Dear All,
Please see message below from Kate Huntington and Keith Klepeis:
Greetings -
You are invited to provide feedback on a community vision document on
Challenges and Opportunities for Research in Tectonics that has been
prepared for the National Science Foundation. Feedback is welcome during
a three-week comment period ending October 1, 2017.
The document is based on a year and a half of community discussion and
data gathering. This included contributions of ~90 scientists at a 3-day
workshop on the Future of Tectonics in Madison, WI, in May
2016 (https://sgtfuturedirections.wordpress.com/). Extensive community
input was gathered before, during, and after that workshop, including at
town hall meetings at the national GSA and AGU meetings, through online
surveys, and through focus group discussions. The result is a community
vision document that incorporates the opinions of hundreds of scientists
and includes direct contributions from over 65 people.
This vision document is organized around five scientific grand challenge
themes that emerged from the large pool of data collected from the
community. In addition to highlighting new research frontiers and
opportunities, the document identifies critical gaps/needs that are
holding back research progress. It also expresses the importance
of interdisciplinary research and societal engagement, and defines
promising paths – including infrastructure – that can enable major
advances in the next decade and beyond.
The document is available here:
https://sgtfuturedirections.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/tectonics2017_forcommentlowres.pdf
Note that the document pdf is relatively low resolution for
accessibility. The final product will be available as both a
higher resolution pdf and hard copy.
The feedback form can be accessed at:
https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/kate1/339591
On this form, you will be asked three specific questions:
Q1: Are there any factual errors or better examples that can be used to
illustrate the Grand Challenges?
Q2: Are there any important needs and requirements to make progress that
you think are missing?
Q3: What elements do you think are most important in the “Achieving the
vision” section (Chapter 6)?
Public comment by any interested scientist is open through October 1.
After that deadline, the writing committee will address the comments and
finalize the document by early November.
Sincerely,
Kate Huntington and Keith Klepeis
Writing Committee Co-chairs
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Yvette D. Kuiper
Associate Professor
Department of Geology and Geological Engineering
Colorado School of Mines
1516 Illinois Street
Golden CO 80401
Tel. 303-273-3105
Fax. 303-273-3859
http://econgeol.mines.edu/Yvette-Kuiper
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