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

2010 Exchange Grants

Ref.ApplicantHost InstitutePlanned Starting month / lengthProject Title
EG/2746   B Kremer (PL)F Robert (FR) 01/05/2010
(12 wks)
(Nano)SIMS elemental and isotopic assessment of mineralization processes of
coccoid cyanobacteria from the Neoarchean Nauga Fm of South Africa
EG/2732S Little (UK) D Canfield (DK)

 01/02/2010
(13 wks)

Metal isotopes and life as part of the Earth system on the early planet
EG/2726M Bourbin (FR)A Jess (DE) 04/01/2010
(8 wks)
Studying mature organic matter produced by Fischer-Tropsch synthesis   
  
EG/2723    F Orange (FR)K Konhauser (CA) 01/02/2010
(13 wks)
Preservation and degradation of the microbial signatures during simulated
diagenetic processes. Application for the search of the earliest traces of life  

2010 Short Visits

Ref.ApplicantHost Planned Starting date / lengthProject Title
SV/3396M Morgan (FR)EGU (AT)01/05/2010 
(7 days)
Evolution of the physico-biochemical conditions of the Archean and Early Proterozoic ocean (3.5 – 2.4 Ga), recorded in banded iron formations   
SV/3314T Zegers (NL) R Amils (ES) 26/01/2010 
(3 days)
Habitable Environments on early Earth and Mars: lessons for planetary
exploration 
SV/3192P Medvedev (RU)J McKenzie (CH) 22/01/2010 
(15 days)
 A case study on Paleoproterozoic (2.2-2.1 Ga) magnesite-stromatolite-dolomite-
"red beds" succession (lake Onego, Russian Karelia) and modern Ca-Mg
carbonate stromatolites forming in the hypersaline coastal lagoons, e.g. Lagoa
Vermelha (Brazil)  
SV/3174  J Halla (FI)J van Hunen (UK) 08/02/2010 
(6 days)
Combined (geochemical and numerical) approach to Neoarchean TTG
SV/3173E Heilimo (FI) J van Hunen (UK) 

08/02/2010
(6 days)

Combined (geochemical and numerical) approach to Neoarchean TTG
SV/3172 D Roerdink (NL)M Whitehouse (SE) 15/02/2010
(14 days)
Sulfur isotope exchange in sedimentary and metamorphic sulfides    
  
SV/3162  K Oostingh (NL) M Bau (DE) 03/05/2010
(15
days)
Rare earth element partitioning into barite (BaSO4) and it’s potential for
recording marine versus hydrothermal origin of Archean barite deposits