Why are MYRES workshops not just another (Gordon) meeting?
We explain the guiding principles behind MYRES in some detail in our NSF proposal. However, the main idea is to speed up building an open community of researchers in a variety of fields that can teach each other and easily exchange data and tools across traditional boundaries. The meeting itself will have a large educational part, with novel peer-reviewed tutorials and freely available, web published lecture notes. • 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, MYRE
