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