Eight years have passed since the original EarthScope Science Plan was developed. The National Science Foundation has called for a community-based re-examination of EarthScope science priorities and development of an updated EarthScope Science Plan. The goal is to "identify high-priority, new, and emerging areas of scientific exploration for the EarthScope Program over the next five to ten years from a broad range of Earth science disciplines, including geodesy, seismology, geology, hydrology, ocean science, weather and climate modeling, and space physics. The plan should emphasize transformative, interdisciplinary science and include some areas that may be speculative today, but with a high potential return." ( Charge to EarthScope Steering Committee ).
Coming Meetings/Workshops
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 from and examined the future direction of EarthScope; 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.
Workshop for an EarthScope Science Plan (WESP)
Meeting Information
NEW! Draft of the EarthScope Science Plan available. Comments requested by January 4, 2010
The organizing committee for the Workshop for an EarthScope Science Plan (WESP) includes: Mike Williams (University of Massachusetts, mlw@geo.umass.edu), Karen Fischer (Brown University, Karen_Fischer@brown.edu), Basil Tikoff (University of Wisconsin, btikoff@wisc.edu), Jeff Freymueller (University of Alaska, jeff.freymueller@gi.alaska.edu), and Anne Trehu (Oregon State University and EarthScope National Office, trehu@coas.oregonstate.edu).
The new science plan is due at NSF by January 31, 2010. We anticipate that a first draft will be released to the community for comments by December 9, 2009. The EarthScope town hall meeting at AGU [Thursday, December 17, from 7:30-8:30 in Moscone West, Room 2003] will focus on discussing the science plan. We encourage all scientists interested in the future of EarthScope, including those with little or no past involvement with EarthScope, to participate in shaping the new plan.
For a list of participants in the post-meeting writing team and more details about the time table for production of the Science Plan, please click here .
The plan will include an appendix of contributed 'one-pagers' highlighting exciting EarthScope results. Please consider submitting a summary of your work. Send your formatted contribution (Times New Roman 12 pt preferred) as either a doc or pdf file to: earthscope@coas.oregonstate.edu . These 'one-pagers' will be a resource for the workshop writing team and will be posted on the EarthScope web site. Please take this opportunity to inform the community of your results!
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