Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP180103204
Funding Status
Active
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Funded Activity Summary
A terrestrial hot spring setting for the origin of life. This project aims to test the proposal that a terrestrial hot spring field could have been the setting for the origin of life, in preference over the currently favoured site at deep sea vents. The project will involve an integrated, and multi-disciplinary study of the rocks, fluids, and molecules that together make up ancient to modern hot spring systems, and experiments on prebiotic organic chemistry using early Earth materials. Results will be used to develop a terrestrial origin of life setting and assist in the search for life on Mars.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 04-2018
End Date: 07-2023
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $591,274.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Ore Deposit Petrology | Inorganic Geochemistry | Geochemistry | Organic Chemical Synthesis
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences | Mineral Exploration not elsewhere classified | Information Services not elsewhere classified |
