A number of important issues need to be discussed and voted on. To summarize the major categories of our agenda:

• Bylaws, committee structure, and procedures
• Approve committee members
• Define the role and activities of the COMPRES Central office.
• Membership issues
• Plans for Grand Challenges

This meeting is the official kick-off of the COMPRES program. We need to discuss and understand the mission and to codify the operation procedures. This is a community run organization with NSF support for specific functions. The following items need attention at this meeting.

• By-laws

These by-laws are patterned after the IRIS by-laws with appropriate modifications. They are open for discussion and modification. We hope to have consensus on a final version at the meeting. This will satisfy NSF who needs a final management structure report by Feb. 2003.

• Elect officers:

Current membership of committees and officers include:

President:

Jay Bass

Executive Committee:

Facilities Standing Committee:

Development Standing Committee

COMPRES Central Standing Committee

We need to make some modifications and confirm the appointment on all members of these committees. Weidner and Bass are entering nominees as follows:

Executive committee: 3 members must be chosen. We nominate:

Tom Duffy

Shun Karato

Alexandra Navrotsky

At the meeting, we will solicit any further nominees. The nominee must agree to serve prior to nomination and the nomination must be endorsed by 3 attendees of the meeting. We will then vote on the slate of nominees with one vote per institution that is represented.

We will vote on the membership of the committees as well, with a minimum target of 5 per committee. We nominate the current members of these committees including chairs. Weidner, Bass, and any member that is elected to the executive committee may need to be replaced on a Standing Committee. Please be sure to note that these standing committees control the budget deployment of COMPRES. They have a big job that will support the entire field.

• Advisory committee: We need to define an advisory committee made of individuals mostly external to the COMPRES community.
• Search for President: We need to define the search committee for President – possibly the COMPRES Central committee could be this search committee. This needs to begin soon.
• Description of current COMPRES activities. We will ask for a report from each element of the current COMPRES program.
• Responsibilities of Standing Committees. We will have break-out sessions to help set the responsibilities of these committees. We need a summary report from these committees that documents the responsibilities, authority, and procedures for each committee to carry out their duties.
• Grand Challenges: We will have break-out sessions for the Grand Challenges to begin their programs.
• Discussion of how new science is phased in to the COMPRES program within the main grant and as a Grand Challenge.
• Report: We need an official report of the results of this meeting with input from all of the parts.

COMPRES Central Activities: About a $500k was cut from our original request for this budget item. We need to discuss what will be done with the current budget, and also to map out a vision of what COMPRES should be doing in the future. This vision will form the basis for future budget requests. Two suggestions that are worth giving serious thought to are community workshops and education & outreach (E&O) activities. To some degree these go hand-in-hand. If we are going to increase the user base for our facilities, we need to be informing people about the research possibilities, and perhaps giving hands-on instruction about how instrumentation and facilities work. E&O activities can go well beyond this, including K-12 and professional outreach. We can have informational websites for students and professionals alike, instructional workshops at all levels (including K-12 teachers). Many other possibilities exist. The E&O category is also perhaps a common area of coordination with other organizations like IRIS, SCECII, and Earthscope (if it is funded) to name a few.