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Dec. 04, 2009
Deep Carbon Observatory
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| As people gather in Copenhagen for climate change talks, a new project is getting underway to better understand the carbon cycle deep below the Earth's surface. The Deep Carbon Observatory, run by the Carnegie Institution’s Geophysical Laboratory, will try to study the nature and distribution of deep carbon reservoirs, fluxes of carbon within Earth's deep interior and between the interior and surface, deep organic synthesis, and the nature and distribution of life deep beneath the surface of the planet. We'll find out more. |
Produced by Annette Heist, Senior Producer
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Robert M. Hazen
Senior Staff Scientist, Geophysical Laboratory
Carnegie Institution for Science
Robinson Professor of Earth Sciences
George Mason University
Washington, DC
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