The Critical Zone Exploration Network (CZEN) is a network of people, sites, tools, and ideas to investigate processes within the Critical Zone. CZEN has been created by a consortium of researchers and educators drawn from the geosciences, hydrology, microbiology, ecology, soil science, and engineering who study the physical, chemical and biological processes shaping and transforming Earth’s outermost thin veneer.
CZEN network

CZEN is seeking to populate a network of observatories for investigating Critical Zone processes—especially weathering and soil formation—as a function of environmental variables across gradients as shown schematically in this diagram . CZEN is always seeking researchers who wish to add their site to the CZEN network.

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Recent Public Posts
Talk at Theme 7, Sesssion 07i at 2009 Goldschmidt -- Comparing Sites Across CZEN
Goldschmidt 2009: Rates and Mechanisms of Erosion and Weathering Processes
National Science Foundation seeking applicants for hydrology position
Critical Zone Webinar 1/22/09 with Oliver Chadwick hosted by Susan L. Brantley
Workshop on Denitrification in Managed Ecosystems

Recent Publications
Critical Zone Observatories - Presentation at Geochemistry of Earths Surface meeting (GES8) in London England
Critical Zone Ontology
Building Critical Zone Research Cyberinfrastructure
Proposed initiative would study Earth's weathering engine
Frontiers in Exploration of the Critical Zone

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