Deep Carbon: Past to Present

Beth Orcutt is a senior research scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Maine. Her research focuses on understanding microscopic life at and below the seafloor. Having clocked over 600 days at sea on field missions, including dives to the seafloor in the Alvin Submersible, she is an expert in ocean exploration. Orcutt has received a Kavli Frontiers in Science fellowship and the 2018 Geobiology and Geomicrobiology Division post-tenure award from the Geological Society of America. Isabelle Daniel is Professor of Earth Sciences at the Universite Claude-Bernard Lyon I, France. She is also affiliated with the Laboratoire de Geologie de Lyon and chairs the Observatoire de Lyon. Her research focuses on geobiology and minerals, rocks, and fluids under extreme conditions. She investigates serpentinization and serpentine minerals, fluid-rock interactions at high pressure and microorganisms under extreme conditions. She is a fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America. Rajdeep Dasgupta is Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Rice University, Houston. His research focuses on deep processes of Earth and planetary interiors, which he pursues using geochemical and petrological approaches. He is a recipient of the James B. Macelwane Medal and Hisashi Kuno Award from the American Geophysical Union, the FW Clarke Medal from the Geochemical Society, the Faculty Early Career Award from NSF, the Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering. He is also a fellow of the American Geophysical Union.