STC: National Center for Earth-Surface Dynamics

国家地球表面动力学中心 加里帕克、艾菲·富弗拉-乔治乌、克里斯托弗·保拉 OIA-0120914，明尼苏达大学 国家地球表面动力学中心（NCED）是一个科学和技术中心，致力于了解塑造地球表面的过程，并与广泛的利益相关者交流这种理解。 NCED的工作将支持一个更大的，以社区为基础的努力，开发一套地球表面的定量模型：社区沉积物模型（CSM）。 NCED-CSM合作的结果将用于短期预测地表对自然和人为变化的反应，以及长期解释过去的条件如何记录在景观和沉积地层中。这反过来又将有助于解决紧迫的社会问题，如评估和减轻与森林有关的风险;负责任地管理景观资源，包括森林，农业和娱乐区;预测景观对可能的气候和其他变化的反应;明智地开发地下水和埋藏在地下沉积物中的碳氢化合物等资源。NCED教育和知识转移计划包括明尼苏达科学博物馆的展览和教育计划，为部落学院和其他代表性不足的人群的学生提供实习和计划，以及为核心NCED机构以外的参与者提供研究机会。地球表面是岩石圈，水圈，生物圈和大气层之间的动态界面。它与生活在其中的生命密切交织在一起，表面过程跨越从高山到深海的各种环境，时间尺度从几分之一秒到数百万年不等。由于这种形式，过程和尺度的范围，表面动力学的研究涉及许多学科和方法。NCED的一个主要目标是促进统一的地球表面动力学定量科学的发展，结合地貌学，土木工程，生物学，沉积地质学，海洋学和地球物理学的努力。我们的研究计划有四个主要主题：（1）景观演化，（2）盆地演化，（3）生物沉积动力学，（4）跨环境和尺度的形态动力学过程的整合。每个主题领域都提供了与广泛的利益攸关方交流信息和想法的机会，包括各级教师和学习者;商业和公共部门的研究人员、管理人员和决策者;以及公众。NCED总部设在明尼苏达大学圣安东尼福尔斯实验室。参与机构包括明尼苏达大学、明尼苏达科学博物馆、丰迪拉克部落和社区学院、加州大学伯克利分校、马萨诸塞州理工学院和普林斯顿大学。要了解更多关于NCED，包括参与的机会，请联系我们在圣安东尼福尔斯实验室或通过NCED网站：www.nced.edu。

National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics Gary Parker, Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, Christopher Paola OIA-0120914, University of Minnesota ABSTRACTThe National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) is a Science and Technology Center focused on understanding the processes that shape the Earth's surface, and on communicating that understanding with a broad range of stakeholders. NCED's work will support a larger, community-based effort to develop a suite of quantitative models of the Earth's surface: a Community Sediment Model (CSM). Results of the NCED-CSM collaboration will be used for both short-term prediction of surface response to natural and anthropogenic change and long-term interpretation of how past conditions are recorded in landscapes and sedimentary strata. This will in turn help solve pressing societal problems such as estimation and mitigation of landscape-related risk; responsible management of landscape resources including forests, agricultural, and recreational areas; forecasting landscape response to possible climatic and other changes; and wise development of resources like groundwater and hydrocarbons that are hosted in buried sediments. NCED education and knowledge transfer programs include exhibits and educational programs at the Science Museum of Minnesota, internships and programs for students from tribal colleges and other underrepresented populations, and research opportunities for participants from outside core NCED institutions.The Earth's surface is the dynamic interface among the lithosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere. It is intimately interwoven with the life that inhabits it. Surface processes span environments ranging from high mountains to the deep ocean and time scales from fractions of a second to millions of years. Because of this range in forms, processes, and scales, the study of surface dynamics has involved many disciplines and approaches. A major goal of NCED is to foster the development of a unified, quantitative science of Earth-surface dynamics that combines efforts in geomorphology, civil engineering, biology, sedimentary geology, oceanography, and geophysics. Our research program has four major themes: (1) landscape evolution, (2) basin evolution, (3) biological sediment dynamics, and (4) integration of morphodynamic processes across environments and scales. Each theme area provides opportunities for exchange of information and ideas with a wide range of stakeholders, including teachers and learners at all levels; researchers, managers, and policy makers in both the commercial and public sectors; and the general public. NCED is headquartered at St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota. Participating institutions are the University of Minnesota, the Science Museum of Minnesota, Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, the University of California at Berkeley, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Princeton University. To learn more about NCED, including opportunities to participate, please contact us at St. Anthony Falls Laboratory or via the NCED website: www.nced.edu.