International Critical Zone Observatories

These sites are similar to NSF-funded CZOs, but are funded by international agencies. Some of the sites are now organized and funded through the European Commission project entitled Soil Transformations in European Catchments (SoilTrEC). SoilTrEC fact sheet

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Site Name	Description	Membership
BigLink	Biosphere-Geosphere interactions: Linking climate change, weathering, soil formation and ecosystem evolution	Request membership
Guadeloupe	Monitoring of soil solution, stream water chemistry and physical denudation	Request membership
Koiliaris River Basin	Hydrologic and geochemical pathways in complex geomorphologic terrain. Soil degradation studies	Join
Lysina	Acid-sensitive catchment underlain by leucogranite, Czech Republic	Join
Pluhuv Bor	Serpentinite-dominated site in the Czech Republic.	Join
Plynlimon	Paired catchment experiment on shale bedrock in the headwaters of the rivers Wye and Severn in mid-Wales, UK	Join

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