Life and Environments Through Time
Funds research on how Earth's climate, environments and life evolved together — from the Archean to the Holocene.
LET funds research into the patterns and processes behind the origin and evolution of Earth's climate, its environments, its life, and the sedimentary record that preserves all three.
The span is the striking part. Work can sit at molecular, local, regional or global scale, and covers time from the Archean Eon through to the Holocene epoch — most of the planet's history.
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Patterns and processes behind the origin and evolution of Earth's climate, environments, life and sedimentary record, at molecular, local, regional and global scales, from the Archean Eon through the Holocene epoch.
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