Draft Version 1.1
Minutes of the
3rd ESEAS-RI Project Team Meeting
Place:
Ardilaun House Hotel,
Galway,
Ireland
Date:
13-14 May 2004
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Minutes written by
Hans-Peter Plag
(Version of 20 May 2004).
Participants:
Hans-Peter Plag (HPP),
NMA,
(Coordinator, Task leader 2.4)
Per Knudsen (PK),
KMS,
(WP3 leader)
Dov Rosen (DR),
IOLR,
(WP4 leader)
Richard Bingley (RB),
UNOTT,
(WP2 leader, Task leader 1.1 + 2.8)
Lesley J. Rickards (LJR),
NERC-POL,
(WP1 leader)
Bente Lilja Bye (BLB),
NMA
Alan Edwards (AE),
EC
Agenda:
1 Welcome and Introduction
2 Discussion of the Agenda
3 Announcement from the Coordinator
4 Report from the Coordinator
5 Reports from the WP leaders and discussions
5.1 Lesley Rickards reports on WP1
5.2 Richard Bingley reports on WP2
5.3 Per Knudsen reports on WP3
5.4 Dov Rosen and Hans-Peter Plag report on WP4
6 Summary of the status, deviations, and necessary actions
7 Management report
7.1 Hans-Peter Plag: Presentation of the draft report
7.2 Discussion and finalising of the report (all)
8 Technical Implementation Plan (TIP)
9 External Reviewing
10 The ESEAS Meetings in November 2004: Programme, web pages, invited speakers
11 Publications
12 Future proposals
13 The next phase of the ESEAS
13.1 The assessment report
13.2 Next ESEAS GB meeting
13.3 Merging ESEAS and MedGLOSS
14 ESEAS/GLOSS and GMES/GEO
15 List of Action Items
16 Any Other Business (AOB)
17 Date and place of next meeting
1 Welcome and Introduction
Hans-Peter Plag
welcomed all participants and in particular
Alan Edwards
as representative of the
European Commission.
2 Discussion of the Agenda
The agenda was accepted as proposed. However, since
Alan Edwards
had to leave
at lunch time on 14 May, the topics 12 and 14 were discussed after Topic
6.
3 Announcement from the Coordinator
Hans-Peter Plag
informed the participants that he has accepted a position at the
Nevada Bureau of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, USA. Most likely, he
will be leaving NMA in July. However, it is expected that he will be able to contribute
to the ESEAS Workshop in November.
Proposed new coordinator is
Bente Lilja Bye
, who works at NMA.
Bente Lilja Bye
Bente Lilja Bye is senior adviser to the Director of the Geodetic Institute of
NMA. She is also the Research coordinator for NMA.
She holds an advanced degree in Theoretical Astrophysics from University of
Oslo in 1990. She worked at the Research Council of Norway for a decade with
responsibilities such as Material Sciences, International Research Cooperation
within Science and Technology, national coordination of COST activities. She
has long experience in evaluating research projects and developing both
national and international research policies and strategies. From 1995-2000 she
was Managing Director of Norwegian Synchrotron Research AS, which she also was
instrumental in establishing. Ms Bye has been a member of several international
committees such as member of COST CSO, vice chair of Administrative and Finance
Committee of European Synchrotron Research Facility, the Steering Committee of
the Swiss-Norwegian Beamline and others. From 2001-2002 Ms Bye was Managing
Director of an IT-company with HQ in Norway and numerous subsidiaries in
Northern Europe and Asia.
Alan Edwards
explained that in order to have the new coordinator accepted by the
Commission, the consortium needs to
agree on the person. Formally, only the first two pages of the
CPF need to be updated, signed and sent to the Commission.
In a covering letter, the approval of all partners needs to be indicated.
Action Item
PT-3-1:
Hans-Peter Plag
to ask the consortium for agreement to have
Bente Lilja Bye
as new coordinator.
Responsible:
Hans-Peter Plag,
Deadline:
30 June 2004.
Alan Edwards
informed that he most likely has to step down as responsible officer
for ESEAS. Gilles Ollier will take over. He has a background in marine
science and strongly advocates the research in that field.
4 Report from the Coordinator
Hans-Peter Plag
reported on the activities in the last six months (see
ppt
).
With respect to the reporting related to the first year, he reported that the
first annual report was submitted and this report is accepted by the Commission. Moreover,
the cost statements are also to a large extent accepted. Some partners
have significantly under-spent compared to the plan, while a few partners
have nearly spent their resources after Year 2. In the latter case, a
re-allocation of funds may be necessary after the second year.
