The first week of a two week field school opened on Monday with 16 participants, including both undergraduates and graduates/post-docs. Field school attendees will experience a range of activities such as: discussions of Critical Zone science, SSHO and CZO modeling, laboratory tours, regional geology, field instrumentation and GIS applications. Each of the disciplines with active projects in the catchment will provide hands-on activities to introduce and train the junior scientists. The overarching goal of the school is to develop a new international interdisciplinary cadre of Critical Zone scientists.