Building Cross-Site and Cross-Network collaborations in critical zone science

Arora, Bhavna; Kuppel, Sylvain; Wellen, Christopher; Oswald, Claire J.; Groh, Jannis; Payandi-Rolland, Dahédrey; Stegen, James C.; Coffinet, Sarah

doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129248

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“…Such information will be fundamental to provide an evidence base for improved management. In this regard, recent intensification in scientific monitoring efforts through the investigation of urban critical zones is to be welcomed (Arora et al, 2023 ; Ring et al, 2023 ). However, regardless of a better understanding, climate change makes the threat of greater intermittent flows more likely in Berlin.…”

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Integrated monitoring and modeling to disentangle the complex spatio-temporal dynamics of urbanized streams under drought stress

López Moreira Mazacotte,

Tetzlaff,

Marx

et al. 2024

Environ Monit Assess

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We have a poor understanding of how urban drainage and other engineered components interact with more natural hydrological processes in green and blue spaces to generate stream flow. This limits the scientific evidence base for predicting and mitigating the effects of future development of the built environment and climate change on urban water resources and their ecosystem services. Here, we synthesize > 20 years of environmental monitoring data to better understand the hydrological function of the 109-km2 Wuhle catchment, an important tributary of the river Spree in Berlin, Germany. More than half (56%) of the catchment is urbanized, leading to substantial flow path alterations. Young water from storm runoff and rapid subsurface flow provided around 20% of stream flow. However, most of it was generated by older groundwater (several years old), mainly recharged through the rural headwaters and non-urban green spaces. Recent drought years since 2018 showed that this base flow component has reduced in response to decreased recharge, causing deterioration in water quality and sections of the stream network to dry out. Attempts to integrate the understanding of engineered and natural processes in a traditional rainfall-runoff model were only partly successful due to uncertainties over the catchment area, effects of sustainable urban drainage, adjacent groundwater pumping, and limited conceptualization of groundwater storage dynamics. The study highlights the need for more extensive and coordinated monitoring and data collection in complex urban catchments and the use of these data in more advanced models of urban hydrology to enhance management.

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Integrated monitoring and modeling to disentangle the complex spatio-temporal dynamics of urbanized streams under drought stress

López Moreira Mazacotte,

Tetzlaff,

Marx

et al. 2024

Environ Monit Assess

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“…In addition, to enhance FAIR data coverage for CZ sites across gradients of climate, vegetation, geology, and land‐use conditions, coordinated efforts across the globe are often necessary. Yet international collaboration is often rare due to the sparsity of international funding support for global collaboration as well as diverse operation and rules that regulate data availability and accessibility across different countries (Arora et al., 2023). Further still, although less discussed, are CARE (Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, and Ethics) principles, which address data sharing from Indigenous contributors to the knowledge base and their data sovereignty (e.g., Carroll et al., 2020; Garba et al., 2023).…”

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Expanding the Spatial Reach and Human Impacts of Critical Zone Science

Singha,

Sullivan,

Billings

et al. 2024

Earth's Future

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Two major barriers hinder the holistic understanding of subsurface critical zone (CZ) evolution and its impacts: (a) an inability to measure, define, and share information and (b) a societal structure that inhibits inclusivity and creativity. In contrast to the aboveground portion of the CZ, which is visible and measurable, the bottom boundary is difficult to access and quantify. In the context of these barriers, we aim to expand the spatial reach of the CZ by highlighting existing and effective tools for research as well as the “human reach” of CZ science by expanding who performs such science and who it benefits. We do so by exploring the diversity of vocabularies and techniques used in relevant disciplines, defining terminology, and prioritizing research questions that can be addressed. Specifically, we explore geochemical, geomorphological, geophysical, and ecological measurements and modeling tools to estimate CZ base and thickness. We also outline the importance of and approaches to developing a diverse CZ workforce that looks like and harnesses the creativity of the society it serves, addressing historical legacies of exclusion. Looking forward, we suggest that to grow CZ science, we must broaden the physical spaces studied and their relationships with inhabitants, measure the “deep” CZ and make data accessible, and address the bottlenecks of scaling and data‐model integration. What is needed—and what we have tried to outline—are common and fundamental structures that can be applied anywhere and used by the diversity of researchers involved in investigating and recording CZ processes from a myriad of perspectives.

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“…Yet, building a new cohort of researchers to use these ensembled network‐to‐network data requires new training, as well as development of platforms (e.g., Github, Docker, Python) to work across virtual communities. This also includes the establishment of early career networks (e.g., eLTER* or critical zone community) to nurture the new generation of scientists and to promote cross‐site and cross‐network collaboration from the onset (Arora et al., 2023). Because environmental problems of today will be different in the future, it requires developing critical problem solving skills in these new user communities (Roberts et al., 2022), as many of the future's environmental problems will be considered “wicked” (Grewatsch et al., 2023).…”

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Fifteen Years of Integrated Terrestrial Environmental Observatories (TERENO) in Germany: Functions, Services, and Lessons Learned

Zacharias,

Loescher,

Bogena

et al. 2024

Earth's Future

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The need to develop and provide integrated observation systems to better understand and manage global and regional environmental change is one of the major challenges facing Earth system science today. In 2008, the German Helmholtz Association took up this challenge and launched the German research infrastructure TERrestrial ENvironmental Observatories (TERENO). The aim of TERENO is the establishment and maintenance of a network of observatories as a basis for an interdisciplinary and long‐term research program to investigate the effects of global environmental change on terrestrial ecosystems and their socio‐economic consequences. State‐of‐the‐art methods from the field of environmental monitoring, geophysics, remote sensing, and modeling are used to record and analyze states and fluxes in different environmental disciplines from groundwater through the vadose zone, surface water, and biosphere, up to the lower atmosphere. Over the past 15 years we have collectively gained experience in operating a long‐term observing network, thereby overcoming unexpected operational and institutional challenges, exceeding expectations, and facilitating new research. Today, the TERENO network is a key pillar for environmental modeling and forecasting in Germany, an information hub for practitioners and policy stakeholders in agriculture, forestry, and water management at regional to national levels, a nucleus for international collaboration, academic training and scientific outreach, an important anchor for large‐scale experiments, and a trigger for methodological innovation and technological progress. This article describes TERENO's key services and functions, presents the main lessons learned from this 15‐year effort, and emphasizes the need to continue long‐term integrated environmental monitoring programmes in the future.

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Building Cross-Site and Cross-Network collaborations in critical zone science

Cited by 13 publications

References 138 publications

Integrated monitoring and modeling to disentangle the complex spatio-temporal dynamics of urbanized streams under drought stress

Integrated monitoring and modeling to disentangle the complex spatio-temporal dynamics of urbanized streams under drought stress

Expanding the Spatial Reach and Human Impacts of Critical Zone Science

Fifteen Years of Integrated Terrestrial Environmental Observatories (TERENO) in Germany: Functions, Services, and Lessons Learned

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