Cider 2013
"From mantle to crust: continental formation and destruction"CIDER 2013 Summer Program, July 1 - August 2, 2013, University of California, Berkeley (CA) |
The purpose of CIDER 2013 is to bring together scientists from different disciplines to better understand how and when continents are formed and destroyed. A specific objective is to draw together independent datasets, ranging from geophysics (seismology, mineral physics, rheology, geodynamics) to geochemistry to surface processes. One goal will be to develop a synthesized view of the thermal, compositional, rheological, and geochronological structure of continents, from the lithospheric mantle to the crust. Continents and the processes involved in making continental crust play a fundamental role in modulating the thermal evolution of Earth’s interior, long-term climate change, and the evolution of life. These processes, themselves, can influence the growth, destruction and compositional evolution of continents. Thus, a second goal is to use continents as a means of better understanding the nature of coupling between the deep Earth and the exogenic system (ocean, atmosphere, biosphere). The time is ripe to bring these disparate datasets and perspectives together. With these constraints, participants will work together to explore new and existing models for continent formation and destruction from the Archean to the present, and in particular, use continent evolution as a foundation for better understanding the science of truly whole-Earth system.
Read more about the science motivation at the CIDER main site.
Summer Program links
- Summer Program Description at CIDER main site
- Presentations and Agenda
- Summer Program Participants (at CIDER main site)
- Research Groups Projects (login required)
- Group Project Presentations
- Summer Program Tutorials (login required)
- 2013 Summer Program Photos
- CIDER 2013 Outcomes
Program Organizers
Cin-Ty Lee (lead organizer) Thorsten Becker Richard Allen and Barbara Romanowicz (CIDER PI)
Schedule
Week 1 (July 1 - July 5 2013): Informal program Weeks 2 - 4 (July 7 - July 26th, 2013): Tutorial Program for advanced graduate students and post-docs Weeks 4 - 5 (July 21 - Aug 2nd, 2013): Research group activities for all participants Instructors:
Richard Carlson, Carnegie Institution of Washington Kent Condie, New Mexico Tech Rajdeep Dasgupta, Rice University Josef Dufek, Georgia Institute of Technology Greg Hirth, Brown University Claude Jaupert, Universite' Paris-Diderot & Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris Adrian Lenardic, Rice University Maureen Long, Yale University William McDonough, University of Maryland Roberta Rudnick, University of Maryland Robert Stern, University of Texas at Dallas Kelin Whipple, Arizona State University Shijie Zhong, University of Colorado at Boulder Göran Ekström, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University Gene Humphreys, University of Oregon Meredith Nettles, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
Weeks 4-5 (July 22th-August 2, 2013): Workshop following tutorial program and informal interactionsOther senior participants:
As in previous CIDER summer programs, the program will begin with 2 weeks of KITP style unstructured program, as well as 2 weeks of tutorial for advanced graduate students and post-docs, followed by 2 weeks of follow-up "workshop", during which themes that emerged during the tutorial will be further explored within multidisciplinary teams including junior and senior participants.