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We study how erosion and weathering control Critical Zone architecture and evolution, concentrating on slope, climate, ecosystems, and rock properties.

AGU, 5-9 Dec-2011:
Boulder Creek CZO, download the abstract list here.


CUAHSI Fall 2011 cyberseminars on CZOs
Click here to view Boulder's Suzanne Anderson on "Boulder Creek CZO: Natural experiments to study Critical Zone evolution and function

LiDAR is now here and depending on the product is available in the GIS data distribution system over the coming days.

Betasso Meteorological Station Web page is now live
Located at the top of Betasso research catchment, output is every 10 minutes.

Fourmile Canyon Fire and the CZO
Evaluating the effects of wildfire on water quality in Boulder County

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Boulder Creek CZO is one of six NSF- supported environmental observatories focusing on how water, atmosphere, ecosystems, & soils interact and shape the Earth's surface.

The "Critical Zone" lies between rock and sky. It is essential to life - including human food production - and helps drive Earth's carbon cycle, climate change, stream runoff, and water quality.

Together with our counterpart observatories, we're helping determine how the Critical Zone operates and evolves - including a predictive ability for how it will respond to projected changes in climate and land use. We serve the international scientific community through research, infrastructure, data, and models.

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Boulder Canyon in the 1870s:

The creek never slackens. Amber and white and black in the arrested spaces, it whirls under the bridges and round the corners, doubles on itself, leaps over and high above a hundred rocks in a rod, breaks into sheafs and showers of spray, foams and shines and twinkles and glistens; and if there be any other thing which water at its swiftest and sunniest can do, that it does also, even to jumping rope with rainbows.
And I must not forget that there are gardens all the way down….

Bowlder Canyon (download pdf) in "Bits of Travel at Home", by H.H. Jackson, published 1878 by Roberts Brothers, Boston

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