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News Release 17-111
NSF-supported scientists present research results on Earth's critical zone at 2017 AGU fall meeting
Topics include Puerto Rico's Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory, wildfire in the critical zone, plants as plumbers and builders of the critical zone
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![Illustration](/news/mmg/media/images/critical_zone_observatory_Jenny Parks illustration_f.jpg)
Scientists at NSF's CZOs will present new results at the 2017 AGU meeting.
Credit: Jenny Parks illustration
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![tropical rainforest](/news/mmg/media/images/Luquillo CZO dawn mist_f.jpg)
Dawn mist covers a tropical rainforest in NSF's Luquillo CZO in Puerto Rico.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
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![California's Eel River](/news/mmg/media/images/Eel River tree_CZO_f.jpg)
Scientists study Northern California's Eel River watershed at one of NSF's nine CZO sites.
Credit: Lobsang Wangdu, UCNRS
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![mountains](/news/mmg/media/images/mountainview_f.jpg)
Carbon in soil is a focus at the Reynolds Creek CZO in Southwest Idaho.
Credit: NSF Reynolds Creek CZO
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![Laptop and material](/news/mmg/media/images/critical_zone_tree_NSF Southern Sierra CZO_f.jpg)
Science in the snow: Downloading data on trees at the Southern Sierra CZO.
Credit: NSF Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory
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![Farm fields](/news/mmg/media/images/farm fields nutrients_f_cf59f69f-8a85-4343-a939-8291e27ab488.jpg)
Midwestern farms' drains carry nutrients, research at the Intensively Managed Landscapes CZO finds.
Credit: Praveen Kumar
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