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Early Extinctions Set the Stage for Life as We Know It
By applying data science techniques to the fossil record, researchers have found evidence for two early extinction events that wiped out the strange organisms populating Earth during the Ediacaran Period. These extinctions likely paved the way for the rise of animal life.
DCO Webinar Wednesdays: Explore Data Science, Modeling, and Visualization
18 May 2017 Feature
A new series of DCO webinars focusing on big data modeling and visualization launched Wednesday, 17…
Deep Carbon, Big Data: Meet the DCO Data Science Team
26 April 2017 Feature
Tackling everything from large mineral databases, to catalogues of data trapped in archived…
DCO Webinar Wednesdays Launching 17 May 2017
25 April 2017 Feature
A new series of DCO webinars focusing on big data modeling and visualization launched Wednesday, 17…
Video: Private Lives of Minerals, a public lecture by Robert Hazen
16 November 2016 Feature
The distribution of minerals on Earth, Mars, and other worlds mimics social networks, as commonly…
Beyond Diamonds and Gems: The World's Rarest Minerals
12 February 2016 Feature
Scientists have inventoried and categorized all of Earth's rare mineral species described to date,…
Earth's Mineralogy Unique in the Cosmos
26 August 2015 Feature
New research from a team led by DCO Executive Director Robert Hazen (Carnegie Institution of…
Deep Carbon Observatory Data Science Day 2014
18 June 2014 Feature
On 5 June 2014, 40 DCO scientists met at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA, to…