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Critical Zone Collaborative Network

23 Nov 2020 - As of fall 2020, the Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) program has been succeeded by the Critical Zone Collaborative Network (CZ Net).

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NSF Blog: No soils, no life

27 Oct 2020 - They’re beneath our feet, but we seldom hear important signals in the soils

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AGU 2020: Sessions related to CZ Science

06 Oct 2020 - A list of sessions related to CZ Science at the upcoming virtual AGU 2020 Fall Meeting.

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October 2020 Issue of Eos features Critical Zone Science

28 Sep 2020 - In the October 2020 Issue, Eos focuses on the Critical Zone at a pivotal point as the discipline comes of age.

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2020 CZO Webinar Series on Sustainability

17 Jun 2020 - For an updated listing of these talks, including abstracts, see /national/education-outreach/sustainability-2020/ The U.S....

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Belmont Forum Announces Collaborative Research Call on Soils

20 Apr 2020 - The Belmont Forum is pleased to announce the launch of a collaborative research call on the theme: Towards Sustainability of Soils and Groundwater...

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CZOs at AGU 2019

19 Nov 2019 - A list of CZ-related sessions, abstracts and events at the 2019 AGU Fall Meeting.

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Richardson Named SWE Outstanding Collegiate Member

06 Sep 2019 - IMLCZO's Meredith Richardson has been named one of the Society for Women Engineers' Outstanding Collegiate Members.

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Richard Named a Finalist in the Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship Program

06 Sep 2019 - IMLCZO's Meredith Richardson is a finalist for the 2020 class of the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship.

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Goodwell Wins Straub Award

04 Sep 2019 - Allison Goodwell, IMLCZO researcher, has been selected to receive the Lorenz G. Straub Award.

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CZ colleagues: Please contact us about proposals for NSF’s CZ Collaborative Network, due 02 Dec 2019

08 Jul 2019 - CZO will end Nov 2020, succeeded by the “CZ Collaborative Network”. Let’s explore how the CZ community can build upon the CZOs via new NSF proposals.

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NSF solicitation: Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems (CNH2)

20 Nov 2018 - NSF Crosscutting CNH2: Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems (CNH2) Solicitation 19-528 DUE DATES Letter of Intent Deadline...

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CZOs at AGU 2018

19 Nov 2018 - The 2018 AGU Fall Meeting will be held December 10-14 in Washington, D.C.

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Laura Keefer named Illinois State Hydrologist

28 Oct 2018 - Laura Keefer, head of the Watershed Science Section at the Illinois State Water Survey (ISWS), has been named Illinois state hydrologist.

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In drought and heavy rains, ecosystems function like information communication networks

29 Aug 2018 - Connectivity explains ecosystem responses to extreme events

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How Mesquite Trees Gain a Competitive Edge in Arid Arizona

06 Jul 2018 - A new study shows that mesquites employ hydraulic redistribution to move water between soil layers in the savannas of Santa Rita.

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New Online Course: Where Does Eroded Soil Come From and Where Does It Go?

29 Jun 2018 - A new Illinois Extension online course is available: Where Does Eroded Soil Come From and Where Does It Go?

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NSF Discovery articles focus on the CZOs.

10 May 2018 - The Discoveries section of the National Science Foundation's website on Critical Zone Observatories (CZOs).

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Papanicolaou receives ASCE H.A. Einstein Award

09 Feb 2018 - Professor Thanos Papanicolaou is the 2018 recipient of the Hans Albert Einstein Award from the American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE).

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Foufoula-Georgiou elected to National Academy of Engineering

09 Feb 2018 - Prof. Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, civil & environmental engineering at University of California-Irvine was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

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Urban Sewers Evolve Similarly to River Networks

10 Jan 2018 - Like river systems, engineered drainage networks become increasingly fractal as they grow.

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Kumar receives Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Samman award

10 Nov 2017 - Praveen Kumar (Univ of Illinois, IML) receives Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Samman award.

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What Causes Ecological Shifts?

17 Oct 2017 - A new information partitioning methodology allows researchers to identify the factors that drive behavior in an ecohydrologic system.

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Stories in the Soil

17 Oct 2017 - A series of field experiments in the U.S. Midwest is investigating how past, present, & future human activities and climate affect the health of soil.

