Lou A. Derry
INVESTIGATOR, COLLABORATOR
Former Director of the CZO National Office
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National, Shale Hills Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University
Cornell - Cornell University
Derry's Cornell page
Ph.D., Geological Sciences, Harvard, 1989
B.A., Geology, Colorado College, 1981
Derry is the former Director of the CZO National Office, which promotes communication among CZO PIs, organizes national meetings, offers graduate/young scientist workshops, and develops electronic delivery of educational resources for Critical Zone science. Derry is studying biogeochemical processes at multiple time scales, from modern environments to the evolution of couple biogeochemical cycles over Earth history. Recent work includes elemental speciation and cycling in soil-plant-water systems, and the role of atmospheric deposition. Derry is actively involved in developing models for the interpretation of carbon, nitrogen, sulfur and strontium isotopic variations in the ancient oceans and how those can be used to constrain critical environmental conditions during major evolutionary and/or extinction events.
Phone/Address
607/255-93544140 Snee Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
Links
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CZO Publications
Papers/Books
2017
Colloidal transport in the Gordon Gulch catchment of the Boulder Creek CZO and its effect on C‐Q relationships for silicon. Aguirre A.A., Derry L.A., Mills J.T., Anderson S.P. (2017): Water Resources Research 53, 2368–2383, Cross-CZO National
2017
Concentration-Discharge Relations in the Critical Zone: Implications for Resolving Critical Zone Structure, Function and Evolution. Chorover, J., Derry, L. A., McDowell, W. H. (2017): Water Resources Research 53(11): 8654–8659 Cross-CZO National
2017
Geochemical evolution of the Critical Zone across variable time scales informs concentration-discharge relationships: Jemez River Basin Critical Zone Observatory. McIntosh J.C., Schaumberg C., Perdrial J., Harpold A., Vázquez-Ortega A., Rasmussen C., Vinson D., Zapata-Rios X., Brooks P.D., Meixner T., Pelletier J., Derry L., Chorover J. (2017): Water Resources Research 53(5): 4169–4196 Cross-CZO National
2016
87Sr/86Sr, Ca/Sr, and Ge/Si ratios as tracers of solute sources and biogeochemical cycling at a temperate forested shale catchment, central Pennsylvania, USA. Meek, Katherine, Derry, Louis, Sparks, Jed, and Cathles, Lawrence (2016): Chemical Geology, vol. 445, 84–102
2016
CZ-tope at Susquehanna Shale Hills CZO: Synthesizing multiple isotope proxies to elucidate Critical Zone processes across timescales in a temperate forested landscape. Sullivan P., Ma L., West N., Jin L., Karwan D., Noireaux J., Steinhoefel G., Gaines K., Eissenstat D., Gaillardet J., Derry L., Meek K., Hynek S., and Brantley S.L. (2016): Chemical Geology, vol 445, 103–119
2015
Chapter 2 – The Role of Critical Zone Observatories in Critical Zone Science. White T., Brantley S., Banwart S., Chorover J., Dietrich W., Derry L., Lohse K., Anderson S., Aufdendkampe A., Bales R., Kumar P., Richter D., McDowell B. (2015): Developments in Earth Surface Processes 19: 15–78 Cross-CZO National
2004
Proposed initiative would study Earth's weathering engine. Anderson, Suzanne P., Joel Blum, Susan L. Brantley, Oliver Chadwick, Jon Chorover, Louis A. Derry, James I. Drever, Janet G. Hering, James W. Kirchner, Lee R. Kump, Daniel Richter, Art E. White (2004): Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 85 (28): 265-269 Cross-CZO National
Papers and books that explicitly acknowledge a CZO grant are highlighted in PALE ORANGE.
