Roles and Responsibilities:

• Support for EarthScope Steering Committee (including subcommittees, and working groups)

° Organizes, schedules, and provides logistical support for the EarthScope Steering Committee
° Develops meeting materials
° Produces and distributes meeting minutes

• Provide scientific leadership and advocacy for EarthScope (within and outside the NSF)
• Articulate the long-term goals and vision for EarthScope
• Provide support for the EarthScope community to help it grow and develop
• Provide an interface between the community and the NSF
• Provide timely and thoughtful review/evaluation/promotion of accomplishments (review and communicate the progress of EarthScope with respect to meeting science goals articulated in the science plan).
• Promote and enhance EarthScope education and outreach opportunities
• Develop and implement a strategic communication plan
• Data Management

°Provide advice on policy and strategy for cyberinfrastructure development
° Foster/facilitate community consensus concerning databases, data products, and data/product dissemination

• Provide advice and guidance to the NSF on issues that arise during execution/implementation of the program
• Develop and maintain liaisons with other programs and initiatives
• Work with the community and the NSF to keep the science plan current
• Work with the NSF to keep EarthScope proposal solicitations current
• Meet with NSF program managers on special topics
• Organize/solicit community input/help for the biennial EarthScope meeting
• Promote EarthScope science via special sessions at professional society meetings (i.e. AGU, GSA, AAAS, AAPG, SEG, NAST, etc).
• Organize/attend town hall meetings at professional society meetings

• Plan/solicit workshops to advance the program

° Encourage themes from multiple disciplines/perspectives
° Identify timely workshop topics/themes

• Engage students and postdocs in EarthScope via workshops and other activities
• Organize/solicit special volume publications
• Provide review and advice on web content and other publications
• Promote links between the facilities and the community

Membership, Terms, and Structure:

• Membership

° 8 members ° Broad disciplinary expertise, science perspective, and geographic representation (active tectonics/process geomorphology, geochronology, geochemistry, geodesy, geodynamics, magnetotellurics, mineral physics, petrology, seismology, structural geology)
° Chair of EarthScope Education and Outreach Steering Committee (a subcommittee of the EarthScope Steering Committee) is a full member
° Chair of the EarthScope Cyberinfrastructure Committee (a subcommittee of the EarthScope Steering Committee) is a full member
° PI of the EarthScope National Office is a full member
° Representatives from each of the facilities (PBO, SAFOD, and USArray) serve as liaisons

• Terms

° 3-year terms (staggered, no repeats – except sitting chair)
° Yearly rotation
° Only one member per institution
° Membership determined through a nominations process (see note 1).

• Structure

° Chair (limited to a 3-year term)
° Vice Chair (limited to a 3-year term)
° Subcommittees: Education, Cyberinfrastructure (additional subcommittees can be formed if needed)
° Working Groups: convergent margin processes, large-scale continental deformation, crustal strain and deformation, continental structure and evolution, fluids and magmas, faults and earthquake processes, deep earth structure (EarthScope Steering Committee members chair working groups).

Note 1: Nomination Process: A three person nominating committee will be formed annually. The Chair of the nominating committee is a member of the EarthScope Steering Committee. Two additional members of the nominating committee will be chosen from the EarthScope science community. The charge to the committee is to come up with a slate of two to three names for each open position. Nominations will be submitted to the NSF. The NSF EarthScope Program Manager in consultation with other relevant EAR program managers will make the final decision.



Current membership:

Anne Meltzer
ESSC Chair
Term expires spring 2008

Susan Beck
Member
Term expires spring 2008

Priscilla Grew
EEOSC Chair
Term expires spring 2008

Bradley Hacker
ESSC Chair
Term expires spring 2008

William Holt
Member
Term expires spring 2009

Randy Keller
ECISC Chair
Term expires spring 2010

Basil Tikoff
Member
Term expires spring 2008

Anne Trehu
ESNO PI
Term expires spring 2011

Pinar Yilmaz
Member
Term expires spring 2008