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Minutes Bern 08.01.2007
08-01-2007 Minutes Bern Record:Meetings
philipp.schneider 09:42, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
RECORD Meeting, January 8 2007,9:15-12:00
at Bern, office of the ETH board, Effingerstr. 6a
- Presence: Olaf Cirpka, Philipp Schneider (Eawag, W+T), Klement Tockner, Tom Gonser (Eawag ECO), Andrew Barry (EPFL ISTE), Paolo Burlando, Paolo Perona (ETHZ IfU), Laurent Marescot, Niklas Linde (ETHZ IG), Jörg Luster (WSL BoWi), Edward Mitchell (WSL EcoBound)
Agenda
- Hurray!
- Information about the meeting with Domenico Giardini and Nikolaus Gotsch
- State of matching-fund projects (both institutionally and third-party funded)
- Identification of weak parts and risks in the research plan and suggestions for remedies
- Overall time schedule of the project
- Budgeting issues
- Administration of the project
- web page
- management team
- schedule of meetings and workshops
- kick-off meeting
- consortium agreement (rules how we run things)
- Allocation of homework
Protocol
- Hurray!
- The reviewers were all hydrologists → no comments to the ecological parts
- Team rated by personal knowledge and publication record
- Most concerns raised by the reviewers can be dealt with easily
- Data management issues → SwissEx
- Modeling of root-zone processes? → Matching fund project (SNF by Jörg Luster)
- Meeting with Domenico Giardini and Nikolaus Gotsch
- The budget envelop of 1.8 megafranks is guaranteed, but we only get the money on a yearly basis (needs to be justified)
- The time frame set by CCES is four years, we need to stretch out the money
- CCES wants a yearly status report, basis of money transfer for the next year. First year: no review, after second year review possible.
- Workplan is mainly a cut-and-paste excercise, but a time plan for each subproject is needed. If necessary, we can clarify points raised by the reviewers. Dependencies between various tasks should be marked, mainly for risk management.
- Submission of the workplan: February 1, 2007
- Finances should be per applicant and year. Investments must be specified. 3rd party and internal contributions must be specified.
- There are forms for money transfer on the CCES page, differing for ETH-Zürich and other researchers. These must be used to avoid V.A.T.
- CCES holds the coordinator responsible. If something goes wrong, they address the coordinator. Budget distribution can be changed from one year to the next. This is can be used as emergency break, if a participant is not cooperative.
- Domenico suggests forming a management team of the work package leaders: Olaf, Andrew, Klement.
- Domenico suggests signing a consortium agreement, in which all participants agree to follow common rules. In particular, they confirm to contribute the promised internal funds and apply for the mentioned third-party funds.
- We should have a kick-off meeting in April. Nikolaus or Domenico will participate.
- CCES wants us to write the web pages of the project within the CMS-system of CCES (one member of the consortium gets permit).
- CCES can give help for meetings in preparation of EU projects
- Job announcement can be distributed via CCES web page.
- State of Matching-Fund Proposals
- Funded Projects
- SNF proposal for Task 1.2
- SNF proposal for Task 1.6
- Marie Curie fellowship Eawag ECO
- Acquisition of DTS (Task 1.3) by Eawag Anakom (CHF 75’000)
- Matching funds at AUG (which ?)
- Matching funds at EPFL for site hydrological model, Task 3.2 (which ?)
- Submitted proposals
- Eawag Action-Field proposal Task 1.7 plus assessment of groundwater ecology (new Task in WP 3, P.I. Tom Gonser)
- Eawag Action-Field proposal floodplain model (Tockner/Reichert)
- EU Hydraulab Task 1.5 (Burlando/PeronaI
- Proposals to be submitted in the near future
- SNF R’Equip proposal for the Geoprobe (Cirpka/Barry/Or). Deadline: February 1, 2007
- SNF R’Equip proposal for microscopy (Mitchell). Deadline: February 1, 2007
- ETH proposal Task 2.1(ii) (Kaiser/Wehrli/?). Deadline: February 1, 2007
- SNF proposal Task 2.3+ (Luster). Deadline: March 1, 2007
- SNF proposal Task 3.1 (Vuilleumier/Gillet/Barry). Deadline: March 1/October 1, 2007
- SNF proposal for Task 3.3 (Burlando/Perona). Deadline: March 1, 2007
- Larger Perspective
- BAFU support for micropollutant studies: Meeting with cantons ZH and TG on February 1 in Zürich
- EU FP7 call on hydrological observatories. Deadline March 2008.