Other CZO Publications
2019
CZO National Office Annual Report 2019. Derry, L. (2019): NSF Award #1360760 National
2018
CZO National Office Annual Report 2018. Derry, L. (2018): CZO National Office, Cornell University National
2018
Tree-driven redistribution of mineral nutrients in a temperate forested shale catchment. Fiona Soper*, Samuel Chamberlain, Louis A Derry, Jed P Sparks (2018): Abstract B21I-2439 presented at 2018 AGU Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C., 10-14
2018
Examining the Role of Organic Compounds and Secondary Minerals on Ga/Al Fractionation in the Critical Zone. Justin B. Richardson*, Benjamin W. Kumpf, and Louis A. Derry (2018): Abstract 12c:345 presented at 2018 Goldschmidt Meeting, Boston, MA 12-17 August Cross-CZO
2017
Colloidal transport in the Gordon Gulch catchment of the Boulder Creek CZO and its effect on C‐Q relationships for silicon. Aguirre A.A., Derry L.A., Mills J.T., Anderson S.P. (2017): Water Resources Research 53, 2368–2383, Cross-CZO National
2017
CZO National Office Annual Report 2017. Derry, L. (2017): CZO National Office, Cornell University National
2016
CZO National Office Annual Report 2016. Derry, L. (2016): CZO National Office, Cornell University National
2016
The Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory Virtual Fieldwork Experience: Using Virtual Fieldwork to Catalyze Actual Field Work in K-16 Classes (Invited). Duggan-Haas, D., Smith, L., White, T., Ross, R.M., and Derry, L.A. (2016): 2016 Geological Society of America Fall Meeting, Denver, CO, 25-28 September
2014
EP23E-3637 Ge/Si, Ca/Sr and 87Sr/86Sr tracers of biogeochemical sources and cycling of Si and Ca at the Shale Hills CZO . Louis Derry • Katherine Meek • Jed Sparks (2014): 2014 AGU Annual Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec 15-19th
2014
CZ-tope: A multiple isotope approach to quantify critical zone processes – the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory as an example. Steinhoefel, G., Sullivan, P., Noireaux, J., West, N., Hynek, S., Gaillardet, J., Jin, L., Ma, L., Derry, L.A., Meek, K., Karwan, D.L., Yesavage, T., Fantle, M.S., Brantley, S.L. (2014): Presented at the NSF National Critical Zone Observatory Program All Hands Meeting, Yosemite, CA, 21-24 Sept., 2014
2012
Critical Zone Observatory Steering Committee Report, June, 25 2012. Grant, G., Firestone, M. and Derry, L. (2012): Critical Zone Observatory Annual Meeting, May 29 to June 1, 2012, San Juan, Puerto Rico National
2011
Report of the Steering Committee. Grant, G., Bales, J., Derry, L., Driscoll, C., Kendall, C., and Firestone, M. (2011): Critical Zone Observatory All Hands Meeting, May 8-12, 2011, Tucson, AZ National
2010
Report of the Steering Committee. Derry, L., Driscoll, C., Firestone, M., Furbish, D., Grant, G., and Kendall C. (2010): Critical Zone Observatories 2010 Annual Meeting National
2006
Frontiers in Exploration of the Critical Zone: Report of a workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), October 24-26, 2005. Brantley, S., White, T.S., White, A.F., Sparks, D., Richter, D., Pregitzer, K., Derry, L., Chorover, J., Chadwick, O., April, R., Anderson, S., Amundson, R., (2006): Newark, DE, 30 pp. National
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News
Make Our Planet Great Again: CZO National Office Director awarded French grant
28 Dec 2017 - Lou Derry (Cornell) is one of 13 U.S. scientists to receive a grant from French President Emmanuel Macron's "Make Our Planet Great Again" initiative.
Water Resources Research Special Collection: Concentration-discharge relations in the critical zone
30 Oct 2017 - Water Resources Research published a new special collection in September 2017 featuring concentration-discharge research from multiple CZOs.
Sino-USA CZO scientists meet to discuss future collaborations
09 Oct 2015 - About 60 Chinese and American critical zone scientists met in Guiyang, China for two days of discussions and presentations on the significance of...
Introducing a CZO Newsletter: CZNews
30 Mar 2015 - The CZO National Office introduces a quarterly newsletter: CZNews!
CZO National Office announced
17 Jun 2014 - A CZO National Office (CZONO) has been announced, directed by Lou Derry (Cornell) with coordination activities led by Tim White (Penn State).
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Events
AGU 2015: A Town Hall for the Network of CZOs
AGU 2015: A Town Hall for the Network of Critical Zone Observatories (TH25D)
San Francisco, CA - Moscone Center, Moscone West - 2010.CZOs at AGU: Townhall
AGU Townhall event entitled "Critical Zone Observatories: Past, Present, Future"
Room 2005, Moscone West, San Francisco, California.
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