Study of Earth's Deep Interior



DI001
A deep dive into lowermost mantle processes
Primary Convener:  Bradford J Foley, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
Conveners:  James Panton, Cardiff University, Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff, United Kingdom and Hélène Piet, IPGP, Paris, France
Primary Liaison:  Sanne Cottaar, University of Cambridge, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom


DI002
Assessing the Robustness of Models of Earth’s Deep Mantle and Core
Primary Convener:  Jonathan M Aurnou, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Conveners:  Julien Aubert, Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris, France and Jessica C E Irving, Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jonathan M Aurnou, University California, Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States


DI003
Beyond Earth and Earth-like: The Diversity and Evolution of Exoplanets
Primary Convener:  Cayman T Unterborn, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Anat Shahar, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Geophysical Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States and Diogo José Louro Lourenço, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Primary Liaison:  Cayman T Unterborn, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States


DI004
Coupling the deep mantle and core: reconciliation of observations, experiments and numerical modeling
Primary Convener:  Zhou Zhang, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Conveners:  Mingming Li, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, Colin Michael Hardy, Leeds university, Earth Sciences, Leeds, United Kingdom and Paula Koelemeijer, University College London, Department of Earth Sciences, London, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Zhou Zhang, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States


DI005
Deep volatile cycle in Earth and other rocky planets and its influences on mantle and surface processes
Primary Convener:  Chenguang Sun, Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States
Conveners:  Asmaa Boujibar, Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, United States, Michael Forster, Macquarie University, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Sydney, Australia and James Eguchi, Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Asmaa Boujibar, Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, Clermont-Ferrand Cedex, France


DI006
Exploration of the multi-scale problems in the Earth’s interior
Primary Convener:  Keely Anne O'Farrell, University of Kentucky, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lexington, KY, United States
Conveners:  Tobias Rolf, ETH Zurich, Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics, Oslo, Norway and Robert Stephen Long, EPSRC CDT in Fluid Dynamics, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Keely Anne O'Farrell, University College London, London, United Kingdom


DI007
Exploring Mars with InSight: First-year results
Primary Convener:  Mark P Panning, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Ebru Bozdag, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, Scott D King, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Foivos Georgios Karakostas, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Mark P Panning, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States


DI008
Exploring the Earth's core: a multidisciplinary approach
Primary Convener:  Marine Lasbleis, Université de Nantes, LPG, CNRS, Nantes, France
Conveners:  Jessica C E Irving, Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, Kenji Ohta, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo, Japan and Jenny Wong, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
Primary Liaison:  Marine Lasbleis, Université de Nantes, LPG, CNRS, Nantes, France


DI009
Exploring the Origin, Evolution and Implications of Lithosphere and Upper Mantle Heterogeneities
Primary Convener:  Roberta Carluccio, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
Conveners:  Heather A Ford, University of California Riverside, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Riverside, CA, United States, Emily J Chin, Brown Univeristy, Providence, RI, United States and D. Graham Pearson, University of Alberta, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Heather A Ford, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States


DI010
Heterogeneity in the Earth: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives from Imaging, Modeling, Geochemistry and Experiments
Primary Convener:  Pritwiraj Moulik, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Eva Bredow, GFZ Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, Jie Deng, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Curtis D Williams, University of California Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Pritwiraj Moulik, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States


DI011
Mantle dynamics and seismic anisotropy: Observations, models, and experiments
Primary Convener:  Maureen D Long, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
Conveners:  Margarete Ann Jadamec, University at Buffalo, Geology, Buffalo, NY, United States and Benjamin L Brugman, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Maureen D Long, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States


DI012
Petrological and Thermal Structure of the Mantle from the Transition Zone to the CMB: Causes and Consequences of Phase Transitions
Primary Convener:  Natalia V Solomatova, École Normale Supérieure Lyon, Laboratoire de Géologie, Lyon, France
Conveners:  Rene Gassmoeller, University of California Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, United States and Renata Brandelli Schaan, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Laboratoire de Géologie, Lyon, France
Primary Liaison:  Natalia V Solomatova, École Normale Supérieure Lyon, Laboratoire de Géologie, Lyon, France


DI013
Structure and Evolution of the Oceanic Lithosphere and Mantle --- I Observations
Primary Convener:  William Bythewood Hawley, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States; Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Conveners:  Zachary Eilon, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Hiroko Sugioka, Kobe University, Hyogo, Japan
Primary Liaison:  Zachary Eilon, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States


DI014
Structure and Evolution of the Oceanic Lithosphere and Mantle --- II Modeling
Primary Convener:  Ying Zhou, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Conveners:  Karin Sigloch, University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, Yang Shen, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States and Sergei Lebedev, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, Ireland
Primary Liaison:  Ying Zhou, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States


