Publications:

2018

• Moore, E.K., Hao, J., Prabhu A, Zhong H, Jelen, B.I., Meyer, M., Hazen, R.M., and Falkowski, P.G. (2017) Geological and chemical factors that impacted the biological utilization of cobalt in the Archean Eon, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 123, 743–759. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JG004067
• Wang, C., Ma, X., Chen, J., Chen, J. (2018) Information extraction and knowledge graph construction from geoscience literature. Computers & Geosciences, 112, 112-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2017.12.007
• Wang, C., Ma, X., Chen, J. (2018) Ontology-driven data integration and visualization for exploring regional geologic time and paleontological information, Computers & Geosciences, 115, 12-19. (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2018.03.004

2017

• Estrada, C.F., Mamajanov, I., Hao, J., Sverjensky, D.A., Cody, G.D., and Hazen, R.M. (2017) Aspartate transformation at 200° C with brucite [Mg(OH)₂], NH₃, and H₂: Implications for prebiotic molecules in hydrothermal systems. Chemical Geology, 457, 162-172.
• Grew, E.S., Hystad, G., Hazen, R.M., Krivovichev, S.V., and Gorelova, L.A. (2017) How many boron minerals occur in Earth’s upper crust? American Mineralogist, 102, 1573-1587.
• Hao, J., D. A. Sverjensky, and R. M. Hazen (2017) Mobility of nutrients and trace metals during weathering in the late Archean, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 471, 148-159.
• Hao, J., Sverjensky, D.A., and Hazen, R.M. (2017) A Model for Late Archean Chemical Weathering and World Average River Water, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 457: 191-203.
• Hazen, R.M. (2017) Chance, necessity, and the origins of life. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 375(2109), 20160353.
• Hazen, R.M., Grew, E.S., Origlieri, M, and Downs, R.T. (2017) Mineralogy of the "Anthropocene Epoch." American Mineralogist, 102, 595-611.
• Hazen, R.M., Hystad, G., Golden, J.J., Hummer, D.R., Liu, C., Downs, R.T., Morrison, S.M., and Grew, E.S. (2017) Cobalt mineral ecology. American Mineralogist, 102, 108-116.
• Hummer, D.R., Noll, B.C., Hazen, R.M., and Downs, R.T. (2017) Crystal structure of abelsonite, the only known crystalline geoporphyrin. American Mineralogist, 102(5), 1129-1132.
• Jiang, W., Pacella, M.S., Athanasiadou, D., Nelea, V., Vali, H., Hazen, R.M., Gray, J.J., and McKee, M.D. (2017) Chrial acidic amino acids induce chiral hierarchical structure in calcium carbonate. Nature Communications, 8, 15066.
• Liu, C., Hystad, G., Golden, J.J., Hummer, D.R., Downs, R.T., Morrison, S.M., Grew, E.S., and Hazen, R.M. (2017) Chromium mineral ecology. American Mineralogist, American Mineralogist, 102, 612-619.
• Liu, C., Knoll, A., Hazen, R.M. (2017) Geochemical and mineralogical evidence that Rodinian assembly was unique. (link is external) Nature Communications, 8:1950.
• Ma X, Hummer D, Golden JJ, Fox PA, Hazen RM, Morrison SM, Downs RT, Madhikarmi BL, Wang C, Meyer MB (2017) Using Visual Exploratory Data Analysis to Facilitate Collaboration and Hypothesis Generation in Cross-Disciplinary Research. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 6(11):368.
• Moore, E., B. Jelen, D. Giovannelli, H. Raanan and P. Falkowski (2017) Metal Availability and the Expanding Network of Microbial Metabolism in the Archean Eon. Nature Geoscience, 10, 629-636.
• Morrison, S. M., Liu, C., Eleish, A., Prabhu, A., Lic, C., Ralph, J., Downs, R. T., Golden, J. J., Fox, P., and Hazen, R. M. (2017) Network Analysis of Mineralogical Systems, American Mineralogist, 102, 1588-1596.
• Wenge, J., Pacella, M.S., Athanasiadou, D., Nelea, V., Vali, H., Hazen, R.M., Gray, J.J., and McKee, M.D. (2017) Chrial acidic amino acids induce chiral hierarchical structure in calcium carbonate. Nature Communications, in press.

