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News Release 16-141
NSF-supported scientists to present research results on Earth's critical zone at AGU fall meeting
Topics range from the function of Earth's 'living skin' to interactions between climate and bedrock
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Scientists at NSF's Critical Zone Observatories will present new results at the AGU conference.
Credit: Jenny Parks Illustration
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Where rock meets life: Earth's critical zone extends from tree canopy to bedrock.
Credit: NSF
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Science in the snow: Downloading data on trees at the Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory.
Credit: NSF Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory
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Autumn at the Reynolds Creek CZO in Southwest Idaho; carbon in soil is a research focus.
Credit: USDA
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Researchers study Northern California's Eel River watershed at one of NSF's nine CZO sites.
Credit: Lobsang Wangdu, UCNRS
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The Intensively Managed Landscapes CZO site in Illinois-Iowa-Minnesota: much land-use change.
Credit: Praveen Kumar
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