- Identification of Weak Parts and Risks
- Hydrometeorology
- Andrew raised concerns that the water fluxes over the surface boundary are not properly taken care of. Marc Parlange would be the top specialist for that in the field. We should see how to bring him in.
- Olaf points out that these fluxes appear in the proposal under Task 1.4. The main responsibility lies with ETH IfU. Olaf has talked to Marc who is willing to help on a technical basis and may co-advise the corresponding Ph.D. student. There is a disagreement whether a problem exists and who is responsible for surface fluxes.
- The Paolos, Andrew, Marc, Philipp, and Olaf set up a date for an appointment to clarify the issue (Remark: this must happen before submission of the workplan).
- Dependence on Site Installation
- Common data platform for all data collected at the site needed: Wiki? SwissEx experience. The coordinator will be very strict in enforcing central data handling. Philipp is about to learn how the technology works.
- We need an emergency plan for larger floods to remove equipment on time
- Overall Time Schedule
- Submission of Workplan: February 1, 2007
- Official start: April 1, 2007
- 4 years duration
- 3 years Ph.D. students paid for
- Who starts when? → Please clarify and account for it in the writing of the work plan
- Budgeting Issues
- We need to cut down 65 kFr
- Harmonization
- Travel costs to the site
- Conference participation (should not be included)
- Amount paid by CCES for Ph.D. students: CHF 133’000 for each student
- Publication costs (should not be included)
- Student helper (should not be included)
- Specification
- Investment costs with quotes
- Institutional and 3rd-party contributions
- Administration of the Project
- Web Page
- Official web pages in the CCES domain
- Every task leader writes a paragraph in Word with nice figures
- Every workpackage leader also writes a Paragraph in Word
- Coordinator will put it together
- Submit your paragraphs to the secure MoFESS site
- Wiki for own purposes: Data handling, detailed description
- Management Team
- Olaf, Andrew, Klement confirmed
- Schedule of Meetings and Workshops
- Yearly workshops under participation of all Ph.D. students (including matching-fund students): Should be focused on scientific content. Presence of Ph.D. advisors mandatory.
- First workshop: kick-off meeting April 2007.
- Biannual meetings with all PIs
- Weekly skype meeting?
- Kick-Off Meeting
- Second half of April (week of April 27? (including April 30) → doodle poll)
- invite also the cantons, BAFU, other universities, Eawag directorate, CCES directorate etc.
- 15min talks about each planned tasks (second half)
- additional talks by outsiders (first half):
- Outcomes of the Rhône-Thur project at River Thur (who?)
- Planned restoration of River Thur (Marco Baumann)
- The new regional groundwater flow model of the central Thur valley (Ueli Spring, Peter Jordan?)
- Groundwater management at River Limmat (Wolfgang Kinzelbach or Harry-Jan Hendricks Franssen)
- River restoration and groundwater protection (Peter Huggenberger)
- Somebody from Neuchâtel (Jean Michel Gobat, Daniel Hunkeler?)
- Floodplain counceling (Christian Roulier)
- Place: ETH Zentrum
- Consortium Agreement, This will include
- Agreement to the work plan
- Pledge to contribute institutional funds
- Pledge to write proposals for third-party funds
- Commitment to participate in workshops
- Obligation to feed all data collected at the site into a common data base
- Homework
- Download the form for the workplan from the CCES web page (downloads) and cut out the parts for the research plan (add a time table) and the finances
- Updated task description until Jan 19
- Detailed finances until Jan 19
- Add new rows in the financial tables
- Additional explanations as footnotes
• Web input January 31
• Advertise positions at CCES web page: immediately
URL: https://enacit1.epfl.ch/fmgr/MoFESS.php
Password: cces2006