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NSF News Release: Changes in non-extreme precipitation may have not-so-subtle consequences

18 Sep 2017 - Analysis of more than five decades of data leads to new conclusions

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NSF Discovery: Corn better used as food than biofuel, study finds

21 Jun 2017 - Scientists obtain comprehensive view of agricultural ecosystems

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What’s Good for Crops not Always Good for the Environment

17 Apr 2017 - What's good for crops is not always good for the environment. Nitrogen, a key plant nutrient, can cause problems when it leaches into water supplies.

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’Weather Whiplash’ Triggered by Changing Climate Will Degrade Midwest’s Drinking Water

03 Apr 2017 - One consequence of global climate change is the likelihood of more extreme seesawing between drought and flood, a phenomenon dubbed “weather...

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Illinois Researchers on Improving Soybean Production

23 Nov 2016 - A group of researchers at the University of Illinois have found a way to make soybeans more productive by reducing the number of leaves on each plant.

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Soybean plants with fewer leaves yield more

23 Nov 2016 - Scientists predict that modern soybeans produce more leaves than they need to the detriment of yield—made worse by rising atmospheric CO2.

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Critical Zone Observatory Environmental Science Workshop

29 Jun 2016 - IML-CZO recently hosted a workshop to help teachers learn new ways to engage students in science learning.

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Video: Critical Zone Observatories help U.S. plan for the future

21 Mar 2016 - The short video features the Intensely Managed Landscapes Critical Zone Observatory (IML-CZO) with commentary from IML Co-Director Praveen Kumar.

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Logjam Clogs Sangamon River, just as it did in the 1930s and ‘40s

06 Feb 2016 - About half a mile of logs and other debris stretches across the Sangamon River in Cass County about two miles from where it joins the Illinois...

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EOS Spotlight: Conservation Farming Shown to Protect Carbon in Soil

04 Feb 2016 - A closer look at cultivated land informs actions to protect the vitality of our soil.

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The Coming Blue Revolution

03 Feb 2016 - Review of P. Kumar's journal publication, "Hydrocomplexity: Addressing water security and emergent environmental risks" in Water Resources Research.

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U.S.-China EcoPartnership for Environmental Sustainability Conference Summary

01 Feb 2016 - Summary of a conference and workshop dedicated to Critical Zone Science, Sustainability, and Services in a Changing World hosted by Purdue University.

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Critical Zone Profiles - Meet the people doing CZO science (IML CZO)

28 Nov 2015 - Get a sense of the people and the work. Several members of the Intensively Managed Landscapes (IML) CZO are profiled here.

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Did Dust Bowl’s ravages end in the 1940s? New study says no

13 Nov 2015 - A new study has shown that soil quality actually continued to decline until the 1980s and even now isn't back to pre-Dust Bowl levels.

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FIML Art-Science Rendition of IMLCZO

04 Nov 2015 - This video portrays an artistic rendition of Critical Zone Observatory for Intensively Managed Landscapes (http://imlczo.org).


CUAHSI Instrumentation Discovery Travel Grants

23 Aug 2018 - CUAHSI is accepting proposals for the Instrumentation Discovery Travel Grant program (IDTG). Application deadline is Septemeber 30, 2018.

Earth’s skin is an interdisciplinary laboratory

29 Jan 2018 - In the January 2018 issue of Physics Today, writer Toni Feder explores the scope of CZ research in the article, “Earth’s skin is an...

White paper of 2017 CZ Science Meeting in Arlington, VA

01 Jan 2018 - New Opportunities for Critical Zone Science Following the June 2017 Arlington Meeting for Critical Zone Science (hosted by CZO), a white booklet...

Undergraduate course curriculum, “Introduction to Critical Zone Science,” available free online

01 Jan 2018 - A 15-week semester-long upper-level undergraduate course curriculum entitled “Introduction to Critical Zone Science” is now available free online.

CZOs at AGU 2017

05 Dec 2017 - Information on CZO award recipients, events, presentations, etc. at the 2017 AGU Fall Meeting.

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Carbonate mineral identification and quantification in sediment matrices using diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy. So, R.T., Blair, N.E. and Masterson, A.L. (2020): Environmental Chemistry Letters

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Storm-induced Dynamics of Particulate Organic Carbon in Clear Creek, Iowa: An Intensively Managed Landscape Critical Zone Observatory Story. Kim, J., Blair, N.E., Ward, A.S., and Goff, K. (2020): Frontiers in Water

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Discerning the thermodynamic feasibility of the spontaneous coexistence of multiple functional vegetation groups. Richardson, M. and Kumar, P. (2020): Nature Scientific Reports

