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13 December 2002

To: The UNAVCO Community
From: Will Prescott, President, UNAVCO, Inc.
Subject: Status of Proposals

We (UNAVCO Headquarters) are currently juggling three proposals. In this message, I would like to update you on the status of all three. *********************** * Earthscope Proposal * *********************** The Plate Boundary Observatory piece of the Earthscope proposal has continued to be refined. The current draft is available at http://www.unavco.org/pubs_reports/proposals/pbo/pbo.html.

The major changes since it was circulated last summer are: * Significantly updated the budget justification section (section 14). * Added advisory committees and removed regional scientists * Cleaned up monumentation section * Added a section on Installation options (Section 5.7) * Added a section on GEO PBO (Section 10) * Added a section on EarthScope Integration (Section 11) * Added text throughout indicating areas of collaboration. * Extensive work on the budget There has been a lot of discussion with the other components, USArray in particular, about sharing resources and activities related to data handling, station selection, installation, and operation. There is now an EarthScope Facility Executive Committee with members (see list below) appointed by the UNAVCO Board, the IRIS Executive Committee and SAFOD. This committee will meet for the first time on December 20th to move forward on assembling an EarthScope proposal including a science overview and justification and the operational and budget documents from the three components of Earthscope (PBO, USArray and SAFOD). We are aiming at having an integrated proposal by mid January. There is still no FY2003 NSF budget. Earthscope is in the President's budget ($35M), in the Senate subcommittee markup ($20M), and in the House subcommittee markup ($40M). This is very promising for getting an FY2003 start on EarthScope. Until Congress passes an FY2003 budget, it is unclear exactly what the process and timing of this start and the concomitant proposal review might be. NSF has appointed a group, the EarthScope Science and Education Committee, to provide guidance to the science side of Earthscope. The members of this committee are also listed below. This committee met for the first time at the end of November. EarthScope Facility Executive Committee David Simpson, Chair Göran Ekström Steve Hickman William Prescott Paul Silver Mark Zoback EarthScope Science and Education Committee Robert B. Smith, Chair Roberta Rudnick, Vice Chair Richard Carlson Thomas Jordan Karl E. Karlstrom Anne S. Meltzer David Mogk Jonathan G. Price Christian Teyssier Wayne Thatcher ************************************** * UNAVCO Community/Facility Proposal * ************************************** We are rapidly approaching the deadline for an NSF proposal that will request funds for UNAVCO Community and the UNAVCO Facility for the next few years. I have been contacting some of you looking for science material to include in the proposal. There are several issues related to this proposal worth mentioning. The proposal is being submitted by UNAVCO, Inc. for direct management of the UNAVCO Facility by the community. In a change from previous years, we will not include too many extracurricular projects as part of the proposal. Rather we want to focus this proposal on the core business of providing community support. With the independent UNAVCO that we now have, we can easily submit other proposals for projects that make sense as community efforts, but that do not fit in the more streamlined proposal. I believe this will make a stronger proposal. ******************************* * Continuing Network Proposal * ******************************* Based on community needs and discussion with NSF sponsors, various people have worked on, or contributed to, an Existing Networks proposal. This proposal will request funding to operate a large fraction of the stations in existing GPS networks (SCIGN, BARD, PANGA, BARGEN, AKDA, EBRY) during the first five years of PBO. A complete draft of this proposal is in place now, but before it is ready for submission, it really needs someone to turn it into a finished proposal. I have tried to keep this proposal preparation moving along by getting piecemeal help from people. That may or may not have been successful so far, but it needs something more now to wrap it up. Unfortunately, it is competing for attention here with the other two proposals. I would love it if someone from the existing network community would volunteer to take on this task. Frankly, I find it difficult to see how we at UNAVCO headquarters will be able to do this between now and January 15th, the deadline for consideration by NSF's I&F panel. I will be happy to send a copy of the current draft to anyone interested in seeing what remains to be done. Respectfully submitted, Will Prescott, President UNAVCO, Inc. AGU = American Geophysical Union AKDA = Alaska Deformation Array BARD = Bay Area Regional Deformation BARGEN = Basin And Range GEodetic Network EBRY = Eastern Basin and Range/Yellowstone FY = Fiscal Year I&F = Instrumentation and Facilities IRIS = Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology NSF = National Science Foundation PANGA = PAcific Northwest GPS Array PBO = Plate Boundary Observatory SCIGN = Southern California Integrated GPS Network UCAR = University Consortium for Atmospheric Research UNAVCO = a name, not an acronym (The "UNAVCO" in UCAR/UNAVCO Facility was an acronym for UNiversity NAvstar COnsortium; The "UNAVCO" in UNAVCO, Inc. is just the name of the non-profit consortium)

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