workshop

Building Critical Zone Research Cyberinfrastructure

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Journal Article

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EOS, AGU, Volume 88, Issue 50, p.560 (2007)

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Biological, physical, and chemical processes transform bedrock and sediments into soil at the Earth’s surface. All terrestrial life on Earth is supported in the aptly named “critical zone” (CZ), where air, water, rock materials, and biota interact. The CZ is bounded at the top by the vegetative canopy and at the bottom by the
lower limits of groundwater. Processes within this zone regulate the transformation of minerals, solubilize nutrients for biota, buffer toxins, create water pathways, and ultimately sculpt the landscape on which we live. Forty scientists from many disciplines attended a workshop recently at Pennsylvania State University to discuss needs for data and information systems to investigate the CZ.

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opening sessions of the WATERS Network Community workshop will be broadcast live

03/24/2008 - 13:00
03/24/2008 - 17:00
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The opening sessions of the WATERS Network Community workshop will be broadcast live over the Internet on Monday, March 24th, 2008, from 1:00 - 5:00 pm EDT. You can view the webcast using Windows Media player by going to http://www.tvworldwide.com/events/waters_network/080324/. Participants logging in via the Internet will have the opportunity to ask questions of the plenary session speakers and a draft agenda for the workshop can be accessed at http://www.watersnet.org/workshop-20080324.html

These sessions and the Tuesday morning presentation by the WN Chief Scientist will also be archived at www.watersnet.org for later viewing.

Jami Montgomery
Executive Director

WATERS Network Project Office
Ballston Metro Center Office Tower
901 North Stuart St., Suite 800
Arlington, VA 22203

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New Collaborative Science for Earth’s Soil and Critical Zone

Some of society’s most important scientific questions have little to do with space travel, human disease, theoretical physics, or new math. Some of the most important scientific questions today are about the future of Earth’s soil.

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GSA Workshop - Data Resources for the Geosciences

10/30/2007 - 12:00
10/30/2007 - 13:00
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GSA Workshop Announcement
Data Resources for the Geosciences

GSA Lunchtime Workshop

12:00 noon, Tuesday 30th October 2007
Room 608, Colorado Convention Center

Join us for an informal introduction to cool, free data resources:
GeoMapApp (a data visualization and exploration tool) and the
EarthChem, PetDB, SedDB geochemistry database systems.

Workshop is free. Boxed lunch provided. Bring your laptop!
Attendance limited to 30 people. Sign up at info@marine-geo.org

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European Critical Zone Workshop August 2008: SoilCritZone - SOIL SUSTAINABILITY IN EUROPE

08/25/2008 - 08:00
08/29/2008 - 17:00
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European Critical Zone Workshop at Eurosoil 2008 conference ECSSS

EUROSOIL 2008
SOIL - SOCIETY - ENVIRONMENT
25 - 29 August 2008
Vienna, Austria

Workshop 6
SoilCritZone - SOIL SUSTAINABILITY IN EUROPE

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