[DUSELScience] DUSEL: Preliminary program of the S1 Minneapolis workshop

[Bernard Sadoulet]

Here are a few answers

At 5:49 PM -0600 7/11/05, Fulvio Tonon wrote:
>Dear Bernard,
>
>Thanks a lot for your great work!
>
>I have noticed that, in the preliminary agenda, there is no mention 
>of the Engineering component of the DUSEL, e.g., in the summary of 
>the working groups on July 22nd (morning). I am under the impression 
>that engineering is so far being used by other disciplines to 
>support their experimental goals, rather than being an equal partner 
>in the experimental part of the DUS(E)L.


This was a slip on my part. The 3rd talk is on Earth Science and 
Engineering. Charles Fairhurst will give it. This will be corrected 
in the next version to be posted very soon.

>
>Perhaps this is due to the low active participation of the 
>engineering community (including the engineering industry = 
>designers + contractors) in the process, as compared to the other 
>disciplines. The DUSEL workshop at the US Rock Mechanics Symposium 
>(Anchorage, June 25-29) was well participated, but very few of those 
>participants were in Boulder, and just one of them is in the current 
>list of registered people in Minneapolis.

I understand that a fair number of discussions occurred at the Alaska 
meeting on DUSEL and I am sure that this will be reflected in the 
discussion in Minneapolis.

>
>Along these lines, the final sentence in Section "1.4. Subsurface 
>Engineering" of the current S1 Interim Report says:
>"The methods developed and the experience gained in these 
>engineering projects will have
>profound impact on geosciences, and DUSEL will provide the fertile 
>ground of close
>collaborations between scientists and engineers, and academia and 
>industry." (boldface added)
>
>Now, "geosciences" is probably a Freudian slip for "geoengineering"?

Probably we should have said "engineering and geosciences"

>
>See you again in Minneapolis!
>
>Best regards
>
>Fulvio
>
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Thanks for the comments: be sure that we are not forgetting the engineers!

Bernard


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Bernard Sadoulet
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Department of Physics
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