This Priority Programme is an Earth Science-based coordinated research programme that addresses the still open question how Earth became the only known habitable rocky planet covered by oceans and an oxygenated atmosphere. This programme focusses on the crucial time-span when Earth became habitable, but before life itself blossomed. The core approach is to use the terrestrial and extraterrestrial rock record to reconstruct key parameters and processes that set the stage on which life subsequently formed and evolved.

The three key topics central to the Priority Programme are:

• the compositions and sources of Earth’s building materials and the growth of the Earth,
• the Earth’s early internal processing into crust, mantle, and core, and the early evolution of these reservoirs,
• the early evolution of Earth’s ocean-atmosphere-biosphere system from the first atmosphere until the great oxidation event.

Termine: 01.11.2017 (registration), 15.11.2017 (proposals)
Adresse: DFG, Kennedyalle 40, 53175 Bonn
Kontakt: Dr. Tim Haarmann, Tel.: 0228/885-2328, tim.haarmann@dfg.de, Ursula Overath, Tel.: 0228/885-2758, Ursula.Overath@dfg.de
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