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Soil Signals Tell of Landscape Disturbances. Lohse, K.A., Billings, S.A., DiBiase, R.A., Kumar, P., Berhe, A.A., and Kaye, J. (2020): Eos

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Critical Agents of Change at Earth’s Surface. Kumar, P., Herndon, E., and Richter D. (2020): Eos

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Sustainability of soil organic carbon in consolidated gully land in China’s Loess Plateau. Yan, Q., Kumar, P., Wang, Y., Zhao, Y., Lin, H., Ran, Q., An, Z., & Zhou, W. (2020): Nature Scientific Report

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Modeling the Role of Root Exudation in Critical Zone Nutrient Dynamics. Roque-Malo, S., Woo, D.K., and P. Kumar (2020): Water Resources Research

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Bundled Causal History Interaction. Jiang, P., and Kumar, P. (2020): Entropy

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A new dynamic wetness index (DWI) predicts soil moisture persistence and correlates with key indicators of surface soil geochemistry. Li, M., Foster, E.J., Le, P.V.V., Yan, Q., Stumpf, A., Hou, T., Papanicolaou, A.N., Wacha, K.M., Wilson, C.G., Wang, J., Kumar, P., and Filley, T. (2020): Geoderma

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Debates—Does Information Theory Provide a New Paradigm for Earth Science?. Kumar, P. and Gupta, H.V. (2020): Water Resources Research

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Debates—Does Information Theory Provide a New Paradigm for Earth Science? Causality, Interaction, and Feedback. Goodwell, A.E., Jiang, P., Ruddell, B.L., and Kumar, P. (2020): Water Resources Research

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The impact of tillage row orientation on physical and chemical sediment enrichment. Wacha, K.M., Papanicolaou, A.N., Abban, B.K., Wilson, C.G., Giannopoulos, C.P., Hou, T., Filley, T.R., and Hatfield, J.L. (2020): Agrosystems, Geosciences, and Environment

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Equilibrium Cross Section of River Channels With Cohesive Erodible Banks. Francalanci, S., Lanzoni, S., Solari, L., and Papanicolaou, A.N. (2020): JGR Earth Surface

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Chapter 9: The Role of Management and Landscape on Aggregate Characteristics with the Soil Active Layer. Wacha, K.M., Hatfield, J.K., Papanicolaou, A.N., and Dold, C. (2019): Tools for Soil Management and Restoration: Strategies, Practices, and Future Challenges

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Integrating Hydrodynamic Models and Satellite Images to Implement Erosion Control Measures and Track Changes Along Streambanks. Elhakeem, M., Papanicolaou, A.N., and Paleologos, E. (2019): Intelligent Human Systems Integration 2019

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Smart Sensor Technology and Infrastructure Safety. Elhakeem, M., Papanicolaou, A.N., and Gabr, W. (2019): Human Systems Engineering and Design II

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Impact of sample preparation methods for characterizing the geochemistry of soils and sediments by portable X‐ray fluorescence. Goff, K., Schaetzl, R.J., Chakraborty, S., Weindorf, D.C., Kasmerchak, and C., Bettis, E.A. III (2019): Soil Science Society of America Journal

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Using Information Flow for Whole System Understanding From Component Dynamics. Jiang, P., and Kumar, P. (2019): Water Resources Research

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Harnessing emerging technologies to reduce Gulf hypoxia. Khanna, M., Gramig, B., DeLucia, E., Cai, X., and Kumar, P. (2019): Nature Sustainability

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Ecological and genomic attributes of novel bacterial taxa that thrive in subsurface soil horizons. Brewer, Tess E., Emma L. Aronson, Keshav Arogyaswamy, Sharon A. Billings, Jon K. Botthoff, Ashley N. Campbell, Nicholas C. Dove, Dawson Fairbanks, Rachel E. Gallery, Stephen C. Hart, Jason Kaye, Gary King, Geoffrey Logan, Kathleen A. Lohse, Mia R. Maltz, Emilio Mayorga, Caitlin O’Neill, Sarah M. Owens, Aaron Packman, Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Alain F. Plante, Daniel D. Richter, Whendee L. Silver, Wendy H. Yang, Noah Fierer (2019): mBio Oct 2019, 10 (5) e01318-19 Cross-CZO National

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A Changing Climatology of Precipitation Persistence across the United States Using Information-Based Measures. Goodwell, A.E. and Kumar, P. (2019): Journal of Hydrometeorology

