[CIG-ALL] CIG LTT WG Solicitation

[Mousumi Roy]

Dear Colleagues,

We are interested in gaging interest in forming a Long-Term Tectonic  
Working Group (LTT-WG) to serve in an advisory capacity to CIG. CIG  
has developed and released the finite element code GALE, which is  
useful for lithosphere-scale tectonic modeling.  One primary function  
of the LTT-WG would be to advise CIG as to the desired improvements  
to functionality and behavior of GALE.  Additional functions would be  
to serve as a communication avenue between the tectonics community  
and CIG.  Formation of this working group is a result of  
recommendations made at the NSF funded Workshop on Geodynamic  
Modeling of Tectonic Processes, held in Breckenridge, CO in June  
2005. For more information on CIG, visit www.geodynamics.org <http:// 
www.geodynamics.org> .

Note that there is a link to an LTT-WG (and there has been for some  
time), but such a WG has never been formed (http:// 
www.geodynamics.org/cig/workinggroups/long/workarea/members).  At the  
urging of the CIG Executive Committee, we are taking a "grass-roots"  
approach to forming one.

For those interested in geodynamic modeling of tectonic processses,  
we ask that you consider the following:

1) Would you be interested in serving as a member of a CIG Lon-Term  
Tectonics Working Group?

2) Please comment on what you think the LTT-WG's mandate and function  
should be.

3) Do you think we can go ahead and form an LTT-WG through email  
communications such as this, or would you prefer that we hold a Town  
Hall meeting at AGU in December to work out the details?  If you  
prefer a Town Hall, please let us know if you will attend - we don't  
want to schedule one if only a handful of people will be coming.

Please send email responses to either Mousumi Roy (mroy at unm.edu) or  
Dennis Harry (dharry at warnercnr.colostate.edu). We will followup with  
an email to this list to update everyone on the responses we receive.

Thanks!

-- Mousumi and Dennis





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