Meeting the goals of Critical Zone science requires researchers with deep disciplinary knowledge as well as collaboration and integration across multiple disciplines.
An interdisciplinary approach across an array of sciences, especially in the broad fields of geological and biological sciences, is applied to better understand the complex interconnection of Critical Zone processes. Examples include pedology, hydrology, geomorphology, geophysics, ecology, and biogeochemistry.
Close collaboration between Critical Zone Observatories has also facilitated the development of infrastructure and protocols that allow measurements to be directly compared across CZOs. See our datasets for a collection of currently available measurements.
Mountain Hydrology Research Group, UC Merced
Critical Zone Lab, U. Wyoming
Intelligent Infrastructure Lab, UC Berkeley
Ecohydrology Research Lab, UC Santa Barbara
Vadose Zone Hydrology Lab, UC Davis
Ecosystem Ecology Lab, UC Irvine
Soil Biogeochemistry Lab, UC Merced
Kings River Experimental Watersheds Program, Pacific Southwest Research Station, USFS
Ecosystem Ecology Lab, UC Merced
California Soil Resource Lab, UC Davis
Environmental Systems Research Group, UC Merced
Note that this is not a comprehensive list.
Vegetation‐Water‐Regolith Interactions: pdf
Outreach to CaliforniaWater Providers: pdf
Structure and Formation of Regolith: pdf
Advances in Measurement Design: pdf
View people and their activity per working group (foci and/or discipline based).
View people, news, events, publications, etc aggregated by discipline tag within and across CZOs. Most content is interdisciplinary and tagged with 2-3 disciplines.
e.g. carbon, nitrogen
Biology / Ecology
e.g. vegetation, ecosystems
Biology / Molecular
e.g. microbes, DNA
Climatology / Meteorology
e.g. weather, air pressure
Data Management / CyberInfrastructure
e.g. databases, Q/A, portals
Engineering / Method Development
e.g. wireless networks
Geochemistry / Mineralogy
e.g. elements, isotopes
Geology / Chronology
e.g. bedrock, age dating
e.g. landscape, sediment transport
e.g. seismic, radar, resistivity
GIS / Remote Sensing
e.g. maps, elevation, LiDAR
e.g. discharge, groundwater
Modeling / Computational Science
e.g. models, algorithms
Outreach / Education Research
e.g. assessment, interviews
e.g. land-use history
Soil Science / Pedology
e.g. genesis, classification
e.g. surface water, solutes