2013 News
December 2013
BcCZO at the American Geophysical Union’s 46th annual Fall Meeting!
01 Dec 2013 - Join the BcCZO and more than 22,000 Earth and space scientists, educators, students, and other leaders in San Francisco, California, 9-13 December,...
November 2013
Career Opportunities: NSF Program Director, Hydrologic Sciences, Rotator; two (2) Openings
12 Nov 2013 - The Division of Earth Sciences has two vacant rotator positions in the Hydrologic Sciences program of the Surface Earth Processes (SEP)...
October 2013
The Colorado Storm and Flood of 2013
25 Oct 2013 - Persistent, heavy rains in the Colorado Front Range broke several rainfall records and led to catastrophic flooding and geomorphic activity.
Severe Rainstorm Effects Recorded in Streams and Groundwater Levels
07 Oct 2013 - An Extreme Rain Event and the Hydrologic Response in the Boulder Creek CZO Persistent, heavy rain over Boulder during a 36-hour period between...
Fresh landslides triggered during September’s deluge
03 Oct 2013 - Heavy Rainfall and the Geomorphic Response During the week of September 9th, 2013, several days of continuous rainfall caused widespread...
September 2013
Colorado’s Extreme Weather Event Smashes Records
26 Sep 2013 - Colorado rainfall records going back to 1893 were shattered by September's intense and persistent rainstorm.
Boulder Creek CZO collecting samples after the flood
19 Sep 2013 - On Monday September 16 2013 Rachel Gabor assembles a small crew to take samples on Boulder creek.
Boulder Creek CZO assessing flood in Upper Gordon Gulch
18 Sep 2013 - Assessing Gordon Gulch continues
Boulder Creek CZO assessing flood in Lower Gordon Gulch
18 Sep 2013 - BcCZOII member, Nate Rock, was able to access Lower Gordon Gulch via Golden Gate on 17 September 2013 only to find that the GGL gauge had been...
Boulder Creek CZO responds to record-breaking Colorado rainfall and flooding
13 Sep 2013 - Investigators and staff rush into action to collect samples and observe impacts
CZO scientist Sheila Murphy quoted in NY Times on wildfire impact on water quality.
12 Sep 2013 - With an enormous wildfire in the Sierra Nevada posing a potential threat to San Francisco’s water supply, city officials were busy planning...
August 2013
One of our new CZO team members, Dan Doak, holds a new endowed chair in ENVS.
31 Aug 2013 - The gift has come to fruition this fall as the university hired Daniel Doak, a well-known biologist, to fill its first-ever endowed chair position.
July 2013
Sustaining Earth’s Critical Zone - Report from 2011 International CZ Meeting
29 Jul 2013 - International CZ science community outlines interdisciplinary research needed to address land use changes, climate change, and biodiversity decline
Discoveries in the Critical Zone: Where Life meets Rock
11 Jul 2013 - The National Science Foundation's Cheryl Dybas recently finalized a new report entitled "Discoveries in the Critical Zone: Where Life meets...
May 2013
Opportunity: Vacancy-NSF Section Head, Surface Earth Processes (EAR)
16 May 2013 - Job Title: Section Head, Surface Earth Processes Section Agency: National Science Foundation Job Announcement Number: ...
April 2013
Sabbatical Opportunity at WyCEHG
17 Apr 2013 - Distinguished Sabbatical Visitor Fellowship The Wyoming Center for Environmental Hydrology and Geophysics (WyCEHG) invites applications for the...
February 2013
Goldschmidt 2013, Session 16B: Probing the Critical Zone
25 Feb 2013 - Submit an abstract by 12 April for Session 16B: Probing the Critical Zone, to be held at Goldschmidt 2013 in Florence, Italy 25-30 August 2013.
January 2013
Drilling at Betasso Field Site Jan 2013
17 Jan 2013 - January 17, 2013 Drilling started at Betasso today. We reached a depth of 48 feet. We had no recovery in top 8 ft (but have bags of material from...
High-Peak Creeks, Forest Fires and Landscape Erosion: Could They Be Linked?
14 Jan 2013 - Colorado's Boulder Creek watershed: where rushing streams, raging blazes and the Rockies meet
Post-doctoral researcher Adrian Harpold funded to accomplish cross-CZO science
11 Jan 2013 - Harpold awarded an NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship for a research and education program that spans 3 western Critical Zone Observatories
In Memoriam: Frederick Scatena 1954-2013
02 Jan 2013 - Frederick Scatena, PI of the Luquillo CZO, died peacefully at home on January 2, 2013 after a brief battle with cancer. We mourn the loss.
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