DI015
Synthesizing Deep Carbon Science
Primary Convener:  Marie Edmonds, University of Cambridge, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Manning Craig, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Craig M Schiffries, Carnegie Institution for Science, Geophysical Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States and Darlene Trew Crist, Deep Carbon Observatory, Narragansett, RI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Marie Edmonds, University of Cambridge, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom


DI016
The Geodynamics of Cratons
Primary Convener:  Jyotirmoy Paul, Indian Institute of Science, Centre for Earth Sciences, Bangalore, India
Conveners:  Attreyee Ghosh, Indian Institute of Science, Centre for Earth Sciences, Bangalore, India and Catherine M Cooper, WSU, Pullman, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jyotirmoy Paul, Indian Institute of Science, Centre for Earth Sciences, Bangalore, India


DI017
Thermochemical Nature of the Mantle Transition Zone
Primary Convener:  Saswata Hier-Majumder, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Catherine Rychert, University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, United Kingdom, Maxim Ballmer, ETH Zürich, Department of Earth Sciences, Zürich, Switzerland and Michael J Walter, University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Saswata Hier-Majumder, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States


DI018
Understanding Global Dynamics of the Earth's Mantle: a Multi-Disciplinary Endeavor
Primary Convener:  Barbara A Romanowicz, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Louis Noel Moresi, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia, Kanani K M Lee, Department of Geology & Geophy, New Haven, CT, United States and Roberta L Rudnick, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Earth Sciences, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Barbara A Romanowicz, Univ California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States


Experimental deformation datasystem
Primary Contact:  Basil Tikoff, Univ Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States
Presenters:  Andreas K Kronenberg, Texas A&M University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, College Station, TX, United States, Julie Newman, Texas A&M University, Geology and Geophysics, College Station, TX, United States and Philip A Skemer, Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States


GP008
Highs, lows, and rapid variations in the Earth's magnetic field over the past 100 ka: data and models
Primary Convener:  Annemarieke Béguin, Utrecht University, Paleomagnetic laboratory Fort Hoofddijk, Utrecht, Netherlands
Conveners:  Catherine Constable, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States, Andrew Biggin, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom and Anita Di Chiara, Plymouth University, School of Earth, Ocean and Environmental Sciences, Plymouth, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Annemarieke Béguin, Utrecht University, Paleomagnetic laboratory Fort Hoofddijk, Utrecht, Netherlands


GP009
Insights on the geodynamo and core processes from simulations and observations
Primary Convener:  Margaret S Avery, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Richard K. Bono, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69, United Kingdom and Christopher J. Davies, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Richard K. Bono, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69, United Kingdom


GP010
Investigating Earth Processes Using Low Earth Orbiting Space Magnetometry, Successes and Opportunities
Primary Convener:  Gauthier Hulot, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
Conveners:  Patrick Alken, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Dr Claudia Stolle, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany and Xuhui Shen, Institute of Earthquake Scienc, Beijing, China
Primary Liaison:  Gauthier Hulot, IPGP, Paris, France


GP014
Planetary Magnetism and Core Processes
Primary Convener:  Sonia Tikoo, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, United States
Conveners:  Alain Plattner, University of Alabama, Department of Geological Sciences, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, Peter Driscoll, Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, DC, United States and Anna Mittelholz, University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Sonia Tikoo, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, United States


G003
Earth and Planetary Rotation: Nutation, Wobble, and Spin
Primary Convener:  Richard S Gross, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Veronique M A Dehant, Royal Observatory Belgium, Brussels, Belgium, Jose M. Ferrandiz, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain and Jolanta Nastula, Space Research Centre of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Primary Liaison:  Richard S Gross, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States


MR003
Advances in Ultra-High Pressure Science with Applications to Super-Earths and Giant Planets
Primary Convener:  Sally June Tracy, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, United States
Convener:  Joshua P Townsend, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sally June Tracy, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, United States


MR005
Carbon and Hydrogen in the Deep Earth
Primary Convener:  Cara Vennari, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Conveners:  Elizabeth Colette Thompson, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, Natalia V Solomatova, Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon, Lyon, France and Lars N Hansen, University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Elizabeth Colette Thompson, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States


MR006
Comparative Mineral Physics of Volatiles in the Earth, Planetary bodies, and Exoplanets
Primary Convener:  Yongjae Lee, Yonsei University, Department of Earth System Sciences, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)
Conveners:  Sang-Heon Shim, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, Wendy L Mao, Stanford-Geological & Env Sci, Stanford, CA, United States and Baptiste Journaux, University of Washington, Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yongjae Lee, Yonsei University, Department of Earth System Sciences, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)


