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cinzia cervato

associate professor
geological and atmospheric sciences

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"There are so many questions that we are not yet able to give more accurate answers to without a good time scale."

The Smithsonian. The U.S. Geological Survey. The San Diego Super Computer Center. MIT. Harvard. John's Hopkins. Purdue. Texas A&M. All are part of CHRONOS (which means time in Greek), a National Science Foundation funded project.

And it's all coordinated by Cinzia Cervato at Iowa State University. Cinzia is coordinating a continually expanding network of individual databases, linked by geologic time. CHRONOS will eventually deliver a dynamic, interactive and time-calibrated framework for Earth system history as a network of comprehensive databases containing information related to the evolution and diversity of life, climate change, geochemical cycles, geodynamical processes and other aspects of the Earth system.

"By putting events into sequence we will be able to see how life evolved, how the climate changed, how the ice sheets grew and then melted away."