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Characterizing Relative Degrees of Clumping Structure in Vegetation Canopy using Waveform LiDAR. Wang, K. and Kumar, P. (2019): Remote Sensing of Environment

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The Power of Environmental Observatories for Advancing Multidisciplinary Research, Outreach, and Decision Support: The Case of the Minnesota River Basin. Gran, K.B., Dolph, C., Baker, A., Bevis, M., Cho, S.J., Czuba, J.A., Dalzell, B., Danesh-Yazdi, M., Hansen, A.T., Kelly, S., Lang, Z., Schwenk, J., Belmont, P., Finlay, J.C., Kumar, P., Rabotyagov, S., Roehrig, G., Wilcock, P., and Foufoula-Georiou, E. (2019): Water Resources Research

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The Migration Diary of a Knickpoint in a Channelized Stream with a Cohesive Bed. Papanicolaou, A.N., Thomas, J.T., Wilson, C.G., Abban, B.K.B., Bettis, E.A., and Elhakeem, M (2019): Water Resources Research

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Mapping Subsurface Tile Drainage Systems with Thermal Images. Woo, D.K., Song, H., and Kumar, P. (2019): Agricultural Water Management

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Solute Fluxes Through Restored Prairie and Intensively Managed Critical Zones in Nebraska and Iowa. Dere, A.L., Miller, A.W., Hemje, A.M., Parcher, S.K., Capalli, C.A., and Bettis, E.A. (2019): Frontiers in Earth Science

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Impacts of Subsurface Tile Drainage on Age–Concentration Dynamics of Inorganic Nitrogen in Soil. Woo, D.K. and Kumar, P. (2019): Water Resources Research

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An analysis of conservation practice adoption studies in agricultural human-natural systems. Yoder, L., Ward, A., Dalrymple, K., Spak, S., and Lave, R. (2019): Journal of Environmental Management

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Information transfer from causal history in complex system dynamics. Jiang, P. and Kumar, P. (2019): Physical Review E v. 99, iss. 1, January 2019

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The Role of Hydraulic Connectivity and Management on Soil Aggregate Size and Stability in the Clear Creek Watershed, Iowa. Wacha, K.M., Papanicolaou, A.N. Giannopoulos, C.P., Abban, B.K., Wilson, C.G., Zhou, S., Hatfield, J.L., Filley, T.R., and Hou, T. (2018): Geosciences

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Control of tillage disturbance on the chemistry and proportion of raindrop-liberated particles from soil aggregates. Hou, T., Berry, T.D., Singh, S., Hughes, M., Tong, Y., Papanicolaou, A.N., Wacha, K.M., Wilson, C.G., Chaubey, I., and Filley, T.R. (2018): Geoderma

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Modeled Postglacial Landscape Evolution at the Southern Margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet: Hydrological Connection of Uplands Controls the Pace and Style of Fluvial Network Expansion. Lai. J. and Anders, A.M. (2018): JGR Earth Surface

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Three‐Dimensional Modeling of the Coevolution of Landscape and Soil Organic Carbon. Yan, Q., Le, P.V.V., Woo, D.K., Hou, T., Filley, T., and Kumar, P. (2018): Water Resources Research

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A Framework for Global Characterization of Soil Properties Using Repeat Hyperspectral Satellite Data. Dutta, D., Kumar, P. (2018): IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

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The Intensively Managed Landscape Critical Zone Observatory: A Scientific Testbed for Understanding Critical Zone Processes in Agroecosystems. Wilson, C.G., Abban, B., Keefer, L.L., Wacha, K., Dermisis, D., Giannopoulos, C., Zhou, S., Goodwell, A.E., Woo, D.K., Yan, Q., Ghadiri, M., Stumpf, A., Pitcel, M., Lin, Y-F, Marini, L., Storsved, B., Goff, K., Vogelgesang, J., Dere, A., Schilling, K.E., Muste, M., Blair, N.E., Rhoads, B., Bettis, A., Pai, H., Kratt, C., Sladek, C., Wing, M., Selker, J., Tyler, S., Lin, H., Kumar, P., and Papanicolaou, A.N. (2018): Vadose Zone Journal

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Dynamic process connectivity explains ecohydrologic responses to rainfall pulses and drought. Goodwell, A.E., Kumar, P., Fellows, A.W., and Flerchinger, G.N. (2018): PNAS 115 (37) E8604-E8613 Cross-CZO

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Integrating Unmanned Aerial Systems and LSPIV for Rapids, Cost-Effective Stream Gauging. Lewis, Q.W., Lindroth, E.M., and Rhoads, B.L. (2018): Journal of Hydrology

