BER User Facilities

The Biological and Environmental Research program supports the following national scientific user facilities:

Three new scanning microwave radiometers (left) undergo testing in the instrument field at the Southern Great Plains site's Central Facility.

Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility

ARM is a multi-platform scientific user facility with instruments at fixed and varying locations around the globe for obtaining continuous field measurements of atmospheric data.

The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, leads the scientific community to obtain a predictive understanding of molecular-to-mesoscale processes in biological, environmental, atmospheric, and energy systems.

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL)

EMSL provides the scientific community with a problem-solving environment that enables researchers to use multiple combinations of capabilities to obtain a mechanistic understanding of physical, chemical, and intra- and inter-cellular processes and interactions, and to incorporate this information into numerical models to better understand how biological, environmental, atmospheric, and energy systems function at higher spatial- and temporal scales, and to address complex challenges facing DOE and the nation.

The Illumina sequencing platform, as well as other

Joint Genome Institute (JGI)

JGI provides genome sequencing, genome data acquisition, and genome analyses in support of DOE mission needs in bioenergy, carbon cycling and biosequestration, and biogeochemical processes.