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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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<div class="NavHead">'''Executive Committee Members'''</div>
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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007, James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning. She served as Chair of the CSDMS Marine Working Group since its inception in 2007. In February, 2009, she was nominated and elected to that position by the group's members. In September, 2012, Pat accepted the responsibility to serve as Chair of the CSDMS Steering Committee.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
| valign="top"|'''Terrestrial Working Group Chair'''
Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Greg has served as Chair of the CSDMS Terrestrial Working Group since its inception in 2007. In February, 2009, he accepted election to that position by the group's membership. Greg was re-elected as Chair of the Terrestrial Working Group in September, 2012.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Chair'''
Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes. Brad has served as Chair of the CSDMS Coastal Working Group since its inception in 2007. In February, 2009, he accepted election to that position by the group's membership. Brad was re-elected as Chair of the Coastal Working Group in September, 2012.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Courtney was elected to lead the CSDMS Marine Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics. Sam was elected to lead the CSDMS Education and Knowledge Transfer Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees. Eckart accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Upon its inception in 2007, Mike served a term on the CSDMS Steering Committee. Mike accepted the position of co-Chair of the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair in September, 2012.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets. Cecelia accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program. Tom has served as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee since its inception in 2007.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use. Bert has served as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee since its inception in 2007.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers. Boyana accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS. Chris accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates. In 2010, Paul became the Program Manager at NSF for CSDMS.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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|width="200pt" valign="top" style="font-size:0.88em;"|[[image:Photo_slingerland.jpg|95px]] '''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Rudy Slingerland Department of Geosciences Penn State University 503A Deike Building University Park, PA 16802 Email: [mailto:sling@geosc.psu.edu sling@geosc.psu.edu] Tel: +1 814 865-6892 Fax: +1 814 865-3191
| valign="top"|'''Past Chair, Steering Committee'''
Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and since September, 2012, continues to contribute to CSDMS in the position of Past Chair of the CSDMS Steering Committee.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
| 2007 - 2008
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
| 2007 - 2009
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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<div class="NavHead">'''Executive Committee Members'''</div>
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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
| valign="top"|'''Steering Committee Chair'''
Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning. She served as Chair of the CSDMS Marine Working Group since its inception in 2007. In February, 2009, she was nominated and elected to that position by the group's members. In September, 2012, Pat accepted the responsibility to serve as Chair of the CSDMS Steering Committee.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
| valign="top"|'''Terrestrial Working Group Chair'''
Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Greg has served as Chair of the CSDMS Terrestrial Working Group since its inception in 2007. In February, 2009, he accepted election to that position by the group's membership. Greg was re-elected as Chair of the Terrestrial Working Group in September, 2012.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Chair'''
Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes. Brad has served as Chair of the CSDMS Coastal Working Group since its inception in 2007. In February, 2009, he accepted election to that position by the group's membership. Brad was re-elected as Chair of the Coastal Working Group in September, 2012.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Courtney was elected to lead the CSDMS Marine Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics. Sam was elected to lead the CSDMS Education and Knowledge Transfer Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees. Eckart accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Upon its inception in 2007, Mike served a term on the CSDMS Steering Committee. Mike accepted the position of co-Chair of the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair in September, 2012.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets. Cecelia accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program. Tom has served as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee since its inception in 2007.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use. Bert has served as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee since its inception in 2007.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers. Boyana accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS. Chris accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates. In 2010, Paul became the Program Manager at NSF for CSDMS.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and since September, 2012, continues to contribute to CSDMS in the position of Past Chair of the CSDMS Steering Committee.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning. She served as Chair of the CSDMS Marine Working Group since its inception in 2007. In February, 2009, she was nominated and elected to that position by the group's members. In September, 2012, Pat accepted the responsibility to serve as Chair of the CSDMS Steering Committee.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
| valign="top"|'''Terrestrial Working Group Chair'''
Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Greg has served as Chair of the CSDMS Terrestrial Working Group since its inception in 2007. In February, 2009, he accepted election to that position by the group's membership. Greg was re-elected as Chair of the Terrestrial Working Group in September, 2012.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
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Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes. Brad has served as Chair of the CSDMS Coastal Working Group since its inception in 2007. In February, 2009, he accepted election to that position by the group's membership. Brad was re-elected as Chair of the Coastal Working Group in September, 2012.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Courtney was elected to lead the CSDMS Marine Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
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Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics. Sam was elected to lead the CSDMS Education and Knowledge Transfer Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees. Eckart accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
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Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
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Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Upon its inception in 2007, Mike served a term on the CSDMS Steering Committee. Mike accepted the position of co-Chair of the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair in September, 2012.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets. Cecelia accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program. Tom has served as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee since its inception in 2007.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use. Bert has served as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee since its inception in 2007.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers. Boyana accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS. Chris accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates. In 2010, Paul became the Program Manager at NSF for CSDMS.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and since September, 2012, continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning. She served as Chair of the CSDMS Marine Working Group since its inception in 2007. In February, 2009, she was nominated and elected to that position by the group's members. In September, 2012, Pat accepted the responsibility to serve as Chair of the CSDMS Steering Committee.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
| valign="top"|'''Terrestrial Working Group Chair'''
Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Greg has served as Chair of the CSDMS Terrestrial Working Group since its inception in 2007. In February, 2009, he accepted election to that position by the group's membership. Greg was re-elected as Chair of the Terrestrial Working Group in September, 2012.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Chair'''
Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes. Brad has served as Chair of the CSDMS Coastal Working Group since its inception in 2007. In February, 2009, he accepted election to that position by the group's membership. Brad was re-elected as Chair of the Coastal Working Group in September, 2012.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Courtney was elected to lead the CSDMS Marine Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics. Sam was elected to lead the CSDMS Education and Knowledge Transfer Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees. Eckart accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Upon its inception in 2007, Mike served a term on the CSDMS Steering Committee. Mike accepted the position of co-Chair of the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair in September, 2012.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets. Cecelia accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program. Tom has served as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee since its inception in 2007.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use. Bert has served as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee since its inception in 2007.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers. Boyana accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS. Chris accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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|width="200pt" valign="top" style="font-size:0.88em;"|[[image:Photo_slingerland.jpg|95px]] '''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Rudy Slingerland Department of Geosciences Penn State University 503A Deike Building University Park, PA 16802 Email: [mailto:sling@geosc.psu.edu sling@geosc.psu.edu] Tel: +1 814 865-6892 Fax: +1 814 865-3191
| valign="top"|'''Past Chair, Steering Committee'''
Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and since September, 2012, continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
| 2007 - 2008
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
| 2007 - 2009
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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CSDMS organization

