Ecv ice Sheets Technical Proposal

9Key personnel

9.1Overview

The project shall have two distinct management figures: Project Manager Dr. John Peter Merryman Boncori and Science Lead Dr. Stefano Salvi, both from INGV (National Earthquake Centre). The respective roles of these figures were previously stated in Section 3.5.

All project personnel shall be grouped into three science teams, as shown in Figure .

Figure : Science teams

The SAR science team shall consist of two units, at INGV and at IREA respectively. The INGV SAR science team shall be coordinated by Dr. J.P. Merryman Boncori, and consist of Dr. S. Salvi, Dr. G. Pezzo and Dr. S. Atzori.

The IREA SAR science team shall be coordinated by Dr. G. Fornaro, and consist additionally of Dr. P. Berardino and Dr. D. Reale.

The GPS science team, all based within the National Earthquake Centre, shall be coordinated by R. Devoti, and include additionally Dr. F. Riguzzi and G. Pietrantonio.

The Seismic Hazard (SHA) science team shall be coordinated by Dr. C. Meletti, and include Dr. V. D'Amico and Dr. F. Visini from the INGV Seismology applied to Engineering section, and Dr. M. Carafa and Dr. V. Kastelic from the Seismology and Tectonophysics section.

Science team responsibles shall be the interfaces with the Project managers, as detailed further in Section 12.1.

The effort devoted by each key personnel unit is detailed in Table .

Table Key personnel role and effort per WP

9.2INGV personnel

Dr. Stefano Salvi (INGV, National Earthquake Centre) shall be the science lead and WP leader for WP 4000 (Scientific Roadmap). He is Research Director at INGV-Rome, Italy. He has directed the INGV Remote Sensing Laboratory and now coordinates a group of 7 researchers involved in earthquake remote sensing activities at the National Earthquake Center, INGV-Rome. He coordinated several research projects on the use of satellite optical and SAR images for Solid Earth applications, and in particular for volcano and earthquake deformation studies. In 2007-2011 he coordinated the ASI-SIGRIS project, which developed operational services for seismic risk management based on satellite Earth Observation data. He coordinates the SIGRIS operations for the generation of advanced EO product to support Civil Protection activities during earthquake emergencies in Italy. He is the INGV expert in the Earthquake Thematic panel of the CEOS Disaster Risk Management initiative.

Dr. John Peter Merryman Boncori (INGV, National Earthquake Centre) shall be the administrative project manager and WP leader for WP 1200 (Deformation measurement requirements) and WP 2100 (Multitemporal MAI development). He has more than 10 years of experience in SAR processing, including image formation algorithms and interferometric SAR techniques for ice- and seismic-motion applications. He is currently the main technical responsible for the INGV-ASI MuSA project (Use of Multiband Satellite SAR data for the Study of Crustal Deformation Related to the Seismic Cycle) and held positions of responsability within several ESA contracts, such as the DTU-ESA ice_sheets_cci (WP manager), PEPSI (main technical responsible), COISP (main developer) and the DTU-GEUS sub-contract (main technical responsible) within the the Danish project for monitoring the Greenland ice sheet (PROMICE). He has worked with and contributed to the development of processing chains implementing all currently applied SAR displacement measurement techniques (classical DInSAR, offset tracking, split-bandwidth InSAR, Persistent Scatterer and Small Baseline InSAR). He is reviewer for several international journals and has published more than 20 papers in international journals and conference proceedings.

Dr. Giuseppe Pezzo (INGV, National Earthquake Centre) shall be the WP leader for WP 1300 (Dataset collection). Since 2009 he has worked on ground deformation related to the seismic cycle using InSAR measurements: Small Baseline InSAR techniques applied to inter- and post-seismic displacement retrieval, interpretations and modelling; DInSAR techniques applied to co-seismic displacement retrieval, interpretations and modelling. He is currently WP leader on SAR data interpretation and modelling for the INGV-ASI MuSA project. (Use of Multiband Satellite SAR data for the Study of Crustal Deformation Related to the Seismic Cycle). He is involved in several geological field investigations concerning active capable faults and ground coseismic effect retrieval. Recently he provided a seismic source list within the INGV-Snam Rete Gas S.p.A consultancy agreement, concerning the construction of a gas pipeline. He is author or co-author of over 15 journal papers and conference proceedings

