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The NSF Science and Technology Centers (STC) program:

"...enables innovative research and education projects of national importance that require a Center mode of support to achieve the research, education, and knowledge-transfer goals shared by the partners. STCs conduct world-class research in partnerships among academic institutions, national laboratories, industrial organizations, and/or other public/private entities to create new and meaningful knowledge of significant benefit to society.”

–National Science Foundation, Science and Technology Centers Program

As a National Science Foundation (NSF) STC, NCED welcomes the public, students of all ages, teachers and instructors, and researchers from many disciplines to join us!

How? Are you a researcher? Apply to NCED’s Visitor Program. This competitive program provides funds for scientists to conduct NCED-related research at one of NCED’s many unique facilities. Are you an undergraduate student interested in environmental restoration problems? Participate in NCED’s Research Experience for Undergraduates on River and Coastal Restoration. An interested member of the public? Visit the Science Museum of Minnesota (SMM). SMM is home to the Big Back Yard park with miniature golf and Science on a Sphere—the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations’s spherical projection system for museums—both of which are the result of NCED and SMM collaborative work. You will find links to these opportunities, and others, on the webpages listed below and to the right.

Everyone is welcome to participate in weekly NCED seminars. Find the schedule here.

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Summer Institute for Earth-surface Dynamics

The National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics has created a new forum, the 2009 Summer Institute on Earth-surface Dynamics (SIESD), designed to engage young scientists in a focused topic in Earth-surface dynamics. Drawing on NCED’s approach of integrating theory, laboratory experiments, numerical modeling, and fieldwork, this two-week institute will combine lectures with practical experiences in the laboratory and the field. Specifically, the SIESD will focus on complexity and predictability in Earth systems (physical structure and life, coupling across scales, and response to natural and human perturbations).

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Web Seminars

The NCED seminar series informs and educates audiences about active research in the Center. NCED seminars will be held during the fall 2009 semester on Mondays from 1-2 p.m (CT). Location: Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, Room 305 Videoconferencing and Webcast: Current members of NCED can use videoconferencing to access the seminars. Outside access will be available soon via UMConnect. In the interim, the live stream will be available at: stream1.video.state.mn.us:8080/ramgen/broadcast/met-nced.rm. Interested in presenting? Contact Arvind Singh: sing0336@umn.edu Schedule: Oct 12: Patrick Belmont and Paola Passalacqua
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PRRSUM Registration

This partnership is a group of river professionals, which we hope will develop into an active and important professional entity that has impact on river restoration practice and research in the Upper Midwest. We hope you will join PRRSUM and participate in our discussions as well as add your voice to the ongoing conversations on important river restoration issue in our region.