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News Release 14-008
NSF awards grants for four new critical zone observatories to study Earth surface processes
Sites are in Southeast Piedmont; Southwest Idaho; Northern California; and Illinois-Iowa-Minnesota
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![illustration showing mountains, river, forest, earth and a satelite](/news/mmg/media/images/critical_zone_observatory_f.jpg)
NSF has awarded grants for four new Critical Zone Observatories, bringing the network to ten sites.
Credit: NSF
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![illustration showing earth layers and vegetation sectioned out of a landscape](/news/mmg/media/images/back image_f.jpg)
Scientists at the Critical Zone Observatories study Earth's surface: Where rock meets life.
Credit: NSF
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![Northern California's Eel River surrounded by trees](/news/mmg/media/images/Eel and tree.Lobsang Wangdu_f.jpg)
Northern California's Eel River is one of the new CZO sites.
Credit: Lobsang Wangdu, UCNRS
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![Trees and hills at the Reynolds Creek in southwest Idaho.](/news/mmg/media/images/HPIM3746_f.jpg)
An October view of the Reynolds Creek CZO site in southwest Idaho.
Credit: USDA
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![aerial view of the Intensively Managed Landscapes CZO site in Illinois-Iowa-Minnesota](/news/mmg/media/images/IMG_1186_f.jpg)
The Intensively Managed Landscapes CZO site in Illinois-Iowa-Minnesota: much land-use change.
Credit: Praveen Kumar
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![watershed research site at the Calhoun CZO in the Southeast Piedmont.](/news/mmg/media/images/1jun2004 025_f.jpg)
A soon-to-be-upgraded watershed research site at the Calhoun CZO in the Southeast Piedmont.
Credit: Jason Jackson, USDA
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