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Deep Carbon Observatory, the Glossary

The Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) is a global research program designed to transform understanding of carbon's role in Earth.^[1]

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is an American philanthropic nonprofit organization.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated mission of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the betterment of all humanity.

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Aqueous solution

An aqueous solution is a solution in which the solvent is water.

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Archaea

Archaea (archaeon) is a domain of single-celled organisms.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is the national broadcaster of Australia.

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Bacteria

Bacteria (bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell.

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Barbara Sherwood Lollar

Barbara Sherwood Lollar, (born February 19, 1963) is a Canadian geologist and academic known for her research into billion-year-old water.

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Beth Orcutt

Beth N. Orcutt is an American oceanographer whose research focuses on the microbial life of the ocean floor.

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Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, founded in 1974, is an independent, non-profit oceanography research institute.

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Biology

Biology is the scientific study of life.

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Biophysics

Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that applies approaches and methods traditionally used in physics to study biological phenomena.

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Brown University

Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Carbon

Carbon is a chemical element; it has symbol C and atomic number 6.

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Carbon budget

A carbon budget is a concept used in climate policy to help set emissions reduction targets in a fair and effective way.

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Carbon cycle

The carbon cycle is that part of the biogeochemical cycle by which carbon is exchanged among the biosphere, pedosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of Earth. Deep Carbon Observatory and carbon cycle are carbon.

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Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere

In Earth's atmosphere, carbon dioxide is a trace gas that plays an integral part in the greenhouse effect, carbon cycle, photosynthesis and oceanic carbon cycle.

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Carbon Mineral Challenge

The Carbon Mineral Challenge is a citizen science project dedicated to accelerating the discovery of carbon-bearing minerals. Deep Carbon Observatory and carbon Mineral Challenge are carbon.

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Carbonaceous chondrite

Carbonaceous chondrites or C chondrites are a class of chondritic meteorites comprising at least 8 known groups and many ungrouped meteorites.

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Carnegie Institution for Science

The Carnegie Institution for Science, also known as Carnegie Science and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, is an organization in the United States established to fund and perform scientific research.

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Cementite

Cementite (or iron carbide) is a compound of iron and carbon, more precisely an intermediate transition metal carbide with the formula Fe3C.

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Century Association

The Century Association is a private social, arts, and dining club in New York City, founded in 1847.

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Chemical kinetics

Chemical kinetics, also known as reaction kinetics, is the branch of physical chemistry that is concerned with understanding the rates of chemical reactions.

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Chondrite

A chondrite is a stony (non-metallic) meteorite that has not been modified, by either melting or differentiation of the parent body.

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Claude Bernard University Lyon 1

Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 (Université Claude-Bernard Lyon 1, UCBL) is one of the three public universities of Lyon, France.

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Columbia College, Columbia University

Columbia College is the oldest undergraduate college of Columbia University, a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Craig E. Manning

Craig E. Manning is a professor of geology and geochemistry in the Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he served as department chair between 2009 and 2012.

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Deep biosphere

The deep biosphere is the part of the biosphere that resides below the first few meters of the surface.

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Deep carbon cycle

The deep carbon cycle (or slow carbon cycle) is geochemical cycle (movement) of carbon through the Earth's mantle and core.

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Deep Earth Carbon Degassing Project

The Deep Earth Carbon Degassing (DECADE) project is an initiative to unite scientists around the world to make tangible advances towards quantifying the amount of carbon outgassed from the Earth's deep interior (core, mantle, crust) into the surface environment (e.g. biosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, atmosphere) through naturally occurring processes. Deep Carbon Observatory and deep Earth Carbon Degassing Project are carbon and geophysics.

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Density functional theory

Density functional theory (DFT) is a computational quantum mechanical modelling method used in physics, chemistry and materials science to investigate the electronic structure (or nuclear structure) (principally the ground state) of many-body systems, in particular atoms, molecules, and the condensed phases.

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Diamond

Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic.

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Dimitri Sverjensky

Dimitri Alexander Sverjensky is a professor in Earth and Planetary Sciences at Johns Hopkins University where his research is focused on geochemistry.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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ETH Zurich

ETH Zurich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich; Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) is a public research university in Zürich, Switzerland.

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Frederick Colwell

Frederick (Rick) Colwell is a microbial ecologist specializing in subsurface microbiology and geomicrobiology.

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Fumio Inagaki

Fumio Inagaki is a geomicrobiologist whose research focuses on the deep subseafloor biosphere.

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George Washington University

The George Washington University (GW or GWU) is a private federally-chartered research university in Washington, D.C. Originally named Columbian College, it was chartered in 1821 by the United States Congress and is the first university founded under Washington D.C.'s jurisdiction.

