PA017
Critical Zone Science: from natural to social sciences

Session ID#: 81739

Session Description:
The term Critical Zone is used by Earth Scientist to designate the thin surface of the Earth which supports most of human and ecological life on the planet. It is extending from the non weathered rocks to the lower atmosphere, has been created and transformed by the solar energy and a complex set of reactions involving living organisms. The word “critical” underlines the fragility of this thin surface its importance for the politics of nature in the Anthropocene, for social sciences in general, economy and art. In this session, we wish to encourage collaboration between natural and social sciences by focusing on the Critical Zone as a meeting place for different forms of knowledge and action. The session aims at sharing different visions of, engagements with, and representations of the Critical Zone to help illustrate how humans and non humans agencies are connected in the CZ.
Index Terms:

0485 Science policy [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0486 Soils/pedology [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1865 Soils [HYDROLOGY]

Primary Convener:  Jerome Gaillardet, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
Conveners:  Bruno Latour, Science Po, Paris, France, Anna Krzywoszynska, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10, United Kingdom and Steven A Banwart, University of Leeds, Global Food and Environment Institute, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Jerome Gaillardet, Institute de Physique d Globe Paris, Paris, France
 
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Michael A Ellis, British Geological Survey Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, NG12, United Kingdom, Bui Quang Hung, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam and Maria Aileen Guzman, Ateneo De Manila University, Environmental Science, Manila, Philippines
 
Using natural history in the study of industrial ruins (496813)
Anna Tsing, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
 
Putting the Study of the Earth Surface Back Together Again with Critical Zone Science (Invited) (515469)
Susan L Brantley, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States
 
Alleviating ecosystem service degradation in China: how can knowledge about local practitioners’ needs inform how critical zone science can best be shared with those who need it? (516422)
Ying Zheng1, Larissa A Naylor1, Susan Waldron1 and David M Oliver2, (1)School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, (2)Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom
 
Visualising human disturbances in the Critical Zone (532309)
Alexandra Arenes, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
 
Understanding community perspectives for estimation of crop water stress in an agriculture-dominated CZO in the Ganga plains, India (536909)
Rajiv Sinha1, Saroj Kumar Dash2, Harjinder Sembhi3, Darren Ghent3, Martin Wooster4, Chetna Joshi5, Minni Jain6 and Phillip Franses6, (1)Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Earth Sciences, Kanpur, India, (2)Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Civil Engineering, Kanpur, India, (3)University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, (4)King's College London, London, WC2R, United Kingdom, (5)The Flow Partnership, Pune, India, (6)The Flow Partnership, Dartington, United Kingdom
 
Sensing and place-making in the Critical Zone. (548222)
Anna Krzywoszynska, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10, United Kingdom and Steven A Banwart, University of Leeds, Global Food and Environment Institute, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom
 
What is soil? An integrative exploration of a Critical material (562241)
Donald R Nelson, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States, Michael R Coughlan, University of Oregon, Eugene, United States, Amilcare M Porporato, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States and Daniel deB. Richter Jr, Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, NC, United States
 
Linking land use pattern with soil antibiotic contamination in peri-urban critical zone (572831)
Lei Yang and Liding Chen, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
A review of Chinese agricultural decision support tools (576970)
Joseph Oyesiku-Blakemore1, Ying Zheng2, Sarah Dennis3, Jo Smith4 and Paul David Hallett4, (1)Aberdeen, NULL, United Kingdom, (2)University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, (3)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (4)University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
 
The Critical Zone in Southern Africa: Reclaiming Soil Relations (Invited) (577575)
Lesley Green and Nteboheng Phakisi, University of Cape Town, Environmental Humanities South, Cape Town, South Africa
 
Giving depth to the surface: Science, Politics and Citizens' perspective on the Anthropocene (582194)
Giulia Sofia, University of Connecticut, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Storrs, CT, United States, Giulia Roder, United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), Tokyo, Japan and Paolo Tarolli, University of Padova, Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, Padova, Italy
 
The International Soil Modeling Consortium (ISMC) – New Opportunities for Advancing Data and Modeling of Soil Systems (586876)
Roland Baatz, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich 52428, Germany, Ana Maria Tarquis, UPM, Madrid, Spain, Anne Verhoef, The University of Reading, Department of Geography and Environmental Science, Reading, United Kingdom, Scott L Painter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Umakant Mishra, Argonne National Laboratory, Environmental Science Division, Argonne, IL, United States, Jiri Simunek, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States, Jan Vanderborght, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Agrosphere (IBG-3), Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, Jülich, Germany, Ute Wollschlaeger, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany, Dani Or, ETH Zurich, Soil and Terrestrial Environmental Physics (STEP), Zürich, Switzerland, Martine J van der Ploeg, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, Michael Young, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX, United States, Teamrat A Ghezzehei, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA, United States and Harry Vereecken, Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH, Agrosphere (IBG-3), Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, Julich, Germany
 
Extended Realities - opportunities for increasing public awareness of critical zones (593980)
Mahda M. Bagher1, Pejman Sajjadi1, Kai Greenlees2, Jessica Myrick3, Janet K. Swim4, Timothy S. White5 and Alexander Klippel1, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Geography, University Park, PA, United States, (2)Vassar College, Environmental studies, Poughkeepsie, United States, (3)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Film/Video & Media Studies/Science, University Park, PA, United States, (4)Pennsylvania State Univ, University Park, PA, United States, (5)Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States
 
Understanding and valuing sustainability in the critical zone (595436)
Roger C Bales, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States, Martha H Conklin, University of California Merced, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Merced, CA, United States, Praveen Kumar, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, Nikolaos Nikolaidis, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, Jon Chorover, University of Arizona, Environmental Science, Tucson, AZ, United States and William H McDowell, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
 
Cyborg Seas and Critters : Macrofaunas of Bosphorus Under the Lens of Feminist Technoscience (606923)
Beyza Dilem Toptal, Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey
 
Before the Anthropocene. Human and Non-Human Agents in Paleo-Critical Zones (611554)
Jacobus Bracker, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
 
Bridging Chinese Landscape Painting and geosciences (618237)
Hewei Duan, State College, Pennsylvania, United States, Jiyong Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China and Mingsong Li, Pennsylvania State University, Geosciences, State College, PA, United States
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