Task

Project Management (Paola De Michelis)

This Task will be devoted to the following activities:

● Defining and identifying critical axes for the most effective project execution;
● Monitoring the research project's scientific activity and, as required, providing the necessary scientific-methodological support;
● In case of a deviation from expected results, initiate and carry out corrective actions;
● Reports on the status of work;
● Organization of meetings;
● Review of all results before they are delivered;
● Communication with persons in charge of the tasks;
● Administration of the allocated budget and spending review;
● General administrative support services.

Dependencies:

● Inputs: All Tasks
● Outputs: All Tasks

Selection, Purchase and Maintenance MT instruments (Emanuele Di Persio)

This Task will be devoted to the following activities:

● Identification and acquisition of MT instrumentation;
● Design and implementation of the MT station;
● Testing of the MT station;
● Training of personnel to be employed in the survey;
● Technical support for the installation of the MT station; Remote control of the MT stations.

Dependencies:

● Inputs: Task 0 - Project Management
● Outputs: Task 3 - MT Survey; Task 7 – Dissemination; Task 0 - Project Management

Locations of the MT stations (Massimo Miconi)

This Task will be devoted to the following activities:

● Identification of suitable sites for the MT measurement campaign;
● Collection of scientific publications relating to the geological characterization of each site;
● Data retrieval from previous measurement campaigns;
● Creation of descriptive documents for each selected site.

Dependencies:

● Inputs: Task 0 - Project Management
● Outputs: Task 3 - MT Survey; Task 4 – MT Data analysis; Task 7 – Dissemination; Task 0 - Project Management

MT Survey (Vincenzo Sapia)

This Task will be devoted to the following activities:

● Planning the measurement campaign;
● Organizing teams for MT station installation and removal;
● Installing instrumentation in selected locations;
● Periodic on-site acquisition checks;
● Instrument removal.

Dependencies:

● Inputs: Task 0 - Project Management; Task 1 - Selection, Purchase and Maintenance MT instruments; Task 2 – Locations of the MT stations
● Outputs: Task 4 - MT Data analysis; Task 7 – Dissemination; Task 0 - Project Management

MT Data analysis (Paola De Michelis, Fabio Giannattasio)

This Task will be devoted to the following activities:

● Evaluation of the transfer function as a function of frequency on each MT site.

Dependencies:

● Inputs: Task 0 - Project Management; Task 2 – Locations of the MT stations; Task 3 MT survey
● Outputs: Task 5 - MT measurements for Space Weather; Task 6 - MT measurements for crust and mantle imaging; Task 7 – Dissemination; Task 0 - Project Management

MT measurements for space weather (Roberta Tozzi)

This Task will be devoted to the following activities:

● Development and validation of the geoelectric field estimation procedure in each MT site;
● Evaluation of the validity of the plane wave approximation of the magnetic perturbation;
● Reconstruction of the geoelectric history in each MT site;
● Algorithm development for real-time estimation of the amplitudes of the geoelectric field in each MT site;
● Creating a geoelectric map for central Italy.

Dependencies:

● Inputs: Task 0 - Project Management; Task 4 – MT Data analysis
● Outputs: Task 7 - Dissemination; Task 0 - Project Management

MT measurements for crust and mantle imaging (Claudio Chiarabba, Claudia Piromallo)

This Task will be devoted to the following activities:

● Integration of long-term MT data acquired on the regional grid with MT surveys related to previous crustal imaging campaigns;
● Construction of a 3D resistivity model of the intermediate crust-upper mantle on a regional scale of central Italy by inversion of the MT data and model appraisal;
● Joint interpretation of the 3D resistivity model with Vp and Vs velocity tomographic models, as well as Receiver Functions of the crust-mantle system already available in the literature or produced by ongoing INGV projects;
● Comparison of the acquired data with other geophysical data (aeromagnetic, gravimetric, heat flux) and petrological studies.

Dependencies:

● Inputs: Task 0 - Project Management ; Task 4 – MT Data analysis
● Outputs: Task 7 - Dissemination; Task 0 - Project Management

Dissemination (Giovanna Lucia Piangiamore)

This Task will be devoted to the following activities:

● Preparation of informative and promotional materials to support the project;
● Promotion and dissemination activities;
● Creation and maintenance of the project's website;
● Online publication of updated information about the survey sites and related data, and of the final MARGE products such as the resistivity map and the real-time variation map of the geoelectric field relative to the Italian region where the MT survey was conducted.

Dependencies:

● Inputs: All tasks
● Outputs: Task 0 - Project Management