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