An effort to share with colleagues in scientific fields and with the public, who underwrite much of the cost, some of the excitement and interest of geophysics research has been made under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences. The Panel on Solid‐Earth Problems, a joint panel of the Academy's Division of Earth Sciences and Geophysics Research Board, has conducted a thorough review of current research in solid‐Earth geophysics with a view toward outlining the major foreseeable problems and challenges in solid‐earth geophysics, together with estimates of the scope of research activities that can be undertaken in the coming decade. The activities of universities and academic institutions, and of the government laboratories were considered, and the support of these activities by federal, state, and private sources was taken into account. The study was recently published as a report of the National Academy of Sciences entitledSolid‐Earth Geophysics: Survey and