NSF grant to study the urban Critical Zone

We received a National Science Foundation grant as part of a collaborative effort to study the urban Critical Zone over the next 5 years with a great group of colleagues from several universities: Network Cluster: Urban Critical Zone processes along the Piedmont-Coastal Plain transition. This research is part of NSF’s broader Critical Zone Cluster Network efforts.

Collaborators include:

  • Claire Welty (Project Director) & Andy Miller, University of Maryland–Baltimore County (UMBC)
  • Dan Bain, Univ. of Pittsburgh
  • Alan Berkowitz & Bess Caplan, Cary Institute
  • Jeff Chanat, Ed Doheny, Kristina Hopkins, & John Jastram, USGS
  • Jon Duncan, Penn State
  • Peter Groffman, CUNY
  • Mon-Han Huang &  Karen Prestegaard, University of Maryland–College Park
  • Laura Toran, Temple

Here is Towson’s write up about the project:
https://www.towson.edu/news/2020/geology-nsf-research.html

UMBC did a really nice write up:
https://news.umbc.edu/bedrock-to-treetops-nsf-awards-4-8m-to-urban-environment-study-led-by-umbcs-claire-welty/