An editorial in Frontiers in Earth Science: Geochemistry discusses the contributions of early career scientists to the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO). The DCO is a multidisciplinary group of researchers from around the globe that are working to understand the quantities, movements, origins, and forms of Earth’s deep carbon. As the fourth most abundant element in the Universe, carbon chemistry is involved in numerous aspects of planetary science. Carbon is essential for life as we know it, and plays a critical role in the Earth’s environment and habitability.

The Ebook is available at: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/4679/deep-carbon-in-earth-early-career-scientist-contributions-to-the-deep-carbon-observatory. The book contains a large collection of manuscripts that highlight advances in deep carbon science from a wide range of disciplines.

The paper, “Editorial: Deep Carbon in Earth: Early Career Scientist Contributions to the Deep Carbon Observatory,” was published in Frontiers in Earth Science: Geochemistry. The work was supported in part by NASA Astrobiology through the Exobiology & Evolutionary Biology Program.

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