Ansichten der Calzone: Views from the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory

Abstract

The German title of our piece fo#ows Ale"ander von Humboldt, to honor his 250th birthday in 2019. Humboldt’s Ansichten der Natur1 was !rst published in 1804 after his !ve-year e"pedition to the Americas. Ansichten was a sma# book that fused geology and biology, nature and culture. We assert here that Humboldt’s integrative approach is congruent with the twenty-!rst-century’s Critical Zone science.