Geodynamics White Paper

An ad-hoc committee of US geodynamicists has completed a report for the NSF and others on future problems in our field. The Geodynamics White Paper (GWP) can be found here:

Grand Challenges in Geodynamics

This report was conceived at the Opportunities and Challenges in Computational Geophysics workshop at Caltech in March 2009. Its purpose is to present major scientific challenges in geodynamics in a broadly accessible way, and discuss new and emerging research opportunities that these challenges present.

The document will be presented to an ad-hoc committee of the National Research Council tasked with (1) defining new research opportunities in Earth science as they relate to the responsibilities of the National Science Foundation's Division of Earth Sciences; (2) identifying instrumentation and facilities needed to support these new and emerging research opportunities; (3) identifying areas of cooperation with other government agency programs, industry, and internationally; and (4) recommending new ways to better train the next generation of Earth scientists.

Sincerely,

Peter Olson (editor)
David Bercovici
Bruce Buffett
Rick Carlson
Lucy Flesch
Jason Phipps Morgan
Mousumi Roy
Diana Valencia