Massimo Cocco and EPOS Team

1. EPOS EuropeanPlateObserving System Massimo Cocco and EPOS Team Conferenza Nazionale delle Infrastrutture di ricerca per le science della Terra solida 22 Novembre 2013 Roma

2. EPOS 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 EPOS is integrating the existingadvanced European facilities into one, distributed multidisciplinary Research Infrastructure (RI) taking full advantage of new e-science opportunities EPOS Timeline Partnership presently here!

3. Key Objectives • Integrating existing research infrastructures in Europe for solid Earth Science (data infrastructures & facilities) • Building an efficient and comprehensive multidisciplinary research platform for the Earth sciences in Europe • Providing access to data and data products through shared data policies • Developing e-RIs for integrated use of data, products and services to users • Contributing to a community building for Earth Science • Promoting cooperation with complementary projects in geosciences (GEO, ICT & environmental sciences) • Providing services to different users & stakeholders

4. EPOS Community Seismological Observatories & Research Infrastructures WG1 Volcano Observations WG2 Geological and Surface Dynamics data WG3 GNSS and others geodetic data WG4 OtherGeosciences data (OBS, NearFaultObservatories) WG5 ICT & e-RI Facilities AnalyticalandExperimental Laboratories WG6 ICT & e-RI Facilities WG7 Satellite Information data WG8 GeomagneticObservatories WG9 InfrastructuresforGeo-Resources WG10

5. EPOS Landscape and interactions EPOS CONCEPTION INTERMAGNET Projects’ interactions TRAINING ITcollaborations TCSimplementation Globalcooperation Participationin global Initiatives

6. TopologicalArchitecture The EPOS Integrated Core Services will provide access to multidisciplinary data, data products, synthetic data from simulations, processing and visualization tools .... The EPOS Integrated Core Services will serve scientists and other stakeholders, young researchers (training), professionals and industry EPOS is more than a data portal: it will provide not just data but the means to integrate, analyse, compare, interpret and present data and information about Solid Earth. Thematic Core Services are infrastructures providing community specific services, serve communities to organize themselves and to formulate common strategies and contribute to overall EPOS work plan development in a coordinated manner. (They can be international organizations, such as ORFEUS for seismology). National Research Infrastructures and facilities provide services at national level and send data to the European thematic data infrastructures.

7. The National RIs • EXISTING Ris • Data quality • Data standardization RIDE database: http://www.epos-eu.org/ride/ Diversity in data type and formats RIsinvolved in EPOS • 244 Research Infrastructures • 138 Institutions • 22 countries • 2272 GPS receivers • 4939 seismic stations • 464 TB Seismic data • 1.095 PB Storage capacity • 828 instruments in 118 Laboratories

8. Infrastrutture di RicercaItaliane in RIDE INGV – INOGS – CNR-IGG – AMRA – UniRoma 3 CNR-IREA – CNR-ITT – UniPadova – UniGenova – UniTrieste – ISPRA – CNR-IRPI - CINECA....

9. ThematicServices (TCS) • Governance • Data Products • Services WG1 - Seismology WG2 - Volcanology WG3 – Geological Data WG4 – GNSS Data WG6 – Analytical and Experimental Laboratories WG8 – Satellite Data WG 9 – Geomagnetic Observ. WG10 - Infrastructures for Georesources

