Meeting of Young Researchers in the Earth Sciences
Heat, Helium, Hotspots, and Whole Mantle Convection
La Jolla CA (August 12 - 15, 2004)

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The first workshop of the Meeting of Young Researchers in the Earth Sciences (myres.org) community effort was held from August 12 - 15, 2004, in La Jolla CA on the campus of UC San Diego. The topic of MYRES-I was Heat, Helium, Hotspots, and Whole Mantle Convection, with the goal to reevaluate models and constraints on Earth evolution and deep Earth structure. For an ever growing set of documents from the meeting, click here. The aim of MYRES is to further science by accelerating the growth of an interdisciplinary, international, open, and unbiased community of colleagues who interact regularly to informally exchange ideas, data, and tools, and formulate new collaborative research projects.

Post meeting wrap up

Useful documents:

Program and lecture slides

For a brief program description including lecture syllabi as PDF or HTML follow these links. Below you find links for the lecture slides from our keynote speakers, in PDF format unless indicated otherwise. These documents reflect a lot of effort from the lecturers and were kindly provided for personal use. We would like to ask you to inquire before using this material for purposes other than personal education, and please reference the source properly. We also provide this PDF Abstract Volume for MYRES-I which contains abstracts of those poster presentations for which we received abstracts from participants. We didn't require poster presentations, but rather offered the opportunity to informally discuss your research in two evening sessions.

Site information

We sent out a detailed program with maps as second meeting circular to all participants in mid June. The meeting began Wednesday, August 11, with an evening ice-breaker on the UCSD campus by the ERC dorms, Latin America Hall, where participants were staying. There were four full days of lectures and discussions from Agust 12 - 15, held during the day on the Scripps campus. Departure was on Monday, August 16, in the morning from ERC.

You can download the second circular, look at the program in HTML or PDF, or read about our host institutions by following these links to UC San Diego and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics.

Travel support

Thanks to the support of the National Science Foundation and the European Science Foundation, we were able to support most accommodation and travel costs for all of the target audience, including international participants. The remaining conference fee was ~$80, instructions on how to pay this fee is found on the second circular.

Circulars

Contacts

For organizational questions about MYRES-I, you can contact the meeting chairs, James Kellogg and Thorsten Becker.

For more information on the general conference format, see the main MYRES web page. The MYRES-I format was detailed in the second circular.

If you have questions about MYRES, please send an email to info@myres.org.

Sponsors

MYRES-I was made possible through funding from the US National Science Foundation and the attendance of European researchers was supported by the European Science Foundation. On-site support was provided by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California, San Diego.
Thanks to all involved!
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