Operational Planning Committees

PLANNING COMMITTEE

Operations Planning Committees

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

The Operations Planning Committee (OPC) went through reorganization in early 2024 and now includes two committees: OPC for Activities (OPC-A) and OPC for Infrastructure (OPC-I). See below the charges for each committee.

OPC-A Charge

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

OPC for Activities

OPC-A is charged with oversight, coordination, and integration of activities and data to complement physical infrastructure planning. For the purpose of this charge, “activities” means field, laboratory, modeling, and imaging scientific activities.

The charge includes:

Identify and plan for high priority experimental, field, & modeling activity needs from Implementation Plan that are not currently being addressed
Work with CIC and SC to identify PIs and funding sources for high priority needs
Respond to evolving scientific priorities of activity-focused working groups (MCS, … ) or similar groups in future center organizations.
Support and advise organizational SZ4D facility activity proposals during development including data management plans and non-instrumentation facility plans
Develop data management and sharing plans and protocols that proactively promotes data assimilation needs
Support development of physical sample storage and dissemination
Support development of and sustained access to Cyberinfrastructure
Advise operations of funded organizational proposals for activities, including advising on the implementation of the data management plans
- This role should include a regular reporting schedule for all funded organizational collaborative activities

OPC-I

OPC for Infrastructure

From the Implementation Plan

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OPC-I is charged with oversight of planning for SZ4D infrastructure construction and operation, including:

MultiArray (Chile),
Onshore/offshore domestic instrumentation,
Physical Infrastructure required for GeoArray,
Physical Infrastructure required for modeling,
Physical Infrastructure required for experiments and sample archiving.
Physical Infrastructure required for data management
Other physical infrastructure identified by OPC-A or WGs.

The OPC-I will support the development of SZ4D infrastructure proposals by:

Making informed recommendations to proposal development teams (based on scientific guidance and technical guidance as appropriate and in reference to the Implementation Plan and Array Success Criteria) regarding:
- Instrument types, numbers, models, etc
- Deployment locations (blobs-to-targets-to-dots) and modes (e.g., telemetry, power, logistics, etc)
- Staffing requirements for infrastructure construction and operation
Making informed recommendations on the relative priority of competing infrastructure needs
Reviewing and overseeing infrastructure proposal budgets (for completeness, bloat, accuracy)
Developing and implementing a change control process for MultiArray and domestic onshore/offshore deployments.

OPC-I will report regularly to the Steering Committee (through a co-Chair) on its activities.

OPC-I will regularly coordinate with other SZ4D committees and external groups:

Solicit scientific guidance from WGs as a basis for recommendations to infrastructure proposal PIs and to Steering Committee
Solicit technical guidance from infrastructure vendors, relevant facilities (OBSIC, Earthscope, RAPID, etc), and community members with relevant expertise
OPC-I should also synchronize with facilities and projects related to SZ4D (Earthscope, OBSIC, CRESCENT, etc) to remain knowledgeable about and responsive to complementary infrastructure efforts.
OPC-I should synchronize with OPC-A to remain knowledgeable about developing data management plans and other infrastructure needed to support activities.

Committee Members

Helen Janiszewski	OPC-A	Data	University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa	hajanisz@hawaii.edu
Sergio Sepulveda	OPC-I		Simon Fraser University	sergio_sepulveda@sfu.ca
Beatrice Magnani	OPC-I		Southern Methodist University	mmagnani@mail.smu.edu
Diane Rivet	OPC-I	SurfArray	GeoAzur	diane.rivet@geoazur.unice.fr
Lalo Guerrero	OPC-A	Data	DOGAMI	Lalo.GUERRERO@dogami.oregon.gov
Jon Major	OPC-I	VolcArray	US Geological Survey	jjmajor@usgs.gov
Anne Trehu	OPC-I	MegaArray	Oregon State University	anne.trehu@oregonstate.edu
Aaron Wech*	OPC-A		US Geological Survey	awech@usgs.gov
Anne Soquet	OPC-I	MegaArray	Université Grenoble Alpes	anne.socquet@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
Bertrand Potin	OPC-I	MegaArray, VolcArray	University of Chile Santiago	bertrand.potin@uchile.cl
Allan Lerner	OPC-I	VolcArray	US Geological Survey	alerner@usgs.gov
Jeff Freymueller*	OPC-I	MegaArray, VolcArray	Michigan State University	freymuel@msu.edu
Sean Gallen	OPC-I	SurfArray	Colorado State University	sean.gallen@colostate.edu
Andy Newman	OPC-I	MegaArray	Georgia Tech	anewman@gatech.edu
Christine Regalla	OPC-A	Human Dep	Northern Arizona University	christine.regalla@nau.edu
Zack Spica	OPC-I	MegaArray, VolcArray	University of Michigan	zspica@umich.edu
Chad Trabant	OPC-A	Data	EarthScope	chad.trabant@earthscope.org
Doug Wiens*	OPC-I	MegaArray	Washington U in St. Louis	doug@wustl.edu
Lindsay Worthington	OPC-I	MegaArray	University New Mexico	lworthington@unm.edu
Stella Moreiras	OPC-I and OPC-A	SurfArray, Human Dep	CONICET	moreiras@mendoza-conicet.gob.ar
Dave Mencin	OPC-A	Data	EarthScope	david.mencin@earthscope.org
Daniel Melnick	OPC-I	SurfArray, Human Dep	Universidad Austral de Chile	daniel.melnick@uach.cl
Alice Gabriel	OPC-A	Modeling	UC San Diego	algabriel@ucsd.edu
Melodie French*	OPC-A	Lab	Rice University	mefrench@rice.edu
Chris Crosby	OPC-A	SurfArray, Data	EarthScope	chris.crosby@earthscope.org
Loreto Cordova	OPC-I	VolcArray	SERNAGEOMIN	loreto.cordova@sernageomin.cl
Paul Bodin	OPC-I	MegaArray, VolcArray	University of Washington	bodin@uw.edu
Thorsten Becker	OPC-A	Modeling	UTIG Austin	twb@ig.utexas.edu
Juan-Carlos Baez	OPC-I	MegaArray, SurfArray, VolcArray	University of Chile	jcbaez@csn.uchile.cl