TITLE: Is there a description of the moduli space of elliptic surfaces?
QUESTION [7 upvotes]: In this question elliptic surface means a smooth projective complex surface $X$, such that there is an elliptic fibration $\pi \colon X \to C$. (I.e., there is a curve $C$ and a proper map $\pi$, such that almost all fibres are elliptic curves.)
I am aware of 1 and 2. These describe the moduli space of rational elliptic surfaces (unless I stupidly overlooked som parts; I read quite a bit of them, but not every letter). Moreover they assume that the fibration $\pi$ has a section.
I would like to know if there is more known about the other cases, in particular those where $C$ is not rational.
First some general questions, asking for literature/references:

Q1: Is there literature on the moduli space of minimal elliptic surfaces?
Q1.i:  In general? (With or without assuming that $\pi$ has a section.)
Q1.ii: In special cases, say when $p_g = q = 1$?

I am particularly interested in whether the Hodge structure of such elliptic surfaces ($p_g = q = 1$) vary when one varies the surface. I want to do this by exhibiting (for every connected component) two elliptic surfaces with different Picard number. However, I have no clue about how the moduli space looks.

Q2.i:  How many components are there in this case ($p_g = q = 1$)?
Q2.ii: What are their dimensions?

Let me finally remark that Remke Kloosterman shows in 2 that there exists extremal elliptic surfaces with these invariants (i.e., maximal Picard number).

References

1 Gert Heckman and Eduard Looijenga, The moduli space of rational elliptic surfaces. www.math.ru.nl/~heckman/Heck_14.pdf
2 Remke N. Kloosterman, Arithmetic and Moduli
of Elliptic Surfaces. www.math.hu-berlin.de/~klooster/proefschrift-kloosterman.pdf

REPLY [4 votes]: For the case with section and $q=0$ see
http://www.math.colostate.edu/~miranda/preprints/weierstrassfibrations.pdf
A similar construction should work in the case (with section, $q$ fixed and $p_g$ sufficiently large) you should get a moduli space together with a morphism to $M_g$.
In the case (with section; $q=p_g=1$) then $p_g$ is ``sufficiently large" and you have that the Weierstrass equation of the elliptic surface depends on the base curve $C$, a choice of a line bundle $L$ of degree 1 on $C$ and two sections in $H^0(L^4)$ and $H^0(L^6)$.
You easily can get the dimension of the corresponding moduli space from this.
Also this moduli space is obviously connected. Moreover, I believe that the period map is locally an isomorphism in this case, hence different Picard numbers occur.