Workshop on Advancing Experimental Rock Deformation Research: Scientific and Technical Needs

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This is a workshop to bring together the Users of Experimental RockDeformation data with the Practitioners of Experimental Rock Deformation. Users are those whomake direct use of laboratory data in models, calculations, or in the interpretation of geologicalor geophysical observations. Practitioners are those actively engaged in laboratory-basedexperimental research on the mechanical properties of Earth materials; some Practitioners arealso Users. The purpose of the workshop is to assess the scientific and technical needs of thesegroups and to begin a process of responding to those needs. There are important researchobjectives in geomechanics that can be identified, from both a scientific and societalperspective, and there are recognized needs for technological and community resources inorder to meet the scientific needs. The workshop will focus on geomechanics of the relativelyshallow portion of the Earth. This will include the mechanics of the upper mantle and lower-to-mid crust, the seismogenic zone, accretionary wedges, energy- and waste-related subsurface systems, and the role of thermalhydro-chemical processes in all these environments.The workshop will support attendance by early career scientists and students. The results will be broadly disseminated and will produce a strategic, community-building document for rock deformation.