MARGINS Evening Meetings at AGU
Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, December 13-17, 1999 (Monday through Friday)

There will be appetizers and beverage service!

• Monday MC 120 5:30-8:00pm MARGINS Sediment Stratigraphy Meeting
  
• Tuesday MC 238 5:30-8:00pm MARGINS Costa Rica/Nicaragua Meeting
  
• Thursday MC 238 5:30-8:00pm MARGINS IBM Subduction Factory Discussion Group

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Details of Monday's Sediment Stratigraphy Meeting:
Convenors: Charles Nittrouer and Neal Driscoll

5:30-5:45 - (Nittrouer, Driscoll) Results of Quinault -- Source-to-Sink concept, site criteria
5:45-7:00 - (site describers) Five candidates for focus sites [you will draw straws for the order of presentation]
7:00-7:45 - (site describers) Three candidates for allied sites [you will draw straws for the order of presentation]
7:45-8:00 - (Nittrouer, Driscoll) -- Summary comments -- timetable of events, education/planning workshop

Comments

1. Because there is much to accomplish, we will be rigorous about staying on schedule.
2. We assume that, at least, one describer for each site will be present. Please tell us, if this is not the case.
3. We are expecting people to come with knowledge of the areas, from the site descriptions on the web. Five minutes is clearly not enough time to do justice to any of the areas. If people at the Town Meeting want more information, they should go home and check the web page. In five minutes, say enough to refresh the memories of those who were conscientious, and enough to entice the others to check the web. We would like you to save ten minutes to answer questions. In any case, fifteen minutes is the limit of total time for your site.
4. During your five minutes of description, please touch on the site criteria.
5. You might consider bringing hard copies summarizing your site description. These would be distributed while we were giving the introduction. [You'll have to guess about attendence, but 100 copies probably would be enough.]
6. As mentioned before, we will distribute hard copies of the evaluation form. However, people will have to submit their views over the web.

The evaluation form is now on the web ( SedStrat.html look under "site selection criteria and evaluation form"). The mechanics of creating it required some time.

Please contact us, if you have comments or questions.

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Details of Tuesday's Costa Rica/Nicaragua Meeting:
Convenors: Tim Dixon and Eli Silver
We plan to give everyone who wishes to speak a few minutes to outline the work that has taken place or is planned, leaving time for broader discussion, including:
1) In what ways can the ongoing and planned studies be integrated?
2) What new programs are necessary to fully understand the processes associated with characterizing the seismogenic zone and subduction factory?
3) What can we do to create or expand Geophysical, Geochemical and other databases for rapid access by the community?

Please come prepared with an overhead or two, and those doing joint work might decide how to most efficiently present the results and ongoing research. Pass this message to colleagues with interests in Central America tectonics or general interests in the seismogenic zone or subduction factory. For questions, please contact the convenors above.

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Details of Thursday's IBM Subduction Factory Discussion Group:
Convenor: Robert Stern
1) Introduction - Bob Stern
2) Leg 185 report - Terry Plank
3) Inside the Subduction Factory TEI - Marc Hirschmann
4) Computer Visualizations of IBM Subduction Factory - Paul Morin
5) Databases - Geochemistry & Geophysics -Brian Taylor
6) Geochemistry databases - the RIDGE perspective -Charlie Langmuir
7) Drilling on Frontal Arc Islands - Jim Hawkins
8) Discussion of Topics from the Floor

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