Project Details
Projekt
Program management and scientific networking
Subject Area
Geophysics and Geodesy
Term
from 2006 to 2015
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 33769925
The recovery of mass transport and mass distribution in the Earth system within the German Priority Research Program SPP1257 requires an intensive interdisciplinary cooperation. A network of close cooperation between geodesy, oceanography, geophysics, glaciology, and hydrology has to be established. The research projects will be organized in thematic domains or working groups. The cooperation within the various projects has to be based on workshops within the working groups and on general program science meetings to guarantee the scientific exchange and the work flow between the working groups and to achieve the interdisciplinary scientific objectives. A particular objective is to stimulate a network of young geoscientists participating in the use of the novel and excellent satellite data. The training of the young scientists will be supported by summer schools, doctoral and post-doctoral seminars and specific workshops performed by the junior scientists. All these activities have to be managed and supported by a specially assigned scientific manager in close cooperation with the general coordinator and the steering committee.For internal and external exchange of data sets, model results, documentation and publications, an internet platform http://www.massentransporte.de is under construction. It is maintained by the program coordination bureau based on a content management system which allows the autonomous user access and input according to rules for metadata structure. The internet platform will also serve as an interface to international scientific organisations. In the first two- years phase the web-site management has to be performed by a scientific assistant under supervision of the steering committee.
DFG Programme
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