What is the scientific focus of MYRES, is it a SEDI-type effort?
While the first MYRES-I workshop had a deep Earth focus, we envision future meetings to be on different Solid Earth subject matters, e.g., crustal deformation or the earthquake problem. MYRES is organized bottom-up and the MYRES web site as well as EOS announcements will be used to solicit and review proposals for future meetings in a democratic fashion. In fact, the second MYRES meeting will have to be from a field outside deep Earth. • 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
