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NSF: Frontiers of Earth-System Dynamics (Ed. Note-not climate change, but ocean processes)

A new opportunity from the NSF Geosciences Directorate (Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences) for fundamental research on the dynamics of earth systems – the oceans, solid earth, atmosphere and geospace.  
 
The Earth is often characterized as "dynamic" because its systems are variable over space and time, and they can respond rapidly to multiple perturbations.  The goals of the Frontiers in Earth-System Dynamics (FESD) program are to: (1) foster an inter-disciplinary and multi-scale understanding of the interplay among and within the various sub-systems of the Earth , (2) catalyze research in areas poised for a major advance, (3) improve data resolution and modeling capabilities to more realistically simulate complex processes and forecast disruptive or threshold events, and (4) improve knowledge of the resilience of the Earth and its subsystems.
 
The Earth system, as defined for this solicitation, includes the solid earth, oceans, atmosphere, and geospace, and the physical, chemical, geological, ecological and biological processes that drive the system.
 
See the announcement at   http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10577/nsf10577.htm
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