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Task 6 - Project Management, Reporting, and Communication
This large, integrated project will achieve many goals that would take decades to complete
without such a focused effort. The goals, data, and analyses needed for this project have to be
coordinated and completed in a systematic fashion to achieve the efficiency required for this
accelerated program. As such, coordinating oversight and management is essential. The results
must be, reported to a number of entities in a format that allows next steps to be taken. In
addition, communication must be facilitated between the different tasks; the participating
institutions; and the geologists, engineers, and officials of the Clark County Building
Department, so that newfound results, information, and hazard values can be used as soon as
they are reviewed and vetted. Part of this reporting will be making the results available online
through web-based applications. Management will include oversight, conducting project
meetings and other communications with project staff, and conducting progress meetings in
Clark County. The support for the UNLV Ph.D. student is also placed in Task 6, because that
individual will be working on tasks throughout the project. The student will be supervised
primarily by Dr. Taylor, but Dr. dePolo will supervise some aspects of the student's work. Dr.
Taylor, Dr. dePolo, and the student will be in close communication throughout the project. The
study is designed to inform and engage Clark County professionals of the results during and after
the project. We will do this by communicating with public entities (e.g., the Clark County
Building Department) and professional organizations (e.g., Association of Engineering
Geologists, Southern Nevada Chapter) and through a well-publicized final workshop for
professionals. We would be happy to work with the Clark County Office of Emergency
Management on a public informational event as well. The results of this project will be peerreviewed and published in internationally recognized journals, through the Nevada Bureau of
Mines and Geology, and in a web page devoted to the study.
Task 6 has five subtasks:
Task 6.1 -Project Management and Support,
Task 6.2 -Annual Reports and Meetings,
Task 6.3 - Web Page Development,
Task 6.4 -Final Workshop
Task 6.5 -Project Research by Ph.D. Student, which includes Tuition and Stipend.
The project management will be conducted throughout the project and the task funds the last half
year of reports, web products, and the final workshop in Las Vegas Valley.
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