 

2016

• Gherase, D., Hazen, R.M., Krishnamurthy, R., and Blackmond, D.G. (2016) Mineral-induced enantioenrichment of tartaric acid. Synlett, 2016-08-31.
• Grew, E.S., Krivovichev, S.V., Hazen, R.M., and Hystad, G. (2016) Evolution of structural complexity in boron minerals. Canadian Mineralogist, 54, 125-143.
• Hazen, R.M. and Ausubel, J.H. (2016) On the nature and significance of rarity in mineralogy. American Mineralogist, 101, 1245-1251. Doi: 10.2138/am-2016-5601.
• Hazen, R.M., Hummer, D.R., Hystad, G., Downs, R.T., and Golden, J.J. (2016) Carbon mineral ecology: Predicting the undiscovered minerals of carbon. American Mineralogist, 101, 889-906.
• Hystad, G., Downs, R.T., Hazen, R.M., and Golden, J.J. (2016) Relative abundances for the mineral species on Earth: A statistical measure to characterize Earth-like planets based on Earth’s mineralogy. Mathematical Geosciences, 47, 179-194.
• Jelen, B., Giovannelli, D., and Falkowski, P.G. (2016) The Role of Microbial Electron Transfer in the Coevolution of the Geosphere and Biosphere, Annual Review of Microbiology, 70, 45-62.
• Knoll, A.H. and M.J. Follows (2016) A bottom-up perspective on ecosystem change in Mesozoic oceans. Proceedings B, Royal Society, 20161755, doi/10.1098/rspb.2016.1755.
• Knoll, A.H., K. Bergmann, and J.V. Strauss (2016) Life: The first two billion years. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B 371: 20150493, doi.10.1098/rstb.2015.0493.

 

2015

• Grosch, E.G. and Hazen, R.M. (2015) Microbes, mineral evolution, and the rise of micro-continents: Origin and co-evolution of life with early Earth. Astrobiology, vol. 15, no. 10, pp 922-939, DOI: 10.1089/ast.2015.1302.
• Hazen, R.M. (2015) Mineral evolution, the Great Oxidation Event, and the rise of colorful minerals. Mineralogical Record, 46, 805-812,834.
• Hazen, R.M., Grew, E.S., Downs, R.T., Golden, J., and Hystad, G. (2015) Mineral ecology: Chance and necessity in the mineral diversity of terrestrial planets. Canadian Mineralogist, vol. 53, 295-324, DOI: 10.3749/canmin.1400086.
• Hazen, R.M., Hystad, G., Downs, R.T., Golden, J., Pires, A., and Grew, E.S. (2015) Earth’s “missing” minerals. American Mineralogist, vol. 100, pp. 2344-2347,  DOI: 10.2138/am-2015-5417.
• Hystad, G., Downs, R.T., and Hazen, R.M. (2015) Mineral frequency distribution data conform to a LNRE model: Prediction of Earth’s “missing” minerals. Mathematical Geosciences, 47, 647-661.
• Hystad, G., Downs, R.T., Grew, E.S., and Hazen, R.M. (2015) Statistical analysis of mineral diversity and distribution: Earth’s mineralogy is unique. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 426, 154-157.
• Liu, X.-M., Kah, L.C., Knoll, A.H., Cui, H., Kaufman, A.J., Shahar, A., and Hazen, R.M. (2015) Tracing Earth’s CO₂ evolution using Zn/Fe ratios in marine carbonate. Geochemical Perspectives Letters, 2: 24-34.

