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This will be a four-day meeting [pdf], with one of the afternoons on the Santa Clara River. The general plan will be for mornings to be spent in oral plenary presentations. The afternoons will be spent with posters and in smaller breakout groups discussing the daily topics, merging diverse disciplines, and considering ways to move forward. The theme for each morning will have four keynote presentations (30 min) and eight contributed talks (15 min) focused on uplands, rivers, coastal oceans, and deep margins. All other presentations will be in afternoons and will be as posters.
The daily themes are:
- Inputs to segments of dispersal systems, with emphasis on material transferred
- Internal storage/remobilization within segments of dispersal systems, with emphasis on transformations during transfer
- Outputs from segments of dispersal systems, with emphasis on timing of transfer
- Special topics, ranging from numerical modeling to interdisciplinary linkages, the stratigraphic record, natural resources, extrapolation to Mars, and the research path forward
Fields of Interest
We hope to attract scientists with the following range of backgrounds:
Sediment dispersal systems around the world;
Terrestrial and marine environments extending from uplands to deep margins;
Observation, theory, modeling, and experimentation;
Modern and ancient environments;
Interdisciplinary expertise (e.g., biogeochemical cycling);
Basic and applied science;
Siliciclastic and carbonate sediments;
New Guinea and New Zealand MARGINS sites.
Field Trip
The meeting site is near the Santa Clara River dispersal system in central California. The proximity will allow a half-day field trip for participants to head into the field and discuss source-to-sink issues outside meeting rooms. The Santa Clara River has headwaters in the San Gabriel Mountains, flows in a relatively natural condition for a moderate length (‹200 km), and reaches the Pacific Ocean and its continental margin just south of Santa Barbara. It is an ideal river for the S2S community to examine during the conference.