A Workshop to Develop a New CSEDI Science Plan, February 2004

对地球深层内部的研究本质上是一项多学科活动。国家科学基金会EAR的CSEDI项目是十年前为促进此类多学科研究活动而构想的。在过去的十年里发生了这么多的事情，现在是时候让“深地”社区重新审视CSEDI科学计划，并思考我们希望CSEDI计划如何发展。该提案要求为一个社区范围的讲习班提供资金。打破障碍进行真正的多学科研究对于提高我们对地球运行方式的理解尤为重要。这个提议的研讨会不仅将评估我们的科学在哪里，而且还将考虑如何最好地开展多学科科学来解决我们面临的问题。

Study of the Earth's Deep Interior is an essentially multidisciplinary activity. The CSEDI program at EAR, NSF was conceived a decade ago to facilitate such multidisciplinary research activities. So much has happened in the last decade that the time is right for the "Deep Earth" community to revisit the CSEDI science plan and think about how we would like the CSEDI program to evolve. This proposal requests funds for a community-wide workshop to do just this. Breaking down barriers to doing truly multidisciplinary research is particularly important in improving our understanding of the way the Earth works. The proposed workshop will not only evaluate where our science is but also will also consider the question of how best to do multidisciplinary science to solve the problems that face us.