Month: March 2020

Dear GeoPRISMS Community,

We hope you and your family are doing well and staying safe. Due to COVID-19, AGU has extended the deadline to submit a Fall Meeting session proposal until Thursday, 23 April 2020. AGU welcomes proposals from the entire AGU community, including student and early-career members. Please consider submitting a GeoPRISMS session proposal to the 2020 AGU Fall Meeting that will take place in San Francisco (Dec 7-11, 2020).

We encourage you to submit an AGU session proposal to highlight the numerous fundamental scientific contributions that have been conceived, supported, and/or leveraged through the GeoPRISMS Program. This is a great opportunity to promote your GeoPRISMS science & activities, to review topical advances accomplished over the past decade, and to build upon and advance the science of the GeoPRISMS community as the program winds down and new initiatives emerge.

To review the cross cutting themes identified at the most recent TEI in San Antonio in February 2019 (Synthesis & Integration TEI), please visit the GeoPRISMS website at: /tei-2019/.

Deadline for submissions: extended through April 23, 2020

More info: https://www.agu.org/Fall-Meeting/Pages/submit-a-proposal

Official website: https://www.agu.org/fall-meeting

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

Be well,

The GeoPRISMS Office

Dear Colleagues,

To those who are under lock down orders and would like to learn a little about magmatism in East Africa, I have good news! Below are 5 links to a recently published synthesis – The Cenozoic Magmatism of East Africa, parts 1 to 5. The synthesis series is freely available to anyone using the links below until June 12th, 2020. This series was in part motivated by the GeoPrisms RIE focus site in East Africa.

Dear Colleagues,

To those who are under lock down orders and would like to learn a little about magmatism in East Africa, I have good news! Below are 5 links to a recently published synthesis – The Cenozoic Magmatism of East Africa, parts 1 to 5. The synthesis series is freely available to anyone using the links below until June 12th, 2020. This series was in part motivated by the GeoPrisms RIE focus site in East Africa.

Dear Colleagues:

The NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Competition of Operations and Management of an NSF-supported Geophysical Facility to Succeed the GAGE and SAGE Facilities requests written responses from the community on desired capabilities of the future Geophysical Facility by June 1st.

A virtual workshop is being held April 23-24 between 1-5 pm ET each day to bring together Early Career Investigators (ECIs) invested in the capabilities of the future Geophysical Facility.

Topics addressed will include instrumentation, data services, and education and community engagement. The end goal of the workshop is to develop a White Paper that defines ECI recommended capabilities.

If you are interested, please fill out this Google Survey Application as space may be limited via Zoom.

We highly encourage graduate students (at all career stages), postdoctoral researchers and early career researchers and faculty to participate.

Best,

D. Sarah Stamps (dstamps@vt.edu Virginia Tech)

Heather A. Ford (heather.ford@ucr.edu University of California, Riverside)

Dear Colleagues:

As a member of the geoscience and Earth education community, we encourage you to provide input on strategic priorities for a major facility that supports geoscience using geodesy. While UNAVCO’s primary funding comes from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and NASA, our reach is global.

UNAVCO is in a period of change, approaching the end of our 2016-2020 strategic plan, awaiting changes to the NSF grant requirements, and discussing future integration with our sister facility, IRIS. Each of these changes is an opportunity to revisit the focus of our facility and the community that it serves.

UNAVCO leadership has begun a refresh of its existing strategy. We are now reaching out to the broader geoscience community to determine areas for growth and improvement. We greatly value your input and invite you to complete a brief survey that should take no more than 10 minutes of your time. Your response by March 16th is appreciated.

Thank you,

Dr. Lucy Flesch, Chair, UNAVCO Board of Directors

Dr. Rebecca Bendick, UNAVCO President

Please apply or bring to attention of your students and PDF’s interested in geomorphology or surface processes and geodynamics:

Apply to the Earth Surface Processes Institute, August 13-21st, 2020, Boulder, CO

CSDMS will host a 10-day, immersive training experience for 25 graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and early career faculty at the CSDMS Integration Facility at the University of Colorado, Boulder. This is an NSF funded project and will hopefully bring together earth surface processes aficinados from all over the US and world.

https://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/ESPIn2020

ESPIn is a 10-day immersive training experience for 25 graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and/or early career faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder. ESPIn is designed to allow participants to make advances on critical earth surface processes research questions by teaching cyberinfrastructure skills. ESPIn will offer hands-on training in numerical modeling, best programming practices, open source software development, collaborative coding and version control, Landlab and pymt, high performance computing, and model uncertainty quantification.

Several days will be dedicated to working in small teams on authentic research, data analysis, and coding projects. Participants can also work on developing and advancing their own research codes. In addition, there will be dedicated time for a local field trip, peer-to-peer networking, and professional development. A mix of experienced scientists, visiting faculty, software engineers, and research computing experts will provide instruction. ESPIn will conclude with team presentations on code advances and research outcomes, and set up participants to continue to develop ideas.

Participant costs (enrollment, accommodation based on shared rooms, breakfast and lunch on teaching days) are supported for 20 participants by ESPIn. However, applicants are responsible for the cost of transportation to and from Boulder, Colorado, for dinners, and all other incidental expenses. We have an additional 5 slots open for participants who can fund their own attendance, registration for full summer institute participation is $1250.

Welcome on behalf of the organizing team and instructors: Irina Overeem, Mark Piper, Nicole Gasparini, Leilani Arthurs, Benjamin Campforts

Application deadline April 1st, 2020.

https://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/ESPIn2020

For questions regarding ESPIn application and general info, contact us at: csdms_espin@colorado.edu

The National Science Foundation is looking for input to communicate better with the scientific community, in terms of content (funding opportunities, research news, etc.) and method of delivery (email, web, social media). Your input is valuable as this helps NSF curate content to your preferences and improves two-way engagement with the science community.

This survey only takes 7 minutes and also showcases a pilot video for an informational series called NSF101. Episode 1 is: Early Career Researcher funding opportunities. Take the survey now at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/tellNSF !

Dear GeoPRISMS Community,

Please consider submitting a GeoPRISMS session proposal to the 2020 AGU Fall Meeting that will take place in San Francisco (Dec 7-11, 2020)

We encourage you to submit an AGU session proposal to highlight the numerous fundamental scientific contributions that have been conceived, supported, and/or leveraged through the GeoPRISMS Program. This is a great opportunity to promote your GeoPRISMS science & activities, to review topical advances accomplished over the past decade, and to build upon and advance the science of the GeoPRISMS community as the program winds down and new initiatives emerge.

To review the cross cutting themes identified at the most recent TEI in San Antonio in February 2019 (Synthesis & Integration TEI), please visit the GeoPRISMS website at: /tei-2019/.

Deadline for submissions: April 15, 2020

More info: https://www.agu.org/Fall-Meeting/Pages/submit-a-proposal

Official website: https://www.agu.org/fall-meeting

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

The GeoPRISMS Office