Education and Outreach Town Hall panelists at last December's #agu24
These members of the Big Data Cluster presented What's Next for K-16 Critical Zone Science Education? Celebrating Transformative Critical Zone Science Education and Outreach Programs
More about the Town Hall: https://bit.ly/AGU24_TH15B
Dust from dry lakebeds accelerates snowmelt in the Great Salt Lake Basin, impacting water availability for millions. Using high-resolution modeling, researchers quantified how dust darkens snow, speeding up melt rates. Understanding these dynamics is critical for water supply forecasting.
Cluster member Otto Lang presented some of this work during #AGU24.
Community. That's what an American Geophysical Union meeting is really all about. Colleagues and peers catching up on work and adventures, strengthening existing networks and developing new ones.
For example here are Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and Beth Boyer seeing each other at the start of an #AGU24 town hall about the future of something they both care a lot about: #CriticalZone #science.
More in our newsroom about the session that brought them together on this December day: https://bit.ly/408n5Vg
#PennState based Cluster member Li Li at the #AGU24 Honors ceremony.
Li Li's work was recognized with the Joanne Simpson medal during this year's Annual Meeting.
More: https://bit.ly/4gQqBec
At the beginning of December @OceanIceEU attended AGU in Washington 
The largest gathering of earth and space scientists on the planet.
Read more about the annual meeting below 
https://ocean-ice.eu/oceanice-at-the-american-geophysical-union-agu-annual-meeting-2024/
Just added to our #newsroom
Reflections and inspiration from our #AGU24 Town Hall about the future of #CriticalZone #science.
"In concluding remarks, participants reiterated that to ensure a bright future for Critical Zone Science, the community needs robust collaboration and a broad, systems-thinking approach. Simple guidelines emerged: step beyond your discipline, link processes across the Earth’s surface, and foster partnerships that bring in new perspectives—be they from across the hallway or across the globe."
At the Future of #CriticalZone Science town hall (#AGU24), Kamini Singha from Colorado School of Mines discussed challenges in defining the Critical Zone and uniting diverse research perspectives. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe of UC Merced highlighted the societal impacts, referencing her work linking soil health to public health. Attendees also learned about #NSF’s Water, Landscape, and Critical Zone Processes (WaLCZ) program, which supports interdisciplinary research.
Open discussion emphasized integration, urging scientists to move beyond disciplinary boundaries and link processes across terrestrial surfaces. Panelists stressed fostering partnerships, working within existing research sites, and addressing the difficulties of finding suitable study locations. They concluded that success depends on collaboration, broader thinking, and team science to tackle the most pressing Critical Zone questions.
More about this #AGU24 session: https://bit.ly/AGU24_TH23C
In an #AGU24 invited session, University of #Vermont based Big Data Cluster member Julia Perdrial described the Cluster's work over the past four years.
More about "examples of how water movement connects vegetation, soil and rock processes and emphasize the need for an interdisciplinary approach to make sense of our observations." : https://bit.ly/B24B_03
A few of the slides from the #AGU24 Town Hall about the future of #CriticalZone science.
Review the Town Hall abstract: https://bit.ly/AGU24_TH23C
Just a couple of #CriticalZone scientists sitting down and chatting during #AGU24.
Jamie Shanley is with the Big Data Cluster and based at the USGS. His hydrology research is woven through our last four years of publications.
Beth Boyer is based at Penn State and is part of the newly-funded Critical Zone Network of Networks working to foster stronger relationships for Critical Zone scientists all around the world.
Bryn Stewart is now based at CalTech. In this recorded comment broadcast during the #AGU24 Honors Ceremony she offers thoughts about her mentor Li Li, who was recognized during the ceremony as a 2024 Joanne Simpson Medal winner.
Stewart and Li have collaborated on many works, including the research Stewart presentation during #AGU24: https://bit.ly/AGU24_B44D_08
More about Li Li's recognition from the AGU website: https://bit.ly/3Dn2DrS
A beaming #AGU24 Honoree.
As was said during one of the many introductions of Penn State-based Cluster member Li Li during this year's Annual Meeting, she got the hat trick this year.
-AGU Fellow
-Joanne Simpson Medal
-Witherspoon Lecture speaker
More about these recognitions from the AGU profile of Li Li: https://bit.ly/3Dn2DrS
We thank her for her knowledge, creativity, and spirit of mentorship she brings to the Cluster's work.
After a week of travel in Washington, DC and #AGU24, a people observation: people and their cell phones are nuts. Not that people are always on their phones: that’s a given. Rather, people stopped in the middle of walkways, roads and shops, staring at phones. Not only oblivious to everyone and everything around them, but positively annoyed when asked to move. #Travel #CellPhones
Members of the #CriticalZone Collaborative Network are continually exploring the relationships between carbon, soil, and water.
This #AGU24 session presented by CalTech-based Bryn Stewart described some of what they're finding out.
From the abstract: "A conceptual model where DOC is produced mostly in shallow soils and in summer at peak root and microbial respiration. DOC is flushed from soils to the stream especially during snowmelt and storms."
When #ComputerScience meets #EnvironmentalScience the combination allows for new ways to work with large data sets. And that's at the core of what we've been exploring in the Cluter.
During #AGU24 Ijaz UL Haq presented work that displayed some of the fruits of this labor. Tools that are developing ways to quickly and accurately sort and clean anomalies out of datasets.
Session: https://bit.ly/AGU24_H53E-1145
Published work: https://bit.ly/3TtUkPM
This #AGU24 presentation includes collaboration from 10 total members of the #CriticalZone Collaborative Network's Big Data Cluster. #ComputerScience, #patterns, #WaterQuality teams all worked together to model how river systems respond to flooding disturbances, and what could be done to improve those responses.
From the abstract: "human modification of landscapes such as #urbanization could lead to swift recovery compared to their undeveloped counterparts."
Brief history of Bryn Stewart and Jamie Shanley at AGU:
2021 Stream chemistry response to external perturbations at Sleepers River (https://bit.ly/4gtypBO)
2022 Rethinking the Origin of Counterclockwise DOM C-Q Hysteresis (https://bit.ly/41AbJf4)
2023 Historic High Summer Streamflow in Vermont and the DOM Response (https://bit.ly/49B0JQx)
#AGU24: Illuminating the “Invisible”: Substantial Deep Respiration and Lateral Export of Dissolved Carbon From Beneath Soil (https://bit.ly/AGU24_B44D_08)
In the poster hall Friday at #AGU24. Andres Sanchez, a University of Southern California-based Cluster member presented work at the heart of what we're interested in - how data can show landscape resilience following a disturbance. In this session's case - recovery after #wildfire.
"Wildfires Lead to Evaporated Water Signatures in the Deep #CriticalZone" session details: https://bit.ly/AGU24_GC51CC-0043
Mound South Arm, 200m WNW of #Perseverance.
The map shows several named places in the area, copied from the #Mars2020 team's video presentation at the recent #AGU24 conference. Most of them, along with Witch Hazel Hill, are hidden from view behind the curbed exterior slope of the Jezero Crater rim.
Processed, leveled MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
looking WNW (300°) from RMC 64.0000
Sol 1356, LMST: 11:37:44
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise
#Solarocks #Space
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