Workshop Program
Friday, September 16
Saturday, September 17
Sunday, September 18
Monday, September 19
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Travel to Bozeman (for those attending pre-workshop field trip)
Pick up road logs at the Best Western Grantree Inn
Dinner on your own; we will suggest a time and restaurant for anyone who wants to join a group dinner.
Friday, September 16, 2005
Pre-Workshop Field Trip: A Sampler of Northern Rocky Mountain Geology
Breakfast on your own
8:00 AM Field trip departure from Grantree Inn parking lot
Highlights of the field trip will include:- Archean migmatites and granulites
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Madison River Valley
- Luzenac talc mine
- low grade metasedimentary rocks
- river terraces
- alluvial fans
- Jefferson River Canyon
- fold and thrust belt
- LaHood Formation
- Overview of the Golden Sunlight Mine
Friday Evening - Workshop Kickoff
3:00 - 5:00 Registration, MSU Strand Union Building, put up posters
5:00 - 6:00 Opening Reception, Strand Union Building
6:00 - 7:00 Buffet Dinner, Strand Union Building
7:00 - 8:30 Opening Session: 103 EPS Building (amphitheatre lecture hall)
- 7:00 - 7:15 Welcome from MSU
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7:15 - 7:35 Steve Harlan, National Science Foundation
EarthScope Project Introduction -
7:35 - 7:55 John De Laughter, EarthScope Project Office
Updates on the EarthScope Facility -
7:55 - 8:30 Robert B. Smith, University of Utah
The Yellowstone Hotspot and Related Plume: Volcano-Tectonics, Tomography, Kinematics and Mantle Flow
Shuttles back to hotels.
Saturday, September 17, 2005
Breakfast on your own
7:30-8:00 Registration, coffee service; Student Union Building
8:00 - 12:00 Session I: Interpreting Earth in Space and Time
Mini-tutorials for the non-specialist: fundamentals of the techniques, types of applications and problems that can be addressed, examples of applications, practical advice about what is required to use these techniques.
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8:00 - 8:20 Dave Foster, University of Florida
EarthScope Workshop for the Northern Rocky Mountains: Regional overview and theme
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8:20 - 8:45 Ray Russo, University of Florida
USArray, Passive Source Seismology -
8:45 - 9:10 Gary Fuis, USGS
The Role of Active-Source Seismology in EarthScope -
9:10 - 9:35 Chuck Meertens, UNAVCO
PBO Geodetic Instrumentation - GPS Principles, Data Access, and Applications - 9:35 - 10:00 Break
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10:00 - 10:25 Krishna Sinha, Virginia Tech
Cyberinfrastructure and EarthScope Science Goals: A GEON Perspective -
10:25 - 10:50 John DeLaughter, EarthScope Office
EarthScope Education and Outreach: Local Needs and National Treasures -
10:50 - 11:15 Carol Frost, University of Wyoming
Integrating isotopic and geochemical tracers, petrology and geochronology into EarthScope research: Examples from the Wyoming Province -
11:15 - 11:40 Roberta Rudnick, University of Maryland
Insights Into the Deep Continental Lithosphere from Xenolith Studies - 11:40 - 12:00 Morning wrap-up discussion
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 3:15 Session II: Examples of Integrated Geophysical Projects
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1:00 - 1:25 Ron Clowes, LITHOPROBE Canada
The LITHOPROBE Experience: Active-source Seismology and Other Earth Science - An Essential Combination for Understanding Tectonic Evolution -
1:25 - 1:50 Rick Aster, New Mexico Tech
RSTRA, CD-ROM -
1:50 - 2:15 Glenn Biasi, University of Nevada - Reno
Report from the Great Break Workshop -
2:15 - 2:40 Mary Hubbard, Kansas State University
USARRAY and the Great Plains: Workshop Results and the Rocky Mountain Connection -
2:40 - 3:05 Karl Karlstrom, University of New Mexico
Southern Rocky Mountain Overview, report from EarthScope National Meeting, and super experiment - 3:05 - 3:15 Discussion, instructions for interest groups
3:15 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:45 Interest Group Session I
(Group topics determined by response from application pool)Charge to Groups:
- Identify the key scientific questions of the area
- Identify how EarthScope can be used to address these questions
- Consider integrated science. What complementary studies must be done to integrate EarthScope data with geologic and geochronologic data to optimize scientific results?
- Look towards adjacent regions. Are there opportunities to integrate Northern Rockies results with Cascadia, Basin and Range, Central Plains, Canada, Southern Rocky Mountains, or others?
- Is there a single key experiment that MUST be done in the context of either a "super experiment" (densified USArray experiment using Flex Array instruments) or in the context of one or more segments of a GeoTraverse?
4:45 - 6:00 Poster Session (beer and finger food)
6:00 Dinner - Group dinner at local restaurant
Evening - Informal networking at Grantree Inn, bar and/or conference rooms
Sunday, September 18, 2005
Breakfast on your own7:30-8:00 Registration and coffee service; Student Union Building
8:00 - 12:00 Session III: Northern Rockies Geology in Space and Time - Reflections on the Big Questions of Northern Rockies Geology and how can EarthScope play a role?
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8:00 - 8:30 Gene Humphreys, University of Oregon
Processes that make a continent -
8:30 - 8:50 Jim Sears, University of Montana
Mesoproterozoic Belt Basin: Crustal-Scale Anomoly in the Northern Rockies -
8:50 - 9:10 Reed Lewis, Idaho Geological Survey
Pre-Miocene Magmatism in the Northern Rocky Mountains -
9:10 - 9:30 Bill Leeman, National Science Foundation
Magmatism of the Snake River Plain and Yellowstone Region: Implications for continental lithospheric evolution above a mantle plume -
9:30 - 9:50 Karen Lund, USGS
Influence of Structure and Composition of Basement on Mineral Deposits Across Montana and Idaho - 9:50 - 10:10 Break
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10:10 - 10:30 John Oldow, University of Idaho
Laramide and Sevier-style tectonics -
10:30 - 10:50 Susanne Janecke, Utah State University
Opportunities for Understanding Extensional Processes in the Northern Rocky Mountains -
10:50 - 11:10 Mike Stickney, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology
EarthScope from the Montana Regional Seismic Network Perspective -
11:10 - 11:30 Rob Thomas, University of Montana - Western
Integrating undergraduate education and research in the Northern Rockies -
11:30 - 11:50 Dave Mogk, Montana State University
GeoTraverse in the Northern Rockies?
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 3:30 Interest Group Session II
Continue to refine questions, priorities, approaches.
Prepare report outs
3:30 - 4:00 Break (Posters need to be taken down by the end of the afternoon)
4:00 - 5:00 Northern Rocky Mountain "Town Meeting"
Paul Link, Idaho State University - ModeratorPreliminary reports from interest groups
- PreCambrian basement structures and tectonics (PowerPoint 363kB Oct27 05)
- Belt Basin group summary (Microsoft Word 35kB Oct27 05)
- Orogeny group report (PowerPoint 95kB Oct27 05)
- Lithospheric structure group report (PowerPoint 274kB Oct27 05)
- Neotectonics and Yellowstone group report (Microsoft Word 30kB Oct27 05)
- Education and outreach group report (PowerPoint 2.3MB Oct27 05)
5:00 Shuttle back to hotel
6:00 Dinner at a local restaurant
Monday, September 19, 2005
Yellowstone and Vicinity Field Trip
Breakfast on your own
7:30 AM Departure from the Grantree Inn
Return to Grantree Inn around 9:00 PM
