EPOS a long term integration plan of research infrastructures for solid Earth Science in Europe

1. INGV EPOS a long term integration plan of research infrastructures for solid Earth Science in Europe Massimo Cocco - INGV Rome cocco@ingv.it TopoEurope, Heidelberg October 2009 www.epos-eu.org

2. Research Infrastructure: definition • Research infrastructure means facilities, resources, and related services that are used by the scientific community to conduct top-level research in their respective fields and covers major scientific equipment or sets of instruments; • knowledge-based resources such as collections, archives or structures for scientific information; • enabling ICT-based infrastructures, or any other entity of a unique nature essential to achieve excellence in research. • Such infrastructures may be “single-sited” of distributed, that is an organized network of resources 

3. The new vision The centrality of Research Infrastructures for Innovation John Wood, EGEE09, Barcelona, 2009 EPOS Meeting

4. ESFRI has been launched in April 2002 ESFRI, the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures, is a strategic instrument to develop the scientific integration of Europe and to strengthen its international outreach • ESFRI’s role and ambitions: • To jointly reflect on the development of strategic policies for pan-European Research Infrastructures • To prepare a European Roadmap with regular updates as different areas mature (!) • To act as an incubator for RI projects with pan-European interest ..…but it is not a decision making body http://cordis.europa.eu/esfri/ EPOS Meeting

5. The ESFRI Roadmap is an ongoing process • First edition 2006 and updated in 2008 with 44 projects • Preparatory phase funding for most with second round soon • About 10 will fly by 2010 • European X-FEL first to go real – civil construction started in 2009 and International convention agreed 2 days ago.

6. EPOS has been submitted for the update of the ESFRI roadmap in November 2007 • It has been evaluated during 2008 • During the evaluation phase the EPOS’s partnership increased from 7 to 13 countries • 3 countries are now joining the initiative and in other 5 contacts are going on at national level • EPOS succeeded and was included in the ESFRI 2008 Roadmap on December 2008 ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/esfri/docs/esfri_roadmap_update_2008.pdf EPOS Meeting

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9. What is EPOS ? EPOS is a long-term integration plan that aims to create a single sustainable, permanent and distributed infrastructure that includes: • geophysical monitoring networks • local observatories (including permanent in-situ and volcano observatories) • experimental laboratories in Europe EPOS will give open access to geophysical and geological data and modelling tools, enabling a step change in multidisciplinary scientific research into different areas www.epos-eu.org

10. EPOS: the Concept EPOS intends to integrate five existing core elements within one cyber infrastructure to realize: • A comprehensive geographical distributed observational infrastructure consisting of existing permanent monitoring networks on a European scale (seismic, geodetic, ….) • Dedicated observatories for multidisciplinary local data acquisition (volcanoes, in-situ fault monitoring experiments, surface dynamics, geothermal and deep drilling experiments, geological repositories) • A network of experimental laboratories creating a single distributed research infrastructure for rock and mineral properties (like the ESF THYMER, TECTOMOD and EU-Login networks) • Facilities for data repositories as well as for data integration, archiving and mining (including different solid Earth data, such as geophysical, geological, topographic, geochemical) • Facilities for high performance distributed computing consisting of cyber infrastructures for collaborative computing and large scale data analysis

11. EPOS infrastructure concept Space Observations DInSar – GMES…. Volcano Ash Dispersal. GEOSS…….. Satellite observation infrastructure Permanent Networks (ORFEUS) In-situ observatories Labs Rock Mechanics Lab Analogue Modelling User Interface European Plate Observing System Temporary deployments Volcano observatories Computational facilities Ocean observation infrastructure Ocean Bottom Seismometers – EMSO Marine Geophysics (tsunami hazard, volcanology…… …….. Users, science, education, public Data mining, archives …….. e-infrastructures

12. The INGV Integrated Monitoring System Strong motion A CGPS, Seismometric and Strong motion co-located network GPS Broad band seismometer Satellite link and Intranet

13. The Network today: 211 BB stations 137 CGPS 80 Strong Motions Out of ~290 real time stations

14. www.neries-eu.org seismology ORFEUS/NERIES: Virtual European Broadband Seismic Network VEBSN December 2008 BB stations in Europe beginning 2009 VEBSN ~ 320 stations March 2009 ≈1000 operating BB stations in 2009 www.emsc-csem.org www.orfeus-eu.org