Concerning activities in the reporting period, the coordinator mentioned that
there have been two WP meetings, namely a WP1/WP3 meeting in January 2004
in Darmstadt, and a WP2/WP4 in February in Madrid.
The ESEAS has a good chance of being registered as a service under the GMES
umbrella.
With respect to presentations at meetings, the coordinator mentioned that the
ESEAS was asked to give a presentation at the 4-th GMES Forum in November 2003
in Baveno, Italy, with the focus on the view of ESEAS as a non-governmental organisation
on GMES. The ESEAS-RI
project, and partiularly the status of WP2, was reported at the EUREF TWG meeting
in March 2004 in Budapest. Moreover, the project was also presented as a poster
at the Euroocean 2004 in Galway, Ireland.
Concerning the personnell at the ESEAS CB,
Hans-Peter Plag
reported that the
project manager, Hanne Heiberg, left on 7 May 2004.
The position was announced and selection is currently under way.
With respect to the IGS TIGA project, the coordinator could report that in the frame of
ESEAS-RI WP2, a good cooperation has developed.
Hans-Peter Plag
commented on the status of a few selceted AIs from previous meetings.
With respect to
Action Item
PT-2-33:
All partners to provide references to presentations and publications
for Section 2 of the Annual Report.
Responsible:
all
Deadline:
20 Nov 2003.
and
Action Item
PT-2-34:
All partners to provide posters and presentations
to the ESEAS CB for inclusion on eseas.org.
Responsible:
all
Deadline:
open.
he pointed out that certainly not all papers, posters and presentations related
to ESEAS and ESEAS-RI have been reported. He urged the WP leaders to
push WP members to contribute to the list.
Concerning
Action Item
PT-2-35:
Hans-Peter Plag
to inform everybody about the requirements for
documentation of who worked when on the project.
Responsible:
Hans-Peter Plag,
Deadline:
30 November 2003.
he used the opportunity to ask
Alan Edwards
for comments related to the required documentation.
Alan Edwards
emphasised that some kind of a certification system needs to be in place to document
that Mr. X or Mrs. Y have worked so many hours for ESEAS-RI.
This information needs to be certified by someone outside of the project,
e.g. a financial manager. The certification is very important.
Certification has to come from a person on a level high enough
to approve the correctness of the hours registered. In some cases, the
administrative responsible given
on the CPF may be the right person for the certification, but not
in all cases. Certification
should be on a weekly, monthly or, exceptionally, three monthly
basis. Records of the hours spent have to be kept at the respective institute. Importantly,
this also
applies to those persons not being funded by the EC, that is, the work done
by those in AC partners that are not directly paid by the project.
These requirements concern the internal systems used at each participating institution
for registering human resources and
certifying that these are actually used on the project. This is not covered by
the annual cost statements. This is similar to the demand that all invoices for durable
equipment or all travel claims need to be kept internally for later audits. The acceptance
of the cost statement by Commission does not imply that there cannot be an audit where all
costs have to be documented in a proper way. Thus, the requirement for documenting human
resources in a proper way is not different from all other requirements for the internal
accounting system. In other words, participation in a EU project
requries that the partner has an internal system for accounting that also includes
registering and certifying human resources, which can be checked in case of an audit.
In case of an audit, the lack of certified information about the
person resources used on the project is most often what causes
severe problems. The other main cause is due to durable equipment being
messed up.
Action Item
PT-3-2:
Hans-Peter Plag
to inform the consortium about the requirements for documentation
of human resources spend on the project.
Responsible:
Hans-Peter Plag,
Deadline:
20 May 2004.
Rational:
There are clear requirements for documentation of human resources
used in the project. These need to be followed in order to avoid problems
during audits.
Hans-Peter Plag
also addressed
Action Item
WP4-2-12:
All those who are responsible for an upgraded
tide gauge to provide information about data upload to the ESEAS DS
(latency, start date, rate) or about the server to
down-load data from (IP address, access, latency, start date,
rate).
Responsible:
ALL,
Deadline:
28 February 2004.
and complained that the coordinator/ESEAS CB up to now
did not receive sufficient information from the
partners.
5 Reports from the WP leaders and discussions
5.1 Lesley Rickards reports on WP1
Lesley J. Rickards
presented the status of WP1 (see
ppt
).
Concerning T1.1, it needs to be checked which sites in the list are
actually on the ESEAS map and which should be on the new ESEAS clickable map.
Richard Bingley
informed that he updated the list twice but not sent it to the CB. This
will be done soon.
Concerning T1.2, fragmentation of quality control between the different institutes
is still a problem though some progress has been
made. The ESEAS Quality Control Software package will be an important contribution
to European wide standardisation.
The revised version of the deliverable document
is with
Begona Perez Gomez
and
Maria-Jesus Garcia
for final corrections:
Action Item
PT-3-16:
Lesley J. Rickards
to ensure that the quality control document is finalised and made
available on the delivery page.
Responsible:
Lesley J. Rickards,
Deadline:
30 June 2004.
Rational:
According to AI PT-2-3, the document was supposed to be available in Nov. 2003.
It now needs to be made available a.s.a.p.
The availability of quality control software was discussed. It was suggested to make
a standard package compliant with the ESEAS Quality Control document available, e.g.
for down-load from the ESEAS web page. Moreover, in the future a centralised quality
control on the ESEAS Data Server needs to be made available. Otherwise, a homogeneous
ESEAS data quality cannot be ensured:
Action Item
PT-3-17:
Lesley J. Rickards
to ensure together with the T1.2 members and the whole ESEAS consortium
that a standard ESEAS Quality Control software is defined and that the programs are
made available for down-load on the ESEAS Web server.
Responsible:
Lesley J. Rickards,
Deadline:
30 June 2004.
Rational:
A standard software package for quality control compliant to the quality control
document is a necessary step towards a homogeneous ESEAS data quality. Initially, the
software is made available for down-load. However, a next step should be to have the
software installed on the ESEAS Data Server.
T1.4 is in a good shape and
some charts have already been digitised and quality control (T1.5) has started. The
tasks 1.4. and 1.5 have high priority during the remainder of the ESEAS-RI project.
Concerning T1.3,
Hans-Peter Plag
reported that there is a serious delay. The delay
is due mainly due to the fact that the data portal is developed under
six demanding principles (see also
ppt
), while
at the same time the resources at NMA are limited.
He also presented some initial thoughts with respect
to a global datanet, which would solve many of the problems
inherent in the current approaches. There was considerable
discussion concerning the global datanet.
Alan Edwards
pointed out
that the system sketched by
Hans-Peter Plag
is not in disagreement with the
thoughts and ideas developed in the frame of GMES.
It was strongly emphasised that the ESEAS Data Portal needs to be operational
a.s.a.p. A meeting of T1.3 contributers is needed in early June in order
to distribute the work for the DP and to get
the web page established.
Alan Edwards
pointed out that from his point of
view, the deadline for the web page to be
up is end of September, in order to be able to report in the second annual
report and the November workshop:
Action Item
PT-3-3:
Hans-Peter Plag
to call for a Task 1.3 meeting in order to consolidate the
development of the ESEAS Data Portal.
Responsible:
Hans-Peter Plag,
Deadline:
20 May 2004.
Rational:
The ESEAS Data Portal needs urgently be established and therefore,
the current bottleneck due to a lack of resources at NMA needs to be
eliminated. This requires input from all ESEAS-RI partners who have the
right expertise. The meeting should take place in June with the goal to
get the DP opeartional by September.
The sea-level related information on the ESEAS web page needs to be
boosted and improved. This needs to be a join effort of the ESEAS
community:
Action Item
PT-3-4:
Hans-Peter Plag
to ask the ESEAS community to provide information for the
ESEAS web page "About Sea Level".
Responsible:
Hans-Peter Plag,
Deadline:
20 May 2004.
Rational:
The ESEAS web page should be an information source for sea level.
Currently, very little is available of interest for non-scientific users.
This is a major deficit of ESEAS, which can fairly easily be corrected.
5.2 Richard Bingley reports on WP2
Richard Bingley
gave an overview of WP2 and
discussed the status of the work (see
pdf
). The WP
is largely in line with the DoW. The strategy
documents produced in T2.1 and T2.2 will be updated according to input from
T2.3, T2.4, and T2.5.
In the frame of T2.3, the next step of the intercomparison of the analysis
methods and ACs has been completed. The results of longer time series
computed with the different
methods show relatively large discrepancies, which require further
investigations (see
pdf
). In particular,
using the IGS orbits and clocks for precise point positioning does not
results in reasonable trends. Bernese in precise point positining mode
also gives time series with unreasonable trends.
