2016 News
November 2016
CZOs at AGU 2016
22 Nov 2016 - CZOs at AGU 2016: Agenda and award recipients
TeenShale Network participants take to the stream
09 Nov 2016 - The 2016-2017 TeenShale cohort begins fifth year of water quality monitoring along Black Moshannon Creek, from Black Moshannon State Park to the...
September 2016
Critical Zone Profiles - Meet the people doing CZO science (Shale Hills CZO)
26 Sep 2016 - Get a sense of the people and the work. Several members of the Shale Hills CZO are profiled here, including students and professors.
Critical Zone Profile – YUNING SHI (meteorologist, research associate)
26 Sep 2016 - Research Associate, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, The Pennsylvania State University
Critical Zone Profile – TESS RUSSO (hydrologist, assistant professor)
26 Sep 2016 - Assistant Professor; Department of Geosciences; The Pennsylvania State University
Critical Zone Profile – LILLIAN HILL (ecologist, graduate student)
26 Sep 2016 - Graduate student, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Pennsylvania State University
Critical Zone Profile - JOANMARIE DEL VECCHIO (geomorphologist, graduate student)
26 Sep 2016 - Graduate student, Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University
Critical Zone Profile – HYOJIN KIM (geochemist, postdoctoral fellow)
26 Sep 2016 - Post-doctoral researcher; Global Institute for Water Security; Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Pennsylvania State University
Shale Hills hosts eight-member delegation from China
09 Sep 2016 - To further their knowledge in critical zone research, a delegation of geologists from the China Geological Survey (CGS) and students from the China...
August 2016
Team takes a Sunday field trip to the new “Ag” site to explore instrumentation design
29 Aug 2016 - Investigators and students traveled to the Cole Farm yesterday afternoon, downstream of Shale Hills proper, to explore the topography of the...
Collaborators begin erosion experiment and microbial characterization study along the Shale Transect
15 Aug 2016 - Investigators Ashlee Dere, University of Nebraska – Omaha, and Sam Nath, University of Oregon, begin field installations for two new erosion...
Math Modeling Workshop participants tour the CZO
04 Aug 2016 - A cohort of twenty international graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and early career faculty spent five days at Penn State for an intense,...
2016 CZO REUs and RETs present summer research
01 Aug 2016 - CZO REUs and RETs presented their research at the CUAHSI Biennial Colloquium, July 24-27, 2016, in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. The presentations...
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.
TeenShale faculty mentors at State High “Spend a Summer Day” in the field
20 Jul 2016 - Early on a cool, clear, morning, five earth science faculty with State College Area High School gather with CZO team members to embark on a summer...
Shale Hills and Garner Run specimens collected for cross-CZO microbial investigations
13 Jul 2016 - Over the next year (April 2016 – March 2017), the cross-CZO microbial ecology working group plans to collect soil samples during peak regional...
Joanmarie Del Vecchio receives GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division Research Award
01 Jul 2016 - Joanmarie Del Vecchio, M.S. candidate in Geosciences, has been awarded the 2016 GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division Research...
June 2016
Penn State Weather Campers visit the CZO
30 Jun 2016 - Each year, the Department of Meteorology hosts Weather Camp and Advanced Weather Camp over two weeks in June. The Penn State Weather camps...
Flux Tower instrumentation complete for the Garner Run catena
29 Jun 2016 - The Garner Run sandstone catena will have additional measurements coming online soon. A LI-COR Eddy Covariance system was installed on Hunt 40...
Hydrogeophysics 2016 Workshop an interdisciplinary success!
24 Jun 2016 - Organized by Rutgers and based at both Shale Hills and Garner Run catenas, the 2016 Hydrogeophysics Workshop took place on June 23rd and 24th. ...
Susan Brantley has been awarded the 2016 Wollaston Medal
11 Jun 2016 - We are proud to announce that Dr. Susan Brantley, Lead-PI of the Shale Hills CZO has been awarded the 2016 Wollaston Medal.
May 2016
Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center hosts “What is the Critical Zone Observatory?”
27 May 2016 - To kick off the CZO summer display in the Lower Classroom at Shaver’s Creek, the Environmental Center hosted a poster session to learn about...
Fourteen participants engage in the PIHM developers workshop
26 May 2016 - The Penn State Integrated Hydrologic Model (PIHM) developer workshop aimed to help developers understand the PIHM code and learn how to contribute...
Poster presentation at Shale Network Workshop wraps up 2015-2016 TeenShale
19 May 2016 - The fourth year of the TeenShale Network water quality monitoring project closes this evening with a poster presentation of their research at the...
Shale Hills CZO hosts Jorden Hayes for All-Hands 2016
16 May 2016 - Jorden Hayes (Southern Sierra CZO) was an invited speaker and visitor to the Shale Hills CZO All-Hands meeting in May 2016
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...
April 2016
DCNR Environmental Educators visit the CZO
21 Apr 2016 - New this Year: Educators from state parks around Pennsylvania traveled to Shale Hills (Wednesday, April 20th) for a half day introduction to...
March 2016
Critical Zone Profile - PAM SULLIVAN (hydrogeochemist, Assistant Professor)
23 Mar 2016 - Assistant Professor of ecohydrology, Department of Geography, University of Kansas
February 2016
TeenShale Network State College Chapter to hold first fundraiser
18 Feb 2016 - Earth Science students at State College Area High School will hold a fundraiser next week to help offset the expense of field trip transportation...
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