COMPRES is funded by Cooperative Agreements with the NSF

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COMPRES at Age 6 End
of Kindergarten/Time for First Grade
by Bob Liebermann
COMPRES is funded by Cooperative Agreements with
the NSF Division of Earth Sciences 2002-2012
Welcome and Introduction 26 June 2008
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Welcome and Special Guests Robin
Reichlin--Program Director for Geophysics in
EAR Keynote Speakers Rajdeep DasguptaColumbia
University/Rice University Louise KelloggUC
Davis Rebecca LangeUniversity of Michigan Jie
LiUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Wi
lliam McDonoughUniversity of Maryland Sean
RaymondUniversity of Colorado Justin
RevenaughUniversity of Minnesota 1 private
university and 6 state-assisted universities
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Welcome and thank you
Advisory Council Wang-ping Chen Chi-chang
Kaore-appointed to new 3-year term Louise
Kellogg--first meeting William McDonough--first
meeting Guy Mastersoriginal member now
retiring. Source of name COMPRES Malcolm
Nicol Ed Garnero-new appointment for 3-year term
starting July 2008
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Welcome and thank you

• Program Committee
• Carl Agee-Chair
• Jiuhua Chen
• Steve Jacobsen
• Wendy Mao
• Lili Gao
• Zhu Mao

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54 U. S. Member Institutions of COMPRES
New Members University of Michigan, Stanford
University, Texas AM University, Harvard
University
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COMPRES Sites for Community Facility Yellow
and Intrastructure Development Projects Blue
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Central Office Administration

• Nov 2007 Ann Lattimore retires
• Nov 2007 Emily Vance-new Admin Coordinator
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  Special assistance from Samantha Lin,
• Admin Assistant
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  of Mineral Physics Institute

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Recent News or New Initiatives ? Science
Highlights on Home Page of COMPRES website ?
Technological highlights Gas-loading apparatus
installed at GSECARS--see Rivers today
Shock-wave experiments on IR beamline at
NSLS--see Liu tomorrow ? Other Awards during
2007-2008 Bridgman for Yagi--AIRAPT Lehmann for
Mao--AGU Néel for Evans--EGU ? 17 Graduate
students presenting posters and awarded travel
scholarships Emphasizes the importance of
engaging the next generation and retooling
the practitioners of our art ? Important to
remember to acknowledge support of NSF/EAR and
COMPRES in ALL publications and poster
presentations.
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Congratulations to Jingzhu Hu on NSLS Community
Service Award for two decades of serving users
of X17C beamline.
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Mineral Physics faculty appointments in U. S.
Universities 2007-2012 Name Date of
appt Institution Pamela Burnley 2007 Univer
sity of Nevada Las Vegas Jiuhua
Chen 2007 Florida International
University Agnes Dewaele 2008 Stony Brook
University Lars Ehm 2007 Stony Brook
University Greg Hirth 2007 Brown
University Kanani Lee 2008 Yale
University Jung-fu Lin 2008 University of
Texas at Austin Wendy Mao 2007 Stanford
University Burkhardt Militzer 2007 University
of California Berkeley Artem Oganov 2008 Stony
Brook University In addition to 20
appointments from 20022006
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Wendy MaoStanford University Viewing the
Earths interior through a diamond window
Studying planetary volatiles at extreme
conditions
David WalkerColumbia University Could the
Earths core leak? Theres a warp in the
force bent chemical potentials
COMPRES Distinguished Lecturers for 2008-2009
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NSF Renews Funding for COMPRES for 5 More Years

• August 2006 Submit renewal proposal
• Request 17.9 M for 5 years
• November 2006 Site Visit of EAR Panel
• April 2007 New Cooperative Agreement for
  2007-2012
• May 2007 Funding for Year 1 begins 2100K for
  Year 1
• May 2008 Year 2 of COMPRES II--Flat budget of
  2100K
• Total funding projected for 2007-2012 11.5M
• Budget scenario for Year 2 of COMPRES II
• Flat funding at 2.1 M per year
• Need to continue to explore mechanisms to
  diversify funding