For T2.4,
Hans-Peter Plag
reported on the status of the SBL (see respective
pages in
ppt
).
There, global grids of 3-d displacements are available but currently no
time series for the ESEAS CGPS sites. NMA needs to provide the time series
for the EOS with co-located GPS:
Action Item
PT-3-5:
Halfdan Pascal Kierulf
to provide the time series of displacement due to air pressure
loading for all ESEAS CGPS sites.
Responsible:
Halfdan Pascal Kierulf,
Deadline:
30 June 2004.
Concerning the WP2 AIs,
Richard Bingley
discussed the status on the basis
of the table provided in the
rtf file
.
It was noted that the two AIs
Action Item
WP2-3-4:
Hans-Peter Plag
to send out the Master files for GPS site documentation
to the GPS analysis groups for comments.
Responsible:
Hans-Peter Plag,
Deadline:
28 February 2004.
and
Action Item
WP2-3-5:
Halfdan Pascal Kierulf
to send out the ESEAS Time series files for
comments.
Responsible:
Halfdan Pascal Kierulf,
Deadline:
28 February 2004.
are still open and it was emphasised that these AIs need to be addressed soon.
5.3 Per Knudsen reports on WP3
Per Knudsen
gave an overview of the status of WP3 (see
pdf
). T3.1 resulted in very
good results and the report is available on the ESEAS Status
Web Page. The initial comparison of the softwares used by the
contributers revealed significant discrepancies which could be
reconciled. Globally, the interannual spectrum of sea level does not exhibit any
significant and persistent frequencies but regionally, spatially
consistent variations are found.
However, these variation change with time and this makes the propagation
back in time more difficult, if not impossible.
T3.2 was supposed to end by April 2004 and most of the work is done.
The EOF are available.
T3.3 started and is looking at the interdecadal variations, which is a rather
difficult task due to the small number of long tide gauge records available and due to the nature
of the sea level variations.
The correlations indicate some large scale tele-connection. However, it is not
clear whether these are stable in time.
Hans-Peter Plag
suggested to have a workshop to do brain-storming in order to see
how to go on with T3.3:
Action Item
PT-3-6:
Per Knudsen
together with
Hans-Peter Plag
to organise a Task 3.3 meeting in June
in order to assess the results of T3.1 and T3.2 and to decide how to
solve T3.3.
Responsible:
Per Knudsen,
Deadline:
20 May 2004.
Since
Hans-Peter Plag
, who is task leader for T3.4 is leaving, a new
task leader is required. As new task leader for T3.4,
Mikis Tsimplis
was suggested by
Hans-Peter Plag
.
Action Item
PT-3-7:
Per Knudsen
to clarify whether
Mikis Tsimplis
can take the leadership for
T3.4.
Responsible:
Per Knudsen,
Deadline:
20 May 2004.
5.4 Dov Rosen and Hans-Peter Plag report on WP4
Dov Rosen
reported the status of WP4 (see
pdf
).
T4.1 is in a good shape and has produced significant results.
For T4.2, it is important to start the data delivery to the ESEAS Data
Server. With respect to T4.3, it was emphasised that the remaining CGPS sites
have to be made operational a.s.a.p. It was pointed out that the delay in
setting up the sites is solely the responsibility of the respective partners.
Problems due to bureaucratic procedures, late purchase or site selection
cannot be used as an explanation. All these reasons are due to poor
preparation of the work. This view was confirmed by
Alan Edwards
. The following
AIs were agreed:
Action Item
PT-3-8:
Hans-Peter Plag
to contact
Maria-Jesus Garcia
and to clarify the status of the
CGPS receiver, which is supposed to deliver data since early April.
Responsible:
Hans-Peter Plag,
Deadline:
20 May 2004.
Action Item
PT-3-9:
Hans-Peter Plag
to contact all partners with pending CGPS installation
and to urge them to progress as soon as possible since
otherwise their installation may not be useable for ESEAS-RI.
Responsible:
Hans-Peter Plag,
Deadline:
20 May 2004.
6 Summary of the status, deviations, and necessary actions
Hans-Peter Plag
summarised the status as being acceptable. There are some serious
delays which need to be delt with and brought back in line. The most severe delays
are in T1.3 and T4.3. Data delivery from T4.2 is also seriously delayed.
For T1.3, a new deadline of end of September was agreed for the
operational page being up. For T4.3, immediate action is required.
