Some 440 votes were received, which reflect the great excitement of our community to MYRES. The An overwhelming majority (65%) of these votes were case in favor of Dynamics Interaction of Life and its Landscape, the project put together by Liam Reinhardt, Doug Jerolmack, Wonsuck Kim, Cailin Huyck Orr, Jane Willenbring, Nikki Strong, Michal Tal, and Mattew Wolinsky. We are really excited by this expension of MYRES into surface processes and biogeology. Congratulations to Liam and friends!

We also want to thank Nic Richmond, Jolante van Wijk, John Hernlund, Christing Reif, and Motohiko Murakami for proposing other exciting projects: "Magmatism of the Earth and Planets: From Deep Earth Processes to the Volcanoes of Io" and "Mysteries of the Deep Earth". We hope they will consider trying again for future MYRES!

The transition period is underway as the current team is passing the torch to the MYRES III gang.

As always, don't hesitate to contact info@myres.org if you have any question about this process.

The second MYRES took place July 2-6, 2006 at the Hotel Castognola in Verbania, Italy. 119 scientists from 25 countries spanning all continents came to the conference. It was followed by a field trip to the Sesia Valley and the Monte Rosa massif, attended by 32 people.

Program information is available here. The list of hands-on tutorials and software installation links are Here. The list of poster sessions is here

Composition and evolution of the lithosphere, by Matthias Barth ((Universität Mainz, Germany)
Fault structures, by Cristiano Collettini (Universita di Perugia, Italy)
Laboratory experiments in the brittle regime, by Wenlu Zhu (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA)
Deformation in the ductile field, by Sandra Piazolo (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Physics of earthquakes, by Agnes Helmstetter (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France)
Transient geodetic signals, by Shinichi Miyazaki (Tokyo University, Japan)
Continent-scale dynamics, by Lucy Flesch (Purdue University, USA)
Modeling of lithosphere deformation, by Jolante van Wijk (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)

Tomography: Art or Science?, by Frederik Simons (Princeton University, USA)
Interpreting Geophysical Data for Mantle Dynamics, by Wendy Panero (University of Michigan, USA)
Constraints on Mantle Structure from Surface Observables, by Magali Billen (University of California Davis, USA)
Composition of the Earth and it's Reservoirs: Geochemical Observables, by Cin-Ty Lee (Rice University, USA)
Noble Gas Constraints on Mantle Structure and Convection, by Sujoy Mukhopadhyay (Harvard University, USA)
Heat and Mass Flux: The Role of the Core, by Jie Li (University of Illinois, USA)
Seismic Constraints on Boundary Layers, by Tine Thomas (Liverpool University, UK)
Dynamics of Thermal Boundary Layers and Convective Upwellings, by Shijie Zhong (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)