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The Office of Science is a component of the United States Department of Energy (DOE). The Office of Science is the lead federal agency supporting fundamental scientific research for energy and the Nation’s largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences. The Office of Science portfolio has two principal thrusts: direct support of scientific research and direct support of the development, construction, and operation of unique, open-access scientific user facilities that are made available for use by external researchers.
The Office of Science manages this research portfolio through six interdisciplinary scientific program offices: Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Basic Energy Sciences, Biological and Environmental Research, Fusion Energy Sciences, High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics. The Office of Science also has responsibility for 10 of the 17 United States Department of Energy National Laboratories.[1]
The office is the predominant
The 10 Office of Science national laboratories are:
The Office is currently led by Acting Director Dr. Harriet Kung.[2]
Program offices
The Office of Science includes six interdisciplinary science program offices:
- Advanced Scientific Computing Research
- Basic Energy Sciences
- Biological and Environmental Research
- Fusion Energy Sciences
- High Energy Physics
- Nuclear Physics.[1]
Advanced Scientific Computing Research
The Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) supports research and development in
ESnet is a successor to a network that the Office of Science created in 1974 to connect geographically dispersed researchers through a single network. In the 1980s the Office of Science collaborated with DARPA, NSF and NASA to convert the agencies' separate networks into a single integrated communications network that became the basis for the commercial Internet.[4]
Biological and Environmental Research
The Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) supports research and scientific user facilities in the biological and environmental sciences to support DOE's missions in energy, environment, and basic research. BER initiated the
Environmental efforts include research on the
Fusion Energy Sciences
The Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) organization supports efforts to expand the fundamental understanding of
Research funding
More than 90 percent of the Office of Science budget is allocated to research and scientific facilities.[10] The fundamental research areas in which the Office of Science has programs include physics and other basic energy sciences, biological and environmental sciences, and computational science. Support is provided for research activities in the national laboratories and universities. The office is the principal (or the single largest) source of U.S. federal government support for research in high-energy physics, nuclear physics, fusion energy, materials science, and chemical sciences. The Office of Science is estimated to provide 40 percent of the funding for basic research in the physical sciences in the United States. It is also a major source of funding for government-supported research in climate change, geophysics, genomics, life sciences, and science education.[1]
In
History
DOE's Office of Energy Research was a predecessor to the Office of Science.[12]
In 2006, the Office of Science was placed under the oversight of the
Accomplishments and awards
DOE lists 76 Nobel Prize winners as having been associated with Office of Science programs or facilities under DOE and its predecessor agencies.[14]
Organization
The Office of Science is led by a Presidentially-nominated, Senate-confirmed Director and three senior career federal Deputy Directors.[2]
The current acting director of the Office of Science is Harriet Kung. The current deputy directors are Principal Deputy Director Dr. J. Stephen Binkley, a longtime Energy Department scientist; Deputy Director for Science Programs Dr. Harriet Kung; and Deputy Director for Field Operations Juston Fontaine, a longtime Energy Department manager.[2]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d About the Office of Science, DOE Office of Science website. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
- ^ a b c "Leadership". DoE Office of Science. Department of Energy. Retrieved March 29, 2024.
- ^ About ASCR Archived 2010-11-11 at the Wayback Machine, Office of Science website. Retrieved December 7, 2010.
- ^ a b Accomplishments and Awards, DOE Office of Science website. Retrieved December 7, 2010.
- ^ a b Office of Biological & Environmental Research website. Retrieved December 7, 2010.
- ^ a b About BER, Office of Biological & Environmental Research website. Retrieved December 7, 2010.
- ^ Joint Genome Institute Archived 2010-12-07 at the Wayback Machine, Office of Biological & Environmental Research website. Retrieved December 7, 2010.
- ^ DOE Office of Science – Homepage. Science.doe.gov. Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
- ^ DOE Office of Science OFES – Homepage. Science.doe.gov (2003-01-30). Retrieved on 2010-12-15.
- ^ a b American Association for the Advancement of Science, AAAS R&D Funding Update on DOE R&D in FY 2009 Senate Appropriations – Senate Boosts DOE Science and Energy R&D Archived 2010-11-28 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved from AAAS Science and Policy Programs website on December 12, 2010
- ^ American Association for the Advancement of Science, DOE Office of Science Programs, FY 1996–2009 Archived 2011-01-01 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved from AAAS Science and Policy Programs website on December 12, 2010
- ^ United States Government Accountability Office (2008), Office of Science Has Kept Majority of Projects within Budget and on Schedule, but Funding and Other Challenges May Grow, GAO-08-641, page 1
- ^ Secretary Bodman Statement on Dr. Orbach Swearing In as DOE Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy news release, June 1, 2006
- ^ DOE Nobel Laureates Archived 2010-11-17 at the Wayback Machine, DOE Office of Science website. Retrieved December 7, 2010.