7 Management report
7.1 Hans-Peter Plag: Presentation of the draft report
Hans-Peter Plag
informed the PT that most of the partners have supplied their input
and this has been compiled into a homogenous file. The
main missing part is the input from most WP leaders. The WP leaders stated that
they will provide the input during the meeting.
7.2 Discussion and finalising of the report (all)
The report will by finalised by the coordinator.
8 Technical Implementation Plan (TIP)
The TIP need to be implemented in the web page provided by the Commission.
In order to do so, the coordinator needs to establish the project on the
respective web page and to register all partners.
Action Item
PT-3-10:
Bente Lilja Bye
to ensure that the TIP is initialised for the project and
all partners are registered on the web page.
Responsible:
Bente Lilja Bye,
Deadline:
30 June 2004.
9 External Reviewing
Hans-Peter Plag
pointed out that the external reviewers so far have not
been involved in the assessment of the progress. Christian Le Provost
has passed away and therefore, a new expert replacing him needs to
be identified.
The Project team asked
Hans-Peter Plag
to consider to be an external expert/reviewer.
10 The ESEAS Meetings in November 2004: Programme, web pages, invited speakers
The workshop programme was discussed in detail.
During the first day, the morning session will include a 1.5 hours opening
block with 30 minutes on the life and achievements of Christian Le Provost and
30 minutes on "Observing and interpretation of sea level: Where do we stand"
The first 30 minutes will be available for opening addresses by the GB chair, the
ESEAS-RI coordinator, a representative from Malta, the EC, IOC, ...
The last session on the last day should be separated into two blocks
with last block for a summary presentation and discussions.
For all scientific sessions, there should be invited presentations and
contributed presentations. It was agreed to aim for invited speakers from
outside the ESEAS community while all groups contributing to the ESEAS-RI
project are expected to present their results either orally or in posters.
Invited speakers, though, will not be reimbursed by the workshop organisation.
For session 1, there should be at least two presentations for the test
site. For the state of the art or each with respect to calibration of
tide gauges, operational routines, real time data as well as directions
for the future presentation,
Wolfgang Scherer and David Pugh are suggested. It will be investigated whether
IOC can fund the invited speaker.
For session 2, for each of the two blocks there should be
an invite speaker. Suggestions were Mike Bewis for GPS co-loation
and Zuhier Altamimi for reference frame. Other names brought forward
were Rainer Rummel and Claude Boucher.
For session 3,
Per Knudsen
will find one or two invited speakers, one on
future mission, and one on
validation and data analysis in order to get sea level out of it.
Action Item
PT-3-11:
Per Knudsen
to identify and invited two speakers for the altimetry session
of the ESEAS Workshop.
Responsible:
Per Knudsen,
Deadline:
15 June 2004.
For session 4, Philip Woodworth and Mikis Tsimplis were suggested.
For session 5, the names for invited presentations include
Nadja Pinardi, Helge Drange, Cabanese, and Maik Thomas,.
The Japanese author who produced a new data set for steric variations
is also a potentially interesting speaker.
For session 6, Ben Chao is one candidate.
Action Item
PT-3-12:
Hans-Peter Plag
to identify and invite the speakers for all sessions (except
session 3) for the ESEAS Workshop.
Responsible:
Hans-Peter Plag,
Deadline:
15 June 2004.
11 Publications
Hans-Peter Plag
pointed out that publication are a major way of
dissiminating the results of the project. Therefore,
everybody is asked to stimulate publications from the projects.
12 Future proposals
Alan Edwards
gave a brief overview of the Third Call in FP6, which is expected
to be published in late June 2004. In FP6, ESEAS most likely will
have to cooperate with other groups to participate in larger proposals. Within the
programme "Structuring the Research Area", ESEAS may however be able to do something
on its own. There is most likely only one more call within this area, which
is under the horizontal activities of "Research Infrastructures", action (b).
Action Item
PT-3-13:
Bente Lilja Bye
to check CORDIS for calls in the field of "Research
Infrastructure".
Responsible:
Bente Lilja Bye,
Deadline:
15 June 2004.
Under vertical priorities, the theme 4.2 (GMES) may be of interest, but it
is not clear what will be in the 3rd Call. In order to have sea level and
the ESEAS in this, the national delegates will have to be lobbying for that.
The ESEAS might be in a good position since it can provide service prior
to 2008 and might also be happy to have the GMES-label on it.