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Immediate Challenges and Future Targets for
COMPRES Evaluate portfolio of COMPRES
programs -Community Facilities
operations -Infrastructure Development
projects -Community activities workshops,
annual meetings -Central Office operations
staff, communications Upgrade and maintain
communications devices -COMPRES website and Home
Page -Newsletters -Monthly Messages -Special
articles in EOS, Elements, Outreach to other
Earth Science communities -Mineral Physics
lecturers sponsored by COMPRES 2008-09 David
Walker and Wendy Mao -Co-sponsor meetings with
CSEDI/SEDI -Organize/Convene special sessions at
Goldschmidt Conferences and AGU meetings with
geochemists and petrologists -Engage in
coordinated planning with MSA at AGU
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Immediate Challenges and Future Targets for
COMPRES (cont) Update strategic science plan
for COMPRES -Convene Miami II workshop in late
2008 or early 2009 -Where? Whom to
invite? -Publish new Bass Report in late 2009
or early 2010 in time to be used in new NAS
study commissioned by EAR on Basic Research
Opportunities in Earth SciencesBROSE
Engage in planning for new synchrotron/neutron
facilities in US -SNS-SNAP-Open for business in
2008? -NSLS II-first light in 2015 -APS
upgrade -LCLS at SSRL/SLAC Renewal (?) of
NSF-EAR funding for COMPRES in 2012-2017
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2007 Annual Meeting in Lake Morey, Vermont
Attendance at Annual Meetings 2002 31
2004 81 2006 102 2008
113 2003 57 2005 109 2007 105
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First Mineral Physics Conference Airlie House,
VA October 1977
2007 Annual Meeting of COMPRES Lake Morey,
VT June 2007
EOS 2008 Look for article by Prewitt and
Liebermann 30 Years of Evolution of Mineral
Physics
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2008 Annual Meeting of COMPRESCheyenne Mountain
ResortColorado SpringsJune 25-28, 2008
1941 First visit by Bob
New Record 113 attendees plus guests
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With thanks to Tracy Paul of Depths of the Earth
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PAUSE
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August 2011 Target Date for Submission of
COMPRES Renewal Proposal to EAR June 2010
Annual Meeting Start of renewal planning

• Time for torch to pass to next generation who
  were
• with apologies to JFK, Jan 1960
• Born after first synthesis of diamond in
  laboratory
• Attending grammar school when Apollo 11
• landed on the moon
• In junior high school when Plate Tectonics was
  discovered
• At undergraduate college at birth of mineral
  physics
• in the AGU
• In grad school when Instrumentation and
  Facilities Program was initiated at EAR-NSF

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The Primary Goals of COMPRES

• To enable Earth Science researchers to conduct
  the next generation of high-pressure experiments
  on world-class equipment and facilities.
• To seed new technical development projects of
  benefit to the community.
• To facilitate communication, innovation and
  collaboration in the
• community through targeted workshops and
  focused initiatives.
• To advocate for science and educational programs
  to the various funding agencies.

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Areas for Improvement during COMPRES II

• Improved Outreach --gt Broaden communication with
  overlapping
• disciplines within Earth Sciences and enhance
  our educational outreach. New lecture series,
  Web-site improvements in progress, Keynoters at
  Annual Meeting
• Improved interfacing and coordination with extant
  and emergent
• facilities (APS/GSECARS, SNS, NSLS II, LCLS).
• Continue to seek other funding sources beyond
  NSF-EAR e.g., NSF-DMR, DOE-BES, DOE-DURIP

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Reports of Special Committees
Incorporation Committee Bass-Chair, Brown,
Kellogg, Masters ? The committee saw no
compelling reason for COMPRES to incorporate
at this time. ? COMPRES should reevaluate the
incorporation issue periodically, Website
Committee Williams-Chair, Duffy, Ross ? Model
SCEC or LPI for Home Page ? Pull-down menus ahd
link bars ? Effective links to nice pages of
COMPRES-funded programs ? Update and retool
Publications lists. ? Alternate formats for
Science Highlights
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Strategic Options for Deployment of COMPRES Core
Funding

• Option A Maintain current portfolio of
  facilities operations and infrastructure
  projects
• Preferred option by membership/Adv Council
• Option B Reduce portfolio of ops/projects
• Option C Eliminate all equipment upgrades
• Option D Cut all Infrastructure Development
  project and/or reduce admin costs

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Future Developments at National Synchrotron
Facilities of the DOEOpportunities for COMPRES
community

• NSLS-II CD-2 approval of 912M for 2015
• APS Upgrade in next decade
• SNS now online at Oak Ridge Natl Lab
• LCLS at SLAC in 5 years

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Industrial Sponsors for 2008 Annual
Meeting Almax Blake Industries DAnvils--Sara
Pasternak present Depths of the Earth--thanks
for T-shirts easyLab MG63--home of
Paris-Edinburgh cells Rockland
Research Scimed Technodiamant
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History of COMPRES 2001-2008

• December 2000 Town Meeting at Fall AGU Meeting,
  San Francisco
• February 2001 Mineral Physics Planning
  Workshop, La Jolla
• August 2001 COMPRES Proposal submitted to
  NSF-EAR
• 18 institutional members from U. S.
• May 2002 Collaborative Agreement signed with
  EAR
• September 2002 1st Annual Meeting at Stony
  Brook
• March 2003 Workshop in Miami-?Bass Report
  (2004)
• June 2003 2nd Annual Meeting in Santa Cruz
• December 2003 1stCOMPRES Exhibition Booth at
  Fall AGU
• June 2004 3rd Annual Meeting in Lake Tahoe
• August 2006 Submit renewal proposal for COMPRES
  II
• April 2007 New Collaborative Agreement signed
  with EAR
• June 2007 6th Annual Meeting at Lake Morey
• June 2008 7th Annual Meeting at Cheyenne
  Mountain

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COMPRES Consortium for Materials Properties
Research in Earth Sciences
X-ray and Neutron Community Facilities Infrastruct
ure Development Projects