10. Thematic Services: WG1 Seismological Observatories EPOS Board of Service Providers EPOS Seismology Products and Services (ESPS) EPOS Volcanology EPOS Geology … Other EPOS Communities Governance and coordination by Board of Service representatives, 4-6 members COMPUTATIONAL SEISMOLOGY HAZARD AND RISK EARTHQUAKE PRODUCTS WAVEFORM DATA Parametric earthquake information and event-related additional information Structure: Distributed ~ 5 nodes, including EMSC & its key nodes, AHEAD Products (indicative list) Earthquake parameters & bulletins; earthquake catalogues (instrumental, macroseismic, historic, synthetic); moment tensors; source models Services (…) Rapid earthquake information dissemination (felt maps, ShakeMaps) Ground motion recordings from seismic sensors (possible extension to infrasound) Structure: Distributed (ORFEUS umbrella) ~8 nodes, including ORFEUS & EIDA nodes, SISMOS, SMdB Products (indicative list) Continuous and event waveforms from permanent and temporary stations (broadband, short period, strong motion); historical waveform archive; synthetic waveform data; strong motion data (products) Services (…) Station information (metadata, site characterization…); data quality (control) information European Infrastructures Mobile pools, OBS pools… High performance and high end computing, data intensive computing Structure: Distributed ~3 nodes (build upon VERCE) Products (indicative list) Tools for massive scale data applications (processing, mining, visualization,…) Services (…) Access to HPC resources; data staging; data massive applications; data simulation; model repository and model handling tools (large 3D velocity models, rupture models,…) Seismic hazard & risk products and services Structure: Distributed ~3 nodes, including EFEHR (EUCENTER & ETH nodes) Products (indicative list) Hazard: Fault maps & models; source zones; hazard maps & curves & disaggregation; GMPEs Risk: Inventories & inventory models; vulnerability functions; risk maps & scenarios Services (…) Tools for model building and visualization; product viewer; hazard & risk calculation software & infrastructure Seismological services for visualisation, discovery and access to portal (based on seismicportal.eu ) expert groups, standards e-Seismology & common services EPOS Integrated Services Visualisation tool / discovery & access portal high performance and high end computing (may absorb E-Seismology) expert groups, standards

11. Thematic Services: WG6 Analytical and Experimental Laboratories EPOS Board of Service Providers (all thematic & integrated service Board members) EPOS Volcanology EPOS Geology … Other EPOS Communities LABSERVICE DATA BASE (ROCKYPEDIA) DATA STORAGE & INFOBROWSER ACCESS AND MOBILITY Governance and coordination by a General Assembly of the members and Board of Service representatives EPOS Laboratories Products and Services (ELPS) A database to provide information on properties and processes for the interpretation of large scale geological phenomena (available to EPOS community and other users) Structure: to be defined Products (indicative list) Chemical, physicaland rheological data of rocks, ash and melts; geographical localisation of the products, aerodynamic parameters of ash Services Georeferenced Data for model of the Earth interior; parameters for hazard & risk calculation; volcanic ash and dust impact evaluation; data for Oil and Drilling companies; education and outreach • A distributed repository for chemical, physical, rheological properties and processes in rocks, melts and analog materials • Structure (indicative) : web portal (Infobrowser); Data repositories in laboratories, no access to data, metadata available • Products (indicative list) • Inventory of: • Rocks/melts/analogs • chemical, physical, rheological properties; • analytical and experimental constraints and settings, • images and analysis of rocks, experimental products, volcanic ash and dust • Services • Information on available data in the network (who, where, how); system of quality assurance for definitive data • Validation MID TERM SHORT TERM • A distributed infrastructure for analytical and experimental studies • Structure (indicative): web server localised (ELYSE I3 umbrella) • ~30 nodes, including projects like Memovolc, Nemoh, Topomod • Products (indicative list) • Mechanisms and procedures for access to facilities • Services (…) • - coherent, effective, and • collaborative network of laboratories for Europeanscientists; • - Transnational access to large scale facilities • Training facilities • Outreach facilities • European Infrastructures • Analytical and Experimental laboratories • 30 Institutions (indicative) • 15 countries (indicative) A web service devoted to diagnostic and troubleshooting of experimental and analytical instruments Structure (indicative): web portal localised; network of ~30 nodes Products (indicative list) Forum for diagnostic and troubleshooting; Guidelines for maintenance and calibration of instruments; Inventory of faults of instruments Services Technical consulting for resolution of faults and improvements; Area service for private and public users LONG TERM SHORT TERM E-Labs & common services Services for visualisation, discovery, access and mobility, Royalties service EPOS Integrated Services Web infrastructure organisation and management, Visualisation tool / discovery & access portal

