December  2015

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Climate change research heats up tropical rain forest

08 Dec 2015 - El Yunque in Puerto Rico may provide answers in the battle against climate change

EOS: Taking the Pulse of the Earth’s Surface Systems

04 Dec 2015 - Taking the Pulse of the Earth's Surface Systems In September of 2014, Laurel Larsen (UC Berkley), Elizabeth Hajek (Penn State), and others...

November  2015

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

15 Nov 2015 - Get a sense of the people and the work. Several members of the Luquillo CZO are profiled here, including students and professors.

Critical Zone Profile - ADAM WYMORE (freshwater ecologist, post-doctoral researcher)

15 Nov 2015 - Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of New Hampshire

Critical Zone Profile - JANE WILLENBRING (geomorphologist, Assistant Professor)

15 Nov 2015 - Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania

Critical Zone Profile - WHENDEE SILVER (ecosystem ecologist, Professor)

15 Nov 2015 - Professor of Ecosystem Ecology and Biogeochemistry, Rudy Grah Chair of Forestry and Sustainability, University of California Berkeley

Wormholes may limit landslides

10 Nov 2015 - Scientific investigations sometimes take unexpected twists and turns. When Emma Harrison, a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania,...

October  2015

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Pebbles on Mars Likely Traveled Tens of Miles Down a Riverbed, Penn Study Finds

14 Oct 2015 - Reconstructing the transport history of pebbles on Mars.

September  2015

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To the rescue: Berkeley names Faculty Climate Action Champion

30 Sep 2015 - Whendee Silver named UC Berkeley’s first Faculty Climate Action Champion.

August  2015

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Joint AGU-ESA Event Brings Together Collaborative Networks

17 Aug 2015 - Members of AGU and the Ecological Society of America came together in their first joint event to discuss opportunities for research collaboration.

July  2015

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CZO Ecology Session at ESA 2015 Meeting

16 Jul 2015 - A session entitled 'Ecology in the Critical Zone" will take place at the Ecological Society of America (ESA) 2015 Meeting held  from August...

June  2015

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Salon on Deep Critical Zone Architecture held June 14-18, 2015

26 Jun 2015 - An international group of 17 researchers met at Snow Mountain Ranch, Granby, Colorado for 3.5 days of presentations and discussions on the nature of...

Learning exercise: How African dust feeds the Puerto Rico ecosystem

10 Jun 2015 - CZO and AGI distribute a hands-on learning exercise on the "Connectivity of Global Ecosystems: The Influence of Dry Deserts on Tropical Rain Forests"

May  2015

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Video: CZ graduate students reflect on experience at University of Western Australia Summer School

13 May 2015 - Students from around the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) gathered in Perth for two weeks in Feb. 2015 for the Inaugural WUN Summer School.

March  2015

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Two LCZO PhD students report back from the University of Western Australia Summer School.

30 Mar 2015 - Two PhD students studying at the Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory Participated in this year’s University of Western Australia (UWA) Summer School.

February  2015

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Videos from 1-16-15 webinar are now available on youtube.

18 Feb 2015 - Presentations given during our 1-16-15 LCZO webinar are now available on youtube you can view them at the following links:    a....

January  2015

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Deep but not dead: how tropical subsoil microbes could affect the carbon cycle

29 Jan 2015 - Deep but not dead: how tropical subsoil microbes could affect the carbon cycle By Madeleine Stone, University of Pennsylvania It’s no exaggeration...