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2001 Annual Science Report

Harvard University Reporting  |  JUL 2000 – JUN 2001

Executive Summary

Executive Summary — HAR (dm)

The Harvard NAI team was constituted in 1998 as an interactive group of biogeochemists, paleontologists, sedimentary geologists, geochemists, and tectonic geologists assembled with the common goal of understanding the coevolution of life and environments in Earth history. The team originally proposed to focus multidisplinary research on four critical intervals of planetary change: the early Archean (>3000 million years ago) when life began, the early Paleoproterozoic (2400-2200 Ma) when oxygen began to accumulate in the atmosphere and surface ocean, the terminal Proterozoic and Early Cambrian (750-525 Ma) when animal life radiated, and the Permo-Triassic boundary (251 Ma) when mass extinction removed some 90 percent of Earth’s species diversity, permanently altering the course of evolution. Given reduced funding levels in years 1 and 2, the team chose to focus on the latter three intervals. As documented in the accompanying project reports, we ... Continue reading.

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13 Institutions
6 Project Reports
0 Publications
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  • There are no publications for this team in the 2001 annual report.

2001 Teams