Another outgrowth of Gaian Variations is that Currier soon afterward became directly involved with science itself, also becoming active in a wide variety of climate-related initiatives around the same time.

When NASA celebrated the 50th Anniversary of its exobiology program, the keynote speakers were Gaia theory founders James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis, and Margulis cited a passage from Paul Lowman's Life's Tectonics (MIT Press, 2011), of which Currier was the co-author.