The University of Arizona was awarded a $1,158,103 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program to conduct collaborative research titled "Growing a New Science of Landscape Terraformation: The Convergence of Rock, Fluids, and Life to Form Complex Ecosystems Across Scales." The Integrative Activities program aims to enhance the competitiveness of the nation's research through activities that build capacity for science and engineering and broaden participation in STEM. Under this award, researchers at the University of Arizona will work to advance the understanding of how rock, water, and microbial interactions shape Earth's surface over time by developing an integrated science of landscape evolution. The five-year project beginning October 1, 2021 seeks to converge insights across disciplines to reveal principles of landscape terraformation across spatial and temporal scales.
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