EarthScope Committees
Committee Nominations TWG Member List TWG Online Community
EarthScope National Office
Meeting Summaries
September 2010 meeting summary [PDF 51KB]
EEOSC recommendation to ESSC, endorsed at February 2010 meeting [PDF 125KB]
February 2010 meeting summary [PDF 71KB]
April 2009 meeting summary [PDF 57KB]
October 2008 meeting summary [PDF 78KB]
May 2008 meeting summary [PDF 115KB]
Current Membership
J Ramón Arrowsmith (ESSC Chair and ESNO PI 2011-2014)
Ken Dueker (2011-2013)
Michael Gurnis (ECISC chair 2011-2013)
Steven J. Whitmeyer (EEOSC chair 2011-2013)
Cin-Ty A. Lee (2011-2013)
Jeff Freymuller (2011-2013)
Chris Andronicos (2011-2013)
Former Members
Anne Trehu (ESNO PI 2007-2011)
Michael Williams (2007-2011)
Howard Zebker (2007-2011)
Terry Plank (2007-2011)
Goran Ekstrom (ESSC Chair 2008-2011)
Jim Davis (EEOSC chair, 2008-2010)
Bill Holt (2007-2010)
Randy Keller (ECISC chair, 2007-2010)
Overview
To foster and facilitate integrated research, education, and outreach activities and to motivate broad community participation, the EarthScope planning and implementation structure includes an EarthScope Steering Committee (ESSC) and an EarthScope National Office (ESNO) that migrates from one university to another every 3-4 years. The ESNO is guided by and provides support for the ESSC, which is comprised of representatives of the EarthScope community. Technical capabilities (staff and funds) to assist in the implementation of many of the ESSC/ESNO activities reside in the facilities (PBO, USArray, SAFOD) in order to provide continuity as the ESNO moves.
The ESSC is currently comprised of 8 members, including the ESNO Principal Investigator and the chairs of the EarthScope Education and Outreach Subcommittee (EEOSC) and the EarthScope Cyberinfrastructure Subcommittee (ECISC). The PBO and USArray Directors also participate ex-officio. The committee meets twice/year and has monthly conference calls.
The ESSC was initiated in 2007 with the transition from the EarthScope construction phase to the operations and maintenance phase and the initiation of the first ESNO. A process is currently underway to achieve a rolling membership in which 3 new members are added/year. We urge the community to nominate new candidates; self-nominations are welcome (EarthScope Committee Nominations).
EarthScope Steering Committee Activities
• Facilitate program planning, coordination, and implementation
•Recommend updates/changes to the EarthScope Science Plan
•Recommend updates/changes to the EarthScope Program Solicitation
• Meet with NSF officials routinely and on specific topics as necessary
• Host open forums, town hall meetings, etc.
• Establish subcommittees and/or working groups as needed
• Foster the development of community consensus concerning
• Communications
•Workshops/meetings
•Special volumes or other publications with the EarthScope imprint
•Videos, web content, and other developing technologies for EarthScope communication
•Cyberinfrastructure
•Data, metadata, and products
•Data/products dissemination
• Maintain liaisons with organizations and industry as needed
• Foster the development of a strong and diverse EarthScope Education and Outreach program (via the EEOSC)
• Recommend appropriate procedures to create or update news and review items, fact sheets, non-technical components of the Web site, press releases, booth materials, and all other types of communications
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.