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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)

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.​

SZ4D Timeline

From the Implementation Plan

Learn more about the SZ4D Structure and Governance

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

*Group Co-Chairs

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