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Eos, Vol. 89, No. 24, 10 June 2008 level and climate change variability and constrain the natural rate and range of coral reef community change to these past environmental stresses. Finally, these data also satisfy site survey requirements for an IODP expedition to drill the GBR fossil reefs scheduled for September–December 2009.

Acknowledgments We thank the captain and crew of the R/V Southern Surveyor for their outstanding work on the cruise. The project was funded by the Australian Marine National Facility, the Integrated Marine Ocean Observing System, the National Geographic Society, and the Natural Environment Research Council.

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news Networking Research Infrastructures for Earthquake Seismology in Europe PAGE 219 In the past decade, European countries have experienced a surge in funding, of the order of 100 million euro (€100 million), for new earthquake monitoring equipment and initiatives. Permanent and mobile seismograph and accelerometer networks on national, regional, and global levels are being modernized and are expanding at a significant pace. Currently, earthquakes in the European- Mediterranean region are recorded by more than 2500 short-period (SP) seismometers, 3000 accelerometers, and 800 broadband (BB) permanent seismic stations operated by more than 100 networks and observatories. An additional 400 BB and more than 1200 SP mobile stations are deployed by universities and research institutes in temporary experiments. This unprecedented and still-expanding recording capacity in Europe and its immediate surroundings opens up new research opportunities as well as new data-handling challenges. For example, maintaining optimum access to the data and integrating facilities with different types of data require a high level of networking and coordination. In 2006, the European Commission provided €12.1 million for the 4-year project Network of Research Infrastructures for European Seismology (NERIES; http://www .neries-eu.org) to address this challenge. NERIES is an Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3) project aimed at integrating different ongoing and new research infrastructures and initiatives in seismology. This I3 type of funding helps the European Commission to realize its ambition of creating European-scale research infrastructures.

Partners in the NERIES project are the two pan-European-Mediterranean networking organizations, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC; http://www .emsc-csem.org) and Observatories and Research Facilities for European Seismology (ORFEUS; http://www.orfeus-eu.org), which together represent more than 100 institutes in 50 countries, and the 23 major earthquake research institutes in Europe. NERIES supports a number of networking activities. As a focal point, NERIES is rapidly expanding the Virtual European Broadband Seismograph Network (VEBSN), at a rate of about 70 BB stations per year, and also is creating a distributed, integrated European-scale data archive. VEBSN links a pool of open real-time BB stations (currently totaling more than 250) shared by contributing observatories and archived into a European Integrated Waveform Data Archive (EIDA). The EIDA consists of several secure, long-term archives linked together, providing a single open access coordinated by ORFEUS. Other significant networking efforts within NERIES aim to integrate and improve access to seismological data archives and observatories, including acceleration waveforms, earthquake parameter data, historical macroseismic data, and ocean bottom permanent seismological observatories. The implementation and development of specific research tools is an integral part of NERIES. These tools are a newly determined European 3-D reference model, homogeneous shake and loss maps, standardized site response characterization techniques based on ambient noise (http:// www.geopsy.org), time-varying hazard esti-

Webster, J. M., et al. (2008), Evolution of drowned shelf edge reefs in the GBR; implications for understanding abrupt climate change, coral reef response and modern deep water benthic habitats—RV Southern Survey, voyage summary, 18 pp., Mar. Natl. Facil., Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. (Available at http://www.marine.csiro.au/ nationalfacility/voyagedocs/2007/summarySS07 -2007.pdf) —JODY M.WEBSTER, ROBIN J. BEAMAN, and THOMAS BRIDGE, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia; E-mail: [email protected]; PETER J. DAVIES, MARIA BYRNE, STEFAN WILLIAMS, PHIL MANNING, OSCAR PIZARRO, KATE THORNBOROUGH, and ERIKA WOOLSEY, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; ALEX THOMAS, Oxford University; and SANDY TUDHOPE, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

