Study of Earth's Deep Interior



Deep Earth-Surface Interactions: Links between Earth’s Internal Dynamics and Evolution of the Hydrosphere, Atmosphere and Biosphere
Primary Convener:  Fred Richards, Imperial College London, Earth Science and Engineering, London, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Harriet C. P. Lau, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Kiran Chotalia, University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, Siavash Ghelichkhan, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, ACT, Australia and Sophie Coulson, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Fred Richards, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States


Accretion and core formation in the inner Solar System
Primary Convener:  Thomas Kruijer, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany
Conveners:  Gregory A. Brennecka, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States and Maylis Landeau, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
Primary Liaison:  Thomas Kruijer, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany


Advances in High Performance Computing in Solid Earth and Terrestrial Systems
Primary Convener:  Denise Degen, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Conveners:  Susanne Buiter1, Daniel Caviedes Voullieme2 and Florian Wellmann1, (1)RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany(2)Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Denise Degen, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany


Characterization of subduction induced mantle heterogeneities through interdisciplinary approaches
Primary Convener:  Proteek Chowdhury, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
Conveners:  Avishek Rudra, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Megan Holycross, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Proteek Chowdhury, Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States


Constraining the structure, chemistry and mineralogy of the deep mantle
Primary Convener:  Terry-Ann Suer, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners:  Helen M. Williams, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; University of Cambridge, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Maria Koroni, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland and Mingming Li, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Terry-Ann Suer, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States


Diving Deep: Investigations of Planetary Interiors through Observations, Modeling, and Experiments
Primary Convener:  Angela G Marusiak, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Melanie Drilleau, Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace, Toulouse Cedex 04, France, Anna Mittelholz, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Ana-Catalina Plesa, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Berlin, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Angela G Marusiak, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States


Early Earth:Dynamics, Geology, Chemistry and Life in the Archean Earth
Primary Convener:  Ria Fischer, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Conveners:  Eleanor S Jennings, Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom and Miki Nakajima, University of Rochester, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rochester, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ria Fischer, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland


Exploring multi-scale mantle dynamics with computational methods
Primary Convener:  Juliane Dannberg, University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Gainesville, FL, United States
Conveners:  Keely Anne O'Farrell, University of Kentucky, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lexington, KY, United States, Tobias Rolf, University of Oslo, Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED), Oslo, Norway and Arushi Saxena, University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Gainesville, FL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Juliane Dannberg, University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Gainesville, FL, United States


Integrative Perspectives on Present-day Mantle Structure
Primary Convener:  Wolfgang Szwillus, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Conveners:  Juan Carlos Afonso, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Maureen D Long, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States and Malcolm Sambridge, Australian National Univ., Canberra, Australia
Primary Liaison:  Wolfgang Szwillus, University Kiel, Kiel, Germany


Interdisciplinary perspectives on intraplate magmatism, mantle plumes, and the deep Earth - both past and present
Primary Convener:  Andrea Giuliani, ETH Zurich Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Erlenabch, Zurich, SWITZERLAND
Conveners:  Anna J. P. Gülcher, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland, Jennifer Jenkins, University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom and Matthew G Jackson, University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Science, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Andrea Giuliani, ETH Zurich Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Erlenabch, Zurich, SWITZERLAND


Interdisciplinary studies of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system
Primary Convener:  Tianze Liu, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Conveners:  Daniel Burnett Blatter, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, Joshua B Russell, Brown University, Providence, NY, United States and William Joseph Joseph Shinevar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Tianze Liu, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States


Multidisciplinary perspectives on accretion and early evolution of terrestrial worlds
Primary Convener:  Dongyang Huang, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Conveners:  Rebecca A. Fischer, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, Tim Lichtenberg, University of Oxford, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom and Laura Schaefer, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Dongyang Huang, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland


Multifaceted volatiles of the deep Earth
Primary Convener:  Colin Jackson, Tulane University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA, United States and Mingda
Conveners:  Mingming Li, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Mingda Lv, Michigan State University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States and Mingda
Primary Liaison:  Colin Jackson, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States and Mingda


Neither elastic nor harmonic: the Earth’s transient behavior across time/length-scales
Primary Convener:  Zachary Eilon, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Conveners:  Colleen A Dalton, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, Lars N Hansen, University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom and Kristel Chanard, IGN Institut National de l'Information Géographique et Forestière, Paris, France
Primary Liaison:  Zachary Eilon, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States


New Insights into Earth's Dynamic Core From Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Primary Convener:  Sarah M Arveson, University of California Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Sarah M Arveson, University of California Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States, Daniel Andrew Frost, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States; Berkeley Seismological Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States and Christopher J Davies, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Sarah M Arveson, University of California Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States


Phase diagrams and dynamics of exoplanets and their building blocks
Primary Convener:  June K Wicks, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
Convener:  Melissa Sims, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  June K Wicks, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States


Recent Advances in the Structure, Composition and Dynamics of the Lowermost Mantle
Primary Convener:  Jiewen Li, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Convener:  Zhi Li, University of Cambridge, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Jiewen Li, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China


Recycling in the Subduction Factory: Characterization of subduction induced mantle heterogeneities through interdisciplinary approaches
Primary Convener:  Proteek Chowdhury, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
Conveners:  Avishek Rudra, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Megan Holycross, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Proteek Chowdhury, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States


Seismic Anisotropy and Solid Earth Dynamics: Observations, Models, and Experiments
Primary Convener:  Neala Creasy, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States
Conveners:  Rachel E Bernard, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, United States, Ikuko Wada, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Sarah Brownlee, Wayne State University, Detroit, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sarah Brownlee, Wayne State University, Detroit, United States


The evolution and distribution of volatiles in planetary interiors
Primary Convener:  James Wosley Dottin III, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Val Finlayson, University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States and Jabrane Labidi, Institute de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
Primary Liaison:  James Wosley Dottin III, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States


Understanding the Physics and Chemistry of the Lower Mantle from a Multidisciplinary Approach
Primary Convener:  Suyu Fu, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Neala Creasy, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, Maxim Ballmer, ETH Zürich, Department of Earth Sciences, Zürich, Switzerland and Andrea Mundl-Petermeier, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, United States
Primary Liaison:  Suyu Fu, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States


Understanding the Thermochemical Structure and Evolution of the Lower Mantle Using a Multidisciplinary Approach
Primary Convener:  Suyu Fu, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Neala Creasy, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, Maxim Ballmer, ETH Zürich, Department of Earth Sciences, Zürich, Switzerland and Andrea Mundl-Petermeier, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, United States
Primary Liaison:  Suyu Fu, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States


Unusual subduction processes
Primary Convener:  Antoniette Greta Grima, University of Texas at Austin, Institute of Geophysics, Austin, United States
Conveners:  Silvia Brizzi, University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, Caroline M Eakin, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, ACT, Australia and George Cooper, Cardiff University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Antoniette Greta Grima, University of Texas at Austin, Institute of Geophysics, Austin, United States