NSF GEO Workshop on "Future directions for NSF-sponsored geoscience research in the Himalaya/Tibet"
NSF GEO Workshop on
"Future directions for NSF-sponsored geoscience research in the Himalaya/Tibet"
June 11-12, 2010
with support anticipated from the Continental Dynamics Program and the Office of International Science and Engineering at NSF
NSF has invited the science community to consider, and provide guidance on, "Future directions for NSF-sponsored geoscience research in the Himalaya/Tibet". As a community, it is our responsibility to show NSF the scientific progress that has been achieved with the very significant support we have received to work on Tibet/Himalaya over the last 20 years; and to provide NSF with a clear statement and vision of our goals for the future, including the scientific progress we can expect if NSF continues its support of projects in this geographic region. As a community we need to identify which key geoscience problems and processes are best addressed in Tibet/Himalaya, what key datasets are needed, and how NSF can best support the evolving need for multi- and inter-disciplinary investigations.
The workshop will be held 08:00 Friday June 11 to 14:00 Saturday June 12, 2010, at the Romberg Tiburon Center of San Francisco State University and The Lodge at Tiburon. The Workshop will be open to all, though we anticipate that NSF will only provide funding for 40 U.S. scientists and students to participate. Travel support (airfare and per diem) will be distributed based on online applications received on or prior to January 15th 2011. Please apply here (form available soon).
We are asking all prospective participants to summarize their personal list of the "top 5-10 unsolved questions in the Tibet-Himalaya system". The workshop program will be built from these submissions, and will be strongly focused on future directions as opposed to past results. We therefore invite all participants in the NSF GEO Workshop to consider submitting their recent science results to the HKT-25 (25th Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet) meeting in San Francisco next June 8-10th that immediately precedes the NSF GEO Tibet Workshop.
A key outcome of the NSF GEO Workshop will be a white paper to NSF, and we are asking all prospective participants to provide a science "one-pager" describing previous results that will become part of this white paper. Any interested participant is invited to join the writing team on Saturday afternoon, June 12th immediately following the main workshop.
Please communicate with the Workshop conveners at TibetWorkshop@gmail.com
NSF GEO Workshop conveners:
Simon Klemperer, Stanford University
Lucy Flesch, Purdue University
Carmala Garzione, University of Rochester
Kip Hodges, Arizona State University
Eric Kirby, Penn State
Mary Leech, San Francisco State University
Anne Meltzer, Lehigh University
Application Deadline: 15 January 2010
Updated 10 November 2009