Project Hotspot held its first dedicated science workshop. This workshop brought together 26 co-investigators from other institutions -- including 14 other un...iversities and 5 agencies or research foundations (DOSECC, INL, USGS, LacCore, ICDP) -- representing four different countries (US, Canada, Germany, UK), with science team members at Utah State University. 

The workshop had two primary goals: first, to present preliminary science results from team members who have already begun work (e.g., geophysical surveys, borehole logging, thermal logging, and preliminary core chemistry); and second, to allow team members to present their future research plans, and coordinate research groups on special themes. 

The workshop was a great success, with 28 oral presentations and 8 poster presentations, long discussions, and a wrap-up that laid out plans for continued work. Among the highlights were the detailed geophysical site surveys, and preliminary whole rock geochemistry for the basalt core (based on bore hole gamma logs, hand-held XRF, and whole rock XRF of selected samples) -- which show several horizons of "Craters of the Moon"-type evolved lavas (high Fe, K). Jonathan Glen of the USGS also presented his new high-resolution gravity and magnetic surveys of the western and central SRP, which shows subsurface structure in unprecedented detail. 

Participants had two opportunities to view the core from all three drill holes (at both the USU Core Processing Facility and our off-site core storage) so they could begin planning their core sampling strategies. All participants received a flash drive with high-resolution photos of all the core from each drill site.