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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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<div class="NavHead">'''Executive Committee Members'''</div>
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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
| valign="top"|'''Steering Committee Chair'''
Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning. She served as Chair of the CSDMS Marine Working Group since its inception in 2007. In February, 2009, she was nominated and elected to that position by the group's members. In September, 2012, Pat accepted the responsibility to serve as Chair of the CSDMS Steering Committee.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
| valign="top"|'''Terrestrial Working Group Chair'''
Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Greg has served as Chair of the CSDMS Terrestrial Working Group since its inception in 2007. In February, 2009, he accepted election to that position by the group's membership. Greg was re-elected to lead as Chair of the Terrestrial Working Group in September, 2012.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Chair'''
Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes. Brad has served as Chair of the CSDMS Coastal Working Group since its inception in 2007. In February, 2009, he accepted election to that position by the group's membership. Brad was re-elected as Chair of the Coastal Working Group in September, 2012.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Courtney was elected to lead the CSDMS Marine Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics. Sam was elected to lead the CSDMS Education and Knowledge Transfer Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees. Eckart accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Upon its inception in 2007, Mike served a term on the CSDMS Steering Committee. Mike accepted the position of co-Chair of the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
| valign="top"|'''Steering Committee Chair'''
Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair in September, 2012.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets. Cecelia accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program. Tom has served as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee since its inception in 2007.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use. Bert has served as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee since its inception in 2007.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers. Boyana accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS. Chris accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and since September, 2012, continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
| 2007 - 2008
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
| 2007 - 2009
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning. She served as Chair of the CSDMS Marine Working Group since its inception in 2007. In February, 2009, she was nominated and elected to that position by the group's members. In September, 2012, Pat accepted the responsibility to serve as Chair of the CSDMS Steering Committee.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
| valign="top"|'''Terrestrial Working Group Chair'''
Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Greg has served as Chair of the CSDMS Terrestrial Working Group since its inception in 2007. In February, 2009, he accepted election to that position by the group's membership. Greg was re-elected to lead as Chair of the Terrestrial Working Group in September, 2012.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
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Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes. Brad accepted the responsibility to Chair the CSDMS Coastal Working Group at its inception. In February, 2009, he was nominated and accepted election to that position by the group's membership. Brad was re-elected to lead as Chair of the Coastal Working Group in September, 2012.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Courtney was elected to lead the CSDMS Marine Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
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Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics. Sam was elected to lead the CSDMS Education and Knowledge Transfer Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees. Eckart accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Upon its inception in 2007, Mike served a term on the CSDMS Steering Committee. Mike accepted the position of co-Chair of the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair in September, 2012.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets. Cecelia accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program. Tom has served as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee since its inception in 2007.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use. Bert has served as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee since its inception in 2007.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers. Boyana accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS. Chris accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and since September, 2012, continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
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Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning. She served as Chair of the CSDMS Marine Working Group since its inception in 2007. In February, 2009, she was nominated and elected to that position by the group's members. In September, 2012, Pat accepted the responsibility to serve as Chair of the CSDMS Steering Committee.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
| valign="top"|'''Terrestrial Working Group Chair'''
Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Greg accepted the responsibility to Chair the CSDMS Terrestrial Working Group at its inception. In February, 2009, he was nominated and accepted election to that position by the group's membership. Greg was re-elected to lead as Chair of the Terrestrial Working Group in September, 2012.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Chair'''
Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes. Brad accepted the responsibility to Chair the CSDMS Coastal Working Group at its inception. In February, 2009, he was nominated and accepted election to that position by the group's membership. Brad was re-elected to lead as Chair of the Coastal Working Group in September, 2012.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Courtney was elected to lead the CSDMS Marine Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics. Sam was elected to lead the CSDMS Education and Knowledge Transfer Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees. Eckart accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Upon its inception in 2007, Mike served a term on the CSDMS Steering Committee. Mike accepted the position of co-Chair of the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair in September, 2012.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets. Cecelia accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program. Tom has served as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee since its inception in 2007.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use. Bert has served as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee since its inception in 2007.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers. Boyana accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS. Chris accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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|width="200pt" valign="top" style="font-size:0.88em;"|[[image:Photo_slingerland.jpg|95px]] '''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Rudy Slingerland Department of Geosciences Penn State University 503A Deike Building University Park, PA 16802 Email: [mailto:sling@geosc.psu.edu sling@geosc.psu.edu] Tel: +1 814 865-6892 Fax: +1 814 865-3191
| valign="top"|'''Past Chair, Steering Committee'''
Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and since September, 2012, continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
| 2007 - 2008
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
| 2007 - 2009
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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CSDMS organization