 

Papers in Review/Revision:

• Estrada, C., Sverjensky, D.A., and Hazen, R.M. (2017) Enhanced and inhibited adsorption of D-ribose with Ca²⁺ and Mg²⁺ onto brucite [Mg(OH)₂]. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, in review.
• Estrada, C., Sverjensky, D.A., and Hazen, R.M. (2017) Selective adsorption of calcium-aspartate ligands onto [Mg(OH)₂]-brucite: Implications for calcium in prebiotic chemistry. Astrobiology, in review.
• Hao, J., Sverjensky, D.A., and Hazen, R.M. Importance of Atmospheric H2 in Surficial Environments of the Archean, Geobiology, submitted.
• Hao, J., Sverjensky, D.A., and Hazen, R.M., Limits on the partial pressure of H2 in the Archean atmosphere during weathering of basaltic minerals. Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta, in review.
• Krivovichev, S.V., Krivovichev, V.G., and Hazen, R.M. (2017) Structural and chemical complexity of minerals: correlations and time evolution. European Journal of Mineralogy, in review
• Muscente, A.D., A. Prabhu, H. Zhong, A. Eleish, M. Meyer, P. Fox, R. Hazen, and A.H. Knoll (2017) The network paleoecology of mass extinctions, (Submitted to Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences) (In prep)

 

Books:

• Ma, X., 2018. Data Science for Geoscience: Leveraging Mathematical Geosciences with Semantics and Open Data. Handbook of Mathematical Geosciences: Fifty Years of IAMG. Springer. 16pp. In Press.
• Ma, X., 2018. Spatial Data. In: Schintler, L.A., McNeely, C.L. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Big Data. Springer, Cham, Switzerland. In Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32001-4_192-1 
• Ma, X., 2018. Metadata. In: Schintler, L.A., McNeely, C.L. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Big Data. Springer, Cham, Switzerland. In Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32001-4_135-1
• Ma, X., 2018. Visualization. In: Schintler, L.A., McNeely, C.L. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Big Data. Springer, Cham, Switzerland. In Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32001-4_202-1

 

Meeting abstracts/Presentations:

2018

• Morrison, S.M. “Transition element availability through deep time” (Invited) Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI), 6th ELSI Symposium: Building Bridges from Earth to Life, Tokyo, Japan, (January 9, 2018)