mations (in cooperation with the Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability, a project of the Southern California Earthquake Center; http://www.cseptesting .org), and the development of data-mining techniques. NERIES also fosters transnational access to five focused seismological research facilities in Europe: broadband seismology at the Swiss Digital Seismic Network; verification seismology at the Département Analyse, Surveillance, Environnement (DASE, France); the seismogram scanning facility SISMOS at the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (Italy); the array seismology facility NORSAR (Norway); and underground instrumental testing at the Conrad Observatory (Austria). Information about applying for grants is available on the NERIES Web site. To achieve the required European infrastructure integration, NERIES maintains an intensive program of focused meetings and workshops in cooperation with ORFEUS, EMSC, and many other European research institutes. In addition, NERIES coordinates with various other multinational programs in Europe (i.e., with the German Indian Ocean Tsunami Rapid Warning Project, http://www.gitews.org; the European Sea Floor Observatory Network, http://www .ifremer.fr/esonet/emso/; and Seismic Early Warning for Europe, http://www.saferproject .net). NERIES also presently serves as the core element for a larger-scale, coordinated effort to establish the European plate observing systems under the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures framework, which covers the large-scale research infrastructures in Europe. In summary, NERIES, which is the largest Earth science project funded by the European Commission to date, aims to integrate the observational earthquake-seismology infrastructures in Europe and to serve as a blueprint for a larger integration in solid Earth research facilities in Europe. The full list of the leaders of the NERIES consortium can be found in the electronic

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impact on high-pressure physics, chemistry, materials, Earth and planetary sciences.” The society noted that Mao, the recipient of AGU’s 2007 Inge Lehmann Medal and an AGU Fellow, “has pioneered numerous major technical breakthroughs and facility developments that have enabled highpressure science to reach a new dimension.” Susan Solomon, senior scientist with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, was cited for leading two expeditions to the Antarctic that confirmed that human use of chlorofluorocarbons

MEETINGS Mexico-U.S. Harmful Algal Bloom Monitoring Efforts Workshop on Taxonomy of Harmful Algal Blooms; Veracruz, Mexico, 18–22 February 2008 PAGE 219 A workshop on harmful algal bloom (HAB) taxonomy, sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Health of the state of Veracruz, Mexico, was held at the Aquarium of Veracruz and focused on standardizing methods to detect HABs that affect coastal waters in the Gulf of Mexico. This binational effort was established under the umbrella of the Gulf of Mexico Alliance (GOMA), initially formed in 2004 by the five U.S. Gulf states (Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas) with participation from U.S. federal agencies and other stakeholders. The workshop was aimed at developing a joint program in HAB monitoring and research between the United States and Mexico. This was the first joint gathering of its kind and took place as a result of a series of recent initiatives, including a 3-year grant from the EPA to the University of South Florida to build “A Binational Gulf of Mexico HAB Risk Assessment and Communications

Partnership” through efforts to assess, develop, and better integrate the existing human scientific and resource management infrastructure in the United States and Mexico. The workshop was the first step toward these goals. The workshop was supported by the local and federal Mexican governments and the EPA Gulf of Mexico Program and was opened with welcome remarks from government officials. This was followed by an outline of scientific advances in HAB research and monitoring activities in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. The rest of the workshop was organized into sessions that focused on species recognition using microscopes, water sample collection, data format, data entry, and integration with an existing U.S.-based HAB observing network. Special attention was given to the dominant Gulf of Mexico HAB species, Karenia brevis, and other Karenia species. Thirty-three people attended the training workshop, including 26 trainees/researchers

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played the key role in depleting the ozone layer, and for shaping the theoretical understanding of the detailed chemistry responsible for stratospheric ozone destruction. In addition, Solomon, who received AGU’s 2007 William Bowie Medal and is an AGU Fellow, was cited for her key role in international assessments of climate change.

In Memoriam John S. Gahimer, 61, 29 April 2008, Planetary Sciences, 2007 Theodore R. Harris, 66, 22 April 2008, Global Environmental Change, 2003

from 14 Mexican institutions of the six coastal states—Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán, Quintana Roo, and Tamaulipas. English lectures were translated into Spanish. A total of 29 microscopes, loaned from local institutions and Carl Zeiss, Inc., and phytoplankton cultures and samples collected from local waters were used for hands-on training in HAB species identification and enumeration for each trainee, who also practiced field sampling techniques and received a certificate at the conclusion of the workshop showing the successful completion of the taxonomy training. During session breaks the participants visited several local agencies and facilities, including the Department of Health of the state of Veracruz, Mexico. Similar training workshops are being planned to incorporate a wider segment of the research and health, operational, and resource management communities in Mexico by covering advanced sampling and monitoring techniques, including remote sensing. The full text of this meeting report can be found in the electronic supplement to this Eos issue (http://www.agu.org/eos_elec/).

—CHUANMIN HU, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg; E-mail: [email protected]; and FRANK E. MULLER-KARGER, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth