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NSF Frontiers in Earth-System Dynamics awards explore links among Earth processes and systems
Scientists investigate a changing planet now and in the past, with a view toward predicting its future
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![showing a termometer, the sun, ocean and ice](/news/mmg/media/images/dynamics_awards1_f.jpg)
From burning hot to freezing cold places, FESD awardees conduct research on Earth systems.
Credit: NASA
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![Volcanic erruption](/news/mmg/media/images/dynamics_awards2_f.jpg)
Volcanoes, ice, oceans and carbon: Their connections are the subject of FESD research.
Credit: USGS
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![photo of forest and mountains in the Andes region](/news/mmg/media/images/dynamics_awards3_f.jpg)
Scientists funded by the FESD Program are studying Andes and Amazon biodiversity.
Credit: Adrian Tejedor
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![Photo of iron formations in soil in a canyon](/news/mmg/media/images/dynamics_awards4_f.jpg)
Banded iron formations: important in the development of Earth's oxygenated environment.
Credit: Ariel Anbar
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![Lake Turkana and vehicles on it banks in Kenya](/news/mmg/media/images/dynamics_awards5_f.jpg)
Deposits in Kenya's Lake Turkana help scientists link paleoclimate and human evolution.
Credit: Andrew Cohen
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![Illustration showing the ozone hole in the Southern Hemisphere](/news/mmg/media/images/dynamics_awards6_f.jpg)
FESD grantees are studying the ozone hole and its effects on Southern Hemisphere climate.
Credit: NASA
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