[CIG-ALL] Upcoming Workshops: Gordon Conference, CIDER

[Ariel Shoresh]

On behalf of the Geoscience Community, please find below information
pertaining to two upcoming major workshops: Gordon, and CIDER.

CIG will also be participating in the upcoming Earthscope workshop with
tutorial sessions - please keep an eye on your inbox for that information.


Quick Notes:

CIDER: Application Deadline 2/15/11
http://www.deep-earth.org/2011/summer11.html

GORDON: Application Deadline 5/8/11
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2011&program=interior

Earthscope: see website for respective deadlines
http://www.earthscope.org/meetings/national_meeting_11

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CIDER WORKSHOP 2011

Cooperative Institute for Dynamic Earth Research
5th  CIDER SUMMER PROGRAM –  June 19 – July 31, 2011 "Dynamics of
Mountain Building" 

This Summer Program is part of an effort in the Geosciences community
towards the development of CIDER (http://www.deep-earth.org/). 

Building upon the successful previous CIDER programs, this program will
focus on the geodynamic, geological, seismological, rock and mineral
physics and geochemical constraints on mountain building.  It will provide
an overview of the state of the art in each discipline as well as a venue
for initiating and advancing new research in situ.
 
Student/Post-Doc Participation:
The program includes a tutorial program for about 35 advanced graduate
students and post-docs from June 26 to July 16th. Students and Post-docs
can stay through the end of July to participate in research projects.
For the duration of the program, junior and senior scientists will engage
in collaborative multidisciplinary research ventures defined on site. 
Weeks 1, 5 and 6 of this six-week program will provide the opportunity for
groups of scientists to interact freely.

This summer program will be held at the University of California in
Berkeley, CA, USA. Participant support is provided by NSF/CSEDI program.

Application is open at:
http://www.deep-earth.org/2011/summer11.html
Application deadline: February 15, 2011.  For additional information
contact a member of the organizing committee:
 
Organizers:  Greg Hirth, Gene Humphreys, Cin-Ty Lee, Adrian Lenardic, Alan
Levander (lead).  

Instructors:

Abers, Geoff	        Seismology
Bostock, Michael	Seismology/Imaging Workshop
Chen, Wang-Ping	        Seismology
DaPaolo, Don	        Geochemistry/Petrology
Faccenna, Claudio	Tectonics/Geodynamics
Harrison, Mark	        Geochemistry/Petrology
Hirth, Greg	        Rock & Mineral Physics
Hoink, Tobias	        Geodynamics
Humpreys, Gene	        Seismology/Geodynamics
Kolhstedt, David	Rock & Mineral Physics
Jones, Craig	        Tectonics/Seismology
Kay, Sue	        Geochemistry/Petrology
Kellogg, Louise	        Geodynamics/Special Lecture
Lee, Cin-Ty	        Geochemistry/Petrology
Levander, Alan	        Seismology
McDonough, Bill	        Geochemistry/Petrology
Mooney, Walter	        Active Seismology
Niu, Fenglin	        Seismology
Oncken, Onno	        Structural Geology/Tectonics
Rudnick, Roberta	Geochemistry/Petrology
Saleeby, Jason	        Structural Geology/Tectonics
Tikoff, Basil	        Structural Geology/Tectonics
Tromp, Jeroen	        Seismology/Imaging Workshop
Wang, Kelin	        Geodynamics/Special Lecture

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GORDON CONFERENCE, 2011

The 2011 Gordon Conference on the Interior of the Earth
(http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2011&program=interior) will be held
on June 5-10 2011 at Mt. Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA. The
conference will push the leading edge of research on Earth's lithosphere
and its connection to interior dynamics and climate. The Conference will
address a wide range of topics from a multi-disciplinary perspective.
Invited speakers and discussion leaders represent a large diversity of
disciplines, including geochemistry, geodynamics, petrology, seismology,
sedimentology, geodesy and climate dynamics. Their presentations  will
define the forefront of knowledge and set the stage for a freewheeling
discussion and debate of the most pressing scientific questions. Specific
session topics include the origin and evolution of continents, the
structure of the upper mantle and asthenosphere, subduction dynamics and
plate driving forces, great earthquakes, tectonics and climate and
real-time sea-level changes. The conference will also provide the
opportunity for junior scientists and graduate students to present their
work in poster format and exchange ideas with leading researchers. The
collegial atmosphere, with programmed discussion sessions and opportunities
for informal gatherings, is intended to generate lively exchange and
promote cross-disciplinary collaborations.