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Floodplains as a Source of Fine Sediment in Grazed Landscapes: Tracing the Source of Suspended Sediment in the Headwaters of a Intensively Managed Agricultural Landscape. Yu, M. and Rhoads, B.L. (2018): Geomorphology

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Use of Multispectral Satellite Remote Sensing to Assess Mixing of Suspended Sediment Downstream of Large River Confluences. Umar, M., Rhoads, B.L., and Greenberg, J.A. (2018): Journal of Hydrology

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Historical Changes in Channel Network Extent and Channel Planform in an Intensively Managed Landscape: Natural Versus Human-Induced Effects. Rhoads, B.L., Lewis, Q.W., and Andresen, W. (2018): Geomorphology

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Stochastic Lattice-Based Modelling of Malaria Dynamics. Le, P.V.V., Kumar, P., and Ruiz, M.O. (2018): Malaria Journal

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Streambed Restoration to Remove Fine Sediment Alters Reach-Scale Transient Storage in a Low-Gradient Fifth-Order River, Indiana, USA. Ward, A.S., Morgan, J.A., White, J.R., and Royer, T.V. (2018): Hydrological Processes

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Steering Operational Synergies in Terrestrial Observation Networks: Opportunity for Advancing Earth System Dynamics Modelling. Baatz, R., Sullivan, P.L., Li, L., Weintraub, S.R., Loescher, H.W., Mirtl, M., Groffman, P.M., Wall, D.H., Young, M., White, T., Wen, H., Zacharias, S., Kuhn, I., Tang, J., Gaillardet, J., Braud, I., Flores, A.N., Kumar, P., Lin, H., Ghezzehei, T., Jones, J., Gholz, H.L., Vereecken, H., and Van Looy, K. (2018): Earth System Dynamics

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Critical Transition in Critical Zone of Intensively Managed Landscapes. Kumar, P., Le, P.V.V., Papanicolaou, A.N., Rhoads, B.L., Anders, A.M., Stumpf, A., Wilson, C.G., Bettis, E.A., Blair, N., Ward, A.S., Filley, T., Lin, H., Keefer, L., Keefer, D.A., Lin, Y.-F., Muste, M., Royer, T.V., Foufoula-Georgiou, E., and Belmont, P. (2018): Anthropocene

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Radiocarbon and Stable Carbon Isotopes of Labile and Inert Organic Carbon in the Critical Zone Observatory in Illinois, USA. Wang, H., Stumpf, A.J., and Kumar, P. (2018): Radiocarbon

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Interactions of information transfer along separable causal paths. Jiang, P. and Kumar, P. (2018): Physical Review

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The C-biogeochemistry of a Midwestern USA agricultural impoundment in context: Lake Decatur in the intensively managed landscape critical zone observatory. Blair, N.E., Leithold, E.L., Papanicolaou, A.N., Wilson, C.G., Keefer, L., Kirton, E., Vinson, D., Schnoebelen, D., Rhoads, B., Yu, M., and Lewis, Q. (2018): Biogeochemistry

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Impacts of Quaternary History on Critical Zone Structure and Processes: Examples and a Conceptual Model from the Intensively Managed Landscapes Critical Zone Observatory. Anders, A.M., Bettis, E.A., Grimley, D.A., Stumpf, A.J., and Kumar, P. (2018): Frontiers in Earth Science

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Flow Resistance Interactions on Hillslopes With Heterogeneous Attributes: Effects on Runoff Hydrograph Characteristics. Papanicolaou, A.N., Abban, B.K., Dermisis, D.C., Giannopoulos, C.P., Flanagan, D.C., Frankenberger, J.R., and Wacha, K.M. (2018): Water Resources Research

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Groundwater Monitoring at the Watershed Scale: An Evaluation of Recharge and Nonpoint Source Pollutant Loading in the Clear Creek Watershed, Iowa. Schilling, K.E., Streeter, M.T., Bettis, E.A. III, Wilson, C.G., and Papanicolaou, A.N. (2018): Hydrological Processes

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Dynamic Flow Resistance Interactions between Landscape Attributes and Overland Flow: Effects on Runoff Hydrograph Characteristics. Papanicolaou, A.N., Abban, B., Dermisis, D.C., Giannopoulos, C.P., Flanagan, D.C., Frankenberg, J.R., and Wacha, K.M. (2018): Water Resources Research

