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NSF Awards UTEP $5 Million to Lead Study of Earth’s Surface in Drylands

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  1. global change
  2. nitrogen cycling
  3. plant-soil interactions
  4. ecophysiology
  5. biogeochemistry
  6. Energy & Environment
  7. Soil quality
  8. drylands
  9. critical zones
  10. agricultural sustainability
  11. Environmental science
  12. Education for the 21st Century Demographic
  13. Long-term ecological research
  14. Biodiversity-ecosystem functioning
  15. Litter decomposition

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Darrouzet-Nardi, Anthony
College: Science
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Department: Earth, Environmental and Resource Sciences
McLaren, Jennie
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Department: Biological Sciences
Lougheed, Vanessa
College: Science
Department: Biological Sciences
Gutierrez-Jurado, Hugo
College: Science
Department: Earth, Environmental and Resource Sciences
Karplus, Marianne
College: Science
Department: Earth, Environmental and Resource Sciences
Engle, Mark
College: Science
Department: Earth, Environmental and Resource Sciences
Xu, Jie
College: Science
Department: Earth, Environmental and Resource Sciences
Gill, Thomas
College: Science
Department: Earth, Environmental and Resource Sciences
Tweedie, Craig
College: Science
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Mauritz, Marguerite
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Department: Environmental Science and Engineering
Warak, Melissa
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NSF Awards UTEP $5 Million to Lead Study of Earth’s Surface in Drylands
Date: September 23, 2020



A team of interdisciplinary researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso was awarded $5.27 million by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to advance critical zone (CZ) research in drylands. The University is one of nine funded CZ research projects in the nation.


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