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

2009 Exchange Grants

Ref.ApplicantHost InstitutePlanned Starting month / lengthProject Title
EG/2650 M Sánchez Román (CH)R Amils (ES)02/11/2009 
(24 weeks)
Geobiological mechanisms that control the chemistry of low temperature carbonates in Rio Tinto: a window into the archean oceans   
EG/2501E Velasco (ES)P Mason (NL)

01/08/2009 
(26 weeks)

Spring deposits and their potential for stable S isotopic biomarkers in early
terrestrial and Mars environments  
EG/2384M Pacton (FR)C Vasconcelos (CH)01/05/2009 
(13 weeks)
Hunting for the first hotosynthesizers in the Achaean world: How good are microbial mats as modern analogues?
EG/2339 A Hofmann (ZA)F Westall (FR) 02/11/2009 
(6 weeks)
Carbonaceous cherts associated with pillow lavas from the Barberton greenstone belt: evidence of subseafloor life in the Palaeoarchaean?"  

2009 Short Visits

Ref.ApplicantHost InstituteWhen?Project Title
 SV/3156 M Ledevin (FR)M Bau (DE)

16/11/09 
(15 days)

Habitat of early life: a synchrotron and geochemical study of the sedimentary
rocks of the Greenstone Belt of Barberton, South Africa