting applications for an Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for university-led projects under the Earth System Modeling (ESM) and Regional and Global Climate Modeling (RGCM) programs.

Three general award areas will be considered: SciDAC computationally advanced climate model development (with support from ESM), climate variability and change (with support from RGCM) and long-term climate simulations (with support from both programs). The FOA encourages collaboration of universities with DOE-laboratory scientists. See ESM laboratory projects and RGCM laboratory projects for lists of laboratory-led projects.

A summary of the announcement is available on the DOE Office of Science website.

Pre-applications are due January 9, 2014. Proposals must be submitted by March 3, 2014, 5:00 pm EST, Reference Number: DE-FOA-0001036.