The Biological Weathering in Earth Systems intitiative is a UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funded grouping of 3 UK Universities in partnership with The British Geological Survey, government agencies and international institutions.

The broad aims of the project are:

To create a step-change in the international scientific effort to quantify and predict the processes of soil formation and loss, through close collaboration by leading research teams throughout the world that is supported by vigorous dissemination and application to the whole-life management of soil as a finite resource that nourishes the planet’s human population and ecosystems.

The group seeks to integrate international weathering science and funding with a USA bid for a NSF-supported Critical Zone Exploration Network (CZEN). The CZEN will integrate field, laboratory and modelling research and many other activities from a wide range of natural environments around the Earth.

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