Lecture Titles

Regolith, weathering, and geomorphology

Suzanne Anderson (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)

Role of microrganisms in the CZ

Emma Aronson (University of California Riverside, USA)

Biogeography, biodiversity and climate change

Carl Beierkuhnlein (University of Bayreuth, Germany)

How biology and geology combine to create the CZ

Sharon Billings (University of Kansas, USA)

Soil morphology and geochemistry

Ashlee Dere (University of Nebraska-Omaha, USA)

Erosion, weathering and nutrient transport in catchments

River Huang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Transdisciplinary approaches, from natural to social science,
for the design and evaluation of sustainable groundwater management strategies

Philippe Le Coent (BRGM, Montpellier, France)

(1) Human Impacts on Soils – Restoring ecosystem services
(2) Towards Integrated Water and Land Management – The WEF NEXUS and NBS

Nikolaos Nikolaidis (Technical Univ. of Crete, Greece)

Forest practices, groundwater recharge and soil erosion in the CZ

YUICHI ONDA (uNIVERSITY OF Tsukuba, Japan)

(1) Carbon and water fluxes in the soil-vegetation-atmosphere system
(2) Virtual Research Environments and the ITINERIS vision

Antonello Provenzale (CNR-IGG)

Introduction to the CZ
Geosciences in the context of the CZ

Timothy White (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

Remote Sensing of the Critical Zone

Edyta Wozniak (CBK PAN, Poland)

Ecosystem Vectors and Critical Zone Reactors:
Studying the integrated system

Adam Wymore (University of New Hampshire, USA)