SoilCritZone

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SoilCritZone will bring together the fragmented European soil research community so that we can better understand what policy needs to be developed for the sustainability of European soils in the 21st century.

We aim to mobilize experts from a wide range of scientific disciplines (including weathering, modelling, ecology, agronomy, hydrology) to develop a European soil research strategy that quantifies the entire soil life cycle, – from soil formation rates to soil erosion processes - and to develop a predictive framework that can underpin European soil conservation efforts.

Dear CZEN Friends,

I'd like to call your attention to a special session for the 2008 Goldschmidt Conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada. We would really love to see submissions focused on specific CZEN seed sites and CZ observatories to facilitate discussion amongst groups working at the same sites.

Title: Multiple approaches for assessing processes in the critical zone:
Focus on watersheds around the world

Conveners: Heather Buss, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, USA;
Vala Ragnasdottir, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

Goals: Multidisciplinary studies in the critical zone are receiving more
and more focus around the world in order to understand processes that
impact the biosphere. This session encourages papers that address critical
zone processes such as weathering reactions, soil formation, erosion,
water and sediment transport, and nutrient cycling using multiple
approaches such as cosmogenic and stable isotopes, biological techniques,
modeling, and monitoring of chemical and hydrologic parameters. Papers
based on well studied critical zone watersheds and observatories are
especially encouraged.

Abstracts are due March 1, 2008. http://www.goldschmidt2008.org/abstracts/instructions

Thanks!
Heather Buss
hlbuss@usgs.gov

Dear CZEN Friends,

I'd like to call your attention to a special session for the 2008 Goldschmidt Conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada. We would really love to see submissions focused on specific CZEN seed sites and CZ observatories to facilitate discussion amongst groups working at the same sites.

Title: Multiple approaches for assessing processes in the critical zone:
Focus on watersheds around the world

Conveners: Heather Buss, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, USA;
Vala Ragnasdottir, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK