United Kingdom
NERC
The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), is a public sector organization and the UK's leading body for basic, strategic and applied research and monitoring in the environmental sciences. It is responsible for advising the UK government on all aspects of geosciences, as well as providing impartial geological advice to industry, academia and the public. It was founded in 1835 and is the world’s longest established national geological survey.
Contribution to the PP.
NERC will contribute to most work packages of EPOS, leading WP3 (Governance) and various Tasks. NERC has substantial experience of establishing and working within complex European and international collaborative organizations, and will provide staff with unusual specialist skills in complex IT infrastructures and intellectual property law, as well as in the development of large collaborative geoscientific maps and databases. As leaders of WP3, and in close co-operation with the leaders of WPs 1, 2 and 4, they will guide the project partners through the process of developing robust and effective mechanisms for governance and decision making within the legal entity to be established. NERC will contribute substantially to the development of the EPOS e-infrastructure systems, to the establishment of the geological framework of EPOS, and to its public outreach programme.
Principal personnel involved.
Professor John Ludden will lead the NERC contribution to EPOS. He is presently Executive Director of BGS, a department of NERC, President of EuroGeoSurveys, a Governor of IODP Management International and a visiting professor at Oxford and Leicester universities. He has previously held key posts as Director of the Earth Sciences Division at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), and has taught at the French National School of Geology (ENSG-Nancy), the University of Montreal, Columbia University and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Dr David Kerridge will take management responsibility for the NERC contribution to EPOS. He is presently Head of Natural Hazards and Earth Systems at BGS (department of NERC).
Dr Russ Evans wills co-ordinate the NERC contribution to EPOS. He is currently Science Grants Co-ordinator for BGS (department of NERC) Edinburgh.
Dr Brian Baptie has long been active in European geosciences data exchange and management as a member of the ORFEUS Board of Directors, and leads the NERC Earthquake Seismology Team
Christopher Luton is a lawyer specializing in intellectual property management, contract negotiation and research outputs and is currently Head of Intellectual Property Rights at NERC in the BGS department.
In order to assure the adequate skills in IT infrastructure, professor Keith G. Jeffery will contribute specialist knowledge of IT infrastructures and their application to geosciences, in particular by his active participation in EPOS meetings and workshops. He is currently Director IT and International Strategy of the Science and Technology Facilities Council, based at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. He is President of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, President of euroCRIS (Current Research Information Systems).
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