Meeting of Young Researchers in the Earth SciencesWelcome to the historical homepages of the
Meeting of Young Researchers in the
Earth Sciences (MYRES) conference series and
community building initiative. This program was active from 2003 to
2010.
MYRES was a grass roots educational and community building effort to foster open, unbiased, interdisciplinary, and international collaboration between researchers in the Earth Sciences from 2003-2010. The main component of MYRES were four day workshops targeted at the younger (pre-tenure) members of the community, initially with focus on solid Earth Sciences, but then meandering organically to surface processes and connections with the biosphere These workshops consisted of peer-reviewed, comprehensive tutorials and focused discussion with the goal to bring specialists together to educate each other about constraints and possible solution strategies for an interdisciplinary research problem. You can read the MYRES manifesto and
the MYRES-I writeup from
2004 and 2005.
The core team working on the MYRES I and II efforts was the steering
committee which consisted of Thorsten Becker,
Magali Billen, James Kellogg, Jeanne Hardebeck, Cin-Ty Lee,
Laurent Montesi, Wendy Panero, Frederik Simons, and Shijie Zhong.
LegacyMYRES workshops produced new research directions, collaborative papers, and much of the material archived here may still be helpful for lectures and such. In the solid Earth sciences, the CIDER program has taken up a larger-scale version of the summer school idea, and MYRES claims at least to have served as partial inspiration for some of the approaches in the great CIDER program. Likewise, the Gordon Research Conference series and other workshops now host early career researcher miniworkshops before the main program, with similar goals to those of the educational part of MYRES. The spirit shall live on.MYRES Meetings
Documents on MYRES and MYRES-I:
Sponsors:MYRES I and II were funded through the National Science Foundation and the European Science Foundation. |