Germany
GFZ
GFZ (German Research Center for Geosciences) was founded in 1992 as the national research institution for geosciences in Germany and is ab initio member of the Helmholtz Association of National Research Centres. With currently more than 980 staff GFZ combines all solid earth science fields including geodesy, geology, geophysics, mineralogy, palaeontology and geochemistry, in a multidisciplinary scientific and technical environment. Five departments build up the centre: geodesy and remote sensing, physics of the Earth, geodynamics and geomaterials, chemistry of the Earth, and Earth surface processes. In order to furnish its operations around the globe and in space, GFZ maintains massive scientific infrastructure and platforms, including observatories, a modular Earth science infrastructure, the home base of the International Continental Scientific Drilling Programme (ICDP) with the Operational Support Group, the novel drilling InnovaRig, and the Centre for GeoInformation Technology CEGIT, to name the most relevant for this project. GFZ is providing the empirical basement and the information infrastructure with core data services for large scale and supra-national geoscientific projects. Inside GFZ, substantial involvement of 4 different structural units can be stated in the EPOS-project, namely the Department 1 “Geodesy and Remote Sensing”, Department 2 “Physics of the Earth”, CeGIT – Centre for Geoinformation Technology and the Centre for Tsunami Early-Warning. GFZ has a relevant experience in coordinating and participating to international projects: NERIES, Network of Research Infrastructures for European Seismology (FP6-INFRA-2.1–I3); GITEWS German Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System Project; DEWS, Distant Early Warning System (FP6-IST IST-2005-2 STREP); TRANSFER, Tsunami Risk and Strategies for the European Region (FP6: ENV 6.3.IV.2.2); SAFER, Seismic Early Warning for Europe (FP6: ENV 6.3.IV.2.3); GAGOS, Assessing and forward planning of the Geodetic and Geohazard Observing Systems for GMES applications (FP6 -2003-Global 2); ConHaz, Cost of Natural Hazards (FP7 – ENV – 2009-1 CSA); SHARE, Seismic hazard harmonization in Europe (ENV.2008.1.3.1.1.); GEISER, Geothermal Energy Integrating Mitigation of Induced Seismicity in Reservoirs (FP7-ENERGY-2009-1).
Contribution to the PP.
GFZ is leading Work Package 6 and contributing to all activities. WP6: The main objective of WP6 is the development of an efficient e-infrastructure concept addressing the needs of the end-users. Within this primary objective there are the following sub-objectives that are critical in order to attain the main objective: (1) To optimize the best architecture for the multidisciplinary distributed research infrastructure; (2) To guarantee the technical interoperability of the distributed research infrastructures; (3) To guarantee the adoption of common standards and practices for the implementation phase; (4) To facilitate the access to data centres and to the use of modelling and processing tools and (5) Set-up the design and implementation of an EPOS demonstration Experiment Integration of end-users is facilitated through the establishment of thematic orientated working groups.
Principal personnel involved:
Dr. Jörn Lauterjung, Head of scientific Infrastructures and Geoengineering Centres of GFZ, coordinator of the GITEWS, German contribution to the Indian Ocean Tsunami Early Warning System. 1981-1985, Research Scientist at the Hamburg Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory at DESY (Hamburg), 1986-1995 Scientific Coordination of the German Continental Deep Drilling Program of Germany (KTB), 1992-2007 Head of the Scientific Staff of the GFZ Potsdam (R&D Planning, International Contacts, Technology Transfer, Public Relations), 1996-2004 Secretary of the Executive Committee of the ICDP.
Dr. Joachim Wächter, Head of the Centre for Geoinformation Technology at GFZ.
Prof. Michael Weber, Head of Department Physics of the Earth.
Prof. Jochen Zschau, Head of Section Earthquake Risk and Early Warning Systems.
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