[margins-list] MARGINS Successor Planning Workshop

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Save this date:  15-18 February 2010
In:  San Antonio, TX
For:  The MARGINS Successor Planning Workshop

MARGINS has just completed its decadal review, favorably 
(www.nsf-margins.org/Review2009/index.html).  As a result, NSF has 
invited the MARGINS Steering Committee to organize a large community 
workshop to develop consensus on the scientific goals and structure of a 
successor program.  This will lead to drafting a science plan to be 
submitted to NSF for evaluation.  The form and future of this program 
depend upon the community input, to develop a compelling rationale and 
plan for a successor at this meeting.  For more details, see the Review 
web page and the last MARGINS Newsletter 
(www.nsf-margins.org/Publications/Newsletters/Issue22.pdf).

This is a critical meeting for the future of those doing MARGINS 
Science.  Details will be forthcoming over the next few months, but for 
now mark your calendars:  we have scheduled this workshop for 15-18 
February 2010, tentatively in San Antonio Texas, pending support.

The MARGINS Office