Operational Planning Committee

PLANNING COMMITTEE

Operational Planning Committee

Oversees operational needs of SZ4D and provide scientific guidance for designing the necessary facilities

The Operations Planning Committee (OPC) oversees SZ4D operational needs. The OPC is charged with providing scientific guidance for the design of five facilities that would support:

1. Offshore instrumentation,

2. Onshore instrumentation,

3. Field programs that require human deployment,

4. A modeling collaboratory, and

5. Experiments and sample archiving.

The OPC will work to develop the necessary proposals to support the new infrastructure. As the SZ4D facilities are created and become operational, it is expected that the OPC creates separate oversight committees for each of them.

OPC Charge

Schematic of major instrumental arrays and activities of SZ4D. (Katy Cain/Carnegie Institution for Science)

Coordinating Array Design

One of the tasks of the OPC is to coordinate the array designs. This task requires regular meetings with the Earthscope Consortium staff who assist in budgeting and project management. As part of this process, the representatives on OPC regularly consult with Working Group and Integrative Group members to ensure sufficient technical expertise in crafting the instrumentation that will meet the scientific goals.

From the Implementation Plan

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Committee Members


Maarten DeMoor	VolcArray	OVSICORI	maartenjdemoor@gmail.com
Andy Newman	MegaArray	Georgia Tech	anewman@gatech.edu
Christine Regalla	Human Dep	Northern Arizona University	christine.regalla@nau.edu
Zack Spica	MegaArray, Volcarray	University of Michigan	zspica@umich.edu
Chad Trabant	Data	EarthScope	chad.trabant@earthscope.org
Doug Wiens*	MegaArray	Washington U in St. Louis	doug@wustl.edu
Lindsay Worthington	MegaArray	University New Mexico	lworthington@unm.edu
Brian Yanites	SurfArray	Indiana University	byanites@indiana.edu
Stella Moreiras	SurfArray, Human Dep	CONICET	moreiras@mendoza-conicet.gob.ar
Dave Mencin	Data	EarthScope	david.mencin@earthscope.org
Daniel Melnick	SurfArray, Human Dep	Universidad Austral de Chile	daniel.melnick@uach.cl
Alice Gabriel	Modeling	UC San Diego	algabriel@ucsd.edu
Melodie French*	Lab	Rice University	mefrench@rice.edu
Chris Crosby	SurfArray, Data	EarthScope	chris.crosby@earthscope.org
Loreto Cordova	VolcArray	SERNAGEOMIN	loreto.cordova@sernageomin.cl
Paul Bodin	MegaArray, VolcArray	University of Washington	bodin@uw.edu
Thorsten Becker	Modeling	UTIG Austin	twb@ig.utexas.edu
Juan-Carlos Baez	MegaArray, SurfArray, VolcArray	University of Chile	jcbaez@csn.uchile.cl