CIDER Announcement

• Announcement: support for CIDER working-groups - deadline October 31, 2013

Support is available through CIDER FESD grant for ad-hoc multi-disciplinary "working groups". Such working groups might be needed to develop consensus on a type of model or a standard (geochemical, seismological or other) to be used in other disciplines, or evaluation, validation, problem reconciliation on a variety of multi-disciplinary topics relevant to the CIDER goals.

Travel and subsistence expenses will be provided, as well as publication costs, as appropriate, for working groups on the basis of 1-2 meetings per year and ~10-15 participants.

Members of the community interested in forming such a group should submit a short description of the motivations and goals of the working group (2-3 pages) for a one year period, clearly identifying who will act as coordinator and listing the names and qualities of those that have agreed to participate. This document, including a brief summary (1-2 paragraphs) and a budget and budget justification should be submitted to Jie Li (jackieli at umich dot edu), chair of the CIDER AC with cc to Barbara Romanowicz (barbara at seismo dot berkeley dot edu). The proposals will be reviewed by the CIDER AC. The funding is for one year, but extension of the activities for a second year may be considered.

The working groups are expected to present the results of their activities at the annual Post-AGU CIDER workshop (the saturday after Fall AGU) following acceptance of their project.

Deadline for 2013 proposals: October 31, 2013.

Two proposals were funded in 2012:

- 3D Reference Earth model workshop (convener V. Lekic, Univ. of Maryland)

- Attenuation workshop (convener D. Wiens, Northwestern U.)