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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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<div class="NavHead">'''Executive Committee Members'''</div>
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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
| valign="top"|'''Steering Committee Chair'''
Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair. Pat served as Chair of the CSDMS Marine Working Group since its inception. In February, 2009, she was nominated and elected to that position by the group's members. In September, 2012, Pat accepted the responsibility to serve as Chair of the CSDMS Steering Committee.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
| valign="top"|'''Terrestrial Working Group Chair'''
Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Greg accepted the responsibility to Chair the CSDMS Terrestrial Working Group at its inception. In February, 2009, he was nominated and accepted election to that position by the group's membership. Greg was re-elected to lead as Chair of the Terrestrial Working Group in September, 2012.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Chair'''
Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes. Brad accepted the responsibility to Chair the CSDMS Coastal Working Group at its inception. In February, 2009, he was nominated and accepted election to that position by the group's membership. Brad was re-elected to lead as Chair of the Coastal Working Group in September, 2012.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Courtney was elected to lead the CSDMS Marine Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics. Sam was elected to lead the CSDMS Education and Knowledge Transfer Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees. Eckart accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Upon its inception in 2007, Mike served a term on the CSDMS Steering Committee. Mike accepted the position of co-Chair of the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair in September, 2012.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets. Cecelia accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program. Tom has served as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee since its inception in 2007.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use. Bert has served as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee since its inception in 2007.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers. Boyana accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS. Chris accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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| valign="top"|'''Past Chair, Steering Committee'''
Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and since September, 2012, continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
| 2007 - 2008
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
| 2007 - 2009
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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<div class="NavHead">'''Executive Committee Members'''</div>
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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
| valign="top"|'''Steering Committee Chair'''
Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair. Pat served as Chair of the CSDMS Marine Working Group since its inception. In February, 2009, she was nominated and elected to that position by the group's members. In September, 2012, Pat accepted the responsibility to serve as Chair of the CSDMS Steering Committee.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
| valign="top"|'''Terrestrial Working Group Chair'''
Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Greg accepted the responsibility to Chair the CSDMS Terrestrial Working Group at its inception. In February, 2009, he was nominated and accepted election to that position by the group's membership. Greg was re-elected to lead as Chair of the Terrestrial Working Group in September, 2012.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Chair'''
Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes. Brad accepted the responsibility to Chair the CSDMS Coastal Working Group at its inception. In February, 2009, he was nominated and accepted election to that position by the group's membership. Brad was re-elected to lead as Chair of the Coastal Working Group in September, 2012.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Courtney was elected to lead the CSDMS Marine Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics. Sam was elected to lead the CSDMS Education and Knowledge Transfer Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees. Eckart accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Upon its inception in 2007, Mike served a term on the CSDMS Steering Committee. Mike accepted the position of co-Chair of the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair in September, 2012.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets. Cecelia accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program. Tom has served as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee since its inception in 2007.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers. Boyana accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS. Chris accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and since September, 2012, continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
| 2007 - 2009
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair. Pat served as Chair of the CSDMS Marine Working Group since its inception. In February, 2009, she was nominated and elected to that position by the group's members. In September, 2012, Pat accepted the responsibility to serve as Chair of the CSDMS Steering Committee.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
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Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Greg accepted the responsibility to Chair the CSDMS Terrestrial Working Group at its inception. In February, 2009, he was nominated and accepted election to that position by the group's membership. Greg was re-elected to lead as Chair of the Terrestrial Working Group in September, 2012.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
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Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes. Brad accepted the responsibility to Chair the CSDMS Coastal Working Group at its inception. In February, 2009, he was nominated and accepted election to that position by the group's membership. Brad was re-elected to lead as Chair of the Coastal Working Group in September, 2012.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
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Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Courtney was elected to lead the CSDMS Marine Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics. Sam was elected to lead the CSDMS Education and Knowledge Transfer Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees. Eckart accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
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Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Upon its inception in 2007, Mike served a term on the CSDMS Steering Committee. Mike accepted the position of co-Chair of the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair in September, 2012.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets. Cecelia accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers. Boyana accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS. Chris accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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| valign="top"|'''Past Chair, Steering Committee'''
Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and since September, 2012, continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
| 2007 - 2008
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
| 2007 - 2009
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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<div class="NavHead">'''Executive Committee Members'''</div>
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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
| valign="top"|'''Steering Committee Chair'''
Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair. Pat served as Chair of the CSDMS Marine Working Group since its inception. In February, 2009, she was nominated and elected to that position by the group's members. In September, 2012, Pat accepted the responsibility to serve as Chair of the CSDMS Steering Committee.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
| valign="top"|'''Terrestrial Working Group Chair'''
Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Greg accepted the responsibility to Chair the CSDMS Terrestrial Working Group at its inception. In February, 2009, he was nominated and accepted election to that position by the group's membership. Greg was re-elected to lead as Chair of the Terrestrial Working Group in September, 2012.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Chair'''
Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes. Brad accepted the responsibility to Chair the CSDMS Coastal Working Group at its inception. In February, 2009, he was nominated and accepted election to that position by the group's membership. Brad was re-elected to lead as Chair of the Coastal Working Group in September, 2012.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Courtney was elected to lead the CSDMS Marine Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics. Sam was elected to lead the CSDMS Education and Knowledge Transfer Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees. Eckart accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Mike accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair in September, 2012.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets. Cecelia accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers. Boyana accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS. Chris accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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| valign="top"|'''Past Chair, Steering Committee'''
Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and since September, 2012, continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
| 2007 - 2008
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
| 2007 - 2009
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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<div class="NavHead">'''Executive Committee Members'''</div>
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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
| valign="top"|'''Steering Committee Chair'''
Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair. Pat served as Chair of the CSDMS Marine Working Group since its inception. In February, 2009, she was nominated and elected to that position by the group's members. In September, 2012, Pat accepted the responsibility to serve as Chair of the CSDMS Steering Committee.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
| valign="top"|'''Terrestrial Working Group Chair'''
Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Greg accepted the responsibility to Chair the CSDMS Terrestrial Working Group at its inception. In February, 2009, he was nominated and accepted election to that position by the group's membership. Greg was re-elected to lead as Chair of the Terrestrial Working Group in September, 2012.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Chair'''
Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes. Brad accepted the responsibility to Chair the CSDMS Coastal Working Group at its inception. In February, 2009, he was nominated and accepted election to that position by the group's membership. Brad was re-elected to lead as Chair of the Coastal Working Group in September, 2012.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Courtney was elected to lead the CSDMS Marine Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics. Sam was elected to lead the CSDMS Education and Knowledge Transfer Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees. Eckart accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Mike accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair in September, 2012.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers. Boyana accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS. Chris accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and since September, 2012, continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair. Pat served as Chair of the CSDMS Marine Working Group since its inception. In February, 2009, she was nominated and elected to that position by the group's members. In September, 2012, Pat accepted the responsibility to serve as Chair of the CSDMS Steering Committee.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
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Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Greg accepted the responsibility to Chair the CSDMS Terrestrial Working Group at its inception. In February, 2009, he was nominated and accepted election to that position by the group's membership. Greg was re-elected to lead as Chair of the Terrestrial Working Group in September, 2012.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
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Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes. Brad accepted the responsibility to Chair the CSDMS Coastal Working Group at its inception. In February, 2009, he was nominated and accepted election to that position by the group's membership. Brad was re-elected to lead as Chair of the Coastal Working Group in September, 2012.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Courtney was elected to lead the CSDMS Marine Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
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Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics. Sam was elected to lead the CSDMS Education and Knowledge Transfer Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees. Eckart accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
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Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
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Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Mike accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair in September, 2012.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS. Chris accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and since September, 2012, continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair. Pat served as Chair of the CSDMS Marine Working Group since its inception. In February, 2009, she was nominated and elected to that position by the group's members. In September, 2012, Pat accepted the responsibility to serve as Chair of the CSDMS Steering Committee.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
| valign="top"|'''Terrestrial Working Group Chair'''
Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Greg accepted the responsibility to Chair the CSDMS Terrestrial Working Group at its inception. In February, 2009, he was nominated and accepted election to that position by the group's membership. Greg was re-elected to lead as Chair of the Terrestrial Working Group in September, 2012.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Chair'''
Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes. Brad accepted the responsibility to Chair the CSDMS Coastal Working Group at its inception. In February, 2009, he was nominated and accepted election to that position by the group's membership. Brad was re-elected to lead as Chair of the Coastal Working Group in September, 2012.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Courtney was elected to lead the CSDMS Marine Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics. Sam was elected to lead the CSDMS Education and Knowledge Transfer Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees. Eckart accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Mike accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair in September, 2012.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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|width="200pt" valign="top" style="font-size:0.88em;"|[[image:Photo_slingerland.jpg|95px]] '''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Rudy Slingerland Department of Geosciences Penn State University 503A Deike Building University Park, PA 16802 Email: [mailto:sling@geosc.psu.edu sling@geosc.psu.edu] Tel: +1 814 865-6892 Fax: +1 814 865-3191
| valign="top"|'''Past Chair, Steering Committee'''
Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and since September, 2012, continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
| 2007 - 2008
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
| 2007 - 2009
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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CSDMS organization

