EPOS a long term integration plan of research infrastructures for solid Earth Science in Europe Massimo Cocco EPOS PP Coordinator A Forward Look to a Roadmap for Solid Earth Science in Europe October 17 th -18 th 2012 IPG Paris, France
The centrality of Research Infrastructures for Innovation Build excellent science opportunities for a better society Foster IT innovation for a better risk management of environmental hazards Open new business opportunities for the local and global economy Strengthen capacity building for new generations
EPOS challenges Seismological Observatories & Research Infrastructures Volcano Observations Geological and Surface Dynamics data Geodetic data Other Geosciences data (OBS, Gravity data) Analytical and Experimental Laboratories ICT & e-ri Facilities Satellite Information data Geomagnetic Observatories Infrastructures for Geo-Resources
EPOS PP Mission The European Plate Observing System (EPOS) is a long-term integrated research infrastructure plan to promote innovative approaches for a better understanding of the physical processes controlling earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, unrest episodes and tsunamis as well as those driving tectonics and Earth surface dynamics The EPOS plan aims at integrating the currently scattered, but highly advanced European facilities into one, distributed, but coherent multidisciplinary Research Infrastructure (RI) taking full advantage of new e-science opportunities EPOS PP Timeline
Challenges in coordinating Data Infrastructures Creating Data not only data, but data products, services to users (which imply computational resources) & data from simulations Accessing Data serving different stakeholders (data providers, scientific users, governmental stakeholders, funding agencies, industry) involving the different necessary skills Preserving Data technical solutions & governance Training, Education & Outreach (cultural aspects)
R.I.D.E. Data Base http://epos-couch.cloudant.com/epos-couch/_design/epos-couch/index.html Research Infrastructure LIst 226 Research Infrastructures 1658 GPS receivers (out of 2500) 2517 seismic stations 385 TB Seismic data 913 TB Storage capacity 909 storage data centers for seismology 512 instruments in laboratories MAP OF: - Seismic/GPS stations -Laboratories -- etc.
Why EPOS? Integration of the existing national and trans-national RIs Interoperability and services to a broad community of users Open access to a multidisciplinary research infrastructure Progress in Science by providing prompt and continuous availability of high quality data and the means to process and interpret them Data infrastructures and novel core services, which will contribute to information, dissemination, education and training. Implementation plans, which require strategic investment in research infrastructures at national and international levels. Societal contributions: hazard assessment and risk mitigation
Which are the Core Services?
Why EPOS is important for scientists? It will provide access to multidisciplinary data, data products, processing tools, visualization software and data from simulations. It will allow each community to open their data infrastructures to other stakeholders, which is a precondition to join the global data coordination It provides coordination to cooperate with e-science community and participate to the new ICT era It will structure our community to improve our future fund opportunities It promotes national implementation plans that improve the research capacities and opportunities
Multi-disciplinary Cyber(e)-Infrastructure Challenges: Build on existing (community) system/network infrastructures Supplement but not supplant system/network mandates and governance arrangements Address heterogeneity to lower User/Data Provider entry barriers avoiding to impose any common (federal) technology Initiatives & Programmes GEO GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems) ESFRI & EC (ENVRI, VERCE, EUDAT) INSPIRE US-NSF EarthCube Open and Big Data programmes Successful Experience The Brokering approach introduced by EuroGEOSS (EC-JRC) Currently, operational in the GCI (GEOSS Common Infrastructure) as GEO DAB (Discovery & Access Broker) Approach adopted by the EarthCube architectural framework Community EGU and AGU Earth & Space Sciences Informatics (ESSI) EarthCube «Data Broker» WG OGC Earth System Science DWG. Contributions by S. Nativi (CNR) & M. Craglia (JRC) EarthCube
Conclusive Remarks Integrating infrastructures for promoting groundbreaking research to address key priorities Increase the impact of Solid Earth Science research in Europe Contribute to structure the solid Earth community for increasing competitiveness and enhance progress in science Creating core services for training, education & dissemination
The European Supersites FUTUREVOLC "A European volcanological supersite in Iceland
MARmara SuperSITE (MARSITE)
MEDiterranean SUpersite Volcanoes (MEDSUV) The project is focused on the Supersites of Southern Italy (Mt. Etna and Campi Flegrei / Vesuvius volcanoes) They are located in populate regions and encompass almost the whole spectrum of the threatening volcanic phenomena producing high local/regional/continental risks
Why we need EPOS? EPOS is necessary in order to provide the governance and legal framework to coordinate the management and implementation of the Core Services. EPOS will also coordinate initiatives for fund raising and to secure funds for maintaining them operational.
Which are the Core Services? National Research Infrastructures and facilities provide services at national level and send data to the European Data Centers. European Data Centers are infrastructures to provide data services to specific communities (they can be international organizations, such as ORFEUS for seismology) The EPOS Core Services will provide access to multidisciplinary data, data products, synthetic data from simulations, processing and visualization tools,... The EPOS Core Services will serve scientists and other stakeholders, young researchers (training), professionals and industry They will be our vessel to participate to the ICT innovation
Response to RI - Questionnaires from the EPOS technical Working Groups (WGs) WG6 24% WG5 14% WG7 4% WG8 2% 260 instruments 11 countries More than 230 RI questionnaires received until now WG4 13% supersites 2500 GPS WG1 27% WG3 6% WG2 10% WG1 Seismological Observatories and RIs WG2 Volcano Observations WG3 Geological and Surface Dynamics Data WG4 Geodetic Data WG5 Other Geoscience Data Magnetic Observatories Infrastructures for geo-resources WG6 Analytical and Experimental Laboratories WG7 ITC and e-ir Facilities WG8 Satellite Information Data We are presently uploading all this information on an electronic data base (RIDE) and we plan to launch an implementation phase