April 2014 CoCom Presentation Template

SAGE Award First Year Budget

FY14

SAGEAward Second Year Budget

FY14

As per BoD’s guidance to plan for a flat budget, and based on the FY14 actual spending.

SAGE Proposal Scope ModificationsWBS/Task Current

Award Amt.

Change in Scope From Proposal

3.1.3.1 – Management $60,750 Prioritizing travel and meeting participation

3.1.3.2 – Governance $26,250 Subject to new governance configuration and implementation

3.1.3.3 – Operations $3,905,498 • Prioritize instrumentation services:• Increase production turnaround of

seismic systems• Benchmark of 55 experiments/year• Providing no spare equipment

• Prioritizing PI support:• Uniform “PASSCAL” level data

support• Clearly defined off-hours support

3.1.3.3.2 - RAMP $ 0 NTR

Under Review By

Sustainability Working Group

Program Status –3.1.3.1 Management

• Objective/Goals– Oversee IRIS Portable Seismology Program

• Progress to Date/Status– Initiated 1 October 2013

• Planned activities and spending through 9/30/14– Strategic Planning/Activities with Community– Re-focus and prioritization of program resources and operations

• Issues for CoCom/Board– Insufficient program resources/budget responding with change in

scope• Sustainability/Longevity of equipment pool• Sustainability of facilities expertise (NMT and UTEP)

– Communicating program change in scope to the community members

– Need to continue seeking program opportunities

Program Status 3.1.3.2 Governance

• Objective/Goals– Governance of IRIS PASSCAL Program, with joint oversight of IRIS Polar Support Services

• Progress to Date/Status– PASC has redefined what it means to be awesome!

• Planned activities and spending through 9/30/14– Fall 2013 PASC meeting, Socorro, NM– Instrumentation subcommittee– Strategic Plan

• Issues for CoCom/Board1) Address the state-of-health of the PASSCAL instrumentation pool through assessing overall robustness of

the pool, understanding reasons for recent equipment failures in the field, and working with the PASSCAL PM, the PIC, and the BoD to identify short- and long-term strategies for revitalizing the pool.

2) Engage with the PIC, PASSCAL PM, and the BoD on how to best adjust PASSCAL service levels to accommodate reduced budgets.

3) Work with PIC staff and the PASSCAL PM to develop strategies for communicating with PIs about any adjusted service levels.

4) Assist the PASSCAL PM in determining the best way to manage the nascent Active Source facility.

5) Engage with the PI community to gauge desired PASSCAL capabilities (e.g., “Where should PASSCAL be in 2018?”).

6) Work with the PASSCAL PM and PIC over the next 1-2 years to develop strategic/revitalization plans for the PASSCAL program.

Program Status 3.1.3.3 Operations

• Objective/Goals– Enabling advances in scientific discovery by providing instruments and expertise enabling earth

scientists to collect seismic data with flexible arrays.• Progress to Date/Status

– Initiated 1 October 2013– Program has been meeting mission expectations/goals

• On schedule• On budget

• Planned activities and spending through 9/30/14– Provide support for current schedule– Working with Sustainability WG to recommend program prioritization measures– Ongoing IRIS mission support

• Issues for CoCom/Board– Sustainability of equipment pool and facility expertise– Finding the balance between scope and budget– Communicating any changes in scope to community and NSF– NMT

• Unable to support UTEP Texans at PIC• Resolution of data policy• Update to program policies

– UTEP• Recruiting and retaining shooters

– Exam and demonstrated experience makes this difficult, looking for suggestions.

PASSCAL :Organization and HR Status

• Program organization – Portable Seismology

• NMT (PIC)• UTEP

• Identify FTE budgeted vs. FTE on board– Portable Core: UTEP fully staffed, NMT 1

open position

• Discuss open positions– Sensor repair technician

Program Impact Statements

• Impacts on science of level funding throughout SAGE

Proposed SAGE Metrics

• SAGE Perf. Mgt. Plan with targets to be proposed by 9/30/14

• Pre-SAGE Performance Targets: – GSN/DMS - data availability > 80%– TA - data availability > 85%– EPO - annual number of unique monthly visitors to IRIS website > 6,000,000– PASSCAL - annual subscription rate of the non-polar broadband sensors in the

PASSCAL pool > 80%– IDS - secure at least 3 in-kind or financial sources of support to leverage core

IRIS NSF funding for international engagement– Polar – annual subscription rate of the polar broadband sensors in the PASSCAL

pool will be at least 80%

Other than SAGE Award Status

• Briefly summarize status of other than SAGE awards that you lead – technical status, funding to date, prognosis– Caltech/NASA– CCLI– RESESS– REU– Chile MRI– OBSIP– Anything else we missed

Other than SAGE Award Status

GEOICE

“Geophysical Earth Observatory for Ice-Covered Environments”

•Lead Institution: Central Washington Univ.

•Total Award: $3.2M

•Duration: 3-years

•Instrumentation: ~ 21 Broadband,

~86 Intermediate Period

•Status: – Kick off meeting October 26

– Meeting with community

– Requirements document under review

Summary and Conclusions

• CoCom/Board issues/awareness

Poker Flat Update

• Direct Burial testing of broadband sensors– Trillium 120 (vaults) and Trillium 120PH (DB)

• Installed summer 2013

• Initial results shown at AGU– DB compares favorably to PASSCAL vaults

• Demobilization planned for late 2014

Sweetwater Array

• Collaborative project between NodalSeismic, Nanometrics, and IRIS PASSCAL

• Mix-Phase Array utilizing the continuous record of a 3D nodal survey, with 25 broadband systems provided by PASSCAL and Nanometrics.– 45 days of continuous record– Currently running Vibroseis daylight only– Technology transfer between groups– All data to be archive at the DMC

• Demobilizing in May.