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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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<div class="NavHead">'''Executive Committee Members'''</div>
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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
| valign="top"|'''Steering Committee Chair'''
Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair. Pat served as Chair of the CSDMS Marine Working Group for three years beginning in February, 2009. She was elected as Chair of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2012.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
| valign="top"|'''Terrestrial Working Group Chair'''
Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Greg accepted the responsibility to Chair the CSDMS Terrestrial Working Group at its inception. In February, 2009, he was nominated and accepted election to that position by the group's membership. Greg was re-elected to lead as Chair of the Terrestrial Working Group in September, 2012.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Chair'''
Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes. Brad accepted the responsibility to Chair the CSDMS Coastal Working Group at its inception. In February, 2009, he was nominated and accepted election to that position by the group's membership. Brad was re-elected to lead as Chair of the Coastal Working Group in September, 2012.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Courtney was elected to lead the CSDMS Marine Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics. Sam was elected to lead the CSDMS Education and Knowledge Transfer Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees. Eckart accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Mike accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
| valign="top"|'''Steering Committee Chair'''
Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair in September, 2012.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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| valign="top"|'''Past Chair, Steering Committee'''
Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and since September, 2012, continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
| 2007 - 2009
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair. Pat served as Chair of the CSDMS Marine Working Group for three years beginning in February, 2009. She was elected as Chair of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2012.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
| valign="top"|'''Terrestrial Working Group Chair'''
Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Greg accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Terrestrial Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Chair'''
Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes. Brad accepted the responsibility to Chair the CSDMS Coastal Working Group at its inception. In February, 2009, he was nominated and accepted election to that position by the group's membership. Brad was re-elected to lead as Chair of the Coastal Working Group in September, 2012.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Courtney was elected to lead the CSDMS Marine Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics. Sam was elected to lead the CSDMS Education and Knowledge Transfer Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees. Eckart accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Mike accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair in September, 2012.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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| valign="top"|'''Past Chair, Steering Committee'''
Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and since September, 2012, continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair. Pat served as Chair of the CSDMS Marine Working Group for three years beginning in February, 2009. She was elected as Chair of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2012.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
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Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Greg accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Terrestrial Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
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Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes. Brad accepted the responsibility to Chair the CSDMS Coastal Working Group at its inception. In February, 2009, he was nominated and accepted election to that position by the Coastal WG members who re-elected him for another term as Chair in September, 2012.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Courtney was elected to lead the CSDMS Marine Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics. Sam was elected to lead the CSDMS Education and Knowledge Transfer Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees. Eckart accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Mike accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair in September, 2012.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and since September, 2012, continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
| 2007 - 2008
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
| 2007 - 2009
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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<div class="NavHead">'''Executive Committee Members'''</div>
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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
| valign="top"|'''Steering Committee Chair'''
Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair. Pat served as Chair of the CSDMS Marine Working Group for three years beginning in February, 2009. She was elected as Chair of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2012.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
| valign="top"|'''Terrestrial Working Group Chair'''
Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Greg accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Terrestrial Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Chair'''
Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes. Brad accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Coastal Working Group as its Chair at its inception. In February, 2009, he accepted nomination and election to that position by the Coastal WG members who re-elected him for another term as Chair in September, 2012.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Courtney was elected to lead the CSDMS Marine Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics. Sam was elected to lead the CSDMS Education and Knowledge Transfer Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees. Eckart accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Mike accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair in September, 2012.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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|width="200pt" valign="top" style="font-size:0.88em;"|[[image:Photo_slingerland.jpg|95px]] '''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Rudy Slingerland Department of Geosciences Penn State University 503A Deike Building University Park, PA 16802 Email: [mailto:sling@geosc.psu.edu sling@geosc.psu.edu] Tel: +1 814 865-6892 Fax: +1 814 865-3191
| valign="top"|'''Past Chair, Steering Committee'''
Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and since September, 2012, continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
| 2007 - 2008
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
| 2007 - 2009
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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<div class="NavHead">'''Executive Committee Members'''</div>
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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
| valign="top"|'''Steering Committee Chair'''
Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair. Pat served as Chair of the CSDMS Marine Working Group for three years beginning in February, 2009. She was elected as Chair of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2012.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
| valign="top"|'''Terrestrial Working Group Chair'''
Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Greg accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Terrestrial Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Chair'''
Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes. Brad accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Coastal Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Courtney was elected to lead the CSDMS Marine Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics. Sam was elected to lead the CSDMS Education and Knowledge Transfer Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees. Eckart accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Mike accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
| valign="top"|'''Steering Committee Chair'''
Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair in September, 2012.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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| valign="top"|'''Past Chair, Steering Committee'''
Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and since September, 2012, continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
| 2007 - 2009
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair. Pat served as Chair of the CSDMS Marine Working Group for three years beginning in February, 2009. She was elected as Chair of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2012.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
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Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Greg accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Terrestrial Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Chair'''
Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes. Brad accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Coastal Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
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Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Courtney was elected to lead the CSDMS Marine Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
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Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics. Sam was elected to lead the CSDMS Education and Knowledge Transfer Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees. Eckart accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
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Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Mike accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair in September, 2012.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and now continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair. Pat served as Chair of the CSDMS Marine Working Group for three years beginning in February, 2009. She was elected as Chair of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2012.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
| valign="top"|'''Terrestrial Working Group Chair'''
Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Greg accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Terrestrial Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Chair'''
Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes. Brad accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Coastal Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Courtney was elected to lead the CSDMS Marine Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics. Sam was elected to lead the CSDMS Education and Knowledge Transfer Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees. Eckart accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
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Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Mike accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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|width="200pt" valign="top" style="font-size:0.88em;"|[[image:Photo_slingerland.jpg|95px]] '''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Rudy Slingerland Department of Geosciences Penn State University 503A Deike Building University Park, PA 16802 Email: [mailto:sling@geosc.psu.edu sling@geosc.psu.edu] Tel: +1 814 865-6892 Fax: +1 814 865-3191
| valign="top"|'''Past Chair, Steering Committee'''
Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and now continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
| 2007 - 2008
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
| 2007 - 2009
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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CSDMS organization

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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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<div class="NavHead">'''Executive Committee Members'''</div>
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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
| valign="top"|'''Steering Committee Chair'''
Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair. Pat served as Chair of the CSDMS Marine Working Group for three years beginning in February, 2009. She was elected as Chair of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2012.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
| valign="top"|'''Terrestrial Working Group Chair'''
Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Greg accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Terrestrial Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Chair'''
Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes. Brad accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Coastal Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Courtney was elected to lead the CSDMS Marine Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics. Sam was elected to lead the CSDMS Education and Knowledge Transfer Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees. Eckart accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009. He was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Mike accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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| valign="top"|'''Past Chair, Steering Committee'''
Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and now continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
| 2007 - 2008
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
| 2007 - 2009
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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<div class="NavHead">'''Executive Committee Members'''</div>
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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
| valign="top"|'''Steering Committee Chair'''
Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair. Pat served as Chair of the CSDMS Marine Working Group for three years beginning in February, 2009. She was elected as Chair of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2012.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
| valign="top"|'''Terrestrial Working Group Chair'''
Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Greg accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Terrestrial Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Chair'''
Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes. Brad accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Coastal Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Courtney was elected to lead the CSDMS Marine Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics. Sam was elected to lead the CSDMS Education and Knowledge Transfer Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees. Eckart accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Mike accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
| valign="top"|'''Steering Committee Chair'''
Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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| valign="top"|'''Past Chair, Steering Committee'''
Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and now continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair. Pat served as Chair of the CSDMS Marine Working Group for three years beginning in February, 2009. She was elected to be Chair of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2012.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
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Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Greg accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Terrestrial Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Chair'''
Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes. Brad accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Coastal Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Courtney was elected to lead the CSDMS Marine Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
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Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics. Sam was elected to lead the CSDMS Education and Knowledge Transfer Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees. Eckart accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
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Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Mike accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and now continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
| valign="top"|'''Steering Committee Chair'''
Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair. Pat served as Chair of the CSDMS Marine Working Group for three years beginning in February, 2009. She was elected to Chair the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2012.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
| valign="top"|'''Terrestrial Working Group Chair'''
Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Greg accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Terrestrial Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Chair'''
Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes. Brad accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Coastal Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Courtney was elected to lead the CSDMS Marine Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics. Sam was elected to lead the CSDMS Education and Knowledge Transfer Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees. Eckart accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Mike accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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|width="200pt" valign="top" style="font-size:0.88em;"|[[image:Photo_slingerland.jpg|95px]] '''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Rudy Slingerland Department of Geosciences Penn State University 503A Deike Building University Park, PA 16802 Email: [mailto:sling@geosc.psu.edu sling@geosc.psu.edu] Tel: +1 814 865-6892 Fax: +1 814 865-3191
| valign="top"|'''Past Chair, Steering Committee'''
Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and now continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
| 2007 - 2008
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
| 2007 - 2009
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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CSDMS organization