12. The European Supersites • EPOS is a GEOparticipating institution. TASK-DI-01 C2: Geohazard Supersites and Natural Laboratories (GSNL) • EPOS as a regional federation to provide multidisciplinary services in solid Earth • EPOSis coordinating efforts with the three EC supersites: • MARSITE (Istanbul) • FUTUREVOLC (Icelandic Volcanoes) • MED-SUV (Italian Volcanoes)

13. Integrated Services organization Centralized and Distributed ICS Distributed Centralized

14. EPOS Key Components T H E M A T I C S E R V I C E S EPOS Headquarter (Legal seat) EPOS Integrated Core Services Etc.....

15. Functional Architecture Arclink seiscomp EUDAT-EPOS EPOS-COOPEUS

16. 3 layer metadata model Anticipates data.govdomains Discovery (DC) and (CKAN, eGMS) Web portal, Spatio-Temporal Search 1 Generate Search for instruments, software, models... Contextual (CERIF metadata model) 2 Point to domain-specific data with detailed metadata Detailed (community specific) 3 domain specific - geographically distributed data

17. EPOS Open Access Policies • Data and facilities will be owned by national RIs • EPOS products will be owned by EPOS • Pricing: at this point no requirements for a pricing policy has been identified • Open Access to: • Freely available data in real time or with some time delay • Data available without charge to specific users or for specified purposes • Access to metadata allowing discovery of other relevant data • Access to facilities under equitable rules (details under discussion) • Data Licensing: Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC) wherever possible • Services and software available under CC licensing • Access rules: authenticationis likely to be required including statements on purpose of using data (presently under discussion)

18. EPOS Achievements • ERIC has been chosen as the legal model for EPOS • Governance model has been designed and approved by the Council • Data Policies & IPR are presently under discussion • Financial Plan: cost assessment completed and presently under revision: Funding Model under discussion • Stakeholder Strategy & Communication Plan

19. EPOS Legal & Governance work • ERIC is considered by the EPOS PP Council to be the most appropriate choice of legal model for EPOS • The Board of Governmental Representatives supported this option (November 2012) • We started the process of drafting the LoI, EoI & Statutes • Governance Model: • General Assembly • Executive Director • Executive Office • Coordination Board • Scientific & e-science Boards • External Advisory Board

20. EPOS ERIC: proposed Governance scheme Decisions Advice Consultation with non-EPOS-ERIC countries and other funders General Assembly (GA) External Advisory Board Executive Director & OfficeSenior Scientific Manager, Senior Technical Manager, Senior Administrative Manager Special Advisory BoardsEthicsFinance? HR? Execution Services Co-ordination BoardRepresentatives from Core Services Technical Advisory BoardsScientistsICT experts Data providers Thematic Core services Integrated Core services Thematic CS 1 TCS 2 EPOS ERIC Thematic CS 3 TCS 4 EPOS DELIVERY FRAMEWORK Provide data and services National networks & RIs; Organisations and companies; Data centres KEY: Funding agencies ERIC & EPOS CS staff International experts

21. Timeline 2010 2014 2015 2019 2020 Business case review & delivery strategy Conditions are in place to construct and operate the RI Concept screening & feasibility study EPOS-ERIC EPOS financial plan 2015-2019 EPOS RI operational Further TCS developed Third parties partnership agreements Interaction with industry & private sector Finalize the ICS design Present ICS prototype Identify existing TCS Start implementing new TCS Decide hosting the ECO Procedures for hosting ICS Finalize statutes for ERIC Finalize EPOS financial plan Secure National funds for existing TCS Construct ICS central hub Integrate Existing TCS Implement new TCS Hosting ICS central hub ERIC enters in force ECO operational ERIC-TCS Agreements Operate EPOS-ERIC Support TCS implementation Legend: Technical Legal Financial some components operational