Dr. Simone Atzori, (INGV, National Earthquake Centre), is a researcher primarily focused on time-series InSAR processing, tectonic and volcanic modeling of ground deformations and software development. He graduated in 1998 in Environmental Engineering and in 2004 obtained the PhD in Remote Sensing at “La Sapienza” University in Rome (Italy), with a dissertation on InSAR processing and tectonic modeling. Since 2002 is researcher at INGV (Italian Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology) for the Remote Sensing Laboratory, where he implemented the software currently used in the modeling of InSAR and time-series data. Among other experiences, he has been contract professor for the Topographic and Cartographic Laboratory at “La Sapienza” University (Rome, Italy); consultant for the I.I.V.-CNR (the former International Institute of Volcanology of Catania, Italy), the Osservatorio Vesuviano (Vesuvius Observatory, Naples, Italy) and the Italian Civil Protection (Seismic Survey Department); visitor researcher in 2004 at COMET, the Centre for the Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonics (Oxford, UK); visitor researcher, several times from 2004, at the IREA-CNR (Naples, Italy), where the time-series SBAS (Small BAseline Subset) algorithm has been firstly formulated. He has recently worked at Sarmap SA, to implement the modeling components for the SARscape ® software. He has been in charge of several Tasks in various national and international projects on the analysis and modeling of InSAR data.

Dr. Carlo Meletti (INGV, Department of Milan) is graduated in Geology at Pisa University, where in 1986 he started his activity in the field of the seismic hazard. From 1990 he is researcher of National Group for Defence against the Earthquakes of the CNR and he participated to the projects finalized to seismic risk reduction for the Italian Civil Protection Department. Within these project, he contributed to the definition of the seismogenic model and of the catalogue NT. From December 1998 he is technical functionary at Pisa University and he is responsible of the Geomatics Lab. From February 2003 he is senior technological scientist at National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV). He participated to the working group that released the seismic hazard map of Italy (MPS04), acknowledged as reference map by the Prime Minister Ordinance 3519, and he coordinated the INGV-DPC project S1 that released the seismic hazard model on which the seismic input to the 2008 building code of Italy is based. He participated to several international projects mainly focused on seismic hazard and on historical catalogues and macroseismic databases. From the beginning of 2013 he is responsible of the Seismic Hazard Center (CPS - Centro Pericolosità Sismica) at INGV, in charge of the update of the reference seismic hazard model of Italy. In the project he will lead the WP 1100 (Hazard model generation requirements) and 2400 (Integration of deformation measurements for hazard modelling).

Dr. Vera D’Amico (INGV, Department of Milan) shall be the WP leader for WP 3200 (Hazard model production). Since 2007 she is researcher at INGV (permanent position from 2010), after 5 years of post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Siena. Her main topic of research concerns the probabilistic assessment of seismic hazard. Besides hazard models based on the standard Cornell-type methodology, she has developed an innovative approach to compute seismic hazard in terms of macroseismic intensity from local intensity data. She has also worked on defining an empirical testing procedure devoted to assessing the level of reliability of alternative hazard models by testing outcomes of each considered model against seismic occurrences observed at a set of sites during a control interval. Her research activity also concerned the attenuation of macroseismic intensity in Italy and the analysis of ambient seismic noise for microzonation studies. She has been involved in several national and international research projects mainly focused on seismic hazard and has published more than 20 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Francesco Visini (INGV, Department of Milan) shall assist the WP leaders for WP 1100 (Hazard model generation requirements), WP 2400 (Integration of deformation measurements for hazard modelling) and WP 3200 (Hazard model production). He has more than 10 years of experience in seismotectonics and seismic hazard assessment. From October 2013, He is employed by the INGV in the framework of a national project financed by Italian Minister aimed to furnish scientific products applicable for earthquake prevention and risk mitigation: “High resolution analyses for assessing the seismic hazard and risk of the area affected by the 6 April 2009 earthquake”. Within the framework of this project, he is devoted to evaluate the seismic hazard at regional scale and in particular, the objective is the definition of a “Reference Seismic hazard assessments in line with the European provisions trends”. He held positions of assistant within several INGV-DPC projects, and he was responsible for some tasks within the last INGV-DPC project “Progetto S2 Constraining OBservations into Seismic hazard (COBAS)”, coordinator Laura Peruzza. He has worked to evaluate time- depended seismic hazard probabilities of occurrence. In particular, combining the dimensions of active faults with slip-rates, elapsed times since the last earthquake, and the coefficient of variation in recurrence intervals to calculate recurrence probabilities and ground shaking in central Italy, before and after the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake. He has published 12 papers in I.S.I journals and more than 40 conference proceedings and is reviewer for some international journals.

