Workshop structure

8.00 am Welcome and overview

Goal: Communicate the need to establish priorities for the Solid Earth Sciences.

5-minute welcome (T. Rushmer)

Summaries of related activities (Total: 30 minutes)
C. Manduca, T. Rushmer moderating

Lithoproble (R. Clowes) - 10 minutes
EarthScope (R. Carlson) - 10 minutes
New Directions in Structure and Tectonics (D. Pollard) - 10 minutes

Workshop goals and priorities (Total: 25 minutes)
C. Manduca, T. Rushmer moderating

Funding perspective (M. Brown) - 10 minutes
Organization perspective (B. Tikoff) - 10 minutes
Summary of arrangements of the breakout sessions (B. Tikoff) - 5 minutes

General questions and discussion (Total: 20 minutes)
B. Tikoff, T. Rushmer moderating

9.20 am Coffee (10 minutes)

9:30 am Breakout Session 1: Research priorities

Goal: Assessment of research priorities - integrating the Solid Earth Sciences by defining common research priorities by type of geologic province.

Four breakout groups. For each research priority area, we expect to begin the debate about:

For each geologic province, we expect to begin:

i) the identification of major research problems;

ii) to make an integrated approach at studying these research problems;

iii) to identify the processes involved, in order to compare with processes in other regions.

1) Active Margins (Colorado C)
(Breakout discussion Leaders: K. Cashman, H. Tobin)

2) Ancient Orogens (Colorado D)
(Breakout discussion Leaders: C. Teyssier, A. Glazner)

3) Mid-continent, Precambrian, and Deep lithospheric processes (Colorado G)
(Breakout discussion Leaders: R. Rudnick, S. Bowring)

4) Basins and Extensional Regimes (Colorado H)
(Breakout discussion Leaders: M. Person, B. Wernicke)

11.00 am Breakout group spokespersons report to the whole workshop

5 minute presentations, 5 minutes for discussion of priorities (for each of the 4 groups)

20 minutes of discussion concerning integration of the 4 sets of research priorities into a single common set of priorities for the Solid Earth Sciences

12.00 noon Lunch (1 hour)

1.00 pm : Integrating of Teaching and Research-whole group

C. Manduca moderating

1.00 pm Integration of Teaching and Research - J. Tullis

1.10 pm Building Capacity in the Solid Earth Sciences--Intellectual, Facilities (or Infrastructure), and Human - D. Mogk

1.25pm Breakout Session 2:Integrating of Teaching and Research

Goal: To identify prioities for education and outreach derived from session 1; to identify synergisms among research, education and outreach in the Solid Earth Sciences.

The research agenda forms the foundation for developing priorities for facilities and education activities. For each research priority area, we expect to begin:

i) to integrate research and teaching in order to 'lower the boundary' between the two?
ii) to identify critical barriers (if any) to teaching topics identified as research priorities at the upper division/graduate level, and what is needed to eliminate them? How do we use an integrated approach to facilitate teaching students to solve open-ended problems?
iii) to consider which of these research priorities should be included in introductory level undergraduate courses? What is needed to make this possible given the large number of people teaching out of field at this level?
iv) to consider whether the answers to these questions change the way we look at research priorities and facilities?

1) Active Margins(Colorado C)
(Leaders: T. Gardner, K. Furlong)

2) Ancient Orogens(Colorado D)
(Leaders: S. DeBari, K. Hodges)

3) Mid-continent, Precambrian, and Deep lithospheric processes(Colorado G)
(Leaders: D. Mogk, S. Marshak)

4) Basins and Extensional Regimes(Colorado H)
(Leaders: L. Goodwin, M. Person)

2.35 pm Breakout group spokespersons report to the whole group
5 minute presentations;
Discussion concerning integration of education and research will be held at the end of the afternoon session.

2.55 pm Tea (15 minutes)

3.15 pm Facilities and Equipment--whole group

5-minute introduction to problems, different approaches, and successes (T. Rushmer)

Goal: To identify infrastructure requirements and research facilities to support research and education priorities and enable participation by scientists in the full range of academic institutions; and, to evaluate technology and IT needs, both for field-based activities and in mathematical modeling and computational science in support of the Solid Earth Sciences.

Breakout Session 3: Facilities and Equipment

Geochemistry and Geochronology (including instrumentation, facilities & experimental requirements) (Colorado A-B)
(Breakout discussion leaders: L. Farmer, K. Hodges)

Petrology, Rock Mechanics, and High P,T experimental deformation (including instrumentation, facilities & experimental requirements) ( Colorado C)
(Breakout discussion leaders: W. Carlson, D. Whitney)

Active Tectonics/Geomorphology and Geological Geophysics (including field-based activities) (Colorado D)
(Breakout discussion leaders: R. Arrowsmith, D. Burbank)

Field-oriented Petrology, Sedimentology, and Structural Geology (Colorado G)
(Breakout discussion leaders: B. Dorsey, K. Klepeis)

Mathematical modeling and computational science in Solid Earth Sciences (Colorado H)
(Breakout discussion leaders: G. Bergantz, P. Koons)

4.25 pm Breakout group spokespersons report to the whole workshop

4.45 pm Open discussion about the future

M. Brown, B. van der Pluijm moderating

The Workshop Conveners will introduce a proposal to establish an Integrated Earth Sciences Forum as the mechanism for ongoing discussion of priorities in the Solid Earth Sciences

6.00pm Sponsored reception with a cash bar

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The US National Science Foundation for funding to help with travel and hotel costs of participants, and the cost of rooms, coffees and lunches (and Universities, other NSF-funded projects, and other funding agencies that have supported participant travel and hotel costs)
The GSA Structure and Tectonics Division for sponsoring the reception