More Information on August Workshop in Istanbul

The Cormier et al. proposal to NSF for travel support to the workshop
in Istanbul is unofficially funded, at a reduced rate, the reduced
rate reflecting that the Program Mananager (and us) saw that it is
possible now to get fares for August that are substantially less than
we proposed.

Because we are concerned that availability of the lower fares will
later be a problem, we are asking now for applications for travel
support, so that we can make decisions and prepare letters/emails
next week, and send these out once the NSF funding is official.
Tickets will not be able to be purchased until:
1: NSF funding is official
2: We are within 30 days of June 1 start date and this is agreed to
by Columbia University.
3: You have "official" approval from us.

If you do not receive a longer email to be sent today to our list of
"interested people", then you are not on this list and need to send
an expression of interest (with maybe a paragraph on what you work
on/are interested in working on relevant to the workshop) to both
Milene Cormier: cormier@ldeo.columbia.edu
and Chris Sorlien: chris@crustal.ucsb.edu

We will then add you to the list. Most future emails will go only to this list.

some notes: if you need more information, send us an email and we can
send you our NSF proposal as a 0.5 Mbyte .pdf file, and we can send
an agenda of the meeting that right now is a work in progress: it
could cause some problems to circulate this widely before certain
people have commented on it.

We have few expressions of interest directly from students: we want
to hear from students directly.
The NSF funds cannot be used for travel for non-permanent residents
working in US, or for US citizens working in another country. We are
trying to free up some of the committed SCEC funds which do not have
this limitation, so you can apply even if you don't meet the NSF
standards.

Chris Sorlien

US-Turkey Workshop: Comparative studies of
the North Anatolian Fault (Northwest Turkey)
and the San Andreas Fault (southern California)
Istanbul Technical University
August 14-16 2006
Field Trip August 17, 18
U.S. Contacts:
Milene Cormier: cormier@ldeo.columbia.edu
Christopher "Chris" Sorlien chris@crustal.ucsb.edu