NSF-MARGINS Decadal Review 2009

March 4, 2009 - Decadal Review Committee Report (200 KB)
March 29, 2009 - MARGINS Steering Committee Response (117 KB)
March 31, 2009 - NSF Program Manager Response (39 KB)

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Review Materials - November 2008

In preparation for the MARGINS decadal review, the MARGINS Office and Steering Committee has compiled information that highlights the scientific achievements of the program. These documents were completed 7 November 2008, prior to the February 2009 Decadal Review.

• Charge to the MARGINS Decadal Review Committee
• Cover Letter by Geoff Abers, MARGINS Steering Committee Chair

Download (print double sided) all Review 2009 documents here (12.79 MB) - does not include Appendix letters, Nuggets, and Supplementary Documents.

Table of Contents:

i. Foreword (88 KB)
ii. Acronym list (56 KB)

1. Executive Summary (343 KB)
2. Progress since the 2004 Mid-term Review (300 KB)
3. Initiative Summaries:
   3.1 RCL (2.89 MB)
   3.2 SEIZE (3.63 MB)
   3.3 S2S (2.23 MB)
   3.4 SubFac (2.09 MB)
4. Program Management (920 KB)
   4.1 Management Structures
   4.2 Office Activities
   4.3 Data Portal
5. Education and Outreach (762 KB)
   5.1 Summary
   5.2 Mini-Lessons Program
   5.3 Distinguished Lectureship Program
   5.4 Post-Doctoral Fellowship Programs
6. Other Impacts (535 KB)
   6.1 Building an Interdisciplinary Community
   6.2 Geohazards
   6.3 International Collaborations
   6.4 Relationship to major NSF-supported facilities
   6.5 MARGINS and the National Computational Infrastructure
7. Future directions and motivation for successor program (536 KB)
   7.1 Motivation for a Successor to MARGINS
   7.2 Opportunities for a Successor Program: Societal Relevance
   7.3 Implementation of a Successor Program
8. Overarching Themes for the Future (720 KB)
   8.1 Rheology and Deformation
   8.2 Fluids and Magmas
   8.3 Sediment Fluxes
   8.4 Example: Integrated Subduction Studies in CAM- (Fullpage Figure PDF 14 MB)
9. Appendices (1.04 MB)
   9.1 Mini-White Papers
   -- Rifting & Magmatism
   -- Rifting, Sedimentation & Tectonics
   -- Lithospheric Strain
   -- Source-to-Sink Working Group Plan
   -- Case for Passive Margins
   9.2 Event Response Policy
   9.3 MARGINS Data Policy
   9.4 MSC Membership, 1998-2008
   9.5 Student Prize Winners
   9.6 Letters from Major International Partners: (Deleted from public version)
   • JAMSTEC
   • IFM-GEOMAR/SFB 574
   • OVSICORI-UNA
   • UCR/ICE
   • CICESE
   • NIWA

• Research "Nuggets"
  
• Supplementary Documents (2.32 MB) does not include xls or enlx files
  1. Lists of Awards (uses Mac date system) (xls)
  2. List of PIs (xls)
  3. Bibliography:
     • Listed References
     • EndNote library
  4. Tables of Contents of Books & Special Volumes
  5. Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program Details
  6. List of Sponsored Meetings
  7. NSF Program Solicitation for MARGINS
     

 

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