INTRO
Collaborative Environmental Research
The Coastal Critical Zone
Processes that transform landscapes and fluxes between land and sea.
MISSION
Develop a fully collaborative, multi-disciplinary study at a network of sites to understand and predict current and future changes in coupled hydrological, ecological, geomorphological, and biogeochemical (HEGB) system.
VISION
To quantify the coupled processes and feedbacks that govern the HEGB transformations in the coastal CZ to understand how shifts in the transition zone will translate to changes in cycling, fluxes, and storage of critical elements at the land-sea margin.
Our Mission
Develop a fully collaborative, multi-disciplinary study at a network of sites to understand and predict current and future changes in coupled hydrological, ecological, geomorphological, and biogeochemical (HEGB) system.
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Read moreCZN All Hands Meeting 2022 – Field Trip VLOG
In summer 2022, the Coastal CZ hosted the CZN All Hands Meeting in Delaware. Check out the amazing Vlog created by Dr. Alexandra Moore, CZN Coordinating Hub, The Pennsylvania State University that showcases[…]
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Climate-driven decoupling of wetland and upland biomass trends on the mid-Atlantic coast
The Kirwan group at VIMS has developed a study to systematically evaluate the dynamic association between four decades of sea-level driven coastal landscape organization and ecosystem carbon pools along the rapidly[…]
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