The IRIS Executive Committee has been busy over the past year with preparation of the IRIS-2000 proposal. As the review of the proposal progresses, the Executive Committee will work with NSF to develop a revised program plan and budget which will form the basis for a new Cooperative Agreement to begin in July, 1996. If you have comments you would like to have considered in the development of this final plan, please contact the Executive Committee or IRIS staff.
After the 1995 Workshop, the Executive Committee and IRIS staff solicited membership views on the importance and benefit of the annual Workshop. Over 100 persons responded, and the overwhelming consensus was that the Workshop served an extremely valuable role. Many successful field experiments originated at past IRIS meetings, and the style of focused science sessions nurtured scientific collaboration. In fact, a significant number of respondents stated that the IRIS Workshop was their most important science meeting. There was a preference to continue the tradition of holding the meetings in a different location each year, preferably in a stimulating geological setting. One of the most commonly expressed concerns was the overall expense to IRIS of the meeting. With this in mind, we will charge a nominal registration fee for future meetings to partially offset costs. We will continue to experiment with the structure of the meeting to assure that it evolves to serve the community.
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