Forests are increasingly threatened by climate-change-fuelled cycles of drought, dieback
and wildfires. However, for reasons that remain incompletely understood, some forest stands …

Hydrologic modeling has been a useful approach for analyzing water partitioning in
catchment systems. It will play an essential role in studying the responses of watersheds …

Fractures in Earth's critical zone influence groundwater flow and storage and promote
chemical weathering. Fractured materials are difficult to characterize on large spatial scales …

The creation of fractures in bedrock dictates water movement through the critical zone,
controlling weathering, vadose zone water storage, and groundwater recharge. However …

Water availability in mountain forests affects vegetation response to drought, which in turn
changes evapotranspiration (ET). We investigated water-balance indicators based on …

The detachment of rock fragments from fractured bedrock on hillslopes creates sediment
with an initial size distribution that sets the upper limits on particle size for all subsequent …

For decades, seismic imaging methods have been used to study the critical zone, Earth's
thin, life‐supporting skin. The vast majority of critical zone seismic studies use traveltime …

Imaging the critical zone at depth, where intact bedrock transforms into regolith, is critical in
understanding the interaction between geological and biological processes. We acquired a …

Weathering and erosion processes are crucial to Critical Zone (CZ) evolution, landscape
formation and availability of natural resources. Although many of these processes take place …

The rate and timing of hydrologically forced landslides is a complex function of precipitation
patterns, material properties, topography, and groundwater hydrology. In the simplest form …