Summary
This project supports the participation of early career scientists in the 2026 Geobiology Gordon Research Seminar and Gordon Research Conference. Geobiology is the study of interactions between life and the physical Earth, both in the modern and ancient worlds. It merges the disciplines of paleontology, sedimentology, microbiology, chemistry, and geology. At the heart of the field of Geobiology is how the living planet and its changes over time are documented, understood, and interpreted. This, in turn, leads to questions of what controls the variety of metabolisms on the planet today, as well