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EOS, TRANSACTIONS AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION, VOL. 86, NO. 5, doi:10.1029/2005EO050005, 2005

MYRES: A Program to Unite Young Solid Earth Researchers

Frederik J. Simons

University College London, London, UK


Thorsten W. Becker

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA


James B. Kellogg

University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA


Magali Billen

University of California, Davis, California, USA


Cin-Ty A. Lee

Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA


Laurent G. J. Montèsi

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA


Wendy Panero

Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA


Shijie Zhong

University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA


Abstract

The first Meeting of Young Researchers in the Earth Sciences (MYRES-I), held in August of 2004, focused on “Heat, helium, hotspots, and whole mantle convection.” Biennial meetings, with MYRES-I as the first, are one of the ways the MYRES initiative is building an “international, interdisciplinary, open and unbiased community of colleagues who interact regularly to informally exchange ideas, data, and tools, and formulate new collaborative research projects” (see Young Solid Earth Researchers of the World Unite! published in Eos, 85(16), 160, 2004). This article reports on our first workshop, discusses what is happening in the community, and calls for proposals to keep MYRES funded. A New Meeting Concept. The MYRES meetings are organized by, and for, junior members of the solid Earth research community. In 2004, funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the European Science Foundation (ESF) and The Scripps Institution of Oceanography enabled the initiative to nearly fully fund this meeting with a diverse and international crowd of nearly 100 participants selected from an oversubscribed pool.

Published 1 February 2005.

Index Terms: 0850 Education: Geoscience education research; 0815 Education: Informal education; 8120 Tectonophysics: Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle: general (1213).

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Citation: Simons, F. J., T. W. Becker, J. B. Kellogg, M. Billen, C.-T. A. Lee, L. G. J. Montèsi, W. Panero, and S. Zhong (2005), MYRES: A Program to Unite Young Solid Earth Researchers , Eos Trans. AGU, 86(5), doi:10.1029/2005EO050005.