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German Continental Deep Drilling Programme

The German Continental Deep Drilling Programme (lit), abbreviated as the KTB borehole, was a scientific drilling project carried out from 1987 to 1995 near Windischeschenbach, Bavaria.

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Integrated Ocean Drilling Program

The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) was an international marine research program, running from 2003 to 2013.

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Isabelle Daniel

Isabelle Daniel is a mineralogist at the Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 in Lyon, France.

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Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

The, or JAMSTEC (海洋機構), is a Japanese national research institute for marine-earth science and technology.

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The, is a Japanese government Independent Administrative Institution which was created in 2004 when the former Japan National Oil Corporation merged with the former Metal Mining Agency of Japan.

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Jesse H. Ausubel

Jesse Huntley Ausubel is an American environmental scientist and program manager of a variety of global biodiversity and ecology research programs.

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Jie (Jackie) Li

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Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, Johns, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Julie Huber

Julie Huber is a Senior Scientist in the Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry department at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

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Kai-Uwe Hinrichs

Kai-Uwe Hinrichs is a German biogeochemist and organic geochemist known for his research of microbial life below the ocean bed – the deep biosphere.

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Kola Superdeep Borehole

The Kola Superdeep Borehole SG-3 (translit) is the deepest human-made hole on Earth, which attained maximum true vertical depth of in 1989.

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Louise H. Kellogg

Louise H. Kellogg (November 18, 1959 – April 15, 2019) was an American geophysicist with expertise in chemical geodynamics and computational geophysics and experience in leading multidisciplinary teams to advance geodynamics modeling and scientific visualization.

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Louisiana State University

Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is an American public land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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Marie Edmonds

Marie Edmonds (born 14 September 1975) is a Professor of volcanology and Earth Sciences at the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge whose research focuses on the physics and chemistry of volcanic eruptions and magmatism and understanding volatile cycling in the solid Earth as mediated by plate tectonics.

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Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is an international center for research and education in biological and environmental science.

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Mark A. Lever

Mark Alexander Lever is a microbial ecologist and biogeochemist who studies the role of microorganisms in the global carbon cycle.

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Mark S. Ghiorso

Mark S. Ghiorso (born October 21, 1954) is an American geochemist who resides in Seattle, Washington.

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Michael J. Walter

Michael J. Walter is an American experimental petrologist at Earth and Planetary Laboratory (EPL, formally Geophysical Lab and Department of Terrestrial Magnetism) of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

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Mitchell Sogin

Mitchell Sogin is an American microbiologist.

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Orbiting Carbon Observatory

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) is a NASA satellite mission intended to provide global space-based observations of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

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Oregon State University

Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant research university based in Corvallis, Oregon.

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Outline of life forms

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to life forms: A life form (also spelled life-form or lifeform) is an entity that is living, such as plants (flora), animals (fauna), and fungi (funga).

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Peter Clift

Peter Clift is a British marine geologist and geophysicist specializing in the geology of Asia and the western Pacific.

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Peter Fox (professor)

Peter Arthur Fox (5 May 1959 – 27 March 2021) was a data science and Semantic eScience researcher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), United States.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Project Mohole

Project Mohole was an attempt in the early 1960s to drill through the Earth's crust to obtain samples of the Mohorovičić discontinuity, or Moho, the boundary between the Earth's crust and mantle.

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Radio documentary

A radio documentary is a spoken word radio format devoted to non-fiction narrative.

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) is a private research university in Troy, New York, with an additional campus in Hartford, Connecticut.

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Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry

Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry is the official review journal of the Mineralogical Society of America and The Geochemical Society.

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Robert Hazen

Robert Miller Hazen (born November 1, 1948) is an American mineralogist and astrobiologist.

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Rockefeller University

The Rockefeller University is a private biomedical research and graduate-only university in New York City, New York.

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Roland Winter

Roland Winter (born 1954) is a biophysical chemist who studies the structure, dynamics, energetics, and phase behavior of biological membranes and proteins.

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Russell J. Hemley

Russell Julian Hemley (26 October 1954, Berkeley, California) is an American geophysicist, solid-state physicist, and physical chemist.

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Serpentinite

Serpentinite is a metamorphic rock composed predominantly of one or more serpentine group minerals formed by near to complete serpentinization of mafic to ultramafic rocks.

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Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) is a public university in Shanghai, China.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Steven D'Hondt

Steven D’Hondt is an American geomicrobiologist who studies microbial communities living beneath the seafloor.

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Subduction

Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at convergent boundaries.

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Technical University of Dortmund

TU Dortmund University (Technische Universität Dortmund) is a technical university in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with over 35,000 students, and over 6,000 staff including 300 professors, offering around 80 Bachelor's and master's degree programs.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Carbon_Observatory

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