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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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<div class="NavHead">'''Executive Committee Members'''</div>
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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
| valign="top"|'''Steering Committee Chair'''
Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair. Pat served as Chair of the CSDMS Marine Working Group for three years beginning in February, 2009. She was elected to Chair the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2012.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
| valign="top"|'''Terrestrial Working Group Chair'''
Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Greg accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Terrestrial Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Chair'''
Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes. Brad accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Coastal Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics. Sam was elected to lead the CSDMS Education and Knowledge Transfer Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees. Eckart accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Mike accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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|width="200pt" valign="top" style="font-size:0.88em;"|[[image:Photo_slingerland.jpg|95px]] '''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Rudy Slingerland Department of Geosciences Penn State University 503A Deike Building University Park, PA 16802 Email: [mailto:sling@geosc.psu.edu sling@geosc.psu.edu] Tel: +1 814 865-6892 Fax: +1 814 865-3191
| valign="top"|'''Past Chair, Steering Committee'''
Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and now continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
| 2007 - 2008
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
| 2007 - 2009
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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<div class="NavHead">'''Executive Committee Members'''</div>
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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
| valign="top"|'''Steering Committee Chair'''
Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair. Pat served as Chair of the CSDMS Marine Working Group for three years beginning in February, 2009. She was elected to Chair the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2012.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
| valign="top"|'''Terrestrial Working Group Chair'''
Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Greg accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Terrestrial Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Chair'''
Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes. Brad accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Coastal Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics. Sam accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Education and Knowledge Transfer Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees. Eckart accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Mike accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and now continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair. Pat served as Chair of the CSDMS Marine Working Group for three years beginning in February, 2009. She was elected to Chair the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2012.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
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Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Greg accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Terrestrial Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
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Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes. Brad accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Coastal Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
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Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees. Eckart accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
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Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Mike accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and now continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
| valign="top"|'''Steering Committee Chair'''
Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
| valign="top"|'''Terrestrial Working Group Chair'''
Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. Greg accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Terrestrial Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Chair'''
Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes. Brad accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Coastal Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees. Eckart accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Mike accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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|width="200pt" valign="top" style="font-size:0.88em;"|[[image:Photo_slingerland.jpg|95px]] '''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Rudy Slingerland Department of Geosciences Penn State University 503A Deike Building University Park, PA 16802 Email: [mailto:sling@geosc.psu.edu sling@geosc.psu.edu] Tel: +1 814 865-6892 Fax: +1 814 865-3191
| valign="top"|'''Past Chair, Steering Committee'''
Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and now continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
| 2007 - 2008
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
| 2007 - 2009
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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CSDMS organization

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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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<div class="NavHead">'''Executive Committee Members'''</div>
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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
| valign="top"|'''Steering Committee Chair'''
Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
| valign="top"|'''Terrestrial Working Group Chair'''
Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Chair'''
Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes. Brad accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Coastal Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees. Eckart accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Mike accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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|width="200pt" valign="top" style="font-size:0.88em;"|[[image:Photo_slingerland.jpg|95px]] '''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Rudy Slingerland Department of Geosciences Penn State University 503A Deike Building University Park, PA 16802 Email: [mailto:sling@geosc.psu.edu sling@geosc.psu.edu] Tel: +1 814 865-6892 Fax: +1 814 865-3191
| valign="top"|'''Past Chair, Steering Committee'''
Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and now continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
| 2007 - 2008
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
| 2007 - 2009
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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<div class="NavHead">'''Executive Committee Members'''</div>
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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
| valign="top"|'''Steering Committee Chair'''
Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
| valign="top"|'''Terrestrial Working Group Chair'''
Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Chair'''
Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees. Eckart accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group as its Chair in February, 2009, and was re-elected for another term in September, 2012.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Mike accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and now continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
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Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
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Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources. Jon accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Hydrology Focus Research Group as its Chair in November, 2010.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Mike accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and now continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
| valign="top"|'''Terrestrial Working Group Chair'''
Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Chair'''
Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonate Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Mike accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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|width="200pt" valign="top" style="font-size:0.88em;"|[[image:Photo_slingerland.jpg|95px]] '''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Rudy Slingerland Department of Geosciences Penn State University 503A Deike Building University Park, PA 16802 Email: [mailto:sling@geosc.psu.edu sling@geosc.psu.edu] Tel: +1 814 865-6892 Fax: +1 814 865-3191
| valign="top"|'''Past Chair, Steering Committee'''
Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and now continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
| 2007 - 2008
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
| 2007 - 2009
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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CSDMS organization

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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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<div class="NavHead">'''Executive Committee Members'''</div>
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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
| valign="top"|'''Steering Committee Chair'''
Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
| valign="top"|'''Terrestrial Working Group Chair'''
Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Chair'''
Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems. Carl accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group as its Chair in April, 2009.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Mike accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
| valign="top"|'''Steering Committee Chair'''
Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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|width="200pt" valign="top" style="font-size:0.88em;"|[[image:Photo_slingerland.jpg|95px]] '''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Rudy Slingerland Department of Geosciences Penn State University 503A Deike Building University Park, PA 16802 Email: [mailto:sling@geosc.psu.edu sling@geosc.psu.edu] Tel: +1 814 865-6892 Fax: +1 814 865-3191
| valign="top"|'''Past Chair, Steering Committee'''
Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and now continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
| 2007 - 2008
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
| 2007 - 2009
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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<div class="NavHead">'''Executive Committee Members'''</div>
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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
| valign="top"|'''Steering Committee Chair'''
Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
| valign="top"|'''Terrestrial Working Group Chair'''
Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Chair'''
Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin. Chris accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group as its Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Mike accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and now continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
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Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
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Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Mike accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and now continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
| valign="top"|'''Terrestrial Working Group Chair'''
Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Chair'''
Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Mike accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
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Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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|width="200pt" valign="top" style="font-size:0.88em;"|[[image:Photo_slingerland.jpg|95px]] '''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Rudy Slingerland Department of Geosciences Penn State University 503A Deike Building University Park, PA 16802 Email: [mailto:sling@geosc.psu.edu sling@geosc.psu.edu] Tel: +1 814 865-6892 Fax: +1 814 865-3191
| valign="top"|'''Past Chair, Steering Committee'''
Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and now continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
| 2007 - 2008
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
| 2007 - 2009
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
| valign="top"|'''Steering Committee Chair'''
Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
| valign="top"|'''Terrestrial Working Group Chair'''
Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Chair'''
Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean. Mike accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
| valign="top"|'''Steering Committee Chair'''
Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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|width="200pt" valign="top" style="font-size:0.88em;"|[[image:Photo_slingerland.jpg|95px]] '''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Rudy Slingerland Department of Geosciences Penn State University 503A Deike Building University Park, PA 16802 Email: [mailto:sling@geosc.psu.edu sling@geosc.psu.edu] Tel: +1 814 865-6892 Fax: +1 814 865-3191
| valign="top"|'''Past Chair, Steering Committee'''
Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and now continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
| 2007 - 2008
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
| 2007 - 2009
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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=CSDMS Executive Committee=
The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:
# Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
# Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
# Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
# Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
# Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
# Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

