Dear All,

I should be grateful for any geophysics suggestions
for big science that could be passed on to the House
of Lords consultation.  My own thoughts include:

1. a EuroArray seismic array equivalent to the USArray, or better
still, a EuroRussianArray;

2. An ability to do 3-D marine and land seismic acquisition,
processing and visualisation for research purposes.

I'm a seismologist, as you see, so I need input from specialists
in other areas of geophysics.  I'll pass any suggestions
on to Robert Massey (Royal Astronomical Soc.) for
inclusion in the response.

Regards,
Sheila Peacock,
RAS Council member.



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Subject: Lords inquiry into Scientific Infrastructure
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:57:38 +0100
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Dear All

You may remember that I sent round a note about this and the two other consultations (on Scottish independence and on the EU) a couple of weeks ago. See http://www.parliament.uk/documents/lords-committees/science-technology/ScientificInfrastructure/CfEScientificInfrastructure.pdf

There are some fairly general questions in the inquiry that are best suited to a joint response (in our case through the Science Council – I contributed to a round table discussion they organised last week) but it nonetheless seems appropriate to respond to some points in our own right. In particular, I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on the following question:

“What substantial increases in scale would allow new areas or domains of science to be explored (analogous to Large Hadron Collider and Higgs boson)?”

Would you mind sending suggestions through to allow me to collate them? The deadline for the inquiry is this Friday, so I’d need to see these by tomorrow to stand a reasonable chance of assembling a response.

Many thanks and best wishes

Robert

Dr Robert Massey

Deputy Executive Secretary

Royal Astronomical Society

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