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News and Events
Monthly Webinar Series: Dates, Speakers and Topics
September 27, 2019, 8 AM - 9 AM PDT Webinar: An Overview of the Network of CZOs and their Watershed Equivalents.
Session Info: This session will focus on both challenges and opportunities related to these critical zone/watershed networks that have been established in many countries, including in the US, France, Germany, and Canada. This session will include two slides providing an overview of the CZ network, followed by a discussion of the innovative aspects, exciting science, challenges of understanding and predicting such systems, including associated science questions, tools and approaches.
Confirmed Speakers/Panelists: Susan Hubbard (DOE Watersheds), Jerome Gaillardet (French OZCAR), Tim White (US CZO), Harry Vereecken (German TERENO) and Philip Marsh (Canadian Network)
Slides from the webinar can be accessed here.
October 16, 2019, 9 AM - 10 AM PDT Webinar: Instrumentation and User-Facilities - Applicability, Advantages and Limitations
Session Info: This session will focus on the value of experimental capabilities, instruments and user facilities in enabling critical zone science. The goals for this session are to facilitate access to these resources, enhance collaborations between the user-facilities and the CZ research community, as well as to highlight their role in advancing critical zone science.
Confirmed Speakers/Panelists: Nancy Hess (DOE User-facilities), Peter Groffman (US LTER), Olivier Bour (CRITEX), Ute Weber (MOSES) and Steffen Zacharias (TERENO).
Slides from the webinar can be accessed here.
November 25, 2019, 8 AM - 9 AM PDT Webinar: Model and Data Infrastructure
Session Info: This session will provide an overview of the innovative and computationally advanced modeling approaches used at different international CZ networks, followed by a discussion of the infrastructure needed from data generation and management to ingestion into models, analysis of model outputs, and sharing with the community.
Confirmed Speakers/Panelists: Carl Steefel (DOE Watersheds), Praveen Kumar (US CZO), Isabelle Braud (OZCAR) and Stefan Kollet (TERENO)
Slides from the webinar can be accessed here.