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Understanding saturated hydraulic conductivity under seasonal changes in climate and land use. Elhakeem, M., Papanicolaou, A.N., Wilson, C.G., Chang, Y.-J., Burras, L., Abban, B., Wysocki, D.A., and Wills, S. (2018): Geoderma

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Chapter 65: Channel Erosion and Sediment Transport . Papanicolaou, A.N. and Abban, B. (2017): Handbook of Applied Hydrology, Second Edition

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Monitoring of Unsteady Open Channel Flows Using Continuous Slope-area Method. Lee, K., Firoozfar, A.R., and Muste M. (2017): Hydrology and Earth Science Systems

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Coupling flow with nutrient dynamics via BioChemFOAM in the Mississippi River. Hernandez Murcia, O.E., Schnoebelen, D.J., Papanicolaou, A.N., and Abban, B. (2017): Journal of Applied Water Engineering and Research

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Interaction Between Ecohydrologic Dynamics and Microtopographic Variability Under Climate Change. Le, P.V.V. and Kumar, P. (2017): Water Resources Research

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Role of Micro-Topographic Variability on the Distribution of Inorganic Soil-Nitrogen Age in Intensively Managed Landscape. Woo, D.K. and Kumar, P. (2017): Water Resources research

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Functional Topology of Evolving Urban Drainage Networks. Yang, S., Paik, K., McGrath, G., Urich, C., Krueger, E., Kumar, P., and Rao, P. (2017): Water Resources Research

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Source-to-sink sedimentary systems and global carbon burial: A river runs through it. Leithold, E., Blair, N., and Wegmann, K. (2017): Earth-Science Reviews

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Microbial diversity in an intensively managed landscape is structured by landscape connectivity . Griffin, J.S., Lu, N., Sangwan, N., Li, A., Dsouza, M., Stumpf, A.J., Sevilla, T., Culotti, A., Keefer, L.L., Kelly, J.J., Gilbert, J.A., Wells, G.F., and Packman, A.I. (2017): FEMS Microbiology Ecology

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Quantifying the changes of soil surface microroughness due to rainfall impact on a smooth surface. Abban, B., Papanicolaou, A.N., Giannopoulos, C.P., Dermisis, D.C., Wacha, K.M., Wilson, C.G., and Elhakeem, M. (2017): Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

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Hydrogeomorphological differentiation between floodplains and terraces. Qina Yan, Toshiki Iwasaki, Andrew Stumpf, Patrick Belmont, Gary Parker, Praveen Kumar (2017): Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

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Patterns of change in high frequency precipitation variability over North America. Roque-Malo, S. and Kumar, P. (2017): Nature.com

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Impacts of Hydraulic Redistribution on Grass-tree Competition vs Facilitation in a Semi-arid Savanna. Barron-Gafford, G.A., Sanchez-Canete, E.P., Minor, R.L., Hendryx, S.M., Lee, E., Sutter, L.F., Tran, N., Parra, E., Colella, T., Murphy, P.C., Hamerlynck, E.P., Kumar, P., and Scott, R.L. (2017): New Phytologist

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Temporal Information Partitioning Networks (TIPNets): A Process Network Approach to Infer Ecohydrologic Shifts. Goodwell, A.E. and Kumar, P. (2017): Water Resources Research

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Temporal Information Partitioning: Characterizing Synergy, Uniqueness, and Redundancy in Interacting Environmental Variables. Goodwell, A.E., and Kumar, P. (2017): Water Resources Research 53, 2017

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Critical Zone services as environmental assessment criteria in intensively managed landscapes. Richardson, M., and Kumar, P. (2017): Earth's Future

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Identification and characterization of information-networks in long-tail data collections. Elag, M.M., Kumar, P., Marini, L., Myers, J.D., Hedstrom, M., and Plale, B.A. (2017): Environmental Modelling & Software

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Understanding mass fluvial erosion along a bank profile: Using PEEP technology for Quantifying Retreat Lengths and Identifying Event Timing. Papanicolaou, A.N., Wilson, C.G., Tsakiris, A.G., Sutarto, T.E., Bertrand, F., Rinaldi, M., Dey, S., and Langendoen, E. (2017): Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

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Weather whiplash in agricultural regions drives deterioration of water quality. Loecke, T.D., Burgin, A.J., Riveros-Iregui, D.A., Ward, A.S., Thomas, S.A., Davis, C.A., and St. Clair, M.A. (2017): Biogeochemistry Letters

