Management Models for Future Seismological and Geodetic Facilities and Capabilities Proceedings of a Workshop (2019) / Chapter Skim
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3 Management of Current Division of Earth SciencesSponsored Seismological and Geodetic Facilities
3 Management of Current Division of Earth SciencesSponsored Seismological and Geodetic Facilities
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This session was designed to provide a basis for comparison of these facilities' management structures with those of other facilities to be discussed in a later session. BOX 3.1 Prompting Questions Provided to Scientific Facility Leadership To allow comparison of management and governance models among scientific facili ties, the workshop planning committee provided the following questions to facility managers making presentations at the workshop: • What are the mission and capabilities/services offered by your facility?
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SAGE is operated as a Center of Excellence around instrumentation services, data services, and education and outreach. Detrick described a "dirt-to-desktop" approach that includes all aspects of instrument preparation, deployment, data collection, and quality control through data archiving and distribution.
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IRIS also supports polar instrumentation for experiments in Antarctica and the arctic regions. The IRIS data services directorate supports the world's largest broadband waveform seismic data center.
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The IRIS Board of Directors and its standing committees identify longer-term goals and priorities for the facilities that IRIS operates, and IRIS staff implement those plans and priorities. Detrick described that IRIS and UNAVCO are experimenting with a coordinated program governance and management structure as part of the new awards for SAGE and Geodetic Facility for the Advancement of Geoscience (GAGE)
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Consortium activities such as workshops, internships, and online training and networking helps to build a large and vibrant seismic community. He cited 35 years of NSF facility operation, an international reputation as a model facility operator, the on-time and on-budget construction and operation of EarthScope's U.S.
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Global GNSS network; and planning support for principal investigators (e.g., to advance geoscience education, geodesy community engagement, and investigator proposals)
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Service; IRIS = Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology; IUGG = International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics; JPL = Jet Propulsion Laboratory; NCDOT = North Carolina Department of Transportation; NEON = National Ecological Observatory Network; NOAA = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; ODOT = Oregon Department of Transportation; OOI = Ocean Observatory Initiative; PBO = Plate Boundary Observatory; SCEC = Southern California Earthquake Center; TLALOCNet = Trans-boundary Land and Atmosphere Long-term Observational and Collaborative Network; UCAR = University Corporation for Atmospheric Research; USGS = U.S. Geological Survey; WY BLM = Wyoming Bureau of Land Management; XSEDE = Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment; YVO = Yellowstone Volcano Observatory.
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. The three programs within UNAVCO -- the Geodetic Infrastructure Program, the Geodetic Data Services Program, and the Education and Community Engagement Program -- report directly to Miller as the UNAVCO president.
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Miller described how the work of UNAVCO is prioritized through the UNAVCO governance and management structures, and that those structures are, in turn, aligned to support existing observing capabilities as well as new observational and cyberinfrastructure innovation. Priorities are also established based on GAGE facility requirements to enable stakeholder discovery through observations, data services, and education, workforce, and outreach activities.
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The committees review budgets and work directly with facility staff to identify which capabilities and technologies to prioritize. IRIS staff, as domain experts, also interact broadly with the research community and contribute to prioritization discussions.
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Wiens added that the community governance model helps avoid expenditures on engineering improvements that may not represent the optimal use of funds from a scientific standpoint. Wiens also suggested that IRIS responsiveness to community demands for innovation is greater than that of other facilities under different governance structures because IRIS managers answer to the IRIS Board of Directors.
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Recapitalization of Equipment When asked about long-term management challenges for IRIS, Woodward responded that recapitalization of the $80-$100 million instrument fleet maintained on behalf of the research community was a major challenge. Many of the instruments have been in operation for 12-14 years and the base award for SAGE does not include significant funds for recapitalization.
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