SAFOD Dear Colleague Letter from NSF
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The National Science Foundation has put together a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) about the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth. SAFOD as an indispensible component of EarthScope is affirmed. The plan then will be to redefine the scope of SAFOD, seek a new awardee to manage and operate it, encourage new science proposals using the Facility, and have a workshop focused on borehole observatories (including SAFOD) for studies of earthquake and fault physics.
The DCL is released here: http://nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12013/nsf12013.jsp. Please have a look at the DCL and contact Greg Anderson with questions or comments at greander@nsf.gov or 703.292.4693. We need a healthy response to the Facility competition when it comes out! SAFOD is important and we need some groups to step up to propose to take it over.
The EarthScope Steering Committee is quoted: SAFOD "is an indispensible element of the core EarthScope Facilities[and] its continued operation and management as a community resource continues to be an essential andintegral part of EarthScope science."
For reference, here are some documents:
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