22. Preparatory Phase Legend: Legal Financial Technical Underlined in bold milestones & deliverables

23. Phase 1: implementation Legend: Legal Financial Technical Underlined in bold milestones & deliverables

24. Phase 1: funding sources EPOS-ERIC budget ECO ICS TCS Membership fees (cash) National funding to EPOS Existing TCS MSs fees ORFEUS – EIDA ISC, EMSC EUREF ......etc.. New funding Host Premium (mixed) In kind contributions EU funding EPOS coordination projects ( e.g I3, structural funds, …) Potential project funding Other EU projects (e.g. structural funds, InterReg…) National funding to RI’s & TCS Services subscription fees (non-ERIC) Existing funding National projects and support

25. The EPOS Integrated Core Services will provide access to multidisciplinary data, data products, synthetic data from simulations, processing, modelling and visualization tools, and facilities. The Executive Coordination Office (ECO, legal seat) and the ICS will be build up and operated by MSs through EPOS-ERIC. • Cost assessmentfor the first 5 years (2016-2020): • ECO: 3,75 M€ (solid) ≈700K€ per year • ICS: 7,8 M€ (to be refined) ≈1.5M€ per year • Fundedthrough host premium & membership fees. • No additional funds expected from EC. new e-RI • Thematic Core Services provide community specific services & access to data / data products and facilities. • Implementation phase for TCS: • Integrating new data & data-products ≈1.0 M€ • Creating new services for existing TCS ≈1.5 M€ • Implementing TCS components • (geo-hazards, geo-resources) ≈2.5 M€ • Involving other communities (and industry) ≈1.0 M€ • Support ICT innovation ≈1.0 M€ • Further develop a flexible financial plan for TCS. • Obtain national commitments for sustainability (M&O). National Research Infrastructures and facilities Existing and operational: see http://www.epos-eu.org/ride/ Funded by national governments Essential for monitoring and hazard assessment

26. Added Value: scientific perspectives Strengthening of collaborations between dispersed research groups working in the same field Design of multidisciplinary measurements tailored to particular investigations (Eyjafjallajökull 2010 eruption) Integration of research efforts using different methodologies to contribute to geo-hazards and geo-resources Open community based software and web applications, with consequent improvements in the processing and interpretation of data and opening of new perspectives for integrated Earth system models and simulations Development of new technologies for specific infrastructures, such as experimental laboratories or in-situ observatories Closer links with other networks and infrastructures throughout the field of Earth sciences, including space marine and environmental sciences

27. Financial perspectives National funds for implementing national RIs and TCS components (including structural funds) Present EU funds for TCS implementation EU projects (NERA, REAKT, SHARE....) EU supersites projects (FUTUREVOLC, MARSITE, MEDSUV) EU projects for cooperation with e-science (VERCE, EUDAT, ...) EU projects for international cooperation (COOPEUS, ENVRI, ...) Proposition of topics for future I3 projects in H2020 (4 topics accepted during EC consultation) & TCS support through structural funds • RIs value (>350M€) • running costs (≅84M€/year) • Funds during PP 43.5M€

28. Messages delivered to BGR • We ask national governments to maintain the present support to national RIs • We ask national governments to maintain the present support to existing TCSs • We ask national governments to financially commit to EPOS-ERIC • EPOS can represent an opportunity to financial optimization at European level • National EPOS projects should support TCS implementation* • *43.5M€ from 5 countries (2011-2013) • plus other proposals submitted

29. The EPOS chain: high gain/high-but manageablerisk

30. Concluding 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

31. Thank you for your attention massimo.cocco@ingv.it www.epos-eu.org epos@ingv.it

32. Achievements at M36 of the PP Financial plan Risk Management Plan set up EPOS Architecture strategic

33. Concluding Remarks • The Second EPOS BGR meeting of Sept 20th was attended by governmental representatives of 16 countries & 3 observers! • A first draft of the ERIC statutes will be ready on Dec 2013 • A first draft of data policy/access rules will be delivered in December 2013 • 5LoI's already signed and other 6 are expected within October 2013 • We have operational TCS and an implementation plan ready for 2013 • EPOS is in national roadmaps of 10 countries and further applications are pending

