EarthScope Institutes are intended to engage the scientific community on broad, emerging problems with transformative potential. Institutes are generally initiated with a community workshop that seeds a continuing web-based virtual institute. To propose topics for future EarthScope Institutes see Detailed description of goals and format for an Institute and Guidelines for proposing an Institute.
2011 National Meeting
The 2011 EarthScope National Meeting was held at the AT&T Executive and Education Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Tuesday, May 17-20.
2009 WESP workshop
Science Plan and Selected Talks
The 2009 Workshop for an EarthScope Science Plan was held in Snowbird, UT on October 7-9 and provided background for the science plan released in January 2010.
2009 National Meeting
The 2009 EarthScope National Meeting was held at the Centre on the Grove in Boise, ID May 12-15.
2007 National Meeting
The meeting emphasized integrated, multi-disciplinary science, presented latest results and examined future EarthScope directions; and enhanced the role of young scientists in EarthScope research.
2005 National Meeting
With over 300 scientists participating, the first EarthScope National Meeting synthesized results from previous topical workshops and emphasized EarthScope's crosscutting science and interdisciplinary research goals.
Current List of EarthScope Institutes
Institute on the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary - September 2011, Portland, Oregon
The institute will bring together seismologists, dynamicists, experimentalists and petrologists to integrate new observations of the interface between the strong lithosphere and weak asthenosphere into a new conceptual understanding of the lithosphere-asthenophere boundary (LAB) and to develop new ideas about Earth’s dynamic behavior that give rise to this feature.
LAB Institute Page
Institute on the Spectrum of Fault Slip Behaviors - October 2010, Portland, Oregon
The institute aimed to foster critical thinking about underlying mechanisms and physical processes responsible for the spectrum of observed fault slip behaviors and promote broad, community-based interest in understanding transient fault slip. Visit the web page to see workshop presentations. Additional community discussion tools and data products are under development.
Fault Slip Institute Page
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