2017

• Fox P, Eleish A, Li C, Pan F, Prabhu A, Zhong H, and DTDI Team (2017) Heterogeniety and Heterarchy: How far can network analyses in Earth and space sciences? (Invited), AGU, Abstract #212818.
• Golden, J.J. Overview of Mineral Evolution, Mineral Ecology, and the Mineral Evolution Database, Society of Earth Science Students, University of Arizona (October 6, 2017)
• Hazen RM (Invited), Eleish A, Liu C, Morrison SM, Meyer M, and Keck DTDI Consortium (2017) Network Analysis of Earth's Co-Evolving Geosphere and Biosphere, AGU, Abstract # PP43E-01
• Hazen, R.M. (Invited) Mineral Ecology and Mineral Evolution in the Era of «Big Data», 200th Anniversary Meeting of the Russian Mineralogical Society (October 2017)
• Hazen, R.M. Carbon mineral network analysis: A big data geobiology study. Goldschmidt Conference, Paris, France. (August 15, 2017)
• Hazen, R.M. Chance, necessity and the origins of life. Fundamentals of Life in the Universe Symposium, Groningen, The Netherlands.
• Hazen, R.M. Deep-Time Evolution of Rocks and Life. Covington Law Office, Washington DC. (May 8, 2017)
• Hazen, R.M. Mineral evolution in the era of big-data mineralogy. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. (April 5, 2017)
• Hazen, R.M. Minerals and the origins of life: Insights from big data mineralogy. Astrobiology Science Conference 2017, Mesa, Arizona. (April 24, 2017)
• Hazen, R.M. Minerals and the origins of life. ISSOL Conference, La Jolla, California. (July 18, 2017)
• Hazen, R.M. Network analysis applications to carbon mineral systems. Deep Carbon Observatory Science Meeting, St. Andrews, Scotland. (March 25, 2017)
• Hazen, R.M. Precambrian paleomineralogy: The known, unknown, and unknowable Goldschmidt Conference, Paris, France. (August 18, 2017)
• Hazen, R.M. Private lives of minerals: network analysis of rocks and minerals. Syracuse University, Chauncey Holmes Lecture.
• Hazen, R.M. The evolution of mineral evolution. Vienna Museum of Natural History, opening keynote address of the mineral evolution exhibit. (April 4, 2017)
• Hummer DR, Golden JJ, Hystad G, Downs RT, Eleish A, Liu C, Ralph J, Morrison SM, Meyer MB, Hazen RM (2017) Timing the oxidation of Earth’s crust: Evidence from big data records of manganese mineralization, AGU, Abstract #V24C-03
• Hummer, D.R. Ecology and evolution of manganese minerals: Implications for the redox history of Earth and life. D. Hummer, lead presenter. Goldschmidt Conference, Paris, France. (August 15, 2017)
• Hummer, D.R. The Carbon Mineral Challenge: A worldwide search for undiscovered minerals. Deep Carbon Observatory Science Meeting, St. Andrews, Scotland. (March 25, 2017)
• Hystad, G. Estimation of the total number of mineral species on Earth and the characterization of Earth-like planets. (Talk, Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference, 2017)
• Knoll, A.H. Invited lecture, Danish Museum of Natural History, Copenhagen (21 June 2017)
• Knoll, A.H. Teacher, workshop on physiology and Earth system evolution.  University of Erlangen Germany (1 August 2017)
• Knoll, A.H., Leeuwenhoek Lecture, University of Leiden, Netherlands (18 May 2017)
• Liu, C. What's up with Rodinia. PetroChina Company Limited, Beijing. (August 22, 2017)
• Liu, C., A.H. Knoll, and R.M. Hazen (2017) What’s up with Rodinia? (GSA, 2017)
• Ma, X. [Invited], Fox, P., Kolankowski, S., Hummer, D., Hazen, R.M., Golden, J.J., Meyer, M., 2017. Leveraging Data Science for Geoscience: Experience from the Deep Time Data Infrastructure. (AbSciCon2017)
• Ma, X. Doing geoinformatics with a web of data. (GSA, 2017)    
• Meyer, M.B. Deep-time Data Infrastructure: Visualizing the Co-Evolution of Planets and Life. Astrobiology Science Conference 2017, Mesa, Arizona. (April 25, 2017)
• Moore E, Jelen B, Giovannelli D, Prabhu A, Raanan H, and Falkowski P (2017) The Importance of Transition Metals in the Expanding Network of Microbial Metabolism in the Archean Eon, AGU, Abstract #281932.
• Morrison SM, Eleish A, Runyon SE, Prabhu A, Fox P, Ralph J, Golden JJ, Downs RT, Liu C,  Meyer MB, and Hazen RM (2017) Data-driven exploration of copper mineralogy and its application to Earth’s near-surface oxidation, AGU, Abstract #PP41B-1306
• Morrison SM, Eleish A, Runyon SE, Prabhu A, Fox P, Ralph J, Golden JJ, Downs RT, Liu C,  Meyer MB, and Hazen RM (2017) Copper mineral ecology and evolution, 200th Anniversary Meeting of the Russian Mineralogical Society
• Morrison, S.M. Copper mineral ecology and network analysis through deep time. S.M. Morrison, R.M. Hazen, et al. Deep Carbon Observatory Science Meeting, St. Andrews, Scotland. (March 25, 2017)
• Morrison, S.M. Mineral network analysis applications in comparative planetology. Astrobiology Science Conference 2017, Mesa, Arizona. (April 24, 2017)
• Morrison, S.M. Network analysis applications: Exploring geosphere and biosphere co-evolution with big data techniques. Goldschmidt Conference, Paris, France. (August 15, 2017)
• Morrison, S.M., Eleish, A., and Hummer, D.R. Network analysis applications to carbon mineral systems. Deep Carbon Observatory Science Meeting, St. Andrews, Scotland. (March 23, 2017)
• Muscente, A.D., N. Bykova, T.H. Boag, L. Buatois, A. Eleish, A. Prabhu, M. Meyer, J.D. Schiffbauer, P.  Fox, R. Hazen, and A.H. Knoll (2017) Ediacaran macrofossil assemblages and biozones in light of network theory. Abstracts, International Symposium on the Ediacaran-Cambrian Transition, St. John’s, Newfoundland, p. 84.
• Muscente, A.D., N. Bykova, T.H. Boag, L.A. Buatois, A. Eleish, M. Meyer, J.D. Schiffbauer, P. Fox, R.M. Hazen, and A.H. Knoll. Network analysis of fossil co-occurrence in the Ediacaran and Paleozoic. (GSA, 2017)
• Ostroverkhova A, Prabhu A, Golden JJ, Hazen RM, Downs RT, Morrison SM (2017) Минеральная эволюция лития (Mineral evolution of lithium), 200th Anniversary Meeting of the Russian Mineralogical Society
• Prabhu A, Fox P, Zhong H, Eleish A, Ma X, Zednik S, Morrison SM, Moore E, Muscente D, Meyer M, Hazen RM, and The Deep Time Data Infrastructure Team (2017) Visualizing Complex Environments in the Geo- and Bio Sciences, AGU, Abstract #259289.
• Prabhu A. Network Analysis in Earth Science, Web Science Conference, Troy, NY (June 2017)
• Zhong H, Ma X, Prabhu A, Eleish A, Pan F, Parsons M, Ghiorso M, West P, Zednik S, Chen Y, Wang H and Fox P (2017) Thermodynamic Data Rescue and Informatics for Deep Carbon Science, AGU, Abstract #242908.

