Senior advisory panel

To provide for institutional continuity and memory while having rotating chairmanships and a grass-roots structure, MYRES will have a semi-permanent advisory board of $\sim$6 senior researchers ( i.e. tenured faculty) from across disciplines. These senior advisers will attend MYRES conferences to act as scientific council and reference, and to guide the chairs in logistic issues if needed. Senior advisers have, however, no other active role in the proceedings. MYRES' chairs and instructors will meet briefly with the advisory panel before each MYRES to discuss specifics of the planned meeting, the scope of the sessions, and administrative questions. A forum for this could be a short get-together at the AGU meeting in the fall before the next MYRES.

The ideal candidates for the senior advisory panel should have a sincere interest in supporting the development of young researchers and in helping in the establishment and reinforcement of multidisciplinary research strategies. They would have to be willing to spend four days at each meeting, serve as council, institutional memory, and briefly meet with designated meeting chairs at the fall AGU meeting preceding the workshop.

The following senior researchers have expressed their support for MYRES and are willing to act as council to MYRES' chairs:

• core dynamics: Bruce Buffett (University of Chicago)
• crustal/lithospheric dynamics: Leigh Royden (MIT)
• mineral physics: Donald Weidner (SUNY Stony Brook)
• geochemistry: Roberta Rudnick (University of Maryland)
• geodynamics: Richard O'Connell (Harvard University)
• seismology: Karen Fischer (Brown University)

Not all panel members will have to attend each meeting, as not all MYRES topics will fall within their scientific interests.