All the time in the world will soon be available in one Web site.

A $2 million grant was awarded to Iowa State for the funding of a project that will study geologic time and the earth’s evolution.

The project, known as the CHRONOS Project, will make all of the combined information accessible on the Internet, said Carl Jacobson, professor and chair of geological and atmospheric sciences. Anyone will be able to access the site and get any information they want about geologic time and the earth’s evolution from around the world, he said.

“It is to create a network of databases of geologic information of the history of the earth,” Jacobson said.

“[The information will come] from all over the country and the world for certain parts of geologic time.”

Cinzia Cervato, assistant professor of geological and atmospheric sciences, will coordinate the project. Cervato will be working with 17 other universities to assemble past, present and future information from around the world on geologic time and the earth’s evolution.

Cervato was unavailable for comment. She is currently out of the country.

CHRONOS is the Greek word for time, explaining the project well, since it involves the study of geologic time and the earth’s history, according to the CHRONOS project Web site, www.chronos.org.

“The mission is to collect and assemble data for interdisciplinary earth research,” said Bjorn Brooks, graduate student in geological and atmospheric sciences, who works on the project.

This will be achieved by not only collecting and quantifying old data that others have gathered, Brooks said, but also collecting new data using new techniques.

Half of the Web site that is being created can be used by anyone, while the other half of the site can be used by scientists and more experienced amateurs to get information, Brooks said.

The $2 million grant will only cover the first two years of the six year project, Jacobson said. After the first year and a half, there will be a review started on the project to see how it is going. If all goes well, the project will continue, he said.

The National Science Foundation funded the project.