Today’s Discussion Margins Curriculum Testing Opportunities (L. Lamb) EarthScope Geochronology Student Research and Training Program (R. Flowers) Report out from Chicago 2012 Meeting (B. Tikoff) RCN (Research Coordination Network) for Field Geology – EC3 (M. Mookerjee) Digital database for Structural Geology and Tectonics (B. Tikoff) EarthScope Updates (B. Tikoff) Other announcements?

NEW CURRICULUM Focused on recent results from the MARGINS – GeoPRISMS Programs Trying to get new science into the classroom in a timely, easy-to-use way!!

Labs, exercises, lecture material, in- class activities Rupturing Continental Lithosphere – Review lecture on rifting and normal faults – Intro to using seismic data with in-class activities – GeoMapApp and bathymetry exercise – Isotasy and crustal thicknesses – Oblique spreading and Euler poles exercise using Matlab Seismogenic Zone Experiment Source to Sink-Sedimentary Processes Subduction Factory Two-weeks of curriculum per area but all pieces also stand alone

NEED CLASSROOM TESTERS FOR THIS FALL Designed for upper-division structural geology, tectonics, geophysics and sed/strat classes

Structural Geology and Tectonics Held in Chicago October 2012 One and three quarter days 32 attendees 2 NSF representatives 2 follow-up workshops

Action Items Workshop participants considered developing a database or data system to be the highest priority and desired component of cyberinfrastructure needed by the community (DEALT WITH: NOW AN EXISTING GRANT). Two followup workshops to help move this forward. – First identified needs and pathway. In particular, the need for data reporting standards was considered key. – Second explored data reporting and description for shear zones as a way to prototype the process.(DEALT WITH: Jean Crespi, Emily Peterman, Chris Gerbi) RCN for field geologists and computer science (DEALT WITH: Matty Mookerjee). EarthCube needs to recognize that component data systems are critical to develop for communities that currently lack such systems. EarthCube needs to support development of such systems or else the community has no path or incentive to participate. (Funding is through Geoinformatics: DeepDive can help with legacy data)

EC3—Earth-Centered Communication for Cyberinfrastructure: Challenges of field data collection, management, and integration Steering Committee Membership: Richard Allmendinger, Cornell U; Jim Bowring, College of Charleston; Marjorie Chan, U of Utah; Amy Ellwein, Rocky Mountain Bio Lab; Yolanda Gil, U of Southern CA; Paul Harnik, Franklin and Marshall College; Eric Kirby, Penn State U; Ali Kooshesh, Sonoma State U; Matty Mookerjee, Sonoma State U; Rick Morrison, Comprehend Systems Inc; Terry Pavlis, U of Texas, El Paso; Shanan Peters, U of Wisc, Madison; Bala Ravikumar, Sonoma State U; Paul Selden, U of Kansas; Thomas Shipley, Temple U; Frank Spear, Rensselaer Poly. Inst; Basil Tikoff, U of Wisc, Madison; Douglas Walker, U of Kansas; Mike Williams, U of Mass., Amherst Initiate relationships and collaborations between field-based geoscientists and computer scientists Why Concentrate on Field-based disciplines of the Geosciences? Common set of challenges with regards to digitizing our data and making those data available through community databases. Fieldwork provides essential information about the long-term history of the Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, and tectonic cycles. There is no better place to have these conversations than in the field Summer 2014 field trip: Yosemite/Owen’s Valley, Aug 4 th -8 th Summer 2015 field trip: TBA Applications to participate in fieldtrips: Form available at: applications to

Digital Database GeoSPOT idea Future Activities (you are invited!) – GSA Townhall (Saturday afternoon before mtg) – AGU Townhall & AGU Field Cyberinfrastructure Session – Workshops for Faults, Fabrics, Migmatites/Plutons – Field trials for 3 areas: Faults (Rio Grande), shear zones (Seiad), and General (Inyo Mtns)

Spot Concept

EarthScope: Next Big Thing There will basically be writing calls for proposals for post-SAGE/GAGE/EarthScope, post-2018, in the next ~1.5 years. It is time to act towards the idea of a geologic/crustal EarthScope, if we like this idea What this means: A workshop on or before January 2015 ("4Byr Evolution of the North American Continent: ideas for EarthScope beyond 2018”??) Next slide was put together by geology working group at 2013 EarthScope meeting (Frank Pazzaglia chaired)

The Lithosphere (and below) Focused crustal studies Lower 48 and Alaska EarthCube and cyberinfrastructure A repurposed TA backbone Plate Interior Observatory THE INTEGRATED EARTH (or at least our part of it) Macrostrat 1.0 and Digital Crust Project CUAHSI NCED Full integration of geology, geophysics, geodesy, paleogeodesy, geodynamics, geo-thermo-chron and PBO H2O at the appropriate nested scale(s) needed to characterize the processes of interest Mineral physics, geochemistry, mineralogy Mineral physics, geochemistry, mineralogy Reflection seismology Reflection seismology Crustal dynamics and fault physics Crustal dynamics and fault physics Resources, Energy and Environment, Hazards; Align with USGS and State Survey missions and the opportunities that it raises for E&O Resources, Energy and Environment, Hazards; Align with USGS and State Survey missions and the opportunities that it raises for E&O Community definition of facility footprint, instrument density, mobility, project scale Community definition of facility footprint, instrument density, mobility, project scale “Elevation for the nation” backbone [FEMA need is 2 m resolution], NCALM as the FA; existing State data, eg: PA at 3 m-resolution, can feed into the backbone “Elevation for the nation” backbone [FEMA need is 2 m resolution], NCALM as the FA; existing State data, eg: PA at 3 m-resolution, can feed into the backbone Focus the Earth(tele)Scope Geo-thermochron; cosmogenics SAFOD Geologic time series of uplift, erosion, burial at the TA spacing [Macrostrat v. 2.0] paleoelevation Novel use of seismologic data Granularize, broaden, infill EarthScope 1.0