Earthscope Workshop on Active Magmatic Systems, Fall 2002

0207982 HamburgerEarthScope是一项重大的地球科学研究计划，它将整合来自地震学（美国阵列）、大地测量学（板块边界观测站）、地下取样和测量（SAFOD）、遥感（干涉合成孔径雷达）以及补充地质学和地球物理学的科学信息，以了解大陆尺度的板块变形和演化。目前，国会正在讨论为地球观测计划提供资金的问题，作为国家科学基金会2003财政年度预算的一部分。 地球科学司已将2002财政年度的资金提供给符合EarthScope前活动条件的项目，即一旦由MREFC（主要研究设备设施和建设）账户供资，将促进或使EarthScope的建设、制造、安装或运行成为可能的活动。 这类活动包括会议和讲习班、原型开发、选址或定性。 讲习班将为岩浆系统的跨学科讨论提供一个论坛，并将为地球镜的岩浆系统部分制定一个详细的综合部署和业务计划。与会者将被邀请从有关活跃岩浆系统的地质，地球物理和地球化学研究的各种学科。 会议将在北美西部的一个活火山系统（例如阿拉斯加州长谷的瀑布）举行，并将包括一整天的活火山过程实地考察。

0207982HamburgerEarthScope is a major earth science research initiative that will integrate scientific information derived from seismology (US Array), geodesy (Plate boundary Observatory), subsurface sampling and measurement (SAFOD), remote sensing (InSAR), and complementary geology and geophysics to understand continental scale plate deformation and evolution. Funding for the EarthScope initiative is currently being discussed in Congress as part of NSF's FY 2003 budget. The Division of Earth Sciences has made FY 2002 funds available for projects that qualify as pre-EarthScope activity, i.e. activities that will facilitate or enable the construction, fabrication, installation or operation of EarthScope once it is funded under the MREFC (Major Research Equipment Facilities and Construction) account. Such activities include meetings and workshops, prototype development, site selection or characterization.This award provides funds to support a focused workshop on active magmatic systems. The workshop will provide a forum for interdisciplinary discussion of magmatic systems and will result in a detailed, integrated deployment and operations plan for the magmatic systems component of EarthScope. Participants will be invited from a variety of disciplines related to geological, geophysical, and geochemical study of active magmatic systems. The meeting will be conducted in a setting of one of western North America's active volcanic systems (e.g. Cascades, Long Valley, Alaska), and will include a full-day field trip on active volcanic processes.***