 

2016

• Downs, R.T. Determination of valence states for the minerals (Talk, GSA 2016)
• Falkowski, P. The co-evolution of minerals and life (Talk, GSA 2016)
• Golden, J.J. Building the Mineral Evolution Database: Implications for future big data analysis (Poster, GSA 2016)
• Grew, E. Counting boron minerals in Earth’s crust: Can contradictory evidence be reconciled? (Talk, GSA 2016)
• Hao, J., Sverjensky, D. A., Hazen, R. M., Weathering and Late Archean World Average River Water, Goldschmidt 2016 (June 29^th, 2016)
• Hao, J., Sverjensky, D.A., and Hazen, R.M., Importance of Atmospheric H2 in Surficial Environments of the Archean, Second DCO Yellowstone Summer School (2016), Poster
• Hao, J., Sverjensky, D.A., and Hazen, R.M., Weathering and late Archean riverine transport, Australasian Astrobiology Meeting in Perth, Australia, 2016, Presentation.
• Hazen, R.M. Mineral evolution of first-row transition elements. 2^nd European Mineralogical Association Conference, Rimini, Italy. (September 12, 2016)
• Hazen, R.M. Mineral evolution. DCO Summer School, Chaco Hot Springs, Montana. (July 26, 2016)
• Hazen, R.M. MSA Roebling Medal Lecture: The co-evolution of Earth and life; insights from ‘Big Data’ mineralogy (Talk, GSA 2016)
• Hazen, R.M. On the mineralogy of the Anthropocene Epoch. 2^nd European Mineralogical Association Conference, Rimini, Italy. (September 12, 2016)
• Hazen, R.M. Private lives of minerals: Social network analysis applied to mineralogy and petrology. (Talk, AGU 2016)
• Hazen, R.M. The origins of life. DCO Summer School, Chaco Hot Springs, Montana. (July 28, 2016)
• Hazen, R.M. The Private Lives of Minerals, Neighborhood Lecture, Carnegie Inst. for Science, Geophysical Laboratory, November, 2016
• Hazen, R.M., Chance vs. Necessity in Earth’s Mineral Evolution; Philosophical Society of Washington, Washington DC. (Feb. 19, 2016)
• Hazen, R.M., Chance, necessity, and the origin of life; International Astrobiology Conference, Vilnius, Lithuania. (April 26, 2016)
• Hazen, R.M., Chance, necessity, and the origins of life; Calvert Marine Museum, Solomons, MD. (April 9, 2016)
• Hazen, R.M., Chance, necessity, and the origins of life; Philosophy of Biology seminar, Sorbonne, Paris, France. (March 9, 2016)
• Hazen, R.M., Chance, necessity, and the origins of life; The Morgan Lecture, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC. (March 23, 2016)
• Hazen, R.M., Chance, necessity, and the origins of life. Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, (October 18, 2016)
• Hazen, R.M., Coevolution of the geosphere and biosphere: Insights from deep-time data. Keck Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, (November 30, 2016)
• Hazen, R.M., Mineral ecology and evolution of first-row transition elements. Goldschmidt Conference, Yokohama, Japan (June 30, 2016)
• Hazen, R.M., Mineral ecology: Chance and necessity in the evolution of terrestrial planets; Institute de Physique du Globe de Paris, France. (March 10, 2016)
• Hazen, R.M., Mineral evolution, mineral ecology, and the coevolution of the geosphere and biosphere; Geology Department Seminar, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC. (March 23, 2016)
• Hazen, R.M., On the mineralogy of the Anthropocene Epoch. Goldschmidt Conference, Yokohama, Japan (July 1, 2016)
• Hazen, R.M., Private lives of minerals. Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, (November 15, 2016)
• Hummer, D.; Hazen, RM; Ma, X; Golden, JJ; Downs, RT. Constraints on the mineral evolution of planetary crusts using statistical correlations and anti-correlations among the mineral-forming elements. Goldschmidt Programs and Abstracts, session 6f, June 2016.
