Description
The aims of this task are to i) ensure coordination of partners, ii) ensure research objectives are achieved within the time and budget limits, iii) facilitate internal communication and data flow, and iv) disseminate the outputs of the project to as wide an audience as possible.
Overall project coordination and management will be conducted by IDL. The PI and co-PI will be responsible for the scientific leadership of the project, internal communication, monitoring progress towards milestones and for ensuring that all objectives are met fully and in a timely fashion. Task leaders will be responsible for delivering the outputs of their tasks on schedule.
We propose to organize regular plenary skype/zoom meetings once every month. Other topical meetings will be held upon special occasion, such as in preparation of field work, deployment and recovery of DAS and OBS. Smaller meetings in person will occur opportunistically profiting from the attendance to the same conferences.
We defined project Milestones as benchmarks that will summarize the task accomplishments, serving as the base for other tasks. The full list of Milestones is given as an annex file and its time presentation is already included on the Gantt chart.
Dissemination of project activities and results will be done through:
Project website: this will be initiated at the beginning of the project and will be built up by IDL. The website will contain information on project objectives and partners and update activities and results as they became available. The website will be used to disseminate information among the scientific community, and to the general public.
Scientific conferences and publications: project results will be communicated within the scientific community through presentations in international conferences and submission of articles to peer-reviewed scientific journals.
TV, radio and press: IDL and IPMA have a long tradition and expertise in communication to the general public through local media. Several articles will be published, and researchers will make appearances on regional and national TV and radio stations, to disseminate discoveries by the project that are of interest to a broader community of stakeholders and the general public.
A two days Open Source online workshop will be organized, to see and discuss the development of open source software in research context in general, and for the MODAS use case of optical communication and sensing and subsea geophysics. The target audience of this workshop is academia, research institutes, companies, and individuals, on national and international level. It is to promote the open source philosophy for academic science and engineering, and this workshop provides a forum for sensing system developers and model-driven vs data-driven analysis approaches to showcase the benefits of open source projects with respect to productivity, transparency, inclusivity, adaptability, collaboration and community. Participants will learn how to perform active collections of publicly available information for use in professional research, analysis and investigations. They will learn about the sources and methodologic and development steps used in MODAS and about the results obtained.