What does DES stand for?

Division of Earth Sciences

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The results are based on the CRONUS-Earth Project, which aims to improve measurements of these isotopes so precise ages may be assigned to 'young' glacial moraines," said Enriqueta Barrera, program director in the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Division of Earth Sciences, which funded the research.

Climate swings in northern hemisphere linked with changes in tropics

In 2003, UF and Berkeley started the laser mapping center with funding from the Instrumentation and Facilities Program in the Division of Earth Sciences at NSF.

United States: UF, Berkeley receive $4 million grant to continue ...

IGCP is co-sponsored by IUGS and UNESCO, for the latter originally through its Division of Earth Sciences and now through its Division of Ecology and Earth Sciences, and was launched in Canada in 1972 at the Montreal IGC.

Global geoscience--Canada's link with the world

These results shed important light on a geologic question: how large bodies of granite magma can be formed in Earth's crust," said Sonia Esperanca, a program director in the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Division of Earth Sciences, which funded the research.

Earth's crust melts easier than previously thought