The UA’s Critical Zone Observatory, located in the Santa Catalina Mountains, is a research facility funded by the National Science Foundation, an independent federal agency. The main objective ...

The UA’s Critical Zone Observatory, located in the Santa Catalina Mountains, is a research facility funded by the National Science Foundation, an independent federal agency. The main objective ...

The critical zone extends from the top of the tallest tree down through the soil and into the water and rock beneath it. It stops at what's called the weathering zone -- or where soils first begin ...

Therefore, the National Science Foundation and the European Commission recently created a network of 10 Critical Zone Observatories, six in the U.S. and four in Europe, to study this key component ...

Scientists define the "critical zone" as the portion of the planet from the treetops to the groundwater that sustains terrestrial life. The observatory is one of only six in the United States.

The Critical Zone, a buffer zone, the human habitat / Jérôme Gaillardet -- Traveling through the Critical Zone / Alexandra Arènes -- The Strengbach Catchment Environmental Observatory: a needful ...

A number of Critical Zone Observatory networks exist worldwide, with the National Science Foundation funding 10 CZOs in the U.S. The conference will address global challenges to Critical Zone ...

Lohse, an associate professor of soil and watershed biogeochemistry at Idaho State University, and Whendee Silver, a professor in ecosystem ecology at UC Berkeley and an investigator at the Luquillo ...