Workshop on Long Range Plan for
High Pressure Earth Sciences
Fiesta Resort
Tempe, Arizona
March 2-4, 2009
Tri-Chairs
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Meeting Prospectus
The
scientific goals of this meeting include: (1) discussing recent scientific
successes of the high-pressure mineral physics community; and (2) articulating
in what directions our research could evolve over the next decade. The former
goal is retrospective, and incorporates how our field has impacted other
subdisciplines of the earth sciences, including seismology, geodynamics and
petrology. The latter goal represents a challenge: what are the next major
breakthroughs of our community, and what infrastructure will be necessary to
achieve them? While recognizing that incremental progress will occur, what new
and different developments could occur? And, what long-standing problems might
we solve?
The
product that we anticipate will arise from this meeting will be a new
scientific plan for high-pressure mineral physics: a document that will not
only serve as a blueprint for our community as it moves forward, but will also
serve as the input of our community to a new NAS report,
commissioned by NSF, on Basic Research Opportunities in the Earth Sciences (BROES). Quentin Williams
will serve as Editor-in-Chief of this successor to the 2004 Bass Report.
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Meeting Schedule
Monday March 2, 2009
Arrival and dinner/reception
·
6:30
PM Dinner
·
8:00 PM Reception (with wine, beer and light
snacks)
Tuesday March 3, 2009
AM Session
·
8:00 AM Welcome and Opening Remarks
·
8:10 AM Meeting Goals and Document Plan
Quentin Williams,
UCSC
·
8:20 AM Remarks by the new Division Director
of EAR
Robert Detrick, NSF
Plenary Theme 1: The Deeper Reaches of the Planet: Properties
of Iron and its Alloys and the Novel Materials of the Deepest Mantle
·
8:40 AM Structure and Dynamics of the Earth's Core-Mantle Boundary
Plenary Speaker Bruce Buffett, UC Berkeley
·
9:25 AM How Material Properties Affect Our View of the Deep Earth
Plenary Speaker Jennifer
Jackson, Caltech
- 10:25 AM Breakout Session Topics:
(Co-Discussion Leaders)
(1) High
Pressure Spin Transitions in Iron-Bearing Minerals: The Lower Mantle’s Hidden Transitions
(Wolfgang Sturhahn and Renata Wentzcovitch)
(2) Iron
Alloys: The Phase Relations and Properties of Earth’s Innermost Interior
(Andrew Campbell and Jie Li)
(3) The
Deep Mantle: Post-Perovskite, Melts and Low Velocity Provinces (Thomas Duffy
and Dan Shim)
(4) Electrical
and Thermal Conductivity of Earth Materials: Mobility of Heat and Electrons
within the Planet (Alex Goncharov and
Abby Kavner)
- 12:00 noon Lunch
PM Session
Plenary Theme 2: The Dynamic Ceramic Mantle
·
1:15 PM Seismological Structures in the Deep Mantle and Core: Challenges for Mineral Physics
Plenary Speaker Thorne Lay, UCSC
·
2:00 PM Silicate Melts and Melting Throughout the Mantle: Progress and Prospects
Plenary Speaker Paul
Asimow, Caltech
·
2:45 PM Rheological Properties of Planetary Materials
Plenary Speaker Shun
Karato, Yale
- 3:30 PM Break
- 3:45 PM Breakout Session Topics:
(Co-Discussion Leaders)
(1) Thermoelasticity
of Minerals, Phase Transitions and Seismic Mapping: Slab Signatures, the
Transition Zone and Chemical Heterogeneity (Jay Bass and Donald Weidner)
(2) Chemical
Diffusivity and Viscosity of Mantle Minerals: How does the Planet Flow and
Homogenize (William Durham and David Walker)
(3) Properties
of Planetary Fluids (Carl Agee and Daniel Farber)
(4) Linkages
to the Lithosphere and Crust: Deeply Derived Magmas,
·
5:15 - 6:15 PM Plenary Session: Breakout Session Reports from Tuesday
·
6:30 PM Dinner
·
Post-Dinner: Informal Writing and
Discussion
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
AM Session
Plenary Theme 3: Mineral Physics and Society
·
8:15 AM
Trickle-down Science: Societal Impact of Mineral Physics
Plenary Speaker Rod Ewing, U Michigan
·
9:00 AM Deep Earth Volatile Cycles
Plenary Speaker Marc Hirschmann, U Minn
- 9:45 AM Break
- 10:00 AM Breakout Session Topics:
(Co-Discussion Leaders)
(1) Educational
Opportunities: What can Mineral Physics deliver to K-16 Education? (Pamela
Burnley and Gabriel Gwanmesia)
(2) Volatile
Fluxes into and out of the Planet and Sequestration at Depth: The Deep Ultimate
Controls on the Carbon Cycle and the Hydrosphere (Wendy Panero and Joseph Smyth)
(3) Synthesis
and Characterization of Societally Important Materials: Ultra-hard Materials,
Hydrogen Storage Materials, Minerals for Nuclear Waste Disposal, and Fault
Gouge (Alex Navrotsky and Yusheng Zhao)
- 11:30 AM Lunch
PM Session
Plenary Theme 4: Enabling Cutting-Edge Science: Tools and the
Accomplishments they will drive in the Next Decade of Discovery
· 1:00 PM High-Pressure Geoscience: New Tools and Expanding Outreach
Russell Hemley,
Carnegie Institution
·
1:45 PM Protons to Planets: Advances and Prospects in Computational Mineral Physics
Plenary Speaker Lars
Stixrude, UC London
- 2:30 PM Break
- 2:45 PM Breakout Session Topics: (Co-Discussion Leaders)
(1) Higher
Pressures in Larger Volumes: New High Pressure Developments (Guoyin Shen and
Yanbin Wang)
(2) Computational
Advances: More Complex Systems at Extreme Conditions (Boris Kiefer and Artem
Oganov)
(3) Shocks,
Laser-Driven and otherwise: Better Constraints on Impacts, and Into Giant
Planet Interiors (Kanani Lee and Oliver Tschauner)
(4) Opportunities
with New Sources: The Beams of NSLS-II, SNAP, APS Renewal and the LCLS (Mark
Rivers and Nancy Ross)
·
4:15 PM Plenary Session: Breakout Session Reports from Wednesday,
Updates from Tuesday Groups, Meeting Overview and Status Report
·
5:30PM Departure
for most attendees
·
6:00 PM Dinner for Writing group and
overnighters
·
7:30 PM Report
Writing Subgroup
Thursday March 5, 2009
- 8:30 AM –
11:30 AM Report Writing Subgroup
- 11:30 AM Departure
of Writing Group
Modified on February 04, 2009