From 24-26 October 2019 in Washington, DC, USA, members of the Deep Carbon Observatory community got together for “Deep Carbon 2019: Launching the Next Decade of Deep Carbon Science.” This international conference celebrated a decade of DCO discoveries and served as a launching pad for the future of deep carbon science. Prof. Fengping Wang also gave a wonderful lecture during the meeting with the topic “International Center for Deep Life Investigation (ICDLI)——A global platform for the entire deep life community”.

The US National Academy of Sciences and the Carnegie Institution for Science hosted Deep Carbon 2019: Launching the Next Decade of Deep Carbon Science from 24–26 October 2019 at their historic locations in Washington, DC. Close to 300 members of DCO’s international community convened for a lively program of talks, posters, and other activities.

A Decade of Discovery

The conference marked the culmination of a decade of deep carbon science as summarized in the Deep Carbon Observatory’s decadal report, a 50-page document released in October 2019. With a DCO community of 1200 scientists in 55 countries researching a broad range of cutting-edge scientific questions, synthesizing the DCO decade was no small feat. The report strives to present the complex story of the community’s contributions across four scientific communities (Extreme Physics and Chemistry, Reservoirs and Fluxes, Deep Energy, and Deep Life) and four crosscutting activities (field studies, instrumentation, modeling and visualization, and data science) to understanding what is known and unknown about the quantities, movements, forms, and origins of carbon in Earth.

These thematic areas formed the basis for Deep Carbon 2019, with the plenary oral sessions at the National Academy of Sciences highlighting DCO achievements through different lenses. Using presentation strategies ranging from lightning talks, to panel discussion, to keynote lectures, speakers shared highlights from the four DCO science communities as well as novel insights from field investigations, high-risk instrumentation projects, data science, and modeling and visualization. Forward-looking sessions also focused on continuing research initiatives that grew out of DCO's initial vision and are launching the next decade of deep carbon science.

Poster sessions at the Carnegie Institution for Science complemented these plenary oral sessions, with 130 papers presented over two days. Early career scientists featured prominently in both the oral program and the poster sessions, and meeting delegates congratulated the 2019 recipients of the DCO Emerging Leader Awards.

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