EP31A:
International Critical Zone Research: Status, Networking, and Challenges Posters


Session ID#: 8692

Session Description:
Recently, several activities in Europe, China and the US have been initiated to develop and establish an international network of CZOs and to define an overarching research questions for critical zone research. These initiatives are follow ups of the first science CZO conference that took place in Delaware, 2011. Present activities target the national and EU-wide realignment and connection of both existing and proposed structures and programs. The session aims at presenting ongoing critical zone research, the challenges its encounters and the status of international collaboration activities thereby focussing on examples of bi- or multilateral projects within CZ Science. We foster contributions dealing with understanding and predicting critical zone response to land-use and climate change on the catchment scale. Of particular interest are hill slope dynamics based on shallow subsurface structure, caused by geomorphological, hydrological and pedological processes, combined with or steering biogeochemical cycles and weathering within the vadose zone.
Primary Convener:  Joerg Voelkel, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Conveners:  Steve A. Banwart, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, Susan Trumbore, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany and Harry Vereecken, Geoverbund ABC/J, Centre for High-Performance Scientific Computing in Terrestrial Systems (TerrSys), Jülich, Germany
Chairs:  Steve A. Banwart, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom and Harry Vereecken, Geoverbund ABC/J, Centre for High-Performance Scientific Computing in Terrestrial Systems (TerrSys), Jülich, Germany
OSPA Liaison:  Harry Vereecken, Julich Research Center, Julich, Germany
Co-Organized with:
Earth and Planetary Surface Processes, Biogeosciences, Global Environmental Change, and Hydrology

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
Index Terms:

1615 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1625 Geomorphology and weathering [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1865 Soils [HYDROLOGY]
1875 Vadose zone [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Towards an International Network of Critical Zone Observatories (86409)
Hangsheng Lin, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Steve A. Banwart, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, Timothy R Filley, The University of Oklahoma, Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, Norman, United States, Dali Guo, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Beijing, China, Daniel deB. Richter Jr, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, United States, Susan Trumbore, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, Harry Vereecken, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (Agrosphere, IBG-3), Jülich, Germany and Joerg Voelkel, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
International Critical Zone Science: Opportunities to Build a Global Understanding of Land-Water Linkages (Invited) (83138)
William H McDowell, University of New Hampshire, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Durham, United States
Critical Zone science in Australia: expanding the range of environmental gradients represented in the international CZO network (Invited) (77434)
Talitha Santini, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia, Joshua Larsen, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia, Matthias Leopold, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia, Ashlee Laura Denton Dere, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Geography/Geology, Omaha, NE, United States, Michael J Liddell, Discipline of Chemistry & Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainable Sciences, James Cook University, Cairns, Qld, Australia, Cairns, Australia and David J Chittleborough, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Promoting US-China Critical Zone Science Collaboration and Coordination Through Established Subnational Bilateral Science Partnerships: The US-China EcoPartnership for Economic and Environmental Sustainability. (86629)
Timothy R Filley, The University of Oklahoma, Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, Norman, United States, Dali Guo, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Beijing, China and Alain F Plante, University of Pennsylvania, Earth & Environmental Science, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Transport and transformation of genetic information in the critical zone: The case of antibiotic resistance genes (Invited) (61300)
Yong-guan Zhu, IUE Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, China
Tools and perspectives for a unified approach to understanding microbial ecology in the critical zone (Invited) (77039)
Rachel E Gallery1, Emma L Aronson2, Dawson Fairbanks3, Margretta A Murphy3, Virginia Isabel Rich4 and Stephen C Hart5, (1)University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, United States, (2)University of California Riverside, Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Riverside, United States, (3)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (4)University of Arizona, Tucson, United States, (5)University of California Merced, Life and Environmental Sciences, Merced, United States
 How deep can surface signals be traced in the Critical Zone? Merging biodiversity with biogeochemistry research in a karst central German landscape (68866)
Susan Trumbore, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, Kirsten Küsel, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Aquatic Geomicrobiology, Institute of Biodiversity, Jena, Germany, Kai Uwe Totsche, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Institute of Geosciences, Jena, Germany and Christine Steinhauser, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
CZO perspective in Central Africa : The Lopé watershed, Lopé National Park, Ogooué River basin, Gabon. (68207)
Jean-Jacques Braun1, Katherine Jeffery2, Aurélie Flore Koumba Pambo3, Marie-Claire Paiz4, Daniel deB. Richter Jr5, Poulsen John5, Gaillardet Jerome6 and CZO LOPE GABON, (1)Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Yaoundé, Cameroon, (2)Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux, Libreville, Gabon, (3)Centre National de la Recherche SCientifique, Libreville, Gabon, (4)The Nature Conservancy, Libreville, Gabon, (5)Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, NC, United States, (6)Institut Physique du Globe Paris, Paris, France
New insights into the geochemistry of the Critical Zone in rapidly uplifting mountains (Southern Alps, New Zealand) (64461)
Andre Eger1, Scott A Hynek2, Isaac J Larsen3, Peter C Almond4, Leo Condron5, Gustavo Boitt5 and Matthew S. Fantle2, (1)Landcare Research, Hamilton, New Zealand, (2)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (3)University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences, Amherst, United States, (4)Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand, (5)Lincoln Univeresity, Christchurch, New Zealand
Critical zone study in Korea: integration of hydrogeology, mineralogy, sedimentology and molecular biogeochemistry (71627)
Jin-Yong Lee1, Kideok Kwon2, Kyoung-nam Jo3, Jung-Shin Lee2 and CFRL, (1)Kangwon National University, Department of Gelogy, Chuncheon, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Korea, Republic of (South), (3)Kangwon National University, Department of Geology, Chuncheon, South Korea
Trends in Soil Moisture Reflect More Than Slope Position: Soils on San Cristóbal Island, Galápagos as a Case Study (69689)
Madelyn Percy1, Kamini Singha2, Larry K Benninger1, Diego A Riveros-Iregui3 and Benjamin B Mirus4, (1)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (2)Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Golden, CO, United States, (3)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Geography, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (4)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Geological Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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