Archean Environmental Studies: the Habitat of Early Life (ArchEnviron)

2008 Exchange Grants

Ref.ApplicantHost InstitutePlanned Starting month / lengthProject Title
EG/2147 J Rutter (UK)N Arndt (FR) 21/9/08 
(3 weeks)
Determination of the extent, magmatic structure and geochemistry
 of a previously unstudied "mystery" ultramafic unit
from within the Mendon Formation in the Barite Valley, Barberton
Greenstone Belt
EG/2143S Little (UK)N Arndt (FR) 21/9/08 
(3 weeks)
Determination of the extent, magmatic structure and geochemistry
 of a previously unstudied "mystery" ultramafic unit from within the Mendon Formation in the Barite Valley, Barberton
Greenstone Belt 
EG/2090 F Orange (FR)John Parnell, Aberdeen (UK)22/09/2008 
(13 weeks)
The evolution of Archaean stromatolites: a contribution to their understanding through a study of Cambrian stromatolites
EG/1939J H
Bredehöft (DE)
Nigel Mason, Milton Keynes (UK)

05/05/2008
(13 weeks)

Nanoscale Analysis of the organic content in carbonaceous chondrite meteorites

2008 Short Visits

Ref.ApplicantHost InstituteWhen?Project Title
SV/2566B Kremer (PL)W Altermann, Muenchen (DE)21/09/2008
(2 days)
Late Archean mineralised
cyanobacterial mats and
their modern analogs"   
 SV/2100Camila Cavalho (FR)Potsdam University (DE)

31/03/2008

(14 days)

Origin of banded dolomite in Archean BIFs (Minas Gerais): nanotextrues and
nanomineralogy