
May 5 to May 8th, 2016, Marconi Center, Point Reyes (CA), USA
Final Program (03/15/2016)
All Speakers please note: all presentations are 20 mn long
Day 1: Thursday, May 5:
Arrival of Participants - > Session 1
6:00 - Dinner
Session 1: Introduction: CIDER vision, accomplishments, and challenges
Chair: Louise Kellogg (UC Davis)
8:00 - 8:10 pm - Welcome - Barbara Romanowicz and Bruce Buffett (U.C. Berkeley)
8:10 - 8:25 pm - Introductory remarks from NSF - Robin Reichlin
8:25 - 8:45 pm - B. Romanowicz (U.C. Berkeley) "CIDER goals and accomplishments 2004-2016"
8:45 - 9:15 pm - Marc Hirschmann (Univ. of Minnesotta) Keynote Presentation
9:20 pm - General discussion
Day 2: Friday, May 6:
Theme: Lithosphere and mantle processes
8:30 - 10:00 am - Session 2: Lithosphere and near surface processes
Chair: Alan Levander (Rice Univ.)
- Karen Fischer (Brown U.): "New approaches to understanding the lithosphere/asthenosphere system"
- Jessica Warren (U. of Delaware) "Using olivine rheology to constrain plate boundaries"
- Jacky Austermann (Harvard U.): "Towards reconciling viscosity inversion"
10:00 - 10:30 am - Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:30 am - Session 3:Deep Mantle
Chair: Michael Weber (GFZ, Potsdam)
- Vedran Lekic (Univ. of Maryland)"Inferences and implications of a viscosity increase in the mid mantle"
- Matt Jackson (U.C. Santa Barbara):"Chemical geodynamics of helium."
- Lars Stixrude (UCL)“Origins of lateral heterogeneity in the lower mantle”
- Bruce Buffett (U.C. Berkeley) "The importance of rheology in the dynamics of subduction"
12:30 - 2:00 pm - Lunch
2:00 - 3:30 pm Session 4: Rheology/water/joint interpretations
Chair: David Stegman (UCSD)
- Doug Wiens (Washington U.): "Seismic constraints on water and melt pathways and fluxes through island arc systems"
- Patrick Cordier (Univ de Lille): "Rheology: deeper, slower"
- Terry Plank (LDEO, Columbia U.): "Joint inversion of Petrology and Seismology to determine the Thermal Structure in Upper Mantle Melting Regions"
3:30 - 4:00 pm - Break
4:00 - 5:45 pm -Break out session: Future Directions in CIDER Science
- What are the emerging multidisciplinary science goals and needs for future summer programs?
- Why and how should CIDER support these science goals; what are the required disciplines?
- What are other activities that CIDER should support - working groups, follow-up research, workshops, wiki, etc.
5:45 - 6:30 pm -Plenary Discussion Chair: TBD
6:30 - 8:00 pm - Dinner
8:00 pm - Poster Session
Writing group meets
Day 3: Saturday, May 7:
Core, Initial conditions and Early Environment8:30 - 10:00 am Session 5 The Earth's core:
Chair: Vernon Cormier(Univ. of Conn.)
- Arwen Deuss (U. of Utrecht), "Anisotropy and heterogeneity of the Earth's inner core"
- Andrew Campbell (Univ. of Chicago) "Mineral Physics of Earth's Core"
- Monika Korte (GFZ, Potsdam) "Probing Earth's core with geo- and paleomagnetism"
10:00 - 10:30 am - Break
10:30 - 12:30 pm - Session 6: Initial Conditions
Chair: Cathy Constable (UCSD)
- Sarah Stewart (UC Davis): "Planet Formation is Path Dependent: The who, what, where, when and why of Earth's initial conditions"
- James Badro (IPG Paris), "Formation, Composition, and Dynamics of Earth’s Core: Beyond the Current Paradigms "
- Stephane Labrosse (ENS Lyon), "Long term evolution of the deep Earth as constraints on its initial state"
- Qingzhu Yin (UC Davis), "Isotopic constraints on core-mantle differentiation”
12:00 - 1:30 pm - Lunch
1:30-3:15>Session 7: Early Environment
Chair:
Sujoy Mukhopadhyay (UC Davis)
- John Tarduno (Univ. of Rochester) "The Hadean to Paleoarchean geodynamo and magnetic shielding"
- Kei Hirose (ELSI, Japan): “Crystallization of SiO2 in the core and the mechanism of early dynamo”
- Jun Korenaga (Yale U.) "Global water cycle and the co-evolution of Earth’s interior and surface environment"
3:15 - 3:45 pm - Break
3:45 - 5:45 pm - Break out session 2: Scope and funding model for CIDER
5:40 - 6:15 pm - Plenary Discussion
Chair: TBD
6:30 - 8:00 pm - Dinner
8:00 - 9:30 pm - Short Presentations and discussion
Day 4: Sunday, May 8:
8:30am-10:00 am Session 8: Emerging topics
Chair: Thorne Lay (UCSC)
- Ed Garnero(ASU), "Imaging LLSVPs and implications for composition and dynamics"
- Raj Dasgupta(Rice U.), "Earth's Deep Sulfur Cycle"
- Thorsten Becker (U.S.C.) "Lithosphere-asthenosphere system redux"
10:00 - 10:30 am - General Discussion and Wrap up
10:30 - 11:00 am - Coffee Break - departures
11:00 - 12:30 pm -
Writing Group Meeting -
Link to Participants list
This program is funded by the EAR-CSEDI program of the NSF.