National Center for Earth-Surface Dynamics (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics, or NCED, is an NSF Science and Technology Center- a collaborative partnership among educational, research, and public/private entities that aims to create new knowledge of significant benefit to society. NCED's mission is to understand the dynamics of the coupled processes that shape the Earth's surface-physical, biological, geochemical, and anthropogenic-and how they will respond to climate, landuse,and management change. NCED is headquartered at the University of Minnesota's Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory.