8:30 Summaries from working group leaders of submitted contributions and proposed outline of science themes and experiments.
8:30 Coupled processes (including geochemistry):9:30 Summary of candidate-site geology, etc.
Eric Sonnenthal (LBNL).
Building on the current knowledge of petrology, hydrology, geochemistry, and geomicrobiology, this group will focus on the interactions that must be considered to understand many of the phenomena observed in geological processes.8:45 Geomicrobiology, microbial ecology and molecular evolution:
Tommy Phelps (Oak Ridge)
This group combines two working groups of the Solicitation 1 study: (1) The geomicrobiology study group will investigate microbial community composition and dynamics, microbial physiologies and abiotic-biotic interactions, as well as will pioneer the sampling strategies and insure contamination control; (2) The microbial ecology and molecular evolution group will focus on the fundamental questions involving molecular evolution, cellular and molecular biology, systems biology, and ancient molecules.9:00 Rock mechanics/seismology:
Larry Costin (Sandia) or Paul Young (U. of Toronto)
This group will study how to integrate studies of rock deformation and stability, and the whole-earth geophysical studies, with the development of DUSEL.9:15 Applications
Francois Heuzé (LLNL) or Jean Claude Roegiers ( U. of Oklahoma).
Use of the subsurface includes many traditional (e.g. mineral extraction) and an increasing number of novel applications. This working group will examine opportunities for research in DUSEL to advance these uses.
(30 minutes with 15 minutes of discussion each.)11:45 Lunch
Refreshments available during talks.9:30 Cascade- Phil Long (Pacific Northwest National Lab)
10:15 Henderson-Mark Kuchta (Colorado School of Mines) and Bob Golden (Henderson Mine)
11:00 Homestake -Bill Roggenthien (South Dakota School of Mines)
(cont'd...)3:30 International URLs environments
12:30 Kimballton - Skip Watts (Radford Univ.)
1:15 San Jacinto - John Foster (Calif. State, Fullerton) and Kerry Cato (Cato Geosciences, Inc.)
2:00 Soudan - Dean Peterson (Univ. of Minnesota, Duluth)
2:45 WIPP -Larry Costin (Sandia National Laboratory)
what they are doing and what they are not doing4:00 Break
(25 minutes with 5 minutes for questions - Joe Wang, LBNL)
4:15 Open discussion (led by working group leaders in order shown)
Based upon the presentations above, an open discussion of scientific questions in geosciences, geomicrobiology and engineering that are site specific (versus generic) with no ranking in terms of priorities. (Are any site-specific questions being adequately addressed by international URLs?)4:15 Coupled processes (including geochemistry):
Brian McPherson (New Mexico Tech) or Eric Sonnenthal (LBNL)4:45 Geomicrobiology, microbial ecology and molecular evolution:
Tommy Phelps, (ORNL) or Tom Kieft (New Mexico Tech)5:15 Rock mechanics/seismology:
Larry Costin (Sandia) or Paul Young (U. of Toronto)5:45 Application group:
Francois Heuze (LLNL) or Jean Claude Roegiers (U. of Oklahoma)
Friday night
S1 PIs and Working Group leaders gather and organize discussions submitted from the floor, copy and collate for distribution for next day’s presentations (and post to website).
8:00 Overview of Friday's discussions: Bernard Sadoulet
8:15 Secure Earth Initiative and potential connection to DUSEL (Colwell)8:40 DUSEL E&O: some examples (Pfiffner)
9:15 Brainstorming Session--Oral presentations from selected participants who have contributed new and innovative experimental ideas.
9:15 R.J. Bodnar (Vir. Tech) Simulation of ore-forming processes at DUSEL9:40 T. Kieft (N. Mex. Tech) Opportunities for Geomicrobiological Characterization and Experimentation During DUSEL Site Selection and Development
10:00 Peter Geiser; STRM LLC, Boulder, CO * Imaging the ambient permeability field and active fracture fault fairways in the brittle crust using Passive Seismic Emission Tomography (PSET™)
Break
10:30 Maochen Ge (MIT) A Large Block Test to Study the Energetic Failure of Rock – Application to Rock-Bursting and Earthquake Mechanics
10:50 Antonio Bobet (Purdue) Induced Slip on a Large-Scale Frictional Discontinuity: Coupled Flow and Geomechanics
11:15 John H Helsdon (S. Dakota SMT) A Cloud Physics Facility for DUSEL
11:45 Lunch
12:45 Infrastructure concerns
1:00 pm Break up into "Observatory" or "Laboratory" working groups. Reconvene at 3:30pm
4:00pm Laboratory working group summary
4:30pm Observatory working group summary
5:00pm Geobiology opportunities and Proto EarthLab
6:00 Summary of workshop by PIs and proposed plans for the January meeting.
7:00 Dinner with brief overview regarding Sunday's field trip.
Sunday (optional)
Field trip to Kimballton mine and overview of local geology in the vicinity of Butt Mountain. (limited number of spaces)