Cambridge (UK) historian of science Simon Mitton has just published the excellent book From Crust to Core (A Chronicle of Deep Carbon Science). Jesse Ausubel authored the Foreword, which explains the origin of the Deep Carbon Observatory.
Area of Research: Deep Carbon
PHE during COVID-19: IQOE, COVID game, deep carbon science
We all continue healthy and working long hours and hard, though mostly from our homes. We are catching up on lots of writing and editing but also trying to seize immediate, unique opportunities.
For example, COVID-19 may have created the reduction of additions of human noise that we dreamed about for the International Quiet Ocean Experiment. IQOE welcomes ideas about how the present quieting of the world economy may advance research in marine sound. High-quality observations of the ocean soundscape, as well as possibly related behavior of marine life during this period, may offer unique opportunities of exceptional value.
Resuming our interest in Serious Games, we are also please to encourage a team at the Indian Institute of Technology in Tirupati that is developing SurviveCovid-19 — A Game for Improving Awareness of Social Distancing and Health Measures for Covid-19 Pandemic
Jesse has also written a foreword for Simon Mitton’s forthcoming history of deep carbon science, From Crust to Core, to be published by Cambridge U. Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/from-crust-to-core/E0E2E8FC30B4C784B0FB268AC4AA8371
1986 paper on limits of prediction
We scanned and now post Jesse Ausubel’s pre-Internet paper
Some Thoughts on Geophysical Prediction
In Policy Aspects of Climate Forecasting, R Krasnow (ed), pp. 97-109, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, 1986
We also post the 2-page memo that Jesse wrote in 2016 about Limits to Knowledge for the Deep Carbon Observatory.
Deep Carbon Observatory Decade celebrated
The Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO), which Jesse co-founded in 2009, is completing its initial decade. Jesse wrote a brief history of the program, including its origin in the work of the late Tommy Gold.
A press release summarizes some of the decadal achievements, celebrated at a large conference in Washington DC 24-26 October 2019, as does the Deep Carbon Observatory’s decadal report, a 50-page document released in October 2019.
Several books summarize the work of the DCO. Published by Cambridge University Press in October 2019, Deep Carbon: Past to Present, is a 684-page collection of 20 chapters by many authors edited by Beth N. Orcutt (Bigelow Lab, Maine, USA), Isabelle Daniel (University of Lyon, France), and Rajdeep Dasgupta (Rice University, Texas, USA). Aimed at sharing recent progress with the peer scientific community, the book is also available open access. The volume pairs with the 2013 volume Carbon in Earth, which aimed to provide the baseline of knowledge at the outset of the Deep Carbon Observatory program.
Published by W. W. Norton & Company in June 2019, Robert Hazen’s 288-page Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything offers a popular tour of the work of the Deep Carbon Observatory including cameo portraits of many researchers involved in the program.
Finally, English historian of science Simon Mitton, has completed the first history of deep carbon science, Carbon from Crust to Core: A Chronicle of Deep Carbon Science. Mitton’s 400-page book, to be published by Cambridge University Press in early 2020, identifies key discoveries, impacts of new knowledge, and roles of deep carbon scientists and their institutions from the 1400s to the present.
Self-sinking capsules to investigate Earth’s interior and dispose of radioactive waste
On the nature and significance of rarity in mineralogy
Abiotic carbon, subducted biology
Exciting news from the Deep Carbon Observatory:
A press release 22 April 2019 just summarized some highlights from a decade of work on abiotic carbon in the Deep Carbon Observatory:
https://deepcarbon.net/rewriting-textbook-fossil-fuels
Coverage here:
Decade-Long Geology Project Rewrites Origins of Earth’s Methane 22 April 2019 Discover
Our old friend Tommy Gold would be thrilled.
A paper by Peter Barry and Co. in Nature magazine explores what happens when biology meets subduction:
https://deepcarbon.net/could-microbes-be-gatekeepers-earths-deep-carbon
Deep Carbon Observatory abiotic carbon research
A press release summarizes the research of the Deep Carbon Observatory on methane and other hydrocarbons that are not fossil fuels but rather abiotic in origin. Congratulations to Giuseppe Etiope and others who have led the work. Tommy Gold would be happy.
April 22, 2019
Rewriting the textbook on fossil fuels: New technologies help unravel nature’s methane recipes
by Deep Carbon Observatory
Leo and Deep Carbon
2019 begins with newspaper of coverage of
–the Leonardo Da Vinci DNA Project in Vienna’s Kurier; and
–the Deep Life work of the Deep Carbon Observatory in hard copy of the New York Times (posted 19 Dec online).
Deep Life reports from Deep Carbon Observatory
The Deep Life Community shared its progress over the past decade in the Deep Carbon Observatory at the December 2018 meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Washington DC. Jesse Ausubel helped found the DCO in 2009.
Articles include: Life in deep Earth totals 15 to 23 billion tons of carbon—hundreds of … Phys.Org–Dec 10, 2018Deep Life scientists say about 70% of Earth’s bacteria and archaea …. says Jesse Ausubel of the Rockefeller University, a founder of the DCO.
Earth’s Deep Life Biosphere –“A Subterranean Galapagos”
The Daily Galaxy –Great Discoveries Channel–Dec 10, 2018
The Daily Galaxy –Great Discoveries Channel–Dec 10, 2018
PersonalTech MD The group has approximated the ‘size of the deep biosphere to be 2 to … Jesse Ausubel, of the Rockefeller University, a founder of the DCO, …