MR007
Computational Advances and Applications in Mineral Physics
Primary Convener:  Dipta B Ghosh, Louisiana State University, Department of Computer Science, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Center for Computation and Technology, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
Convener:  Bijaya B Karki, Louisiana State University, Department of Computer Science, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Center for Computation and Technology, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Bijaya B Karki, Louisiana State University, Department of Computer Science, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Center for Computation and Technology, Baton Rouge, LA, United States


MR014
Elastic and Transport Properties of Earth Materials: from Atomic Interactions to Geophysical Expressions
Primary Convener:  Johannes Buchen, CalTech Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Hauke Marquardt, University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, Shuai Zhang, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States and Stephen Stackhouse, University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Johannes Buchen, CalTech Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States


MR015
Experimental and Analytical Advances in Mineral Studies at Extreme Conditions
Primary Convener:  Vitali B Prakapenka, University of Chicago, Center for Advanced Radiation Sources, Chicago, IL, United States
Convener:  Haozhe Liu, HPSTAR, Beijing, China
Primary Liaison:  Haozhe Liu, HPSTAR, Beijing, China


NS003
A tour of open-source software packages for the geosciences
Primary Convener:  Lindsey Justine Heagy, University of California Berkeley, Department of Statistics, Berkeley, United States
Conveners:  Rene Gassmoeller, University of California Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, United States, Leonardo Uieda, University of Hawaii at Manoa, School of Ocean & Earth Science & Technology, Honolulu, HI, United States and Jens F Klump, CSIRO Earth Science Resource Engineering, Perth, Australia
Primary Liaison:  Lindsey Justine Heagy, University of California Berkeley, Department of Statistics, Berkeley, United States


S004
Centennial: The Anisotropic Earth
Primary Convener:  Neala Creasy, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
Conveners:  Caroline Beghein, UCLA - Earth and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Heather A Ford, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States and Karen M. Fischer, Brown University, Dept. of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Neala Creasy, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States


S016
Frontiers in Theoretical and Computational Seismology
Primary Convener:  Andreas Fichtner, ETH Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland
Conveners:  Monica Maceira, University of Tennessee, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Knoxville, TN, United States, Carene S Larmat, Los Alamos National Laboratory, EES-17, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Antonio Villasenor, ICTJA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
Primary Liaison:  Andreas Fichtner, ETH Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland


S017
Geophysical inversion, inference and imaging in the age of machine learning
Primary Convener:  Andrew P Valentine, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Conveners:  Malcolm Sambridge, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, Anya Marie Reading, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia and Lion Krischer, ETH Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland
Primary Liaison:  Andrew P Valentine, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, ACT, Australia


S030
Recent Advances in Interpretations of Tomographic Images
Primary Convener:  Lorenzo Colli, University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States
Conveners:  Bernhard S. A. Schuberth, University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Paula Koelemeijer, University of Cambridge, Bullard Laboratories, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Derya Gürer, University of Queensland, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Brisbane, Australia
Primary Liaison:  Lorenzo Colli, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany


S038
Seismology Contributions: General
Primary Convener:  Caroline Beghein, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Convener:  German A Prieto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Caroline Beghein, UCLA - Earth and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States


T003
Advances in Computational Geosciences
Primary Convener:  Jed Brown, University of Colorado at Boulder, Computer Science, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Alice-Agnes Gabriel, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, Georg S Reuber, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany and Nathan Collier, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Earth Sciences, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jed Brown, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States


T005
A multidisciplinary understanding of the formation and evolution of the continental lithosphere in collisional orogens
Primary Convener:  Cong Li, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Geosciences, Amherst, MA, United States
Conveners:  Haiying Gao, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Geosciences, Amherst, MA, United States and Michael L Williams, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Cong Li, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Geosciences, Amherst, MA, United States


T012
Crossing Coastlines: Emerging Science from Amphibious Geophysical Experiments
Primary Convener:  Joshua B Russell, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States; Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Conveners:  Helen A Janiszewski, Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States, Colton Lynner, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and Kasey Aderhold, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Joshua B Russell, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States; Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States


T018
East Asia tectonic and geodynamic history since the Mesozoic
Primary Convener:  Jonny Wu, University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States
Conveners:  Jinwei Gao, Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China, Lorenzo Colli, University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States and Hayato Ueda, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
Primary Liaison:  Jonny Wu, University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States


T048
Structure and Dynamics of the upper mantle: characterizing the lithosphere-asthenosphere system from crust to transition zone
Primary Convener:  Andrew J Schaeffer, University of Ottawa, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Conveners:  Claire A Currie, University of Alberta, Department of Physics, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Jolante van Wijk, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, NM, United States and Vedran Lekic, University of Maryland, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Claire A Currie, University of Alberta, Department of Physics, Edmonton, AB, Canada