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Using Magnetic Fly Ash to Identify Post-Settlement Alluvium and its Record of Atmospheric Pollution, Central USA. Grimley, D., Anders, A., Bettis, E.A., Bates, B., Wang, J. Butler, S., and Huot, S (2017): Anthropocene

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A service-oriented architecture for coupling web service models using the Basic Model Interface (BMI). Jiang, P., Elag, M., Kumar, P., Peckham, S.D., Marini, L., and Rui, L. (2017): Environmental Modelling & Software

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Comment on ‘‘Climate and agricultural land use change impacts on streamflow in the upper midwestern United States’’ by Satish C Gupta et al. Foufoula-Georgiou, E., Belmont, P., Wilcock, P., Gran, K., Finlay, J.C., Kumar, P., Gzuba, J.A., Schwenk, J., and Takbiri, Z. (2016): Water Resources Research

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Characterizing Vegetation Canopy Structure Using Airborne Remote Sensing Data. Dutta, D., Wang, K., Lee, E., Goodwell, A., Woo, D.K., Wagner, D., and Kumar, P. (2016): IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

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Decreasing, not increasing, leaf area will raise crop yields under global atmospheric change. Srinivasan, V., Kumar, P., and Long, S.P. (2016): Global Change Biology

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How does reach-scale stream-hyporheic transport vary with discharge? Insights from rSAS analysis of sequential tracer injections in a headwater mountain stream. Harman, C.J., Ward, A.S., and Ball, A. (2016): Water Resources Research

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Optimizing Sampling Strategies for Riverine Nitrate Using High-frequency Data in Agricultural Watersheds. Reynolds, K.N., Loecke, T.D., Burgin, A.J., Davis, C.A., Riveros-Iregui, D., Thomas, S.A., St. Clair, M.A., and Ward, A.S. (2016): Environmental Science & Technology

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Dynamic Assessment of Current Management in an Intensively Managed Agroecosystem. Wilson, C.G., Wacha, K.M., Papanicolaou, A.N., Sander, H.,A., Freudenberg, V.B., Abban, B.K., and Zhao, C (2016): Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education

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Hyporheic exchange controlled by dynamic hydrologic boundary conditions. Schmadel, N.M., Ward, A.S., Lowry, C.S., and Malzone, J.M. (2016): Geophysical Research Letters

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Hydrogeomorphic controls on hyporheic and riparian transport in two headwater mountain streams during base flow recession. Ward, A.S., Schmadel, N.M., Wondzell, S.M., Harman, C., Gooseff, M.N., and Singha, K. (2016): Water Resources Research

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Response of the hyporheic zone to transient groundwater fluctuations on the annual and storm event time scales. Malzone, J.M., Lowry, C.S., and Ward, A.S. (2016): Water Resources Research

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Spatio-temporally variable controls confound transport process interpretation of stream solute tracers. Schmadel, NM, AS Ward, MJ Kurz, JH Fleckenstein, JP Zarnetske, DM Hannah, T Blume, T Datry, M Vieweg, C Schmidt, PH Blaen, MJ Klaar, J Knapp, P Romeijn, T Keller, S Folegot, A Marruedo, S Krause (2016): Water Resources Research

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Mean Age Distribution of Inorganic Soil-nitrogen. Woo, D.K., and Kumar, P. (2016): Water Resources Research

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An enhanced Bayesian fingerprinting framework for studying sediment source dynamics in intensively managed landscapes. Abban, B., Papanicolaou, A.N., Cowles, M.K., Wilson, C.G., Abaci, O., Wacha, K., Schilling, K., and Schnoebelen, D. (2016): Water Resources Research

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Effects of Land Cover on Streamflow Variability in a Small Iowa Watershed: Assessing Future Vulnerabilities. Schilling, K., M. Streeter, K. Hutchinson, C.G. Wilson, B.K. Abban, K.M. Wacha and A.N. Papanicolaou (2015): American Journal of Environmental Sciences

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From soilscapes to landscapes: A landscape-oriented approach to simulate soil organic carbon dynamics in intensively managed landscapes. Papanicolaou, A.N., K.M. Wacha, B.K. Abban, C.G. Wilson, J. Hatfield, C. Stanier, and T. Filley (2015): Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

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The evolution and state of interdisciplinary hyporheic research. Ward, A. (2015): WIREs Water 2015

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Information Theoretic Measures to Infer Feedback Dynamics in Coupled Logistic Networks. Goodwell, A., Kumar, P. (2015): Entropy 2015, 17, 7468-7492

