EarthScope Town Hall at AGU

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We had a good town hall at the 2011 AGU Meeting. Ramón Arrowsmith welcomed everyone and made a few remarks updating the community on a number activities after introducing the new ESNO. Greg Anderson followed with remarks from the National Science Foundation. The audience (numbering 113) had a few comments as well.

Highlights from the EarthScope National Office/EarthScope Steering Committee include

• Introduction to the ESNO@ASU
• EarthScope Advisory structure
• SAFOD as an indispensible element of EarthScope and the SAFOD Dear Colleague Letter from NSF
• Collaborations with GeoPrisms and recent and upcoming workshops (including Cascadia and its Dear Colleague Letter from NSF
• EarthScope broader impacts and our Education and Outreach at the ESNO
• EarthScope Social Media Initiative
• EarthScope needs you!

Highlights from NSF include

• A healthy program with a recent excellent facility review
• NSF budget in place and overall small increase (+2.5%--but not clear how it trickles down the the EarthScope Program)
• Likely tweaks to the Solicitation next year
• A typical EarthScope Project (including all PIs) is $370k for 3 years (with a large range over the years)
• USArray will see the Atlantic Ocean in about a month (Florida installation)
• Facility renewal effort and timing
• EarthScope continues to grow!

The discussion included questions about how to raise the EarthScope Program profile and funding at NSF and what is next for EarthScope after 2018? The EarthScope Steering Committee will be taking this up in the coming year.

Here are our presentations:
EarthScope National Office/EarthScope Steering Committee (Ramón Arrowsmith)
National Science Foundation (Greg Anderson)