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<div class="NavHead">'''Executive Committee Members'''</div>
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===James Syvitski===
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James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
| valign="top"|'''Steering Committee Chair'''
Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.
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===Greg Tucker===
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Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: [mailto:gtucker@cires.colorado.edu gtucker@cires.colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303-492-6985
| valign="top"|'''Terrestrial Working Group Chair'''
Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.
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===Brad Murray===
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Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu] Tel: +1-919-681-5069 
Fax: +1 919-684-5833
| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Chair'''
Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes.
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===Courtney K. Harris===
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Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu] Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250
| valign="top"|'''Marine Working Group Chair'''
Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. Research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology.
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===Sam Bentley===
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Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: [mailto:sjb@lsu.edu sjb@lsu.edu] Tel: +1 225-578-5735
| valign="top"|'''Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair'''
Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics.
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===Eckart Meiburg===
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Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: [mailto:meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu] Tel: +1 805-893-5278
| valign="top"|'''Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair'''
Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held
visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Jon Goodall===
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Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: [mailto:goodall@engr.sc.edu goodall@engr.sc.edu] Tel: +1 803-777-8184
| valign="top"|'''Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair'''
Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk] Tel: +44 178-441-4083
| valign="top"|'''Carbonate Focus Research Group Chair'''
Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models.
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===Carl Friedrichs===
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Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: [mailto:cfried@vims.edu cfried@vims.edu] Tel: +1-804-684-7303
|valign="top" |'''Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair'''
Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems.
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===Chris Duffy===
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Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: [mailto:cxd11@psu.edu cxd11@psu.edu] Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384 
|valign="top" |'''Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair '''
Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin.
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===Mike Ellis===
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Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk] Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean.
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===Kathleen Galvin===
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Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu] Phone: +1 970-491-5784 
|valign="top" |'''Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Kathleen Galvin, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen has been conducting interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001. Kathleen accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in January, 2013.
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===Phaedra Upton===
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Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz] Phone: +64 4 570-4198 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA.
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===Mark Behn===
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Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu] Phone: +1 508-289-3637 
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS.
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=CSDMS Steering Committee=
The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 8 members: 6 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

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===Patricia Wiberg===
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Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu] Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137
| valign="top"|'''Steering Committee Chair'''
Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov] Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 
Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286
|valign="top" |Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, ESMF, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets.
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===Tom Drake===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil] Tel: +1 703 696-1206 
|valign="top" |Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program.
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===Bert Jagers===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: [mailto:Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl] Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582
|valign="top" |Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.
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===Boyana Norris===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: [mailto:norris@mcs.anl.gov norris@mcs.anl.gov] Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 
Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986
|valign="top" |Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers.
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===Chris Paola===
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'''Member, Steering Committee''' Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: [mailto:cpaola@umn.edu cpaola@umn.edu] Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 
Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819
|valign="top" |Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL).
He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008.
Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Paul Cutler===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: [mailto:pcutler@nsf.gov pcutler@nsf.gov] Tel: +1 703-292-4961 
|valign="top" |Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.
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===James Syvitski===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu] Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180 
|valign="top" |Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.
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===Rudy Slingerland===
{|cellpadding="12"
|width="200pt" valign="top" style="font-size:0.88em;"|[[image:Photo_slingerland.jpg|95px]] '''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee''' Rudy Slingerland Department of Geosciences Penn State University 503A Deike Building University Park, PA 16802 Email: [mailto:sling@geosc.psu.edu sling@geosc.psu.edu] Tel: +1 814 865-6892 Fax: +1 814 865-3191
| valign="top"|'''Past Chair, Steering Committee'''
Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and now continues his service in the position of Past Chair.
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==Previous Steering Committee Members==
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!{{H13}}|Previous SC Members
!{{H13}}|Period served
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
| 2007 - 2008
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|Dr. Tom Dunne
| 2007 - 2009
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|Dr. Richard Yuretich
| 2008 - 2010
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|Dr. Dave Furbish
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Gary Parker
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Rick Sarg
| 2007 - 2013
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|Dr. Dan Tetzlaff
| 2007 - 2013
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Anthropocene Focus Research Group

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=Anthropocene Focus Research Group=
==Introduction==
Welcome to the CSDMS Anthropocene Focus Research Group (FRG) page. The Anthropocene FRG is a research group (''currently '''{{#ask: [[User:+]][[Working group member::Anthropocene Focus Research Group]]
| format=count
}}''' members''). This group was announced in March of 2013, and is led by Kathleen Galvin and Michael Ellis who accepted leadership as co-chairs in January of 2013. We invite you to join and participate through the link below.

===Anthropocene FRG links===
* [[Anthropocene Members|Members]]
* [[Anthropocene meetings | Meetings & presentations]]
* [[Anthropocene Projects|Projects]]
* [[Anthropocene Reports|Reports]]

==Chairs==

{|
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| width="320px"| Kathleen Galvin
| align="left" width="250px" rowspan=7 |[[image:Kathleen_Galvin.jpg|110px]]
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| width="320px"| Mike Ellis
| align="left" width="250px" rowspan=7 |[[image:Mike_Ellis.jpg|110px]]
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| Department of Anthropology
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| Department of Climate Change Science
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| Colorado State University
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| British Geological Survey
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| Clark Bldg
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| Kingsley Dunham Centre, Keyworth
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| Fort Collins, Colorado 80523 United States
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| Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom
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| Email: [mailto:kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu]
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| Email: [mailto:Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk]
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| Phone: +1 970.491.5784
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| Phone:+44 0115.936.3356
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== Announcements ==
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== Join ==
Do you want to become part of CSDMS? [[Special:RequestAccount | Please do so in joining a Working Group or Focus Research Group]].

Geodynamics Focus Research Group

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=Geodynamics Focus Research Group=
==Introduction==
Welcome to the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group (FRG) page. The Geodynamics FRG is a research group (''currently '''{{#ask: [[User:+]][[Working group member::Geodynamics Focus Research Group]]
| format=count
}}''' members''), that is additionally co-sponsored by [http://www.geoprisms.org/ GeoPRISMS], a legacy of the NSF MARGINS Program. It is a decadal program, funded by NSF, committed to the amphibious study of the origin and evolution of continental margins through interdisciplinary, community-based investigations. The group was initiated in March of 2013 and is led by co-chairs, Phaedra Upton and Mark Behn. The group's goals are to provide input to the CSDMS effort on how to best represent geodynamic processes and models within CSDMS. We welcome your participation in the Geodynamics FRG, and invite you to join at the link below.

