<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Colleagues,<br><br>The LRSPS Workshop being held next week, September 18-19, in Colorado (<a href="http://www.iris.edu/hq/lrsps/">http://www.iris.edu/hq/lrsps/</a>) will be the primary vehicle for designing a Long-Range Science Plan for Seismology. However, many people with good ideas may not be able to attend the workshop and even those who do attend may wish to contribute further. Besides the forum (<a href="http://www.iris.edu/hq/lrsps/forum/">http://www.iris.edu/hq/lrsps/forum/</a>) that is being maintained on the IRIS website, we are inviting short contributions that can be considered by the writing team following the workshop and that will be posted on a web archive with the workshop proceedings. Anyone may contribute, but contributions are limited to one per author, with one page of text and one figure. We invite contributions which:<br><br>- Outline fundamental science questions and challenges that should be addressed in the next decade<br>- Point to the need for new or existing resources that are critical to the future of seismology<br>- Emphasize important societal applications that should be pursued<br>- Describe an exciting development that could serve as a good example of a new area that should be pursued<br><br>There will be no editing of the submitted documents, except for a check for appropriateness. The document should be submitted as a single pdf or Word document to<a href="mailto:lindsay@iris.edu">lindsay@iris.edu</a> (Subject Line: LRSPS Contribution) by September 30 at the latest. The writing committee will begin work immediately after the workshop, so the sooner your document is submitted, the more effective it will be. <br><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>