T050
Subduction Top to Bottom 2 (ST2B-2): Processes and Products Modern and Ancient
Primary Convener:  Gray E Bebout, Lehigh University, Dept. Earth and Environmental Sciences, Bethlehem, PA, United States
Conveners:  David William Scholl, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geology and Geophysics, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Robert J Stern, University of Texas at Dallas, Geosciences, Richardson, TX, United States and Laura Wallace, University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Gray E Bebout, Lehigh University, Dept. Earth and Environmental Sciences, Bethlehem, PA, United States


T053
Tethys dynamics
Primary Convener:  Liang Zhao, State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Conveners:  Huaiyu Yuan, Macquarie University, CCFS, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Bo Wan, State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Stephane Guillot, ISTerre - Grenoble University, Grenoble, France; Universite Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, IFSTTAR, ISTerre, Grenoble, France
Primary Liaison:  Huaiyu Yuan, Macquarie University, CCFS, Sydney, NSW, Australia


T056
The Giants of Tectonophysics III
Primary Convener:  Margarete Ann Jadamec, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States
Conveners:  Julia Morgan, Rice University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, Mark D Behn, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Suzanne M Carbotte, Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Margarete Ann Jadamec, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States


T060
The tectonics and geodynamics of supercontinents
Primary Convener:  Zheng-Xiang Li, Curtin University, Earth Dynamics Research Group, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Perth, WA, Australia
Conveners:  Nicolas E Flament, University of Wollongong, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, Wollongong, Australia, Nan Zhang, Peking University, Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China and Claire Mallard, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Primary Liaison:  Zheng-Xiang Li, Curtin University, Earth Dynamics Research Group, The Institute for Geoscience Research (TIGeR), School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Perth, WA, Australia


U005
Emergent views of the Earth’s deep interior
Primary Convener:  Renata Wentzcovitch, Columbia University of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Department, Palisades, NY, United States
Conveners:  Jeroen Tromp, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Kei Hirose, Tokyo Inst Tech, Tokyo, Japan and Paul Tackley, ETH Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences,, Zurich, Switzerland
Primary Liaison:  Renata Wentzcovitch, Columbia University of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Department, Palisades, NY, United States


V004
A Perfect Match: Understanding Geochemical and Petrological Observations Through Combined Models of Geodynamics and Thermodynamics
Primary Convener:  Tobias Keller, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Conveners:  Lucy E L Tweed, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, Meng Tian, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom and Boris J P Kaus, University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Tobias Keller, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States


V005
Application of Metal Stable Isotopes in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry: From Theory to Observation
Primary Convener:  Yan Hu, University of Washington, Isotope Laboratory, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States
Conveners:  Richard M Gaschnig, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, United States, Ramananda Chakrabarti, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India and Shichun Huang, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States
Primary Liaison:  Shichun Huang, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States


V016
Cosmochemistry
Primary Convener:  Fred Moynier, University of Paris, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
Conveners:  Martin Bizzarro, University of Copenhagen, Centre for Stars and Planet Formation, Copenhagen, Denmark and James M Day, Univ. California, San Diego, GRD, La Jolla, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Fred Moynier, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS UMR 7154, Paris, France


V018
Deciphering the links between mantle geochemistry, dynamics and structure
Primary Convener:  Val Finlayson, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States
Convener:  Juliane Dannberg, University of California Davis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Val Finlayson, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States


V025
Insights into Solid Earth and Planetary Dynamics from New Calibrations and Novel Applications of Thermobarometry and Geospeedometry
Primary Convener:  Nicholas J Dygert, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States
Conveners:  Andrew Smye, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States and Chloe E Bonamici, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, United States
Primary Liaison:  Nicholas J Dygert, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States


V035
MSA and AGU at 100 years: A Centennial Celebration of Mineralogical Advances that have Improved our Understanding of Mantle Geodynamics
Primary Convener:  Steven B Shirey, Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Steven D Jacobsen, Northwestern University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Evanston, IL, United States, Michael J Walter, Carnegie Institution for Science, Geophysical Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States and Saskia D B Goes, Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, London, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Steven B Shirey, Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States


V036
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Understanding the Differentiation and Evolution of Earth and other Planetary Bodies
Primary Convener:  Katherine R Bermingham, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Anat Shahar, Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, DC, United States and Valerie A Finlayson, University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Katherine R Bermingham, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States


V050
The Physics and Chemistry of Carbon in Planetary Interiors
Primary Convener:  Craig E Manning, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Conveners:  Jung-Fu Lin, The University of Texas, Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States and Wendy L Mao, Stanford-Geological & Env Sci, Stanford, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Craig E Manning, Univ California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States


V051
The structure, composition and dynamics of Earth’s mantle through intraplate volcanism
Primary Convener:  Tyrone O Rooney, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States
Conveners:  Sally A Gibson, University of Cambridge, Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Kaj Hoernle, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany and Timothy D Jones, Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, United States
Primary Liaison:  Tyrone O Rooney, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States