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Historical changes in channel network extent and channel planform in an intensively managed landscape: Natural versus human-induced effects. Rhoads, B.L., Lewis, Q.W., and Andresen, W. (2015): Geomorphology

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GPU-based high-performance computing for integrated surface–sub-surface flow modeling. Le, P.V.V., Kumar, P., Valocchi, A.J., and Dang, H.-V. (2015): Environmental Modelling & Software

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Hydrocomplexity: Addressing Water Security and Emergent Environmental Risks. Kumar, P. (2015): Water Resources Research, 51: pp12

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Enhanced Vadose Zone Nitrogen Removal by Poplar During Dormancy. Ausland, H., Ward, A., Licht, L., and Just, C (2015): International Journal of Phytoremediation

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On the Feasibility of Characterizing Soil Properties From AVIRIS Data. Dutta, D., Goodwell, A.E., Kumar, P., Garvey, J.E., Darmody, R.G., Berretta, D.P., and Greenberg, J.A. (2015): IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

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Coupled reversion and stream-hyporheic exchange processes increase environmental persistence of trenbolone metabolites. Ward, A.S., Cwiertny, D.M., Kolodziej, E.P., and Brehm, C.C. (2015): Nature Communications

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Spatial variability of saturated hydraulic conductivity at the hillslope scale: Understanding the role of land management and erosional effect. Papanicolaou, A.N., Elhakeem, M., Wilson, C.G., Burras, C.L., West, L.T., Lin, H., Clark, B., and Oneal, B.E. (2015): Geoderma

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Threshold Dynamics in Soil Carbon Storage for Bioenergy Crops. Woo, D.K., Quijano, J.C., Kumar, P., Chaoka, S., Bernacchi, C.J. (2014): Environmental Science & Technology

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A stability analysis of semi-cohesive streambanks with CONCEPTS: Couple field and laboratory investigations to quantify the onset of fluvial erosion and mass failure. Sutarto, T.E., Papanicolaou, A.N., Wilson, C.G., and Langendoen, E. (2014): Journal of Hydraulic Engineering-ASCE

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Power law scaling of topographic depressions and their hydrologic connectivity. Phong, V. V. Le and Praveen Kumar, P. (2014): Geophysical Research Letters

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Emergent and divergent resilience behavior in catastrophic shift systems. Srinivasan, V. and Kumar, P. (2014): Ecological Modelling

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Simultaneous improvement in productivity, water use, and albedo through crop structural modification. Drewry, D.T., Kumar, P., and Long, S.P. (2014): Global Change Biology


Impact of Hydraulic Redistribution on Multispecies Vegetation Water Use in a Semiarid Savanna Ecosystem: An Experimental and Modeling Synthesis. Lee, E., Kumar, P., Barron-Gafford, G.A., Hendryx, S.M., Sanchez-Canete, E.P., Minor, R.L., Colella, T., and Scott, R.L. (2018): Water Resources Research Cross-CZO

Flow Resistance Interactions on Hillslopes With Heterogeneous Attributes: Effects on Runoff Hydrograph Characteristics. Papanicolaou, A.N., Abban, B., Dermisis, D., Giannopoulos, C., Flanagan, D., Frankenberger, J., and Wacha, K. (2018): Water Resources Research

Growing new generations of critical zone scientists. Wymore, Adam S., Nicole R. West, Kate Maher, Pamela L. Sullivan, Adrian Harpold, Diana Karwan, Jill A. Marshall, Julia Perdrial, Daniella M. Rempe and Lin Ma (2017): Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 42 (14): 2498-2502 Cross-CZO National

Impacts of hydraulic redistribution on grass–tree competition vs facilitation in a semi-arid savanna. Barron-Gafford G.A., Sanchez-Cañete E.P., Minor R.L., Hendryx S.M., Lee E., Sutter L.F., Tran N., Parra E., Colella T., Murphy P.C., Hamerlynck E.P., Kumar P. and Scott R.L. (2017): New Phytologist 215(4): 1451–1461 Cross-CZO

Designing a network of critical zone observatories to explore the living skin of the terrestrial Earth. Brantley, S.L., McDowell, W.H., Dietrich, W.E., White, T.S., Kumar, P., Anderson, S., Chorover, J., Lohse, K.A., Bales, R.C., Richter, D., Grant, G., and Gaillardet, J. (2017): Earth Surface Dynamics, 5, 841–860 Cross-CZO National

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