Another option is under priority 6.3, where there is a topic under
observing system. ESEAS can be part of a proposal for the IP under 6.3.VI.1.
In the fourth call, there may be a focus on a coastal and regional
seas observing system.
The ESEAS may also involve itself in a SSA under 6.3.IX. in a modified GAINS
proposal.
13 The next phase of the ESEAS
13.1 The assessment report
Hans-Peter Plag
informed the PT that the ESEAS is currently in the process
of deciding how to continue after the Pilot Project ends in July 2004.
An assessment report was requested by the ESEAS GB, (see
AI GB-4-9) and the
report needs to to be written by
Richard Bingley
and
Hans-Peter Plag
in the next four
weeks.
13.2 Next ESEAS GB meeting
The next GB meeting needs to take place in July 2004 in order to decide
on the future of the ESEAS.
13.3 Merging ESEAS and MedGLOSS
Hans-Peter Plag
informed the PT that there have been new contacts between
ESEAS and MedGLOSS in order to discuss a close cooperation in the future.
A discussion is planned during the CIESM conference taking place early in June
in Barcelona. The ESEAS-MedGLOSS meeting will take place on either 9 or 10
June 2004.
14 ESEAS/GLOSS and GMES/GEO
The ESEAS is in a strong position to be associated with and getting a
role in GMES. This is due to the fact that the word Service is already in the
name and the ESEAS is easily able to deliver a service before 2008.
Having associated ESEAS with GMES implies some obligations that may
be difficult to meet fully because the long-term funding is not yet secured.
However, the next GMES call may help here.
GMES can not be assumed to be a reasonable link to GEO for ESEAS.
Alan Edwards
pointed out that there has been an explotion of membership in GEO, and
since this has happened, GLOSS should be there as well. This has to be
discussed with Thorkild Aarup and Phil Woodworth.
Action Item
PT-3-14:
Hans-Peter Plag
to contact
Philip L. Woodworth
and
Torkild Aarup
and to discuss membership
of GLOSS in GEO.
Responsible:
Hans-Peter Plag,
Deadline:
31 May 2004.
Per Knudsen
pointed out that information management services for GMES is
another aspect to be considered.
Alan Edwards
will send the names of potential
correspondents in the IMSO (Information Management System) to
Hans-Peter Plag
.
Action Item
PT-3-15:
Alan Edwards
to send the names of potential
correspondents in the IMSO (Information Management System ) to
Hans-Peter Plag
.
Responsible:
Alan Edwards,
Deadline:
15 June 2004.
Before
Alan Edwards
left,
Hans-Peter Plag
thanked him for the very valuable support and advice
he has given to the ESEAS community and in particular the ESEAS-RI project.
Alan Edwards
emphasised the professionality of the ESEAS-RI project and thanked
the ESEAS-RI consortium and the coordinator for their good work.
15 List of Action Items
Action Item
PT-3-1:
Hans-Peter Plag
to ask the consortium for agreement to have
Bente Lilja Bye
as new coordinator.
Responsible:
Hans-Peter Plag,
Deadline:
30 June 2004.
Status of Action Item
PT-3-1:
Done.
Email sent out to the responsible scientists and asking to send agreement
to Reidun Khalayli by 30 June 2004.
Reported on 20 May 2004 by
Hans-Peter Plag.
Action Item
PT-3-2:
Hans-Peter Plag
to inform the consortium about the requirements for documentation
of human resources spend on the project.
Responsible:
Hans-Peter Plag,
Deadline:
20 May 2004.
Rational:
There are clear requirements for documentation of human resources
used in the project. These need to be followed in order to avoid problems
during audits.
Status of Action Item
PT-3-2:
Done.
Email sent out to the responsible scientists with details on the required
documentation.
Reported on 20 May 2004 by
Hans-Peter Plag.
Action Item
PT-3-3:
Hans-Peter Plag
to call for a Task 1.3 meeting in order to consolidate the
development of the ESEAS Data Portal.
Responsible:
Hans-Peter Plag,
Deadline:
20 May 2004.
Rational:
The ESEAS Data Portal needs urgently be established and therefore,
the current bottleneck due to a lack of resources at NMA needs to be
eliminated. This requires input from all ESEAS-RI partners who have the
right expertise. The meeting should take place in June with the goal to
get the DP opeartional by September.
Status of Action Item
PT-3-3:
Done.
Email sent out to the all ESEAS-RI members with invitation to meeting
on 14 June in Copenhagen.
