Sunday |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Rifting and the Tectonics
of Passive Margins |
| Discussion Leader: Cynthia Ebinger (University of Rochester, USA) |
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
7:50 pm - 8:25 pm | Jolante van Wijk (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, USA) "Rifting Processes:
Insights from US East Coast Adakites and a Sill in the Rio Grande Rift" |
8:25 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
8:40 pm - 9:15 pm | Timothy Minshull (University of Southampton, United Kingdom) "Tectonics and Mantle
Serpentinisation During Continental Breakup at Highly Extended Margins" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Monday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Volcanoes: Mass, Energy, and Information from the Crust
and Mantle |
| Discussion Leader: Kari Cooper (University of Californa, Davis, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:10 am - 9:45 am | Terry Plank (Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, USA) "From Asthenosphere to Eruption: Integrated Studies of Magmatism, Volatiles, and Volcanism" |
9:45 am - 10:05 am | Discussion |
10:05 am - 10:35 am | Coffee Break |
10:35 am - 11:10 am | Diana Roman (Carnegie Institution of Washington, USA) "A Seismological Perspective on Magma Intrusion and Migration in Earth's Crust" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:05 pm | Josef Dufek (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) "The Distribution and Separation of Crystals and Volatiles from Melt During Magmatic Evolution" |
12:05 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Subduction: Fluids, and Melts |
| Discussion Leader: Craig Manning (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
7:40 pm - 8:15 pm | Ronit Kessel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) "The Behavior of Incompatible Elements During Devolatilization and Dehydration Melting of Mantle Lithologies" |
8:15 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:10 pm | Cian Wilson (Columbia University, USA) "Progress in Modeling Reactive Fluid Flow and Magmatism in Subduction Zones" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Tuesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Deep Earth Volatile Cycles |
| Discussion Leader: Rajdeep Dasgupta (Rice University, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:10 am - 9:45 am | Daniel Frost (Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Germany) "The Redox State and Carbon Cycle in the Earth's Deep Mantle" |
9:45 am - 10:05 am | Discussion |
10:05 am - 10:35 am | Coffee Break |
10:35 am - 11:10 am | Anne Pommier (University of California, San Diego, USA) "Assessment of the Migration and Storage Conditions of Fluids in the Upper Mantle Using Electrical Measurements" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:05 pm | Pierre Cartigny (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France) "Sulfur Chemical Geodynamics" |
12:05 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Upper Mantle Seismic
Discontinuities: Melts / Volatiles / Phase Transitions / Anisotropy? |
| Discussion Leader: Donald Forsyth (Brown University, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
7:40 pm - 8:15 pm | Yasuko Takei (University of Tokyo, Japan) "Effect of Partial Melting on Seismic Wave Velocity and Attenuation: Poroelasticity and Anelasticity" |
8:15 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:10 pm | Ed Garnero (Arizona State University, USA) "New Approaches to Imaging Upper Mantle Seismic Discontinuities" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Wednesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Origin of Plate Tectonics |
| Discussion Leader: Robert Stern (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:10 am - 9:45 am | Jeroen Van Hunen (Durham University, United Kingdom) "Early-Earth Subduction Processes" |
9:45 am - 10:05 am | Discussion |
10:05 am - 10:35 am | Coffee Break |
10:35 am - 11:10 am | Mark Harrison (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) "Hadean Plate Boundary Interactions: What's the Problem?" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:05 pm | Taras Gerya (ETH Zurich, Institute of Geophysics, Switzerland) "Plume Tectonics and Subduction Initiation in the Early Earth" |
12:05 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Deforming the Continental
Lithosphere |
| Discussion Leader: Karen Fischer (Brown University, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
7:40 pm - 8:15 pm | Whitney Behr (University of Texas at Austin, USA) "Constraints from Deformed Xenoliths on the Rheology of the Mantle Lithosphere Beneath the Western US" |
8:15 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:10 pm | Robert Van Der Hilst (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) "Interplay Between Crustal Faults and Flow: Inferences from a Tomographic Study of the Lithosphere of SE Tibet" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Thursday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | From Grains to Plates |
| Discussion Leader: Laurent Montesi (University of Maryland, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:10 am - 9:45 am | Andrea Tommasi (Universite Montpellier 2, France) "Anisotropy in the Mantle: From the Crystal to the Plate-Scale" |
9:45 am - 10:05 am | Discussion |
10:05 am - 10:35 am | Coffee Break |
10:35 am - 11:10 am | Lars Hansen (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) "Laboratory Constraints on Plate Boundary Formation: Microstructural Evolution and Mechanisms of Strain Localization" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:05 pm | Julie Castillo-Rogez (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, USA) "Dissipative Properties of Planetary Ices and Their Applications to Dynamics of Icy Bodies in the Solar System" |
12:05 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Young Investigator Presentations / Unresolved Questions |
| This session will include two brief talks from junior scientists selected from the presentations given at the 2015 Interior of the Earth Gordon Research Seminar and one overview talk addressing selected unresolved questions. |
| Discussion Leader: Louise Kellogg (University of California, Davis, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
7:40 pm - 7:55 pm | Caroline Eakin (University of Southampton / National Oceanography Centre, United Kingdom) "Deformation Within the Subducted Slab from Seismic Anisotropy" |
7:55 pm - 8:05 pm | Discussion |
8:05 pm - 8:20 pm | Zachary Eilon (Columbia University, USA) "The Importance of Grain Size to Mantle Dynamics and Seismological Observations: A Multidisciplinary Approach" |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Roberta Rudnick (University of Maryland, USA) "The Rise of Atmospheric
Oxygen: An 'Inside Job', or Not?" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Friday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |