Initiated in 2009, the Deep Carbon Observatory was a 10-year global quest to discover the quantity, movements, forms, and origins of Earth’s deep carbon; to probe the secrets of volcanoes and diamonds, sources of gas and oil, and life’s deep limits and origins; and to report the known, unknown, and unknowable by 2019.
The DCO aimed to create legacies of instruments measuring at great depths, temperatures, and pressures; networks sensing fluxes of carbon-containing gases and fluids between the depths and the surface; open access databases about deep carbon; deep carbon researchers integrating geology, physics, chemistry, and biology; insights improving energy systems; and a public more engaged with deep carbon science.
Jesse Ausubel helped the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation establish the DCO in 2009 and continued to act as Science Advisor to the Sloan Foundation in its role as lead sponsor of the DCO.
Summarizing the origin and evolution of the DCO, Jesse wrote the Foreword to the excellent history of deep carbon science, From Crust to Core, by Simon Mitton, published by Cambridge U. Press in December 2020.
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.
Access the Deep Carbon Observatory website at (www.deepcarbon.science)
Publications about Deep Carbon
On the nature and significance of rarity in mineralogy (PDF). American Mineralogist vol. 101, 2016.
Self-sinking capsules to investigate Earth’s interior and dispose of radioactive waste (PDF). Seminar Presentation 26 July 2011, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Program of Study in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics. 2011.
"Kufikia sasa, mradi huo una lengo la ""kugundua kiasi, harakati, aina na asili ya kaboni ya kina ya Dunia, kuchunguza siri za volkano na almasi, vyanzo vya gesi na mafuta, na mipaka ya kina na asili ya maisha, na kuripoti inayojulikana, isiyojulikana na isiyojulikana hadi 2019.""" DCO ilikusudia kuunda urithi wa vyombo vya kupima kina kirefu, joto, na shinikizo; mitandao ya kugundua mtiririko wa gesi na kioevu kilicho na kaboni kati ya kina na uso; hifadhidata za upatikanaji wazi juu ya kaboni ya kina; watafiti wa kaboni ya kina wanaohusisha jiolojia, fizikia, kemia, na biolojia; ufahamu wa kuboresha mifumo ya nishati; na umma unaohusika zaidi na sayansi ya kaboni. Jesse Ausubel alisaidia Alfred P. Sloan Foundation kuanzisha DCO mnamo 2009 na aliendelea kufanya kazi kama Mshauri wa Sayansi kwa Sloan Foundation katika jukumu lake kama mdhamini mkuu wa DCO. "Jesse aliandika ""Utangulizi"" kwa historia bora ya sayansi ya kaboni ya kina, ""Kutoka Crust hadi Core,"" na Simon Mitton, iliyochapishwa na Cambridge U." Mkataba wa Utoaji wa Nakala ya Desemba 2020 Taarifa ya vyombo vya habari ya Marekani imependekeza kuondoa taarifa za kuvutia za miaka kumi zilizotolewa na Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) katika ripoti yake ya miaka kumi iliyotolewa Oktoba 2019. "Kuchunguza kwa kina zaidi juu ya ""Kaboni ya Chini"" katika tovuti ya Deep Carbon Observatory, na ""Kaboni ya Chini"" katika tovuti ya Deep Carbon Observatory, ni moja ya vitabu vya utafiti wa kisasa zaidi katika sayansi ya madini." American Mineralogist vol. 101, 2016 Self-sinking capsules kuchunguza Earth's ndani na kuondoa taka za mnururisho (PDF). Maonyesho ya Semina ya Maonyesho ya Maonyesho ya Maonyesho ya Maonyesho ya Maonyesho ya Maonyesho ya Maonyesho ya Maonyesho ya Maonyesho ya Maonyesho ya Maonyesho ya Maonyesho ya Maonyesho ya Maonyesho ya Maonyesho ya Maonyesho ya Maonyesho ya Maonyesho ya Maonyesho ya Maonyesho ya Maonyesho ya Maonyesho ya Maonyesho ya Maonyesho ya Maonyesho ya Maonyesho. Mwaka 2011