In this Gordon Research Conference “The Processes of Geobiological Evolution on a Living Planet”, we will explore the mechanisms that have enabled life to thrive and survive at the surface of the planet for more than 3.5 billion years, the roles that theory and evidence play in understanding the record of co-evolution on a living planet, and new approaches from sibling fields to Geobiology allow us to explore these ideas further. The Gordon Research Seminar “New Insights on Ancient and Modern Interactions Between Organisms and Their Environments” is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting-edge ideas. The GRS speaker abstract deadline is August 7, 2022; the GRS application deadline is October 8, 2022. The GRC application deadline is October 9, 2022.

The GRS application deadline is February 28, 2022 (for Speaker Abstracts) or April 30, 2022. The GRC application deadline is May 1, 2022.

This conference has been withdrawn from the 2020 conference schedule.

This conference has been withdrawn from the 2020 conference schedule.

The meeting will cover deep carbon science in the context of time. We will spotlight the evolution of deep carbon in Earth’s biological and nonbiological reservoirs over 4.6 billion years. Oral sessions and discussions will focus on how carbon is incorporated into a growing planet, what fraction is sequestered in the interior and what fraction returned to space, and how early planetary processes mediate these transfers. After focusing on planetary assembly, we will turn to the evolution of carbon reservoirs in the first 800 million years of Earth history (the Hadean). We will then explore early deep life, the population of terrestrial niches, the challenges that were overcome, and the feedbacks and interactions between the geosphere and the biosphere. The final phase of the conference will address the carbon cycle and how it has evolved through time. A goal of the conference is to engage a diverse and interdisciplinary group of Earth scientists, planetary scientists, and geobiologists. Applications for this meeting must be submitted by May 20, 2018. Please apply early, as some meetings become oversubscribed (full) before this deadline.