The funding of collaborative research with the scientific campaign GOAmazon aims at promoting and strengthening cooperation in research on Amazonian tropical ecosystems, by researchers from the DoE and the State of São Paulo, and collaborations between researchers from DOE, the State of São Paulo and the State Amazon, Brazil. For that purpose, it gathers three programs of the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) - Atmospheric Systems Research (ASR), Regional and Global Climate Modeling (RGCM) and Terrestrial Ecosystem Science (TES) -; of the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) Program Research on Global Climate Change (PFPMCG), and of the Amazonas Research Foundation (FAPEAM).