MIRMINGRO Management and Big Picture Meeting

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MIR/MIN-GRO Management and Big Picture Meeting

• 16 December 2006
• Seefeld Austria

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Overview We have huge financial and human
resources

• In total MIN-GRO MIR is financed at 5.3 million
  Euros for 4-5 years
• It funds in total
• 5 1-year Masters
• 18 3-year PhD students
• 4 3 year post-docs
• For a total of 27 students for a total of over 70
  scientist-years

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Other Resources/associated programs

• Nano-Chalk project
• --- gt 10 million euros, 15 students post docs
  located at the University of Copenhagen
• Iceland CO2 basalts storage program
• --- 3-4 million Euros, 8-10 students
  post-docs involving University of Toulouse,
  University of Iceland, Columbia University (USA)
  and Reykjavik Energy
• Others of Note?

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But before we move on to what we should be doing
well go through a primer on the nuts and bolts
of MIN-GRO contract and its relation to MIR
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Outline of MIN-GRO Management Meeting

• Who Are we?
• Our Time Line
• Funding/Budget
• Winter/summer Schools
• Distribution of Personnel
• Round table discussion What should we do?

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Who are we?

• University Paul Sabatier/CNRS, Toulouse FRANCE
• University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• University of Leeds UK
• University College London, UK
• University of Oslo, Norway
• Statoil, Stavanger, Norway
• University of Oviedo, Spain
• University of Meunster, Germany
• University of Iceland

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Our time line
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Min-Gro Budget

• Overall Maximum Budget
• 1) Toulouse 575,142.
• 2) Copenhagen 456,845.
• 3) Oviedo 206,422.
• 4)Meunster 392,808.
• 5) Leeds 482,582.
• 6) London 297,967.
• 7) Oslo 338,499.
• 8) Iceland 238,313.
• 9) STATOIL 45,600.

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Budget items
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Budget Details
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Funds beyond Salaries

• 9,000/team year for network meeting (36,000
  total/team)
• 500 Euro/month to support student research
  (18,000 Euros per 3-years)
• 400 Euro/month for young researchers expenses
  (14,400 per 3-year student
• 1500 team/year for management (audit
  certificates)
• 10 overheads

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Funding beyond salaries Summary

• One student team
• 36,000 for meetings/travel
• 32,400 for student research expenses
• for a total of 68,400 ( overhead auditing
• Two student teams
• 36,000 for meetings/travel
• 64,800 for student research expenses
• for a total of 100,800 ( overhead auditing

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How Europe runs funding

• First 18 months of budget sent out at beginning
  of contract
• End of each year we send Europe a list of what we
  spent that year.
• Europe sends us what we spent up to 85 of total
  contract (note new rule (need to have spent 80
  of what we have to be reimbursed each year) and
  its ambiguity).
• Europe sends final 15 only after final report is
  received.

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Funding, the absolute essential

• Clare and I need financial reports as soon as
  possible at end of each fiscal year
• I need updated bank account details each year
  ASAP when funds arrive.

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Meetings What was promised

• We promised 8 meetings total of which 5 are
  summer/winter schools
• TOK outreach forums end of years 2, 3 and 4
  potentially combined with schools.
• Meetings themselves should include management
  meetings scientific presentations from at the
  very least all fellows

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5 summer/winter schools

• Complementary skills (COPENHAGEN)
• Fundamentals of the thermodynamics and kinetics
  of fluid-mineral interaction (TOULOUSE).
• Microscopy and Spectroscopy at the Nano-scale
  (LEEDS)
• Atomic-level molecular modelling of mineral
  surface reactions (LONDON)
• Carbon accounting during CO2 injection and
  fixation (REYKJAVÍK).
• Note that non-school meetings can be as little as
  a dinner meeting of all participants present at
  an international meeting

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Potential meeting schedule

• No way around it these school/TOK
  outreach/management/meetings will be full!!!!
• 3 days of short course
• 1 day of oral presentations
• 0.5 days of management meeting
• Question Can in some cases short course be 1.5-2
  days to allow TOK outreach forums and/or open
  scientific meetings?

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Meetings, questions

• How will we practically organize summer schools
  (e.g. should they be centrally managed)?
• Should we change the sites?
• Can we open these up to the general public or
  make more than one of these European Wide
  Conferences at least in part?

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Question

• When should we run the next meeting May, June?

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Min-Gro Personnel

• 8 3-year PhD fellowships
• 4 3-year Post-docs

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Distribution of posts among teams

• 1) Toulouse 1 PhD, 1 Post-doc
• 2) Copenhagen 2 PhD
• 3) Oviedo 1 PhD
• 4)Meunster 2 PhD
• 5) Leeds 1 PhD, 1 Post-doc
• 6) London 1 Post-doc
• 7) Oslo 1 Post-doc
• 8) Iceland 1 PhD
• 9) STATOIL -------

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The Min-Gro official project organization
Simultaneous application of different
scale-spanning techniques on increasingly complex
systems
INCREASING OBSERVATION SCALE
INCREASING SYSTEM COMPLEXITY Table 1 A schematic
illustration of the MIN-GRO research plan
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Vertical structure of MIN-GRO
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MIN-GRO official project list (from small to
large scale)

• Post-doc 1 (London) First principle modelling of
  carbonate clustering, nucleation and clustering
• Post-doc 2 (Leeds) In situ time-resolved
  synchrotron-based study of carbonate mineral
  nucleation and growth from solution
• PhD 1 (Copenhagen) Architecture at molecular
  dimensions
• PhD 2 (Munster) Atomic Force Microscopy of
  carbonate growth and dissolution at a molecular
  scale.
• PhD 3 (Copenhagen) Controls on calcite growth
  and inhibition by trace elements

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MIN-GRO official project list (from small to
large scale) PART 2

• PhD 4 (Leeds) Trace metal incorporation
  processes in carbonate minerals/application to
  geochemical proxies and CO2 sequestration
• PhD 5 (Munster) Carbonate nucleation as a
  function of rate of change of supersaturation
• PhD 6. (Oviedo) Nucleation behaviour of
  carbonate solid solutions
• Post-doc 3 (Toulouse) Determination of bulk
  carbonate precipitation rates and generation of
  carbonate mineral nucleation and growth rate
  database.

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MIN-GRO official project list (from small to
large scale) PART 3

• PhD 7 (Toulouse) Where and how do carbonates
  precipitate in rock cores?
• PhD 8 (Iceland) Nucleation and growth of
  carbonates in volcanic rocks and application to
  CO2 storage.
• Post-doc 4 (Oslo) Modeling of carbonate
  precipitation rates in sedimentary basins and its
  application to CO2 storage

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Fellow mobility

• Each fellow is expected to spend 6 months at
  least at a different institution.

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Questions/Discussion of MIN-GRO management?

• If not on to the discussion of the BIG PICTURE
  research project