15. Lava flow morphology & modeling Science Case • impact on society Volcanic hazard & risk A laser scanning survey of the summit topography of Etna forms the basis for quantifying with a probabilistic model lava flow hazard areas

16. Science Case • facing technological challenges: rock physics Laboratory Experiments

17. EGI NGI VERCE PRACE HPC NERIES NERA

18. The need for e-infrastructures • Gigantic Earth Science Data Volumes require the development of new approaches to web-based data and model exchange, data mining and visualization (500 seismometers yield ≈17 GB/day and 6.2 TB/year) • “Virtual Earth Laboratory” - Hypothesis testing will make increasingly use of high-performance simulation technology of Earth’s dynamic behaviour • “software is infrastructure” – scientific simulation technology needs to be adapted and maintained for wide use by the community Rationale

19. The need for e-infrastructures • “data rich” Elements: Web-based superstructure linking Earth Science Data Centres, standardize multi-disciplinary data and model exchange • “cpu rich” Elements: Simulation and processing technology needs to be professionally engineered, linked to the European High-Performance Computing infrastructure and the scientific data infrastructure Data & Simulations

20. EPOS: data life cycle Derived Data (Level II) Seismic picks, amplitudes, automatic Magnitudes Moment Tensors Raw Data (Level I) Data centres Data archives Model libraries Users Level III - Data Processing, Visualization Tools, Simulation & modelling libraries Access Data storage & processing + Web Portal infrastructure EU HPC- Supercomputing Infrastructure Grid

21. EPOS ELEMENTS EPOS USER INTERFACE GPS data integration Volcano data integration Other Geosciences data integration Experimental data integration

22. IMPACT ON USERS • EPOS will attract a potential user community in Europe and worldwide with particular attention to Mediterranean countries • The user community will come from different disciplines (multidisciplinary RI) • User community contributed to the EPOS conception phase by participating to international programs and projects (NERIES, EXPLORIS, Topo-EUROPE, SPICE,..) • EPOS will be accompanied by a coherent training program for the Earth science user community starting a competitive fellowship program dedicated to young researchers (Marie Curie, ESF, ERC, ITN,…)

23. EPOS: the Partnership • EPOS presently includes 13 countries: Italy, France, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany, The Netherlands, Denmark, Turkey, Greece, Norway, Iceland, Romania, Portugal • New entries in the near future: Spain, Israel, Czech Republic • Two international organizations involved: ORFEUS and EMSC (they will favour open access & new entries) http://www.orfeus-eu.org/ • Several countries have direct links to their national roadmaps, but others are looking for an official commitment • New contacts are ongoing with several other countries (Ireland, Sweden, Slovak Republic, Poland); others will start soon.

24. EPOS DUAL ROLEgetting ready for preparatory phase • Pan-European integration of existing research infrastructures • Integrating multidisciplinary infrastructures as a key challenge for solid Earth Science • Identifying existing gaps and pilot projects to promote a modern implementation of RIs • Long-term sustainability of research infrastructures at national level • Guaranteeing maintenance and the minimum required implementation level • Supporting the development of the monitoring infrastructures coordinated with the Epos's pan-European integrated vision

25. EPOSISTIMELY • There exists: • a unique opportunity to join efforts in coordinating and integrating multi- and cross-disciplinary activities and data • the concrete possibility to plan future investments in RIs relying on solid existing infrastructures and a coordinated perspective • a shared vision to rely on e-infrastructure investments and to propose new initiatives • the necessity to face challenging problems through new shared programs and projects

26. EPOS advances for scientists • Getting national priorities • Implementing transnational access • Giving visibility and coherence to our community • Structuring our community to be competitive for global challenges • Ensuring long term sustainability of our RIs • Reduce fragmentation • Optimize effectiveness and impact EPOS Meeting

27. Grand challenges are pressing EPOS can contribute to this task We can use EPOS for empowering our researchers to own the future Will we be able to face them ?

28. Thank You for your attention to EPOS Courtesy by H. Igel