| SATURDAY |
| 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Imaging the Deep Earth |
| Discussion Leader: Leah Ziegler (Oregon State Univ.) |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Ed Garnero (Arizona State Univ.)
"Observing the present day dynamic deep Earth and interpreting its past" |
| 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I ("Seismic Approaches as constraints for Deep-Earth Structure") |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Structure, Dynamics and Evolution of the Deep Earth |
| Discussion Leader: Jonathan Tucker (Harvard) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:46 pm | John Hernlund (UC Berkeley)
"Thermal, Chemical, and Phase Evolution of the Earth's Core"
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| 7:46 pm - 7:54 pm | Discussion |
| 7:54 pm - 8:10 pm | Nicholas Schmerr (NASA Goddard)
"Velocity and Density Contrasts at Upper Mantle Boundaries: Putting Together Views from Mineral Physics, Seismology, and Geodynamics"
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| 8:10 pm - 8:18 pm | Discussion |
| 8:18 pm - 8:34 pm | Vedran Lekic (Univ. Maryland)
"New mantle structures imaged using full waveform SEM-based tomography" |
| 8:34 pm - 8:42 pm | Discussion |
| 8:42 pm - 8:58 pm | Sanne Cottaar (UC Berkeley)
"Direct seismic observations of strong heterogeneity in the lowermost mantle"
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| 8:58 pm - 9:06 pm | Discussion |
| 9:06 pm - 9:22 pm | Andrew Walker (Univ. Bristol)
"Modelling the tectonics of the lowermost mantle"
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| 9:22 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| SUNDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Links between Deep-Earth Processes and Surface Expressions of Mantle Convection |
| Discussion Leader: Elizabeth Day (MIT) |
| 9:00 am - 9:16 am | Anna Massmeyer (Univ. Paris-Sud)
"Thermal Plumes in complex fluids - from the fishtank to the Earth's mantle"
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| 9:16 am - 9:24 am | Discussion |
| 9:24 am - 9:40 am | Esteban Gazel (Virginia Tech)
"Recycled oceanic crust and the thermal evolution of mantle plumes"
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| 9:40 am - 9:48 am | Discussion |
| 9:48 am - 10:04 am | Matthew Jackson (Boston Univ.)
"Recycling of Archean lithosphere from mass independently fractionated sulfur isotopes in oceanic hotspot lavas"
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| 10:04 am - 10:12 am | Discussion |
| 10:12 am - 10:28 am | René Gassmöller (GFZ Potsdam)
"Past plate motions and recent hotspot volcanism - Validating plate reconstructions by geodynamic modelling"
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| 10:28 am - 10:36 am | Discussion |
| 10:36 am - 10:52 am | Tobias Rolf (ETH Zurich)
"The unlikeliness of a periodic supercontinent cycle"
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| 10:52 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session II ("Deep Earth and Planets: Open Session") |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:42 pm | Properties and Composition of the Mantle |
| Discussion Leader: Ian Rose (UC Berkeley) |
| 1:30 pm - 1:46 pm | Shichun Huang (Harvard)
"Does the Earth have a superchondritic Sm/Nd ratio?"
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| 1:46 pm - 1:54 pm | Discussion |
| 1:54 pm - 2:10 pm | Colin Jackson (Brown Univ.)
"Geochemical consequences of Mg-perovskite crystallization from a magma ocean" |
| 2:10 pm - 2:18 pm | Discussion |
| 2:18 pm - 2:34 pm | Cayman Unterborn (Ohio State Univ.)
"Burnman - a lower-mantle toolbox"
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| 2:34 pm - 2:42 pm | Discussion |
| 2:42 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill out GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Gordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm. |
