Workshop Description

October 10-12, 2001, Snowbird, Utah
Application Deadline: July 1, 2001

EarthScope: A major research initiative proposed by the NSF Earth Sciences Division to examine the structure and tectonics of North America in unprecedented detail. The facility component of EarthScope includes four elements: San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD), USArray, Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO), and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR). These elements provide highly complementary tools to address a wide variety of fundamental problems concerning continental evolution and dynamics.

Workshop: Explore and develop a wide range of scientific targets for EarthScope. Examples of such targets include large-scale problems of continental scale plate boundary dynamics, mountain building, rifting, and evolution of the stable craton; focussed studies of magmatism, sedimentary basin formation and evolution; and coordinated investigations of volcanoes, earthquake hazards and resource assessment. Workshop participants are encouraged to expand this list and to develop ideas that integrate the technical resources of EarthScope facilities with complementary geological, hydrological and geophysical information.

Earthscope Workshop Abstracts

Applications: Complete and submit the online form. Include a short (less than one page) description of the applicant's intended contribution to the workshop. Notification of application acceptance will be made by August 1, 2001. A short (2-4 page inclusive of figures) description of the participant's suggestion for subject, process, or natural laboratory to which the EarthScope facility can be directed will be required prior to September 1, 2001. These contributions will be distributed at the workshop, used to form breakout groups to develop themes involving EarthScope, and finally integrated with discussions at the workshop to outline a broad science plan to which the EarthScope facility and supporting science can be aimed. The workshop will be limited to 150 participants. Partial support (air travel (up to $500), hotel, meals) will be provided by workshop funds. This workshop is supported by the National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the United States Geological Survey.

EarthScope Information: www.earthscope.org