For the first time, the 2011 Interior of the Earth Gordon Conference will
be preceded by a Gordon-Kenan Research Seminar
((http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2011&program=grs_inter), a unique
forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with
comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new
data and cutting edge ideas. Oral presentations will focus on the nature of
the asthenosphere providing particularly synergy with the GRC to follow.
Please encourage your graduate students an

To attend the Interior of the Earth Gordon Conference you must submit an
application. 

If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact me at
c.lithgow-bertelloni at ucl.ac.uk 

The program is listed below.  To keep abreast of developments in the final
program and relevant dates and deadlines you can subscribe to the RSS feed
on the program webpage.

Sunday Night
Mantle Dynamics, Surface Processes and Sea-Level CARMEN GAINA-DISCUSSION
LEADER
Jerry Mitrovica Looking at the Earth System Through a Sea-Level Lens
Clint Conrad Sea Level and Topographic Change: The Role of Mantle
Convection

Monday Morning
Tectonics and Climate GERARD ROE-DISCUSSION LEADER
David Battisti Water, climate, and topography
Mark Brandon Flux tectonics: the interaction of climate, wedge dynamics,
and lithospheric deformation
Marin Clark Erosion, collision and plate motion in large orogens

Monday Evening
Volatiles in the Upper Mantle MARC HIRSCHMANN-DISCUSSION LEADER
Alberto Saal Volatiles in Earth's upper mantle, a view from Transform
Faults and Seamounts
Adrian Lenardic Deep Volatile Cycling

Tuesday Morning
Continents: Origin, Evolution and Deformation CIN-TY LEE-DISCUSSION LEADER
Colleen Dalton Seismic constraints on the thermal, chemical, and
mineralogical properties of the continental lithosphere
Steven Parman Geochemical constraints on the growth of the continents and
cratonic mantle
Katie Cooper Geodynamic constraints on craton formation, quiescence and 
destruction

Tuesday Evening
The asthenosphere: its nature and role in global dynamics IAN
JACKSON-DISCUSSION LEADER
Hitoshi Kawakatsu Seismological views on the oceanic asthenosphere and the
LAB above
David Green Petrological reasons for the lithosphere/asthenosphere
rheological boundary: amphibole (pargasite) stability, water storage
capacity, and partial melting in the upper mantle.

Wednesday Morning
Subduction Dynamics and Plate Driving Forces SASKIA GOES-DISCUSSION LEADER
Mike Gurnis The dynamics of plate tectonics and mantle flow: From local to
global scale
Francesca Funiciello Unravelling the subduction process in a tank
Taras Gerya Subduction dynamics from initiation to termination: simple
messages from complex model

Wednesday Evening
Great Subduction Zone Earthquakes: What have we learned from Chile and
Sumatra? MIAKI ISHII-DISCUSSION LEADER
Thorne Lay Great Earthquake Surprises
Kerry Sieh Behavior of the Sunda megathrust along the Sumatran plate margin
over the past millennium

Thursday morning
Upper Mantle Structure ANNE SHEEHAN-DISCUSSION LEADER
Greg Hirth The influence of melt, volatiles and deformation on the
structure and dynamics of the oceanic upper mantle
Gabi Laske Hotspots and the oceanic upper mantle
Richard Allen Mantle upwelling and lithospheric destruction beneath North
America

Thursday evening
Unsolved Problems DAVID DOBSON-DISCUSSION LEADER
Karen Fischer Challenges for the future
Bruce Buffett Plate tectonics through time
Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni
Reader in Geophysics
Department of Earth Sciences
University College London
c.lithgow-bertelloni at ucl.ac.uk
http://supercronopio.es.ucl.ac.uk/crlb



  


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Ariel Shoresh
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University of California, Davis
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