BER Science Highlights
U.S. Department of Energy | Office of Science | Biological and Environmental Research Program

Foundational ESS

  • Diagram of relationships among ESS programs like JGI, EMSL, IDEAS, KBase, and NMDC.

    Connecting Resources and Capabilities

    Resources and Capabilities Need to be Connected. There is significant need, as well as opportunities, to build formal, robust connections among capabilities supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Biological and Environmental Research program (BER) that include data generation, data archiving, and analytics and modeling. Watershed system science would advance more rapidly with a deeper mechanistic foundation if connections were built across BER capabilities, in addition to other agencies. Doing so will require sustained focus, particularly in terms of new cyberinfrastructure.