1. Thank you (and you) Bob Detrick & Anne Meltzer
Tolbachik: Sergey Gorshkov/Minden Pictures/Corbis
Bob Detrick & Anne Meltzer
IRIS staff (especially Andy Frassetto)
Terry Plank & Jeff McGuire & the rest of the organizing committee

2. What does NSF want? This is a community effort – tell us what you want
A scientific vision
To understand what we cannot do now that an SZO would allow us to accomplish
To know what is the generational advance
To see science lead the way, let infrastructure follow
Start with the What, not the How.

3. NSF Support GeoPRISMS EarthScope Petrology & Geochemistry Geophysics
Ocean Sciences (OCE) &
Earth Sciences (EAR)
EarthScope
Petrology & Geochemistry
Geophysics
Here in Boise:
7 NSF Program Directors
1 Division Director
Tectonics
Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics
Office of International Science & Engineering

4. Scales & Timelines
Hard to talk about funding mechanisms when we don’t yet know what the SZO is.
MREFC
Major Research Equipment & Facilities Construction
NSF Science Program
e.g.
EarthScope Science
GeoPRISMS
RCN
Research Coordination Network
Planning Grants
Other??
require Division buy-in
and GEO $$
months
1-5 years
10+ years

5. NSF Big Ideas NSF’s Ideas for Future Investment1
Midscale Research (+ Infrastructure)
a recognition that science
- uses infrastructure that is diverse in space, cost, & time to build
NSF 2050: The Integrative Foundational Fund
intends to
- encourage exploration at the frontiers and risk-taking in areas that don’t fit into any particular program ‘box’
- cross boundaries in innovative ways, fill recognized gaps 2

6. To sum up! Scientific questions should lead the way.
Think now about the potential broader impacts of this endeavor.
Show us real integration between disciplines.
How will an SZO bring a transformational step forward? What can’t we do without it?