Patricia Dehmer

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OFFICE OF SCIENCE
Research Opportunities in DOEs Office of Science
2009 ASEE Engineering Research Council (ERC)
Annual Conference on Engineering RD
Opportunities Engineering Research for a
Changing World 9 March 2009

• Patricia Dehmer
• Deputy Director for Science Programs Acting
  Director
• Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
• Download this talk at http//www.science.doe.gov/S
  C-2/Deputy_Director-speeches-presentations.htm

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Whats New at DOE?

• President Obamas plans for science, energy, and
  the environment
• Secretary Chus plans for DOE
• Budgets Hardly a tidy process this year
• The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
  (ARRA) of 2009
• FY 2010 Congressional Budget Request Outyear
  Estimates
• FY 2009 Budget Appropriation
• All of the above were informed by
• Worldwide economic recession
• Volatile energy prices and concern about reliance
  on foreign oil
• Increased sense of urgency about climate change
  as a global issue

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Administrations Energy Plan

• Within 10 years save more oil than we currently
  import from the Middle East and Venezuela
  combined.
• Put 1 million plug-in hybrid cars cars that can
  get up to 150 miles per gallon on the road by
  2015.
• Generate 10 percent of our electricity from
  renewable sources by 2012, and 25 percent by
  2025.
• Implement an economy-wide, cap-and-trade program
  to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 by 2050.

http//www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/energy_and_enviro
nment/
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DOEs Priorities and Goals

• Priority Science and Discovery Invest in
  science to achieve transformational discoveries
• Organize and focus on breakthrough science
• Develop and nurture science and engineering
  talent
• Coordinate DOE work across the department, across
  the government, and globally
• Priority Change the landscape of energy demand
  and supply
• Drive energy efficiency to decrease energy use in
  homes, industry and transportation
• Develop and deploy clean, safe, low carbon energy
  supplies
• Enhance DOEs application areas through
  collaboration with its strengths in Science
• Priority Economic Prosperity Create millions of
  green jobs and increase competitiveness
• Reduce energy demand
• Deploy cost-effective low-carbon clean energy
  technologies at scale
• Promote the development of an efficient, smart
  electricity transmission and distribution network
• Enable responsible domestic production of oil and
  natural gas
• Create a green workforce
• Priority National Security and Legacy Maintain
  nuclear deterrent and prevent proliferation
• Strengthen non-proliferation and arms control
  activities

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Priority Science and DiscoveryInvest in science
to achieve transformational discoveries

• Focus on transformational science
• Connect basic and applied sciences
• Re-energize the national labs as centers of great
  science and innovation
• Double the Office of Science budget
• Embrace a degree of risk-taking in research
• Create an effective mechanism to integrate
  national laboratory, university, and industry
  activities
• Develop science and engineering talent
• Train the next generation of scientists and
  engineers
• Attract and retain the most talented researchers
• Collaborate universally
• Partner globally
• Support the developing world
• Build research networks across departments,
  government, nation and the globe

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Office of Science FY 2009 Conference
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Some Office of Science Stats

• The SC budget Omnibus is 4,772,636K
• 1/2 of the budget supports operations and
  construction of scientific user facilities1/2
  of the budget supports research at the national
  laboratories and universities
• 1/3 of SC research funding supports grants at
  more than 300 colleges and universities
• 3000 active grants, with 2000 new and renewal
  applications per year
• 23,700 faculty, postdocs, grad students, and
  undergrads supported in FY 2009
• SC provides over 40 of Federal support for the
  physical sciences.
• SC oversees 10 of 17 DOE national labs and
  operates more than 30 major scientific user
  facilities.
• 20,000 users of scientific facilities a year
• 1/2 from universities
• 1/3 from DOE national laboratories
• the remaining come from industry, other agencies,
  and international entities

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A Backup Tutorial Energy sources and consumption
sectors in the U.S.
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U.S. Energy Flow, 2007 (Quads Quadrillion BTU
1015 BTU) About 1/3 of U.S. primary energy is
imported
Exports 5.4 Quads
Domestic Production 71.7 Quads
Consumption 101.6 Quads
Energy Consumption
Energy Supply (Quads)
Imports 34.6 Quads
Adjustments 1
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U.S. Energy Flow, 2007 (Quads) 85 of primary
energy is from fossil fuels
Residential
Commercial
Industrial
Transportation
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U.S. Energy Flow, 2006 (Quads) gt70 of primary
energy for the transportation sectorand gt60 of
primary energy for electricity generation/use is
lost