• Hummer, D.R. Quantifying and visualizing earth’s mineral chemistry through geologic time (Talk, GSA 2016)
• Hystad, G. Prediction of Earth’s “Missing” Minerals and the Relative Abundances of Mineral Species on Earth: A Statistical Measure to Characterize Earth-like Planets (Talk, GSA 2016)
• Hystad, G., Downs, Downs, R.T., Hazen, R.M., Mineral species frequency distribution and the prediction of Earth's missing minerals, JSM 2016 (August 1^st, 2016)
• Jelen, B., Giovannelli, D., Vetriani, C., The Sulfur Reduction Pathway in T. ammonificans, a deep sea vent bacterium from the phylum Aquifex, Northeast Geobiology Symposium at Harvard. (April 2016)
• Knoll, A. H., The Proterozoic Eon: Earth and Life at Middle Age, Geobiology Workshop, University of Tübingen, Germany. June 1, 2016.
• Knoll, A.H. Invited lecture, Max Planck Institute for Genetics and Cell Biology, Dresden, Germany (6 October 2016)
• Knoll, A.H. Plenary lecture, Swiss geoscience meeting, Geneva, Switzerland (19 November 2016)
• Knoll, A.H. Public lecture, Collegio Nacional, Mexico City (20 October 2016)
• Kolankowski, S. DTDI Poster: Deep Time Data Infrastructure: Integrating Our Current Geologic Databases (Poster, GSA 2016)
• Kolankowski, S. DTDI Poster: Deep Time Data Infrastructure: Integrating Our Current Geologic Databases (Poster, AGU 2016)
• Krivovichev, S.V. Structural and chemical complexity of minerals: relations and time evolution. 2^nd European Mineralogical Association Conference, Rimini, Italy. (September 13, 2016)
• Liu, C. Chromium and Vanadium Mineral Ecology (Talk, GSA 2016)
• Liu, C. Lithium adsorption onto mineral surfaces of kaolinite, gibbsite, goethite, and hematite; Goldschmidt Conference, Yokohama, Japan. (June 29, 2016)
• Liu, C.: Reconstructing the evolution of first-row transition metal minerals by GeoDeepDive, (Poster, AGU 2016)
• Ma, X.: Showing co-relationships between elements and minerals in a three-dimensional matrix (Poster w/ laptop; GSA 2016)
• Meyer, M.B. Co-evolution of the Geo- and Biospheres: An integrated program for data-driven, abductive discovery in the Earth sciences (Poster, GSA 2016)
• Meyer, M.B. Insights into Vendotaenid taphonomy and structure: New data on an old fossil (Talk, GSA 2016)
• Meyer, M.B., Estimating oxygen availability and gas exchange in a fossil microbial mat using computed tomography X-ray imaging: Implications for life-sediment interactions and early trace maker metabolisms in the late Ediacaran of South China, Northeast Geobiology Symposium at Harvard. (April 2016)
• Moore, E. K., Global Redox Influence on Metal Availability and the Emergence of Archean Metabolisms, Northeast Geobiology Symposium at Harvard. (April 2016)
• Morrison, S.M. Exploiting mineral data: applications to the diversity, distribution, and social networks of copper mineral, (Poster, AGU 2016)
• Morrison, S.M. Mineral ecology: Social network analysis and sociograms of mineral connections, distributions, and segmentation. (Talk, GSA 2016)
• Morrison, S.M. Social network of copper minerals: a mineral ecology study (Talk, Session T129)/ Mineral Ecology: Social network analysis and sociograms of mineral connections, distributions, and segmentation (Poster, GSA 2016)
• Muscente, A. D., Broce, J., Gill, B., Xiao, S., Authigenic and early diagenetic minerals as indicators of geomicrobiological processes in shelly fossil preservation and their significance for late Neoproterozoic-early Palaeozoic near-surface environments, Northeast Geobiology Symposium at Harvard. (April 2016)
• Muscente, A.D. Exceptionally preserved fossil assemblages through geologic time and space (Talk, GSA 2016)

