GreatBREAK

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GreatBREAK

• Workshop Planning for Earthscope in the Great
  Basin
  
• This workshop is sponsored by the National
  Science Foundation under Grant No. 0346242.

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NSF Representatives

• Herman Zimmerman,
• Director, Division of Earth Sciences
• Kaye Shedlock,
• Program Director, Geophysics Program
• David Fountain,
• Program Director, Tectonics Program
• Stephen Harlan,
• Program Director, Tectonics Program
• James Whitcomb,
• Program Director, Seismology

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Organizing Committee

• John Anderson, University of Nevada, Reno
• Rick Aster, New Mexico Tech
• Glenn Biasi, University of Nevada, Reno
• Geoff Blewitt, Nevada Bureau of Mines and
  Geology
  
• Jim Faulds, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
• Lew Gustafson, Independent consultant
• Gene Humphreys, University of Oregon
• John Louie, University of Nevada, Reno
• Jon Price, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
• Phil Wannamaker, University of Utah
• Steve Wesnousky, University of Nevada, Reno

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Acknowledgements

• Greg van der Vink
• Earthscope program office
• Charna Meth
• Administrative Assistant, Earthscope
• Adam Hemsley, Aasha Pancha, Donghong Pei, Jim
  Scott, Wes Thelan
  
• Students, Nevada Seismological Laboratory
• Cathleen Zimmerman,
• Office Manager, Nevada Seismological Laboratory
• Staff of Granlibakken Resort

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Workshop Administrative Assistant

• Cathleen Zimmerman
• Any assistance you need. Print posters, make
  transparencies,
  
• If anything is missing from the workshop
  binders.
  
• Travel claims

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Workshop Librarian

• John Louie
• Collect copies of all presentations
• Overview talks, Grand Challenges, Breakout
  reports, posters
  
• Build workshop web site with materials you agree
  to be posted.

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Brief Agenda

• Monday AM
• General presentations
• Monday PM
• Posters (set up posters at lunch time)
• First breakouts reports
• Posters with refreshments after dinner

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Brief Agenda

• Tuesday AM
• Grand Challenges
• Tuesday PM
• Two breakout sessions
• Posters with refreshments after dinner

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Brief Agenda

• Wednesday AM
• Reports from Tuesday breakouts
• Panel discussion

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Changes to Agenda

• Tuesday morning
• Substitute Jim Faulds for Jon Price
• Wednesday morning
• Start at 830 AM

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Goals of the Workshop

• The primary purpose of the workshop is to
  promote community self-organization that we
  believe is necessary for the first Major Research
  Equipment and Facilities Construction initiative
  in the Earth sciences.

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Goals of the Workshop

• The scope of the workshop will be to review the
  state of knowledge of the geophysics of the
  region, and in the process to refine our
  understanding of the problems that the data
  gathered by the EarthScope initiative will help
  to resolve.

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Goals of the Workshop

• Breakout sessions. The principal goal will be to
  identify major research directions focusing on
  fundamental (and perhaps controversial)
  questions, and methodologies for making progress
  on these issues using EarthScope (and perhaps
  other) resources.

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Breakouts

• Eight total, in your program, A-H.
• Everyone who submitted an abstract should be
  listed to give a 5 minute summary of your poster
  in one of these sessions. Suggest 2 low-tech
  transparencies.
• Back of breakout section a page that suggests a
  breakout for everyone to attend in each of the
  three time slots.

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Breakouts

• Each breakout has someone designated as
  moderator and as recorder.
  
• Ask the moderator, recorder, (or someone else) to
  report on the session to the the rest of us.
  
• Each breakout needs to select someone to
  participate on the panel on Wednesday morning.

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Breakout Session Agendas

• 2-transparency summaries by identified
  participants (5 minutes each to start
  discussions)
  
• What are the scientific problems?
• What problems can Earthscope solve?
• What does it mean to self-organize?
• Do we want to self-organize?
• What is interesting for outreach and how should
  we present it?

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Breakouts

• Organizing committee is not asking the breakouts
  to suggest priorities.
  
• Organizing committee does not have its own
  agenda.

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Panel Discussion

•  The following are proposed for the theme
  questions for the panel discussion
  
• 1. What will Earthscope gain from its
  multidisciplinary nature, making the whole
  greater than the sum of the parts?
  
• 2. What integrated data products do we want from
  the Earthscope facility?
  
• 3. What would you like to see as the Earthscope
  legacy in the Great Basin?

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Thank you for coming!!!