Deep Carbon Observatory
This new program aims to revolutionaize our understanding of the carbon deep in the Earth, including its connections to the origins of life and to the origins, distribution, and abundance of fossile fuels, through a multidisciplinary international network that develops and applies new instruments, takes observations, and performs analyses. A three-year 2009 grant to the Carnegie Institution of Washington supports the initial phase of the program, which will focus on developing instruments to meet the severe technical challenges associated with probing the high-pressure, high-temperature rocesses in Earth's deep interior and on building an organizational infrastructure to set strategic priorities, engage a network of researchers, and secure funding commitments from institutional partners.
Headlines
- A Scientific First: A "Reversible Diamond"
National Geographic - Source Code: The Methane Race
Earth Magazine - Professor Searches for the Genesis of Biological Systems in the Earth's Depths
GMU Gazette