[iris-bulk] Announcement: Three Upcoming Meetings

[IRIS]

1) Two EarthScope townhall meetings at AGU (December 2006)
2) MARGINS-GeoSwath workshop at EarthScope national meeting (March 2007)
3) Western GeoSwath workshop (April 2007)

1) There will be two back-to-back EarthScope townhalls at the Fall  
meeting of American Geophysical Union (AGU) on Thursday, December 14,  
2006.  The room is Salon 7 in the Marriott, and the respective times  
are 6:30-7:30 pm and 7:30-8:30 pm.  The first townhall meeting will  
include the presentation of the new EarthScope national office  
solicitation and introduction of the GeoEarthScope (including INSAR,  
LiDAR, and geochronological initiatives).The second townhall meeting  
is co-sponsored by IRIS and involves the "Geologic Framework for  
EarthScope's USArray" initiative, which is a trans-national  
integrated geological and geophysical study of the North American  
continent (see EOS, 2006, 87, 221/224).

2) The bi-annual EarthScope national meeting will be held on March  
27-30, 2007 at the Portola Plaza Hotel in Monterey, CA.  Abstracts  
are due on January 26, 2007 and registration ends February 16, 2007  
(see http://www.iris.edu/earthscopenationalmeeting/).  Of special  
interest, there is a workshop on March 27 co-sponsored by MARGINS and  
GeoSwath.  This workshop is to prioritize scientific goals and to  
plan possible work in two areas: a) Salton Trough-Walker Lane and b)  
Cascadia.  Interested workers are encouraged to apply for the  
workshop, and partial travel subsidy is anticipated for several  
attendees.  Contact Geoff Abers (abers at bu.edu ) and/or Basil Tikoff  
(basil at geology.wisc.edu).


3) A Western GeoSwath workshop is tentatively planned on April 26-29,  
2007.  This workshop will address the western segment of the  
"Geologic Framework for EarthScope's USArray" (Oregon - South  
Dakota); see EOS, 2006,87, 221/224.  Details of this meeting will be  
circulated and posted on the EarthScope website when they become  
available; partial support toward attendance is anticipated.  Contact  
Ben van der Pluijm (vdpluijm at umich.edu ), Randy Keller  
(grkeller at ou.edu ) and/or Basil Tikoff (basil at geology.wisc.edu).