2008 margins reception and student gathering welcome! geoff abers chair, margins steering committee...
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MARGINS Office/MSC Update At Lamont-Doherty since Jan 1 New Staff: Andrew Goodwillie, Niva Ranjeet, Kristen Woodford Steering Committee Rotations Thanks: D. Reed, J. Ryan, P. Umhoefer, P. van Keken Welcome: M. Behn, S. Bilek, T. Dunne, M. Gurnis, R. Hickey-Vargas, D. Stockli At Lamont-Doherty since Jan 1 New Staff: Andrew Goodwillie, Niva Ranjeet, Kristen Woodford Steering Committee Rotations Thanks: D. Reed, J. Ryan, P. Umhoefer, P. van Keken Welcome: M. Behn, S. Bilek, T. Dunne, M. Gurnis, R. Hickey-Vargas, D. StockliTRANSCRIPT
2008 MARGINS Reception and Student Gathering
Welcome!
Geoff AbersChair, MARGINS Steering Committee
MARGINS at AGU MARGINS-based Special Sessions
see Newsletter, web page summaries Student Prize Competition: posters here
Judges: Thanks! … and this reception (thanks to LDEO too)
MARGINS Office/MSC Update At Lamont-Doherty since Jan 1
New Staff: Andrew Goodwillie, Niva Ranjeet, Kristen
Woodford
Steering Committee Rotations Thanks: D. Reed, J. Ryan, P. Umhoefer, P. van
Keken Welcome: M. Behn, S. Bilek, T. Dunne, M. Gurnis, R.
Hickey-Vargas, D. Stockli
www.nsf-margins.org
Some milestones in 2008 As of FY08:
182 grants, 94 projects, ~120 PI’s
Major workshop: The SEIZE Decade (September, Mt Hood)
Decadal Review Report
R/V Marcus Langseth First Expedition: Feb-Mar 2008
OBS
Ship-to-onshore
150 km 210 km
courtesy S. Holbrook, D. Lizarralde, PI’s
Publications Database
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http://www.nsf-margins.org/Bibliography/index.html
247 funded and 182 related publications
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Coming Up in 2009
Major Workshops April, New Zealand: S2S Synthesis April-May, Charleston SC: RCL Synthesis early Fall: TEI on Volatiles in the Subduction Factory
Education Highlights mini-Lesson Testing & Assessment (help needed) Distinguished Lecture Program Year 4
Decadal Review Committee meets Feb. 2009
Decadal Review Preparation
102 one-page Research Nuggets from PI’s: THANKS!
MSC, others wrote Review Documentation Reviews of 4 Initiatives; management; broader
impacts ideas and issues for future planning
Some major targets of document success of coordinated program: why not core? power of interdisciplinary science, & impacts
outside MARGINS
Early 2009: Decisions from NSF.If successor program is encouraged:
2009: add planning sessions to upcoming meetings
Other planning workshops Write new Science Plans
and probably we need a new name!
This name is 20 years old