Roadmap — Five-Year Research Consortium by Work Package
A five-year consortium grant on peatland restoration laid out by work package on a year axis, with deliverables and the funder's review points as milestones: 16 items (4 done, 4 in progress, 7 planned, 1 at risk) and 4 milestones in six lanes, status date 20 Sep 2027. All 20 dependencies finish before their dependents start; the longest chain, seven steps, runs from the kick-off through site instrumentation, the v1 carbon model, the mid-term review and the policy briefs to the final synthesis and the programme end. Illustrative roadmap.
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title "PEATFLUX — consortium research roadmap 2026–2030"
subtitle "Six work packages · deliverables (D) and milestones (MS) as numbered in the grant agreement"
note "Illustrative example: PEATFLUX is a fictional consortium; sites, deliverables and dates are invented for demonstration."
axis years 2026 .. 2030
today 2027-09-20
milestone start "Grant start" 2026-01-01 done
milestone midterm "MS3 Mid-term review with the funder" 2028-06-30 planned after model1, panel
milestone end "Programme end" 2030-12-31 planned after final
lane "WP1 Management and ethics" color: slate
item kickoff "Kick-off and consortium agreement" 2026-01 .. 2026-03 done
item dmp "D1.2 Data management plan (FAIR)" 2026-04 .. 2026-06 done after kickoff
lane "WP2 Field monitoring" color: emerald
item sites "Instrument 12 peatland sites" 2026-04 .. 2026-12 done after kickoff owner: "Field team"
item campaign1 "Monitoring years 1–2 (eddy covariance)" 2027-01 .. 2028-12 in progress 35% after sites
item campaign2 "Monitoring years 3–4" 2029-01 .. 2030-06 planned after campaign1
lane "WP3 Process modelling" color: violet
item model1 "Peat carbon model v1 calibrated" 2027-01 .. 2027-12 in progress 60% after sites
item model2 "Model v2 with restoration scenarios" 2028-01 .. 2029-06 planned after model1
item proj "2050 emission projections by scenario" 2029-07 .. 2030-09 planned after model2
lane "WP4 Remote sensing and data" color: sky
item sar "Water-table retrieval from Sentinel-1" 2026-07 .. 2027-12 in progress 70%
item cube "Open data cube v1" 2027-06 .. 2028-03 at risk after dmp owner: "Data steward"
milestone release "D4.3 Open data release" 2028-06-30 planned after cube, sar
item cube2 "Data cube v2 with model outputs" 2029-07 .. 2030-06 planned after release, model2
lane "WP5 Policy and stakeholders" color: amber
item panel "Stakeholder panel: three national workshops" 2026-09 .. 2027-06 done
item briefs "Policy briefs for national peatland strategies" 2029-01 .. 2030-06 planned after midterm
lane "WP6 Synthesis and dissemination" color: rose
item papers "Peer-reviewed papers and open-access preprints" 2027-06 .. 2030-12 in progress 15%
item school "Summer school for early-career researchers" 2028-07 .. 2028-09 planned after midterm
item final "Final synthesis report" 2030-10 .. 2030-12 planned after proj, campaign2, briefs