Revised 31-Oct-2010

Thursday, October 28
1700-1900 Reception at Hotel Monaco
How to get to Hotel Monaco from Airport using TriMet Light Rail

DAY 1: Friday, October 29 Click HERE for Friday's Meeting Room Layout
0800 Breakfast
0845 Plenary – welcoming remarks and discussion

• Introduction and motivation for R2K Integration & Synthesis studies - Fornari
• Common themes from White Papers, meeting topics, organization, reporting requirements, group leader roles, ethical protocols - Rubin
• Meeting logistics and travel documentation – Beaulieu/Moore

1000 Coffee/Snacks
1015 Thematic Working Groups - 1st meeting
1230 Lunch
1330 Thematic Working Groups - 2nd meeting
1500 Poster Session & Coffee/Snacks, TWG leaders prepare for plenary
1600 Plenary - Thematic Working Group reports and Q&A - moderated by Org. Comm.

• Initial summary of key topics and likely papers
• Participants can get an overview of the types of synthesis studies being contemplated in other groups to see if they can also contribute.

1730 Plenary - “A 2020 Vision for Ocean Sciences” presentation followed by discussion - Delaney
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1800 End of DAY 1
1900 Organized gathering at Lucky Lab Pub in Portland - pizza and salad provided by R2K

DAY 2: Saturday, October 30 Click HERE for Sat/Sun Meeting Room Layout
0800 Breakfast
0845 ISS Working Groups - 1st meeting

• Group discussions of disciplinary data sets that can be vertically integrated into synthesis papers for each ISS, with the intention of providing a baseline for cross-ISS correlations of characteristics and processes.
• Note: Coffee/Snacks will be refreshed at 1015 but each group picks its own time to break.

1130 Plenary - ISS Working Group reports and Q&A - moderated by Org. Comm.
1230 Lunch
1330 Thematic Working Groups - 3rd meeting

• Opportunity for cross TWG meetings or for some participants go to their secondary TWG.
Note: to avoid repetition, some group leaders must stay with their group, and ideally at least half of the original group should also stay.
• Refining of plans, further discussions of observations to be integrated.

1545 Coffee/Snacks
1600 Plenary - Discussion of the future of spreading center related science – moderated by R2K Steering Committee

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• Focused research initiatives that can be developed and proposed for targeted program funding, developing new programs, links to other ongoing large multidisciplinary research programs (OOI, IODP, GeoPRISMS, CDEBI)
• Identification of key themes and request for organizers of a 2011 community meeting

1800 End of DAY 2

DAY 3 REVISED: Sunday, October 31 Click HERE for Sat/Sun Meeting Room Layout
0730 Breakfast
0830 Plenary -Remarks by NSF and discussion

0900 ISS Working Groups - 2nd and final meeting

• Participants go to their primary affiliation.
• ISS leaders finalize the paper list and timeline of contributions by each member.
• Summaries are written for the meeting report [Note: these must be posted on the wiki site prior to departure from the meeting. See wiki template.].

1030 Coffee/Snacks

1045 Plenary - Thematic Working Group summaries - including publication ideas/venues

• Presentation of preliminary outlines of TWG papers, topics, authors
Each working group presentation should be 15 min – 5 min for presentation of listing of paper ideas, abstract, and authors, and 10 min for discussion.
Note: this is a second opportunity for participants to comment/contribute on a topic or other working group that they have not attended, so there needs to be time for discussion.

1230 Lunch

1330 Thematic Working Groups - 4th and final meeting

• Participants go to their primary affiliation.
• TWG leaders finalize the paper list and timeline of contributions by each member.
• Summaries are written for the meeting report [Note: these must be posted on the wiki site prior to departure from the meeting. See wiki template.].

• Note: Coffee/Snacks will be refreshed at 1500.

1500 Plenary - Wrap up

1600 End of DAY 3 - End of Meeting