Dr. Vanja Kastelic, (INGV, Rome 1 section) is a researcher at INGV working in the field of active tectonics and seismic hazard. In her 10 year career she participated in various Italian and International projects in the topics of seismotectonics, combining geological and geomorphologic field work, laboratory and analytical data analysis, 3D structural modeling, dynamic numerical modeling and seismological techniques. Her main research interest is the understanding of the process of active faulting, deformation built-up and seismogenesis and converting these data into seismic hazard calculation input.  Within the proposed project she will work for the WP1100, analyzing active fault data through their geometric and kinematic compatibility. The task will be to produce a robust and fully-parameterized active fault model to be used in further steps of numerical modeling for the scope of determining on and off-fault strain rates. She will actively participate in the strain rate calculations and in the steps of seismic hazard calculations.

Dr. Michele MC Carafa, (INGV, Rome 1 section) has 10 years of experience in numerical modeling of tectonic processes, long term slip rates on faults and off faults deformation. From November 2010, he is employed as researcher in INGV and is actively involved in national and internation projects. His actual scientific interests include integration of several geophysical data (GPS, SHmax orientations and earthquakes) in a coherent framework to determine slip rates on faults and earthquake rates in the greater Mediterranean area. Within the proposed project he will work for the WP2400 and WP1100 to produce a robust finite element model for determining on and off-fault strain rates and related earthquake rates.

Dr. Roberto Devoti, (INGV, National Earthquake Centre) is senior Researcher (Primo Tecnologo). Since 2004 he has a permanent position at INGV and is in charge of the Functional Unit “Data Analysis for Geodesy” at the INGV-CNT (National Earthquake Centre). His expertise is currently focused on the analysis and interpretation of ground based GPS measurements, but he has got also interests in other scientific and technologic subjects, such as gravity field estimation from space observation data, precise orbit determination of artificial satellites, Earth orientation and reference system determination from space geodesy data. He is currently in charge of the data processing facility at the INGV-CNT and is involved in the activities for station installation and maintenance of the RING network, a nation-wide permanent GPS network devoted to geophysical studies (Rete Integrata Nazionale GPS). He supervise and perform GPS campaign measurements in Italy to monitor interseismic and coseismic surface deformations and to monitor other deformation processes (e.g. hydrologic effects, subsidence and landslides, etc.). His actual scientific interests include geodetic data combination and integration, reference frame stability, GPS time series analysis using advanced techniques, all of them addressed to the study of active tectonics in the Mediterranean region and in general to investigate the details of the earthquake cycle.

Dr. Federica Riguzzi, (INGV, National Earthquake Centre), Senior Researcher at INGV, is mainly focused on time series analysis of GPS observations to study the deformation fields and seismotectonic processes; the use of geodetic methods applied to geophysics both concerning methodological and applied aspects devoted to the realization and measurement of crustal deformation control and to fundamental Physics experiment networks. She has long experience in global scale kinematic modeling, velocity and deformation fields of the Italian and central-Mediterranean areas, co-seismic deformation after significant seismic events, strain rate analysis of the Italian area, use of strain rate in seismic hazard studies. She directed research units in projects financed by CNR and the Italian Civil Protection, she has been responsible of contracts with INFN within the Virgo and Neutrino Long Baseline projects. She has been member of the Scientific Committee of International Geoid Service. She is project evaluator of MIUR and of the Austrian Science Fundation. At present, she is Associate Editor of Annals of Geophysics and reviewer of many international journals
Dr. Grazia Pietrantonio, (INGV, National Earthquake Centre), Researcher at INGV, has about 15 years of experience in GPS data analysis, including raw data processing, time series analysis and estimation of velocity and strain-rate fields from geodetic data for the study of tectonic and volcanic deformations.

She graduated in Physics at “La Sapienza” University in Rome in 1999 with a thesis on the implementation of a software for the 3D strain tensor estimation from GPS data. In 2003 she obtained the PhD in Geodetic and Surveying Sciences at Politecnico di Milano with a dissertation on the analysis of GPS permanent network solutions with particular concern at the impact of temporal correlations.

She participated in many scientific projects financed by The Italian Department of Civil Protection and by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research. She has been Contract Professor at Faculty of Engineering of University “La Sapienza”, for the courses of Laboratorio di Rilevamento Topografico and Topografia. She is author of 19 JCR publications and of about 40 other papers, including technical reports and conference proceedings.