Boulder DUSEL Study Workshop Introduction

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Boulder DUSEL Study WorkshopIntroduction
Bernard Sadoulet Dept. of Physics /LBNL UC
Berkeley UC Institute for Nuclear and
Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (INPAC)

• Apologies a difficult date!
• The DUSEL Process
• The DUSEL (Solicitation 1) Study
• Goals of this 3rd workshop

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DUSEL Process

• Solicitation 1 Community wide study of
• Scientific roadmap from Nuclear/Particle/Astro
  Physics to Geo Physics/Chemistry/Microbiology/Engi
  neering
• Generic infrastructure requirements
• Proposal, supported by all 8 known sites,
  submitted on Sept 15, 2004 (www.dusel.org)
• Unofficially approved by NSF (with 20 budget
  reduction)
• PIs will go to Washington in February to
  clarify goals and time scale
• Solicitation 2 Preselection of 3-5 sites
• Proposals due February 28.
• Solicitation 3
• Selection of initial site(s)
• MRE and Presidential Budget (08?)

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Solicitation 1 Organization

• 6 PIs responsible for the study
• in particular, scientific quality/ objectivity
• 14 working groups Workshops
• Infrastructure requirements/management
• Education and outreach
• 2 consultation groups
• The site consultation group (Solicitation 2
  sites)
• Endorsement of the PIs and general approach
• Input on scientific/technical questions important
  to the sites
• Competition between sites
• The initiative coordination group major
  stakeholders (e.g. national labs)
• Coordination with other major initiatives
• Competition between these initiatives
• Report directed at OMB/OSTP/Congress
• cf. Quantum Universe
• Web based reports with technical facts
• External review à la NRC

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Workshops

• Berkeley Aug 4-7
• Agree about methodology and finalize Solicitation
  1 proposal
• First exploration of scientific themes
• Start of work on infrastructure requirements
• Common language for solicitation 2
• Blacksburg Nov 12-13
• Focus on Earth Sciences (including
  Geo-microbiology) and Applications
• More precise definition of scientific roadmaps
  and generic experiments
• Boulder Jan 5-7
• Further develop the science argument for DUSEL
• in particular bring in evolutionary molecular,
  cell and microbial biologists
• new ideas
• Focus on infrastructure requirements -gt Modules
• Progress is important for Solicitation 2
  proposals
• Place DUSEL in international context unique
  aspects
• Launch work of the working groups
• infrastructure and writing assignments
• Washington Area May or June
• Preliminary conclusions

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Berkeley WorkshopA Powerful Case for DUSEL

• Unique aspects
• Earth Sciences Deep, long term is unique
• Physics Depth ?
• Long baseline accelerators
• Likely demand and evolution of science
• We have to build the case
• Road maps infrastructure requirements
• Strategic importance
• as large scale experiments become international
  , important to have US site to have US teams
  leading the projects
• We want the U.S. to be a leader in geoscience
  techniques
• Energy sciences (finding oil deposit, etc.)
• Underground construction
• Education of our scientists and engineers
• Homeland security
• International context and partnerships
• SNO
• Japan/Europe

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Blacksburg workshopThe Big Earth Science
Questions

• The conditions for life
• Limits
• Metabolism/ Energy source
• Evolution/Ancient life
• The everchanging Earth
• Behavior of rock and fluids at depth.
• Coupled processes in inhomogeneous media mass,
  momentum,energy flow
• Spatial and temporal scaling laws
• The structure and the evolution of the earth
• Observing from inside out Core/mantle/crust/mount
  ain
• Dynamics earthquakes
• The concentration of ore deposits
• Climate change ?
• Paleoclimate ? Ancient sequestered water
• Clouds?
• Note Not a division between biologists and
  geologists. Each of these two themes need the
  whole complement of expertise

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Blacksburg workshopSome useful syntheses

• Science, methods and applicationscomplementary
  facets
• Ex The ever changing earth, observation methods
  (transparent earth) and the origin/discovery/exp
  loitation of resources
• Overlap is testimony of the richness of the field
• Opportunity for multiple advocacy (NSF-DOE-
  Congress - Industry)
• Earth science is not geology independent
• Not everything can be done at every site
• What are the generic site characteristics which
  are necessary to at least start to tackle the
  most important questions
• cf Depth as a major characteristic for physicists
  (but not needed for all)
• Do we have enough of a scientific case for
  recommending eventually a combination of sites
  with a variety of rocks Sedimentary hard rock
  salt?
• Elaborate roadmaps using complementarity
• e.g. from simplest to more complex
• comparison low/high porosity, carbon
  rich--hydrogen rich

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Goals

• The most powerful arguments for DUSEL
• The big questions
• A short list compelling both for the specialist
  and the public at large
• We will not justify DUSEL with a large collection
  of B projects. A few essential (A) projects,
  which may enable useful (B) projects.
• Unique aspects of a US DUSEL
• Understand better the international situation
  what exists, visions, plans
• What are the unique aspects? How is it
  complementary? Partnerships
• Strategic arguments
• A good generic plan for implementation
• Roadmap of high priority generic experiments
• Infrastructure requirements for these experiments
  and laboratory as a whole management
• Modules saving on common infrastructure
• synergies
• possibility of phased implementation
• Realism Watch cost/complexity we can very
  effectively kill the project!
• Make as much progress as possible
  here. Solicitation 2 Define work for the working
  groups this winter

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Goals

• The most powerful arguments for DUSEL
• The big questions
• A short list compelling both for the specialist
  and the public at large
• We will not justify DUSEL with a large collection
  of B projects. A few essential (A) projects,
  which may enable useful (B) projects.
• Unique aspects of a US DUSEL
• Understand better the international
  situationwhat exists, visions, plans
• What are the unique aspects? How is it
  complementary? Partnerships
• Strategic arguments
• A good generic plan for implementation
• Roadmap of high priority generic experiments
• Infrastructure requirements for these experiments
  and laboratory as a whole management
• Modules saving on common infrastructure
• synergies
• possibility of phased implementation
• Realism Watch cost/complexity we can very
  effectively kill the project!
• Make as much progress as possible
  here. Solicitation 2 Define work for the working
  groups this winter

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