MARGINS Call for White Papers

A call for white papers, forwarded from Andrew Goodliffe, Alabama:

White Papers Wanted For MARGINS Successor
Submission Deadline: January 1, 2010
http://www.nsf-margins.org/SuccessorProgram

The MARGINS Successor Planning Workshop will be held in San Antonio, TX on February 15-18, 2010 and convened by:
J. Morgan, R. Arrowsmith, M. Behn, S. Bilek, C. Ebinger, M. Hirschmann, D. Saffer, D. Wiens, A. Goodliffe, T. Gardner

All members of the scientific community interested in future science on plate margins are invited to submit one or more White Paper(s) to the MARGINS Office in advance of the MARGINS Successor Planning Workshop. The planning process is open, and these White Papers provide a means for all members of the broader scientific community to contribute cogent and well-argued ideas for future directions of the program. White papers will be used in developing the workshop program, and will be publicly available. White Papers should be clear and succinct, and limited in length to 2 pages of text plus 1 page of figures and references. The paper may address any topic of relevance to the workshop. We particularly seek white papers that outline broad, high-priority, and novel science questions and objectives for future research relating to the formation, evolution, and/or processes active along subduction or rifting margins. Recommendations for technological developments, instruments, facilities, and observatories necessary to address these questions are also welcome, as well as papers advancing educational and outreach objectives and topics of broader societal relevance. White papers should be of general interest, rather than advocacy statements for specific studies, locations, or focus sites. Additional guidelines for submitting White Papers can be found here:

http://www.nsf-margins.org/SuccessorProgram/whitepapers.html

Submission Deadline: January 1, 2010.