Is MYRES limited to North American Scientists?
No. On the contrary, MYRES is an international meeting and we encourage participation from researchers around the world. Partial travel and conference cost support was available for 85 participants, thanks to joint funding from the US National Science Foundation and the European Science Foundation. • What is the status of the MYRES proposal? We submitted to NSF in the end of August of 2003 and obtained funding for one meeting, MYRES-I which happened in August 2004. The European Science Foundation provided additional travel support for MYRES-I. In June 2005, the MYRES community decided to support “Dynamics of the lithosphere and plate boundaries” by Laurent Montesi and Giulio Di Toro. Laurent will be leading the new team and efforts to obtain funding for MYRES-II. • Who is working on the MYRES project? The MYRES-I steering committee consisted of Thorsten Becker (USC, ex officio), Magali Billen (UC Davis), James Kellogg (UCLA, ex officio), Jeanne Hardebeck (USGS Menlo Park), Cin-Ty Lee (
