USArray Year 10
IRIS CoCom MeetingChicago
April 9-10, 2012
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USArray Year 10 Basics
• Final year of five year award• Scope
• All originally scope will be complete• Many activities above and beyond originally scope will be
complete• Schedule
• All field activities are on schedule• Cost savings in early years has been replanned for last two years
• Budget• Funding
– FY12 reduced funded – at FY11 level– FY13: expectation is funding at FY11 level
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• FY09 fully funded• Last 20% via ARRA funds• FY10 fully funded• Supplement of $197,579 for EarthScope Science Plan Workshop
• Remainder applied to ESNM in 2011• Cascadia Initiative supplement• $2.5 M in ARRA funds• Covers all costs through FY13 (4 years)• FY11 fully funded• $163,639 supplement for 2011 ESNM
• FY12 funded at FY11 level• FY13 funding: funded at?• $811k received in forward funding
Funding Summary - EAR-0733069 - USArray O&M
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Current Activities
• Completed cost review with NSF in January• Will submit Change Order 34 to “re-baseline”– Propose to use revised spend plan through end of award
• Propose to submit CO35 for increased scope– Collaboration on integrated web services with COOPEUS /
EPOS European efforts• PBO submitting similar re-baseline CO, plus several
COs that add scope
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USArray Rebaseline
• CO34 proposes to rebaseline the remainder of Year 4 and Year 5, per table below
• Financials presented every quarter• Will use new, comprehensive CSSR format
– A view of things to come?
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USArray, by WBS Element
• Most tasks spend slightly less than originally planned
Instrumentation Services: FY13-14
IRIS CoCom MeetingChicago
April 9-10, 2012
Status
• Mostly: Salary for IS management team– Note: some are fractionally supported from other
awards (USArray, Polar, GLISN, etc.)• Small amounts for travel, M&S, Pubs & Printing• Revised downwards from previous projections– Mostly due to lower than expected salary for Fowler– Delayed hiring (all planned hiring now complete)
• Note that this will change substantially for FY14-18 due to inclusion of full salaries
Instrumentation Services: FY14-18
IRIS CoCom MeetingChicago
April 9-10, 2012
WBS 3.1 – IS Management
• Same structure as at present– Salaries, travel, M&S, Pubs and printing
• Salaries will include 100% of IS managers– Some fine tuning of this required
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WBS 3.1.7 - Magnetotellurics
• Scoped a slightly more ambitious plan than asked• Should achieve three significant “footprints”• Proposed structure and activities are essentially the
same as today– But – may need to trade some field work against buying
replacement equipment – No sensors replaced in nine years (running the same 20
instruments the whole time)
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WBS 3.1.7 – Magnetotellurics – New Initiatives
• Presented two concepts for new initiatives at last BoD meeting– Full-48
• Expanding the MT TA to cover the full 70 x 70 km grid in the lower 48• Cost: ~ double the base MT budget (additional ~$600-700K / year)
– Prototype Alaska transect• A road-based transect of up to MTsite in Alaska• Setting stage for post-2018 MT activities• Cost: ~$150-170K / year
• BoD meeting takeaways– These new initiatives are non-starters