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Corn fields in Iowa: Site of NSF's Intensively Managed Landscapes Critical Zone Observatory (CZO).
Credit: Praveen Kumar
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Where rock meets life: Researchers at NSF's Critical Zone Observatories study Earth's surface.
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Scientists affiliated with NSF's Intensively Managed Landscapes CZO track land-use changes.
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Scientists Dong Kook Woo (left) and Praveen Kumar study nutrients in corn productivity.
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The Midwest offers the most productive soils in the U.S. for corn and soybean crops.
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Farm fields in the Midwest often have tile drains under them; the drains are nutrient conduits.
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