Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP170100715

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP170100715

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Engineering planetary habitability: Earth’s first billion years. This project aims to establish the critical physical-chemical factors in the early surface environment and tectonic regime that supported early life and continuing habitability. Life was established on Earth within the first billion years of its 4.56-billion-year history. This project’s integrated geological and geochemical study will investigate this period’s rare sedimentary and volcanic record, including the oldest fossiliferous sequences discovered recently, to show how the early Earth’s chemistry supported life and evolution. The project expects to enhance understanding of why life prospers on some habitable zone planets but not on others.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 21-04-2017

End Date: 31-12-2021

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $270,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Geology | Stratigraphy (incl. Biostratigraphy and Sequence Stratigraphy) | Geology not elsewhere classified | Isotope Geochemistry

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences |

Other Keywords

Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences | Geology | Geology not elsewhere classified | Isotope Geochemistry | Stratigraphy (incl. Biostratigraphy and Sequence Stratigraphy)

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