===Geodynamics FRG links===
* [[Geodynamics Members|Members]]
* [[Geodynamics meetings | Meetings & presentations]]
* [[Geodynamics Projects|Projects]]
* [[Geodynamics Reports|Reports]]

==Chairs==

{|
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| width="320px"| Phaedra_Upton
| align="left" width="250px" rowspan=7 |[[image:Phaedra_Upton.png|110px]]
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| width="320px"| Mark Behn
| align="left" width="250px" rowspan=7 |[[image:Mark Behn.png|110px]]
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| GNS Science
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| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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| Department of Geology and Geophysics
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| 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010
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| 360 Woods Hole Road
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| Lower Hutt 5040, New Zealand
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| Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541
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| Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz]
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| Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu]
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| Phone: +64 4 570-4198
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| Phone: +1 508-289-3637
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== Announcements ==
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== Join ==
Do you want to become part of CSDMS? [[Special:RequestAccount | Please do so in joining a Working Group or Focus Research Group]].

Geodynamics Focus Research Group

2013-05-13T22:19:16Z

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=Geodynamics Focus Research Group=
==Introduction==
Welcome to the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group (FRG) page. The Geodynamics FRG is a research group (''currently '''{{#ask: [[User:+]][[Working group member::Geodynamics Focus Research Group]]
| format=count
}}''' members''), that is additionally co-sponsored by [http://www.geoprisms.org/ GeoPRISMS], a legacy of the NSF MARGINS Program. It is a decadal program, funded by NSF, committed to the amphibious study of the origin and evolution of continental margins through interdisciplinary, community-based investigations. This group was initiated in March 2013. Its Chair (Phaedra Upton) and co-Chair (Mark Behn) state its goals as being to provide input to the CSDMS effort on how to best represent geodynamic processes and models within CSDMS. We welcome your participation in the Geodynamics FRG, and invite you to join at the link below.

===Geodynamics FRG links===
* [[Geodynamics Members|Members]]
* [[Geodynamics meetings | Meetings & presentations]]
* [[Geodynamics Projects|Projects]]
* [[Geodynamics Reports|Reports]]

==Chairs==

{|
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| width="320px"| Phaedra_Upton
| align="left" width="250px" rowspan=7 |[[image:Phaedra_Upton.png|110px]]
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| width="320px"| Mark Behn
| align="left" width="250px" rowspan=7 |[[image:Mark Behn.png|110px]]
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| GNS Science
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| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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| Department of Geology and Geophysics
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| 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010
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| 360 Woods Hole Road
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| Lower Hutt 5040, New Zealand
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| Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541
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| Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz]
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| Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu]
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| Phone: +64 4 570-4198
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| Phone: +1 508-289-3637
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|}

== Announcements ==
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== Join ==
Do you want to become part of CSDMS? [[Special:RequestAccount | Please do so in joining a Working Group or Focus Research Group]].

Directions to CSDMS

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=Directions to the CSDMS Integration Facility=

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|width="275"| INSTAAR is located on East Campus
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|INSTAAR, Univ. of Colorado
|Near Arapahoe Ave and 30th Street
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|3100 Marine Street, UCB 450
|Boulder, CO 80309
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|Boulder, CO 80309-0450
|in buildings RL-1 & RL-3; labeled 71 & 73
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|The CSDMS Integration Facility is housed in RL-3;
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|labeled "73", also known as the Administrative and
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|Research Center (ARC)
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[[image:Map_boulder-edit.gif]]

[[image:Map_east_campus-edit.gif]]

==Denver International Airport (DIA):==
You will arrive at one of three concourses. When you get off the plane you will make your way along the concourse and proceed down the escalators/stairs to the airport train located within the terminal. The train will take you from the gate areas to the Main Terminal and Baggage Claim areas.

==Transport from Denver Airport and Boulder:==

Upon arrival at the Denver Airport, take the train from the Concourse to the Terminal.

'''1. By Shuttle''': 
Proceed to the [http://www.supershuttle.com/en/DENAirportShuttleDenver.html |Denver Airport SuperShuttle] counter located on Level 5/Baggage Claim, adjacent to the water feature in the center of the terminal. Tell the counter staff your destination in Boulder and they will issue tickets and give directions to the appropriate blue van loading area, likely on Island 5, of the East or West side as you exit the Main Terminal. For information, call 1-800-BLUEVAN. If you arrive when the ticket counter is closed (between 12am and 6am), please use the courtesy phone located at the ticket counter to notify dispatch of your arrival. The cost of a one-way ticket to/from Denver Airport/Boulder is about $27 (without tip). Although you can purchase your tickets at the Denver Airport upon arrival, it is recommended that you reserve a shuttle in advance and pre-pay online. [http://www.supershuttle.com/Default.aspx | SuperShuttle Reservations].

'''2. By car''': 
Most rental car companies have facilities at DIA. They provide courtesy shuttle service to their facilities and have service counters located in Jeppesen Terminal, Level 5.
Driving time between DIA and Boulder is approximately 60 minutes. From DIA, follow Pena Boulevard (10 miles) south to I-70, and exit onto I-70 west. Follow I-70 west to I-270 west. I-270 merges into U.S. 36 west and takes you west into Boulder (about 23 miles). This route is free. For more relaxed driving then take E470 � north but this route is a toll road and the cost is $6. (See map below). For personalized driving directions to your hotel, go to [http://www.mapquest.com www.mapquest.com].

'''Parking''' on East Campus is available beside INSTAAR (buildings 71 & 73 on maps above). One day permits are sold for peripheral campus parking lots on a space available basis. In 2008, the one-day permits cost $6.25 each and could be pre-purchased. For current costs and purchasing information, contact Parking and Transportation Services at 720-492-7384 and website: [http://ucbparking.colorado.edu ucbparking.colorado.edu]. Parking and Transportation Services are located on Regent Drive across from the Engineering Center. (If parking permits have been secured for meeting participants by CSDMS, you will have been notified in advance regarding the arrangements for pick-up.) The University has parking meters and hourly parking garages. In 2008, the gray parking meters were $1.25 per hour and were enforced from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. seven days a week. The blue meters are for disabled parking patrons. The meters take quarters.

'''3. By public bus (RTD)''': 
All RTD operations are outside Door 511 on the East and West Side of Jeppesen Terminal, Level 5, Island 5. The AB will bring you to Boulder in one and a half hours. Please obtain a skyRide route schedule for the AB [http://RTD-Denver.com RTD-Denver.com] or call 303-299-6000 to find the most suitable departure time for you. The cost of an one way ticket is about $10 (you will need exact change). Once in Boulder you can phone a taxi (303-777-7777) to direct you to your hotel.

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=Local Accommodations=
Best Western Boulder Inn 
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<noinclude>__NOEDITSECTION__<center>__NOTOC__Welcome to the CSDMS 2013 annual meeting 
'''CSDMS 2.0: Moving Forward'''
March 23-25th 2013 Boulder Colorado, USA</center> 

=Registration=
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Registration is now officially closed. Any requests to attend may be sent to [mailto:csdms@colorado.edu csdms@colorado.edu] with subject line: CSDMS Mtg 2013. 
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=Helpful Information for Travels Home=
SuperShuttle: 303-227-0000
Taxi Cab Service: 303-777-7777

If booking SuperShuttle, they will ask you if you are South or North of Jay Road. The UCAR Facility is SOUTH of Jay Road.

