Fundamentally, this requires accurate timelines to constrain critical changes in the environment and climate, and for Earth specifically, the conditions for early life and Earth’s evolution as a habitable, hospitable and inhabited planet.
Knowledge collected from Earth and other rocky planets in the Solar System will enable us to recognize the key conditions for planetary habitability and to develop predictive models to identify habitable planets around other stars.
Work Packages: Planets and Early Earth
- Timelines (Torsvik, Werner)
- Planet Formation (Werner, Torsvik)
- Atmosphere Evolution (Werner, Jahren)
- Early Oceans (Conrad, Werner)
- Magnetic Fields (Torsvik, Gaina)
- Tectonic Regimes & Interior (Gaina, Conrad)
- Snowball Earths & Tipping Points (Torsvik, Werner)
- Conditions for Early Life (Liow, Werner)
Linked projects:
HIDDEN (Caracas), BOULDERING (Prieur)
All research themes and work packages
The research at the Centre for Planetary Habitability is performed in three themes: