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The agenda below provides a flexible framework for identifying opportunities and challenges in tsunami geology, and for guiding the National Science Foundation on related research priorities.

*note: 'break-out' means dividing into smaller discussion groups)

SUNDAY 12 JUNE - INTRODUCTIONS, MOTIVATIONS

Noon - 2:30 Posters and peels, informal gathering
2:30 - 2:40 Welcome
2:40 - 3:10 Introductions
3:15 - 4:45 THE SUMATRA TSUNAMI
How it informs geophysics
The challenge of collecting, archiving and synthesizing data
The Sumatra tsunami -- a hometown view
4:45 - 5:00 Change to first break-out groups
5:00 - 6:00 BREAK-OUT 1 -- motivations and objectives
6:00 - 8:00 Posters and peels, informal session continued

MONDAY 13 JUNE

8:45 - 9:00 Announcements, agenda review
9:00 - 10:00 USES OF TSUNAMI GEOLOGY
Tsunami education
Tsunami sources & hazard mapping
Tsunami modeling
Hazard assessment
10:00 - 11:00 Motivations, objectives -- Reports from Monday break-out groups
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:15 Panel-led discussion
What are the uses of tsunami geology?
12:15 - 1:30 Lunch - on your own
1:30 - 4:00 TSUNAMI BASICS
(with break) Tsunami sources & propagation
Tsunami runup modeling
Laboratory studies of tsunami erosion and sedimentation
Remote sensing -- before, during and after
Sediment transport and tsunamis
4:00 - 6:00 BREAK-OUT 2
How can these studies contribute to tsunami geology
(What would the geo- community like to know?)
What are research priorities? Potential collaborations?
6:00 - 7:00 Posters and informal discussion

TUESDAY 14 JUNE

8:45 - 9:00 Announcements, agenda
9:00 - 10:00 Reports from Monday's break-out groups
10:00 - 10:45 TSUNAMI GEOLOGY
Subaerial tsunami deposits
Subaqueous tsunami deposits
Potential lookalikes--storms
Tsunami-generated landforms
10:45 - 11:00 break
11:00 - 11:45 Panel-led discussion
11:45 - 12:45 BREAK-OUT 3 -- identify and evaluate research challenges
12:45 - 2:00 [lunch on your own]
2:00 - 3:00 TSUNAMI GEOLOGY & Beyond
Earthquake sources
Other tsunami sources (landslides, volcanoes, impacts)
Earthquake and tsunami recurrence
Tsunami and tsunami-deposit statistics -- historical and pre-historic
Tsunami depth and velocity
3:00 - 3:15 break
3:15 - 3:45 Panel-led discussion
3:45 - 5:45 BREAK-OUT 4 -- identify and evaluate research challenges
5:45 Continued poster perusal
EVENING Mariners game!

WEDNESDAY 15 JUNE -- schedule on this day is fairly open, subject to real-time developments

8:45 - 9:00 Announcements, agenda setting
9:00 - 10:00 Reports from Tuesday break-out groups
10:00 - 11:00 Final break-out groups review research challenges and propose priorities
11:00 SUBSET NOT INVOLVED IN REPORT WRITING DEPARTS for field trip
11:00 - 1:00 Writing teams convene, write extended outlines, report back to group
1:00 - 2:00 lunch
2:00 - 6:00 Report writing by individuals or small teams
6:00 Field trip returns

Final Breakout Group suggestions -- comments welcome

Quantifying tsunami properties from their deposits (and other features)
Reliability of the tsunami-deposit record--statistics, preservation, distinguishing deposits
Marine geology --The record of tsunamis and related phenomena
Tsunami erosion and deposition--effects on coastal geomorphology
Uses of tsunami deposits in probability hazard mapping
Uses of tsunami deposits in outreach and education
Database management, data repositories

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