TO our colleagues in #blackinstem: we see you and stand by you.  

 We would like to point you to two statements being circulated: A Call to Action for an Anti-Racist Science Community from Geoscientists of Color: Listen, Act, Lead, and Geoscientists Call for a Robust Anti-Racism Plan for the Geosciences. These statements highlight actionable strategies for dismantling racism and increasing the representation of POC in STEM.  Look, sign, share, or just use it as an opportunity to learn about others.

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The "critical zone" (CZ) is the part of the earth that goes from the atmosphere down through groundwater.  The goal of this National Science Foundation funded Research Coordination Network (RCN) is to bring together the next generation of outstanding scientists, and their diversity of thought, around big problems in earth surface processes.

Our goals:

This RCN aims to 

1. synthesize CZ findings to understand the evolution and key drivers of CZ architecture

2. diversify the CZ community by connecting a broad range of scientists across career stages, disciplines, tools, and backgrounds; and 

3. integrate modeling and field approaches by bringing modelers and empiricists of different disciplines together. 

Join us!

We hope you'll work with us.  If you'd like more information on what we've done to date, please check the out our past efforts.  You can also follow us on Twitter/X: @joinCZscience!

COMing soon--an EARLy-CAREER CZ workshop!

Are you an early-career researcher who collects critical zone (CZ) field data and is interested in learning more about numerical modeling of CZ processes? We have a fully funded workshop for you!

The workshop will take place at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, OR, from March 11th to 14th, 2025. It will bring together 40 early-career researchers from 20 U.S. universities. Attendees, ranging from PhD students to assistant professors, represent a broad range of CZ disciplines including hydrology, geochemistry, geophysics, ecohydrology, and geomorphology. The workshop has two main objectives: 1) to explore the challenges of long-term, multi-parameter monitoring in the CZ and 2) to foster a community of early-career researchers who will share expertise in data collection and integration into CZ models. During working groups, the early-career researchers will exchange experience, identify successful methodologies, and outline directions for future innovation of data-model integration.  You can learn more here.