Reminder: new NSF GeoPRISMS Solicitation, deadline for proposals is August 1 (for 2014 only)

Following significant community input and a great response from NSF we are pleased to announce that there will be likely logistical support for fieldwork in the Aleutians. The official text is below. The deadline for proposals has been adjusted to August 1 (for 2014 only).

The GeoPRISMS Program plans to arrange logistical support for up to two seasons of community field projects, in the form of ship and helicopter support in the Aleutians. Pending proposal success, availability of funds and vessel scheduling, up to 30 days could be available in each of the 2015 and 2016 summer field seasons. This coordination of field logistics at the Alaska Primary Site should maximize the science return for the available funds. Proposals involving field work in the Aleutians should include, as they normally would, personnel budgeting for travel to/from AK, personnel costs during field work, and a timeline for the work. However, we expect to negotiate, at the award stage, final budgets and work plans so that we may best take advantage of the shared field platforms supported by the program.

Questions about this particular effort should be directed to PO Jennifer Wade: jwade@nsf.gov; 703.292.4739

Read the new GeoPRISMS solicitation:

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/nsf14556/nsf14556.htm

Please note the following proposal deadlines:

•NSF GeoPRISMS: August 1, 2014

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/nsf14556/nsf14556.htm

GeoPRISMS Postdoctoral Fellowship: August 1, 2014

http://www.geoprisms.nineplanetsllc.com/postdoctoral-fellowships.html

Read more →

Dear colleagues,

The American Mineralogist has now opened a Special Section in its Centennial Volume (2015-2016) on the theme of “New advances in subduction zone magma genesis“.

The Special Section is now open for submission (see details below), and will remain open until December 31, 2015. Editors for this special section are Susanne M. Straub and Heather Handley.

An important aspect is that American Mineralogist is set to become a more general journal for the Earth Science, as reflected in the subtitle of “A Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials”. This means that manuscripts are now accepted that could go to Geochim CosmochimActa, Contrib Mineral Petrol, G-cubed, Earth Planet Sci Lett, J Volcanol Geotherm Res, etc.

Here are some facts that to assist your decision to contribute to this volume:

– American Mineralogist offers print-on-demand which means that papers are published online as they are accepted, without waiting for the closure date for the Special Section. Once the section is closed, a journal-formatted collection of all the papers will be printed. The online publication date of the paper will be retained.

– Shorter papers are encouraged. While American Mineralogist accepts long papers as well, the regular articles have a 30 printed page limit (or a rough limit of 100 manuscript pages, when text, figures, tables etc. are taken together).

– American Mineralogist offers unlimited color in the on-line version of the journal is free to all MSA members ($80/year, and that includes Elements and American Mineralogist subscriptions).

– Color in the print version is $450/paper – not per page, but per an entire paper. However, if a paper has a huge amount of color maps, the fee may increase.

– American Mineralogist is cited in ISI and Scopus

How to submit a paper to the special section of American Mineralogist:

1. Go to http://minsocam.allentrack.net —be sure cookies are on and Java enabled. Use the most recent version of Netscape, Explorer, Safari, etc. Register and then log in.

2. Full manuscript preparation guidelines are available at http://www.minsocam.org and include a handy list of abbreviations and other style information available on the web site.

Please feel free to send questions anytime to the volume editors (Straub/Handley), and also a short notice of intent and preliminary paper title anytime, even if your manuscript will be submitted at some future date.

Best wishes,

Susanne Straub, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University (smstraub@ldeo.columbia.edu)

Heather Handley, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, (heather.handley@mq.edu.au)

**Deadline for Mini-Workshop proposals is July 1, 2014**

Dear GeoPRISMS Community,

We are pleased to announce that this year we will again be able to host a few mini-workshops at the 2014 AGU Fall Meeting (December 15-19). A mini-workshop is a research meeting that is held during an evening of the Fall Meeting or on the Sunday leading up to the meeting. Examples of mini-workshops held in association with recent and upcoming national and international meetings can be found at: /mini-workshops.html .

Mini-Workshops offer excellent opportunities to jump-start science discussions, as well as to coordinate implementation for future GeoPRISMS studies, both for primary sites and thematic studies. We encourage you to consider such an undertaking. The GeoPRISMS Office provides logistical support, a meeting room and refreshments. We do not cover any travel costs or per diem to the organizers or participants.

If you would like to host a GeoPRISMS-related Mini-Workshop in association with the 2014 AGU Fall Meeting (15-19 December), we invite you to submit your proposal to the GeoPRISMS Office at info@geoprisms.nineplanetsllc.com. The proposals will be reviewed and ranked by the GeoPRISMS Steering and Oversight Committee (GSOC). The number of mini-workshops is limited but we expect to be able to host three to four events.

The deadline for upcoming Mini-Workshop proposals is July 1, 2014. The proposal guidelines are described on the GeoPRISMS website at: /mini-workshops.html#organize-a-mini-workshop. We encourage you to contact the GeoPRISMS Office with questions or advice prior to submitting at info@geoprisms.nineplanetsllc.com.

We look forward to hearing your ideas.

-The GeoPRISMS Office and GSOC
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Please see below for session of interest to the GeoPRISMS community that will take place at the 2014 GSA Annual Meeting, October 18-22, 2014, in Vancouver, B.C.

The Spring 2014 GeoPRISMS Newsletter (#32) is now available on-line:

http://www.geoprisms.nineplanetsllc.com/newsletters.html

Highlights of this edition include:

Geophysical and Hydrogeochemical Survey of the Cascadia Subduction Zone

2012 Nicoya Earthquake – at the Bull’s Eye of a MARGINS Focus Site

Report from the Field: Katmai, Alaska

Reports on the AGU 2013 Mini-Workshops

AGU Fall Meeting 2013 Student Prize Winners

Plus

NSF Update and Revised Solicitation

Distinguished Lectureship Program Speakers 2014-2015

GeoPRISMS Data Portal Status Report

GeoPRISMS NSF Awards

GSOC Highlights – Spring 2014

Printed copies of the newsletter will be mailed soon.

The GeoPRISMS Office

Questions: info@geoprisms.nineplanetsllc.com

The Cascadia Initiative data (Network ID: 7D) has been corrected and is now un-restricted at the IRIS Data Management Center (DMC). The data was restricted on 2/28/14 to correct the horizontal channel convention for a subset of the data. The OBSIP Management Office apologizes for the delay in re-releasing the data, we wanted to make sure that all the corrected data was uploaded accurately and that no pieces of data were missing.

All researchers using the Cascadia data set should re-download the data. All horizontal channel data is now in the left‐handed coordinate system, with the data labeled “BH2”/”HH2”/“LH2” representing ground‐motion in a direction 90° clockwise from the ground‐motion tagged “BH1”/”HH1”/”LH1”.

The Cascadia Year 1 Horizontal Report has been corrected and re-published on the OBSIP website and the IRIS DMC metadata folder. The Cascadia Year 2 Horizontal Report has also been published on the OBSIP website and published in the IRIS DMC metadata folder. The reports can be downloaded at : http://www.obsip.org/experiments/experiment-list/2011/cascadia

Please note that Appendix B: “Helicorders” in the report for both Year 1 and Year 2 will be uploaded at a later date.

If you have any questions, please direct them to Jessica Lodewyk  (Jessica.lodewyk@iris.edu)

Jessica Lodewyk

OBSIP Data Quality Specialist

jessica@iris.edu