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Source LLNL 2008 data are based on
DOE/EIA-0384(2006). Credit should be given to
LLNL and DOE.
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Key RDD Strategies
Electric Energy Storage
Electricity Distribution
Fuel Switching
End-use Efficiency
Zero-net-emissions Electricity Generation
CCS
Conservation
Fuel Switching
Climate/Environment Impacts
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Source LLNL 2008 data are based on
DOE/EIA-0384(2006). Credit should be given to
LLNL and DOE.
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How Will Basic Science Influence Technology?
Electric Energy Storage
Electricity Distribution
Fuel Switching
End-use Efficiency
Zero-net-emissions Electricity Generation
CCS
Conservation
Fuel Switching
Climate/Environment Impacts
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Source LLNL 2008 data are based on
DOE/EIA-0384(2006). Credit should be given to
LLNL and DOE.
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End of Tutorial
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Research in the SC Portfolio

• Individual principal investigators (PIs) and
  small groups
• PIs and self-selected small collaborations
  pursuing discovery-class research
• Funding usually lt1M/year work ongoing pending
  triennial peer review
• Example Development of a predictive
  understanding of emergent properties such as
  high-temperature superconductivity from the
  complex correlations of atomic and electronic
  constituents
• Small, focused collaborations, e.g., the BES
  Energy Frontier Research Center Collaborations
• Small groups, usually multidisciplinary in
  character, pursuing advances at the interface
  between discovery science and the real-world
  requirements of energy applications
• Funding is up to 5M/year work ongoing pending
  peer review, typically at 3-5 year intervals
• Example Design and development of improved
  high-temperature cuprate superconductors and
  entirely new classes of high-temperature
  superconducting materials
• Energy Sciences Centers or Institutes, e.g., the
  BER Bioenergy Research Centers
• Large multidisciplinary groups, often including
  non-scientific participants such as economists
  and policy experts, working at the interface
  between discovery science and mission
  requirements in areas of energy, environment, and
  climate. Work likely connects with that of DOE
  technology offices and industry.
• Funding is up to 25M/year work funded for 5
  years and may be renewed pending peer review
• Example Development of a room-temperature
  superconductor with properties that allow
  economical fabrication of wires, tape, and other
  structures that conduct electricity. The
  solutions may be new and even radical.Existing
  example The three SC/BER Bioenergy Research
  Centers are working to extract fermentable sugars
  from lignocellulose and produce biofuels from
  them.

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Energy Frontier Research Center Collaborations
(SC/BES)

• 260 applications involving 385 institutions 
• 3800 senior investigators 98 of from the U.S.
  and 2 from 26 foreign countries. 
• Lead institutions represent 41 states and the
  District of Columbia. 
• Lead institutions breakdown by sector 71 from
  universities, 13 from DOE/NNSA laboratories, and
  16 from other institutions (for-profit,
  nonprofit, and individuals). 
• The total requested budget for all applications
  over the 5-year project period is 4,900M the
  annualized request for all applications is
  980M. There is 100M/year in the FY 2009
  Congressional Budget Request.
• Applications roughly grouped as follows

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ARRA Categories of Support in SC

• Facility Construction Funds accelerate
  completion of a number of ongoing construction
  projects for major scientific user facilities,
  major items of equipment for those facilities,
  and laboratory infrastructure. General Plant
  Projects (GPP) update laboratory infrastructure
  and establish new laboratory research space,
  renovate existing laboratory space, demolish
  inadequate facilities, and improve utility
  systems across SC labs.
• Facility Operations/Infrastructure Funds
  increase operations, experimental support, and
  infrastructure improvements at scientific user
  facilities across SC.
• Research Funds support selected research
  programs across SC and are chosen to minimize
  out-year mortgages. Energy Frontier Research
  Centers are included.
• Computing Funds support advanced networking
  mid-range distributed computing and computation
  partnerships in areas important to DOE energy
  missions.
• Fellowships A program to support graduate
  students and early career scientists was proposed
  by SC and is under discussion within DOE.

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SC Solicitationshttp//www.sc.doe.gov/grants/gran
ts.html

• Annual Open Solicitation

and specific Funding Opportunity Announcements
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Some Recent Solicitations

• Research Opportunities at Rare Isotope Beam
  Facilities Notice DE-PS02-08ER08-10
• Plasma Science Centers Notice DE-PS02-08ER08-25
• High-Performance Networks for Distributed
  Petascale Science Notice DE-PS02-08ER08-27
• High Energy Physics Outstanding Junior
  Investigator Program Notice DE-PS02-08ER08-28
• Advanced Detector Research Program Notice
  DE-PS02-08ER08-31
• Office of Nuclear Physics Outstanding Junior
  Investigator Program Notice DE-PS02-08ER08-33
• Fusion Simulation Program Notice
  DE-PS02-09ER09-04
• Fundamental Research in Superconducting RF Cavity
  Design Notice DE-PS02-09ER09-05
• Environmental Remediation Science Program Notice
  DE-PS02-09ER09-07 Posted December 24, 2008
  Preapplications due January 30, 2009 Formal
  applications due April 9, 2009.
• Integrated Radiochemistry Research Projects of
  Excellence Notice DE-PS02-09ER09-08 Posted
  January 12, 2009 Preapplications due February
  16, 2009 Formal applications due April 2, 2009.