QUARTERDECK. Pursuing Earth and Ocean Sciences Priorities As One Community

From May 4–6, 2015, I had the privilege of attending the “Workshop on Future Seismic and Geodetic Facility Needs in the Geosciences” in Leesburg, Virginia. Roughly 100 scientists from the largely land-based US seismic and geodetic communities gathered to formulate the key scientific research questions that they will be pursuing beyond 2018, and to develop recommendations regarding the “foundational” and “frontier” facilities required to conduct the science (for more information, see http://www.iris.edu/hq/ workshops/2015/05/future_seismic_and_geodetic_facility_needs_in_the_geosciences). The workshop took place in the context of the National Science Foundation’s Division of Earth Sciences’ need for community input as it plans to recompete management and operations of its seismic and geodetic facilities in 2016 (see http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2015/nsf15076/nsf15076.jsp). Those facilities include the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS; http://www.iris.edu), UNAVCO (https://www.unavco.org), and EarthScope (http://www.earthscope.org), which is managed jointly by IRIS and UNAVCO.

Abstract licence: CC BY

A person counts once a day per paper. We keep no cookie and no address: a reader is a hash that changes every day. Any month under five reads shows no number.