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2016 News

November 2016

Data Jam Teacher Workshop held November 18th

30 Nov 2016 - On November 18, 2016, twenty science teachers from the Puerto Rico private and public school sectors participated in a six-hour Data Jam Workshop.

CZOs at AGU 2016

22 Nov 2016 - CZOs at AGU 2016: Agenda and award recipients

October 2016

Global warming experiment turns up the heat in Puerto Rican forest

27 Oct 2016 - A pioneering research project is aiming to determine how forests in the Amazon, the Congo and elsewhere in the tropics will reacting to rising tempera

July 2016

Post-doc position: Water and Critical Zone Architecture

29 Jul 2016 - CZO seeks postdoc to answer fundamental questions about CZ architecture and hydrologic processes. Work involves data synthesis and building models.

AGU Abstracts due August 3: List of CZ Sessions

24 Jul 2016 - AGU 2016 sessions related to CZ science. Submit your abstract by August 3.

Critical Zone Science at ESA 2016

13 Jul 2016 - National Science Foundation-funded research results presented at 2016 Ecological Society of America meeting in August

How Do Tropical Forests Slow Knickpoints in Rivers?

01 Jul 2016 - Using Puerto Rico's Luquillo Mountains as a case study, scientists use the region's geological history to study how knickpoints—areas...

June 2016

Critical Zone Profile - Diego Barcellos

09 Jun 2016 - PhD Student, Soil Science, University of Georgia

May 2016

Extreme Rainfall Doesn’t Always Mean Extreme Erosion, Penn Study Finds

10 May 2016 - A new study suggests suggest that the self-organization of bedrock river channels blunts the impact of extreme rainfall events.

Cross CZO Collaborator brings hydrogeophysical methods to the CZO

09 May 2016 - Luquillo CZO PI Xavier Comas, Professor of Geosciences at Florida Atlantic University, joined the Susquehanna Shale Hills CZO team along with...