 

Conference Sessions:

• AGU 2017 IN33B (oral) and IN31E (poster): Linked Data in the Earth Sciences. Conveners: Prabhu A., Morrison S.M., Ma X., Lehnert K., Klump J.F.
• Goldschmidt 2017 14A (oral and poster): Exogenous Organic Compounds, Minerals, Prebiotic Molecules and Geobiotropy. Conveners: Morrison S.M., Hummer D.R., Bassez M.P., Holm N., Remusat L., Martins Z.
• GSA 2016 T129 (oral and poster): Mineralogical Evidence for the Co-Evolution of the Geosphere and Biosphere: In Honor of Robert M. Hazen, 2016 Roebling Medalist. Conveners: Grew E.S., Ross N.L., Hummer D.R.

 

Synergistic Activities:

• Eleish, A. and Morrison S.M. Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) Webinar Series: “Visual Tools for Big Data Network Analysis”
• Prabhu A. Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) Webinar Series: “Making Sense of Jupyter Notebooks”
• Eleish A. Workshop: Applying network analysis to Earth science data. Deep Carbon Observatory Science Meeting, St. Andrews, Scotland. (March 2017)
• Eleish A. Workshop: Applications of Jupyter notebooks. Deep Carbon Observatory Science Meeting, St. Andrews, Scotland. (March 2017)

 

Media:

2016

• Hazen, R.M., “Life’s Rocky Start.” Premiere of a NOVA TV show about Hazen, plus discussion period following. Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC. (Feb 2, 2016)
• Hazen, R.M., “Treasures of the Earth” series, NOVA (WGBH-TV). “Gems” aired on November 2, 2016 and “Power” aired November 16, 2016.

 

2017

• Press coverage of “On the mineralogy of the Anthropocene Epoch”
• ~400 media outlets in 20 languages and 50 countries, with an estimated 600 million reads (March 2017). Media reports include Scientific American, Discover, New Scientist, Chemical and Engineering News, the Canadian Broadcasting System, BBC, Popular Science, and numerous other media outlets.
• Press coverage of “Network Analysis of Mineralogical Systems”
• ~150 media outlets in 13 languages and 38 countries, with an estimated 250 million reads (August 2017). Media reports include Reuters, BBC, Inside Science, New York Times, and numerous other media outlets.
• Press conference for opening of the mineral evolution exhibit: Vienna Museum of Natural History, press conference presentation. (Hazen, R.M., April 4, 2017)