Primary Conveners: Joerg Voelkel, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Conveners: Steven A. Banwart, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, Susan Trumbore, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany and Harry Vereecken, Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH, Julich, Germany
Chairs: Joerg Voelkel, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany and Steven A. Banwart, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaisons: Harry Vereecken, Julich Research Center, Julich, Germany
Critical Zone science in Australia: expanding the range of environmental gradients represented in the international CZO network (Invited) (77434)
Talitha Santini1, Joshua Larsen1, Matthias Leopold2, Ashlee Laura Denton Dere3, Michael J Liddell4 and David J Chittleborough5, (1)University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia, (2)University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia, (3)University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE, United States, (4)Discipline of Chemistry & Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainable Sciences, James Cook University, Cairns, Qld, Australia, Cairns, Australia, (5)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, Purdue University, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, 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
Tools and perspectives for a unified approach to understanding microbial ecology in the critical zone (Invited) (77039)
Rachel E Gallery1, Emma L Aronson2, Dawson Fairbanks1, Margretta A Murphy1, Virginia Isabel Rich1 and Stephen C Hart3, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States, (3)University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States
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 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 Condron4, Gustavo Boitt4 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 Geosciences, Amherst, MA, United States, (4)Lincoln Univeresity, Christchurch, New Zealand
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-Iregui1 and Benjamin B Mirus3, (1)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (2)Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, (3)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Geological Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