Reported on 20 May 2004 by
Hans-Peter Plag.
Action Item
PT-3-4:
Hans-Peter Plag
to ask the ESEAS community to provide information for the
ESEAS web page "About Sea Level".
Responsible:
Hans-Peter Plag,
Deadline:
20 May 2004.
Rational:
The ESEAS web page should be an information source for sea level.
Currently, very little is available of interest for non-scientific users.
This is a major deficit of ESEAS, which can fairly easily be corrected.
Action Item
PT-3-5:
Halfdan Pascal Kierulf
to provide the time series of displacement due to air pressure
loading for all ESEAS CGPS sites.
Responsible:
Halfdan Pascal Kierulf,
Deadline:
30 June 2004.
Action Item
PT-3-6:
Per Knudsen
together with
Hans-Peter Plag
to organise a Task 3.3 meeting in June
in order to assess the results of T3.1 and T3.2 and to decide how to
solve T3.3.
Responsible:
Per Knudsen,
Deadline:
20 May 2004.
Status of Action Item
PT-3-6:
Done.
Email sent out to the all ESEAS-RI members with invitation to meeting
on 15 June in Copenhagen.
Reported on 20 May 2004 by
Hans-Peter Plag.
Action Item
PT-3-7:
Per Knudsen
to clarify whether
Mikis Tsimplis
can take the leadership for
T3.4.
Responsible:
Per Knudsen,
Deadline:
20 May 2004.
Action Item
PT-3-8:
Hans-Peter Plag
to contact
Maria-Jesus Garcia
and to clarify the status of the
CGPS receiver, which is supposed to deliver data since early April.
Responsible:
Hans-Peter Plag,
Deadline:
20 May 2004.
Action Item
PT-3-9:
Hans-Peter Plag
to contact all partners with pending CGPS installation
and to urge them to progress as soon as possible since
otherwise their installation may not be useable for ESEAS-RI.
Responsible:
Hans-Peter Plag,
Deadline:
20 May 2004.
Action Item
PT-3-10:
Bente Lilja Bye
to ensure that the TIP is initialised for the project and
all partners are registered on the web page.
Responsible:
Bente Lilja Bye,
Deadline:
30 June 2004.
Action Item
PT-3-11:
Per Knudsen
to identify and invited two speakers for the altimetry session
of the ESEAS Workshop.
Responsible:
Per Knudsen,
Deadline:
15 June 2004.
Action Item
PT-3-12:
Hans-Peter Plag
to identify and invite the speakers for all sessions (except
session 3) for the ESEAS Workshop.
Responsible:
Hans-Peter Plag,
Deadline:
15 June 2004.
Action Item
PT-3-13:
Bente Lilja Bye
to check CORDIS for calls in the field of "Research
Infrastructure".
Responsible:
Bente Lilja Bye,
Deadline:
15 June 2004.
Action Item
PT-3-14:
Hans-Peter Plag
to contact
Philip L. Woodworth
and
Torkild Aarup
and to discuss membership
of GLOSS in GEO.
Responsible:
Hans-Peter Plag,
Deadline:
31 May 2004.
Action Item
PT-3-15:
Alan Edwards
to send the names of potential
correspondents in the IMSO (Information Management System ) to
Hans-Peter Plag
.
Responsible:
Alan Edwards,
Deadline:
15 June 2004.
Action Item
PT-3-16:
Lesley J. Rickards
to ensure that the quality control document is finalised and made
available on the delivery page.
Responsible:
Lesley J. Rickards,
Deadline:
30 June 2004.
Rational:
According to AI PT-2-3, the document was supposed to be available in Nov. 2003.
It now needs to be made available a.s.a.p.
Action Item
PT-3-17:
Lesley J. Rickards
to ensure together with the T1.2 members and the whole ESEAS consortium
that a standard ESEAS Quality Control software is defined and that the programs are
made available for down-load on the ESEAS Web server.
Responsible:
Lesley J. Rickards,
Deadline:
30 June 2004.
Rational:
A standard software package for quality control compliant to the quality control
document is a necessary step towards a homogeneous ESEAS data quality. Initially, the
software is made available for down-load. However, a next step should be to have the
software installed on the ESEAS Data Server.
16 Any Other Business (AOB)
There was no other business.
17 Date and place of next meeting
The next PT meeting will be held subsequent to the ESEAS Workshop
on November 4, 2004 in Malta.
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