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Updating short-term tectonics working group priorities & workshop

Date: 04/28/2009

To the Short-Term Tectonics Community,

Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG) is a membership-governed organization that supports and promotes Earth science by developing and maintaining software for computational geophysics and related fields (http://www.geodynamics.org/). CIG is in the process of preparing a proposal for NSF for a new 5 year funding cycle, and several weeks ago hosted a workshop on Opportunities and Challenges in Computational Geophysics to update and formulate new short- and long-term goals. Several members from the short-term tectonics community participated and worked to update our community's list of goals on the CIG website (http://www.geodynamics.org/cig/workinggroups/short/workarea/planning/pri...). I encourage anyone who has an interest in community numerical tools for short-term tectonics to take a few minutes to read this summary and provide feedback (there is a comment button at the bottom of the summary). Your comments will help in preparing the proposal for ongoing support of CIG. In late May or early June a draft of the proposal to NSF for continued funding of CIG will be available and the entire community will be invited to comment.

I also wish to remind the community of the upcoming 2009 Workshop on Numerical Modeling of Crustal Deformation and Earthquake Faulting, June 22-26, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO. The workshop will blend science talks on case studies from particular faulting environments and on key rheological behavior with discussions of current obstacles to crustal deformation modeling. Another goal of this workshop is to provide basic training in the installation, use, and customization of existing, freely available modeling software for crustal deformation. There will be dedicated time throughout the workshop for hands-on interaction with other users and developers of the primary existing tools.

Registration: http://geodynamics.org/cig/workinggroups/short/workshops/nmcdef-09/nmcde...

Best Regards,
Andy
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Andrew Freed
Associate Professor
Dept. of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
Purdue University
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West Lafayette, IN 47907-2051
Phone: (765) 496-3738
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