The U.S. National Science Foundation announced July 16 that its Division of Earth Sciences would be re-organized into two new Sections. The Surface Earth Processes Section (SEP) will consists of the programs in hydrology (HS), education and human resources (EHR), sedimentary geology and paleobiology (SGP), geobiology and environmental geochemistry (GEG), and geomorphology and land use dynamics (GLD). The current budget for the new section is approximately $50 million per year.