34. AEG Recommendations to EPOS • TCS definition and activity plan • Independent, external scientific and technical reviews and project cost review • Establishing a path towards a well-managed distributed research infrastructure Strategic actions to mitigate the risk: i) involve and implement TCS; ii) build the ICS central hub as a key contribution provided by the EPOS-ERIC; iii) the EPOS HQ coordinates and harmonizes national RIs and EPOS services • Delivery Strategy for partners and engagement of users • High level intergovernmental working group to organize the long term funding commitments • Start working on Statutes as soon as possible • Formally engage industry

35. User Community

36. EPOS CORE SERVICES

37. Thematic Services • Several TCSs exist and are operational: • ORFEUS for distributing seismological data • EMSC for earthquake information and dissemination • AHEAD: a database of historical earthquakes in EUROPE • SISMOS: a facility for digitalization of historical seismograms • EUREF: an international organization for GPS data standardization • OneGeology-Eufor geological maps • Some of these TCSs involve more countries than EPOS partnership (ORFEUS, EMSC, EUREF) and involve Mediterranean countries • These TCSs provide services and represent a valorization of EU and national investments

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39. The National RIs • Legal implications • Owned by Nation. Gov. • IPR remain to data prov. • Largely open access • Financial implications • Already funded by Gov. • Funding commitments • Socio-economic impact • Surveillance nation. terr. • Strategic implications • International perspective • Pan-European and Mediterranean dimension • Governance • Data providers involved • Outreach implications • Accessible for training • Used for dissemination • User community involved

40. The Thematic Core Services • Technical implications • Communities involved • Standardization & Quality • Services implementation • Strategic implications • Existing TCS • TCS under implementation • Envisioned TCS • Monitoring TCS evolution • Financial implications • Cost Assessment • Evolutionary funding model • Fund raising opportunities • Legal & Governance • Data policies / Access Rules • Outreach implications • Global perspective • International cooperation • Stakeholders interactions

41. The Integrated Core Services (ICS) EPOS Headquarter Central hub • Cost assessmentfor the first 5 years: • ECO: 3,75 M€ (solid) ≈700K€ per year • ICS: 7,8 M€ (to be refined) ≈1.5M€ per year • TCS (on-going work)

42. TCS Implementation plan #1

43. TCS Implementation plan #2

44. TCS Implementation plan #3

45. Additional Slides to be used during Q/A EPOS Preparatory Phase

46. RISK, DATA POLICYLEGAL & GOVERNANCE

47. Risk Management: Policy, Plan & Register"Orange  Book" methodology - Identify-analyze-treat-review • Failure to enlist sufficient partners to form a successful Europe-wide ERIC Residual exposure: Low • Failure to engage countries that are not ERIC partners to support the EPOS missionResidual exposure: Low / Medium • Failure to secure sufficient funding to move to construction phaseResidual exposure: Medium • Failure to develop a convincing approach to users Residual exposure: Low • Failure to develop and implement successful plans for the establishment of thematic nodesResidual exposure: Medium / Low • Engaging in more activities than the available human resources can support, leading to failure to prepare a convincing and supported case for EPOS Residual exposure: Significant • Failure to engage with non-academic stakeholders Residual exposure: Significant

48. EPOS Legal & Governance work • ERIC is considered by the IAPC to be the most appropriate choice of legal model for EPOS (November 2012) • The Board of Governmental Representatives supported this option (November 2012) • We started the process of drafting the LoI, EoI & Statutes • Governance Model: • General Assembly • Executive Director • Executive Office • Coordination Board • Scientific & e-science Boards • External Advisory Board

49. EPOS Legal work state of progress Done! • LoIis signed by the countries interested in participating in the ERIC • The hosting country of the EPOS-ERIC statutory seat is decided • The Statutes and bylawsare drafted and negotiated • EPOS-ERIC Statutes are published in the Official Journal of the EU Setting-up And adoption Ongoing Left to do

50. COMMUNICATION POLICY