SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Continental Lithosphere, Tectosphere and Crust |
| Discussion Leader: Claude P. Jaupart (Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris) |
| Roberta L. Rudnick (University of Maryland) What Continental Crust Composition Tells us About Mantle Dynamics |
| Michael G. Bostock (University of British Columbia, Canada) Mantle Stratigraphy and Continental Evolution |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:45 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Plate Boundary I: Convergence Zones |
| Discussion Leader: Leigh Royden (MIT) |
| Bradford H. Hager (MIT) Crust-Mantle Interaction in Intracontinental Convergence Zones |
| Claudio Faccenna (University of Rome, Italy) Subduction and the Style of Convection in the Mediterranean |
| Thorsten Becker (IGPP, U.C. San Diego) Geodynamic Models of Upper Mantle Subduction: Connecting Slab Morphology, Viscosity Variations, and Surface Tectonics |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Plate Boundary II: Plume-Ridge Interactions |
| Discussion Leader: Mark A. Richards (U.C. Berkeley) |
| Garrett Ito (University of Hawaii) Mantle Flow and Melting at Plume-Midocean Ridge Interactions |
| William M. White (Cornell University) Geochemical Perspectives on Plume-Ridge Interaction |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Linking Thermochemical and Seismic Structure of the Upper Mantle |
| Discussion Leader: Goran Ekstrom (Harvard University) |
| Richard Allen (University of Wisconsin) Constraining the Seismic Velocities of Mantle Upwelling Processes |
| David L. Kohlstedt (University of Minnesota) Deformation-Induced Seismic Anisotropy: The Roles of Water and Melt |
| Donald W. Forsythe (Brown University) Geophysical and Geochemical Constraints on Mantle Flow in the MELT Study Area of the East Pacific Rise |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Mapping and Interpretation of Upper Mantle Anisotropy |
| Discussion Leader: J. Michael Kendall (University of Leeds, U.K.) |
| Neil M. Ribe (Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris) Inferring Mantle Flow From Seismic Anisotropy: Theory and Simple Models |
| Vera Schulte-Pelkum (University of Colorado) From Seismic Measurements to Anisotropy (You Can't Fit an Orthorhombic Peg in a Hexagonal Hole) |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Earth System Evolution: Plate Tectonics, Surface Processes and Sea Level |
| Discussion Leader: Sean Willett (University of Washington) |
| Douglas W. Burbank (U.C. Santa Barbara) Surface Processes and Exhumation Rates: Erosional Controls on Tectonic Rates |
| Peter O. Koons (University of Maine) Coupling of Mantle, Crustal and Surface Processes in Three-Dimensional Orogens |
| David Rowley (University of Chicago) Global Spreading Rates From 180 Ma to Present |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Magma Generation in the Upper Mantle System |
| Discussion Leader: Marc M. Hirschmann (University of Minnesota) |
| E. Marc Parmentier (Brown University) Buoyant Magma Generation in the Upper Mantle - Moving Beyond the Classical Plume Hypothesis |
| Tim Grove (MIT) Magma Generation in the Earth's Mantle: What We Know About Depths, Temperatures and Melting Processes |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Large Scale Plate-Mantle Interactions and Evolution |
| Discussion Leader: Richard J. O'Connell (Harvard University) |
| Steven C Cande (Scripps Institute of Oceanography) Early Cenozoic Global Plate Reorganizations |
| Richard G. Gordon (Rice University) Kinematics, Dynamics, and Rheology of Diffuse Oceanic Plate Boundaries |
| Carolina R. Lithgow-Bertelloni (University of Michigan) Earth Under Stress: Mantle Flow, Plate Dynamics, and Surface Deformation |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Unresolved Problems |
| Discussion Leader: Terry A. Plank (Boston University) |
| David Bercovici (Yale University) Thermal and Chemical Evolution of the Crust-Mantle System and the Origin of Plate Tectonics |
| Richard W. Carlson (Carnegie Institute of Washington) Strengths and Weaknesses in Geochemical Deductions on Mantle Geodynamics |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |