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News Release 16-108
NSF awards $16.7 million for research on how humans, environment interact
Projects continue mission of Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems program
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Aerial views of lawns in San Diego; Miami; Philadelphia; Chicago; Phoenix; and Levittown, N.Y.
Credit: N. Giner, Clark University
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CNH grantees are studying California Current fisheries. Pictured here: sardines.
Credit: NOAA
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CNH researchers are looking at glacier melting and human communities in Peru's Cordillera Blanca.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
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The changing Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah are the subject of a new CNH grant.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
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Interactions between humans and riparian forests in the southwestern U.S. are a CNH study subject.
Credit: U.S. Forest Service
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Land transactions and their effects on agriculture are the focus of a new CNH project.
Credit: USDA
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