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NERSC 3 Greenbook

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Biological and Environmental Research

The Office of Biological and Environmental Research manages the Department's Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program. BER's extraordinary legacy spans 50 years and includes these four areas:

• Life Sciences: The Health Effects and Life Sciences Research Division administers research programs to develop fundamental biological information and to advance technologies for use in research on the health effects of energy-related agents and processes.
• Medical Applications and Biophysical Research: The Biological and Environmental Research Medical Applications and Biophysical Research Division supports research in several distinct areas of science and technology that address a broad range of fundamental and applied research applications in medicine and biophysics.
• Environmental Processes: Global Change Research: The Global Change activities include the process research and modeling efforts needed to
  • improve understanding of factors affecting the Earth's radiant-energy balance;
  • predict accurately any global and regional climate change induced by increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases;
  • quantify sources and sinks of energy-related greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide; and
  • improve the scientific basis for assessing the potential consequences of climatic changes, including the potential ecological, social, and economic implications of human-induced climatic changes caused by increases in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the benefits and costs of alternative response options.
• Environmental Remediation: The Environmental Remediation research portfolio is focused on developing an understanding of the fundamental physical, chemical, geological, and biological processes that must be marshaled for the development and advancement of new, effective, and efficient processes for the remediation and restoration of the Nation's nuclear weapons production sites.

NERSC 3 Greenbook

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