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CSDMS Working Groups

CSDMS currently has a total of five working groups, which includes three environmental (or discipline) working groups and two integrative working groups. As of April 3, 2008, more than 75 universities and research institutes from 15 different countries have representation on CSDMS's various working groups. Working groups typically meet once per year, coordinating much of their activity via remote communication systems. Members will be on a 3 to 5 year rotating basis, vetted through the Steering Committee.

Learn more about the charge of the working groups (PDF file).

1. Terrestrial Working Group (Chair, Greg Tucker) weathering, hillslope, fluvial, glacial, aeolian, lacustrial
2. Coastal Working Group (Chair, Brad Murray) delta, estuary, bays and lagoons, nearshore
3. Marine Working Group (Chair, Pat Wiberg) shelf, carbonate, slope, deep marine
4. Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group (Chair, Lincoln Pratson) marketing to gain end-users, workshops to provide training for end-users, web-based access to simple models (e.g. K-12 teaching), access to archives of simulations. This WG will interact closely with the Partners Committees (Industrial, Agency, International), and field programs.
5. Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group (Chair, Tao Sun) includes technical computational aspects of the CSDMS, ensures that the modeling system properly functions and is accessible to users; software protocols are maintained, along with model standardization and visualization; works with our cyberinformatic partners.

Join a CSDMS Working Group

Membership is open to all interested participants. Each member agrees to participate in working group discussions, review activities, group projects, and, whenever possible, working group meetings.

To join a working group, please follow this link and complete the entire form. A CSDMS staff member and/or the chair of the appropriate working group will contact you to provide information on CSDMS activities related to that group.

Benefits of membership in one or more working groups include:

• You are part of a family of experts sharing research
• Advantages in staying current within a community taking Earth Sciences to the next level
• Competitive funding opportunities - better integrated proposals
• Improved knowledge of available models for education and application
• Recognized service in an interesting and new field of interdisciplinary science
• Better and faster penetration of one's numerical advances, data and simulation products
• Closer interaction with a wide variety of industrial and NGO partners and federal agencies, with possible spin-off funding opportunities
• Better academic and public recognition for code development
• Increased outreach and knowledge transfer opportunities

Tasks of the CSDMS Working Groups

• Represent the Community knowledge base and state-of-the-science;
• Know the Community of practitioners and experts including ongoing funded projects and developing opportunities;
• Foster interdisciplinarity within and between CSDMS working groups;
• Decide what processes are in their disciplinary toolkit;
• Identify gaps in knowledge and areas where numerical tools need to be developed;
• Create and manage the various environmental process modules related to their discipline;
• Ensure quality control for the algorithms and modules for their area of expertise (benchmark testing, model validation/verification);
• Ensure adequacy of supporting boundary conditions and boundary initializations;
• Set scientific modeling priorities for their discipline
• Make recommendations for resource prioritization;
• Stimulate proposals and input from the community;
• Facilitate the movement of these priorities up the hierarchy from technology group to steering committee;
• Coordinate the evaluation of numerical codes according to interoperability, scientific contribution and technical documentation
• Address the CSDMS proof-of-concept challenges;
• Provide community continuity to meet long-term CSDMS objectives;