CEED

The Centre of Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED) started in 2013 and ended in 2023 after a 10-year long journey as a Norwegian Center of Excellence (CoE). CEED was dedicated to research of fundamental importance to the understanding of the Earth’s evolution, which embraced the paleogeography and dynamics of the plates, the origin of large-scale volcanism, the evolution of climates and the abrupt demise of life forms. CEED bridged the knowledge gap between plates and plumes, and the processes leading to the rapid changes in the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases documented in the geological record. We also successfully extended our research to other planets and this provided the fundament for our new CoE (Centre for Planetary Habitability), in short PHAB.