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 (Rice), Laurent Montesi (WHOI), Wendy Panero (U Michigan), Frederik Simons (UC London), and Shijie Zhong (U Boulder). Please contact Laurent, if you want to contribute. • What was the first MYRES meeting, MYRES-I, about? MYRES-I focused on “Heat, Helium, Hotspots, and Whole Mantle Convection”. A list of conveners is as follows: • Heat and mass
