Program management and scientific networking

德国优先研究计划SPP1257中地球系统的质量传输和质量分布的恢复需要密集的跨学科合作。必须在大地测量学、海洋学、地球物理学、冰川学和水文学之间建立一个密切合作的网络。研究项目将按专题领域或工作组进行组织。各个项目内的合作必须以工作组内的讲习班和一般计划科学会议为基础，以保证工作组之间的科学交流和工作流程，并实现跨学科的科学目标。一个特别的目标是促进青年地球科学家网络参与使用新颖和优秀的卫星数据。青年科学家的培训将得到暑期学校、博士和博士后研讨会以及青年科学家举办的具体讲习班的支持。所有这些活动都必须由一名专门指定的科学管理人员与总协调员和指导委员会密切合作进行管理和支持。为了进行数据集、模型结果、文件和出版物的内部和外部交流，正在建设一个互联网平台http://www.massentransporte.de。它由节目协调局根据内容管理系统维护，允许自主用户根据元数据结构规则进行访问和输入。该互联网平台还将作为与国际科学组织的接口。在头两年阶段，网站管理必须由一名科学助理在指导委员会的监督下进行。

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.