The meeting facility address is UCAR Center Green, Bldg. #CG1, 3080 Center Green Drive, Boulder CO 80301

=Objectives and general description=
The CSDMS Meeting 2013 is designed to launch CSDMS 2.0 and shape its direction through engaging on the technical and community challenges over the next five years. 

The meeting includes: 1) ''State-of-the art keynote presentations'' in earth-surface dynamics and modeling; 2) ''Hands-on clinics'' related to community models, tools and approaches; 3) ''Transformative software products and approaches'' designed to be accessible, easy to use, and relevant; 4) ''New community initiatives'' to advance earth-surface process modeling across many disciplines; 5) ''Breakout sessions for Working and Focus Research Groups'' to update their strategic plans and define their long, medium and short term goals; 6) ''Poster Sessions''; and more. 
''Poster Information'': Those who are bringing posters have been assigned to one of the two poster sessions via an email that was sent on March 11th. (If you did not receive that email, contact: csdms@colorado.edu). The poster boards are configured for 4' wide by 6' tall (portrait orientation) posters. There are only a few spots available for posters with landscape orientation.
 

==Program==
[[media:CSDMS_Meeting_2013_Schedule_23Mar.pdf|Program Schedule]] updated March 23rd
 

==Join online Pre meeting discussions==
[[Coastal_WG_Discussion|Coastal Work Group]] 
[[Terrestrial_WG_Discussion|Terrestrial email send March 18th]]
 

==Keynote speakers==
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = John Atkinson
| affiliation = ARCADIS U.S., Inc.
| title = A Coupled ADCIRC and SWAN model of Hurricane Surge and Waves.
| abstract = This presentation will briefly introduce the formulation, numerics, and parallel implementation of the coastal circulation model ADCIRC, discuss the strategy of coupling with the SWAN wave model, and provide background on recent enhancements of the bottom-friction formulation. Several recent applications of the coupled modeling system will be presented.
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Katy Barnhart
| affiliation = University of Colorado
| title = Melting Coasts and Toppled Blocks: Modeling Coastal Erosion in Ice-Rich Permafrost Bluffs, Beaufort Sea, Alaska
| abstract =(with Robert S. Anderson, Irina Overeem, Gary Clow, and Frank Urban) (thanks to Adam LeWinter and Tim Stanton) Rates of coastal cliff erosion are a function of the geometry and substrate of the coast; storm frequency, duration, magnitude, and wave field; and regional sediment sources. In the Arctic, the duration of sea ice-free conditions limits the time over which coastal erosion can occur, and sea water temperature modulates erosion rates where ice content of coastal bluffs is high. Predicting how coastal erosion rates in this environment will respond to future climate change requires that we first understand modern coastal erosion rates. Arctic coastlines are responding rapidly to climate change. Remotely sensed observations of coastline position indicate that the mean annual erosion rate along a 60-km reach of Alaska’s Beaufort Sea coast, characterized by high ice content and small grain size, doubled from 7 m yr-1 for the period 1955-1979 to 14 m yr-1 for 2002-2007. Over the last 30 years the duration of the open water season expanded from ∼45 days to ∼95 days, increasing exposure of permafrost bluffs to seawater by a factor of 2.5. Time-lapse photography indicates that coastal erosion in this environment is a halting process: most significant erosion occurs during storm events in which local water level is elevated by surge, during which instantaneous submarine erosion rates can reach 1-2 m/day. In contrast, at times of low water, or when sea ice is present, erosion rates are negligible. We employ a 1D coastal cross-section numerical model of the erosion of ice-rich permafrost bluffs to explore the sensitivity of the system to environmental drivers. Our model captures the geometry and style of coastal erosion observed near Drew Point, Alaska, including insertion of a melt-notch, topple of ice-wedge-bounded blocks, and subsequent degradation of these blocks. Using consistent rules, we test our model against the temporal pattern of coastal erosion over two periods: the recent past (~30 years), and a short (~2 week) period in summer 2010. Environmental conditions used to drive model runs for the summer of 2010 include ground-based measurements of meteorological conditions (air temperature, wind speed, wind direction) and coastal waters (water level, wave field, water temperature), supplemented by high temporal frequency (4 frames/hour) time-lapse photography of the coast. Reconstruction of the 30-year coastal erosion history is accomplished by assembling published observations and records of meteorology and sea ice conditions, including both ground and satellite-based records, to construct histories of coastline position and environmental conditions. We model wind-driven water level set-up, the local wave field, and water temperature, and find a good match against the short-term erosion record. We then evaluate which environmental drivers are most significant in controlling the rates of coastal erosion, and which melt-erosion rule best captures the coastal history, with a series of sensitivity analyses. The understanding gained from these analyses provides a foundation for evaluating how continuing climate change may influence future coastal erosion rates in the Arctic.
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Chris Duffy
| affiliation = Penn State University
| title = Modeling The Isotopic “Age” of Water in Hydroecological Systems with PIHM
| abstract = Co-authors: Gopal Bhatt and Evan Thomas Theories have been proposed using idealized tracer age modeling for ocean ventilation, atmospheric circulation, soil, stream and groundwater flow. In this research we developing new models for the dynamic age of water in hydroecological systems. Approaches generally assume a steady flow regime and stationarity in the concentration (tracer) distribution function for age, although recent work shows that this is not a necessary assumption. In this paper a dynamic model for flow, concentration, and age for soil water is presented including the effect of macropore behavior on the relative age of recharge and transpired water. Several theoretical and practical issues are presented including some new results for Shale Hills CZO (G. Bhatt, 2012).
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Michael S. Eldred
| affiliation = Sandia NL
| title = DAKOTA: An Object-Oriented Framework for Simulation-Based Iterative Analysis
| abstract = The DAKOTA project began in 1994 with the primary objective of reusing software interfaces to design optimization tools. Over nearly 20 years of development, it has grown into an open source toolkit supporting a broad range of iterative analyses, typically focused on high-fidelity modeling and simulation on high-performance computers. Today, DAKOTA provides a delivery vehicle for uncertainty quantification research for both the NNSA and the office of science, enabling an emphasis on predictive science for stockpile stewardship, energy, and climate mission areas. Starting with an overview of the DAKOTA architecture, this presentation will introduce processes for setting up iterative analyses, interfacing with computational simulations, and managing high-fidelity workflows. Algorithmic capabilities in optimization, calibration, sensitivity analysis, and uncertainty quantification (UQ) will be briefly overviewed, with special emphasis given to UQ. Core UQ capabilities include random sampling methods, local and global reliability methods, stochastic expansion methods, and epistemic interval propagation methods. This UQ foundation enables a variety of higher level analyses including design under uncertainty, mixed aleatory-epistemic UQ, and Bayesian inference.
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Courtney Harris
| affiliation = VIMS
| title = Linking Sediment Transport Processes and Biogeochemistry with Application to the Louisiana Continental Shelf
| abstract = Though it enhances the exchange of porewater and solids with the overlying water, the role that sediment resuspension and redeposition play in biogeochemistry of coastal systems is debated. Numerical models of geochemical processes and diagenesis have traditionally parameterized relatively long timescales, and rarely attempted to include resuspension. Meanwhile, numerical models developed to represent sediment transport have largely ignored geochemistry. Here, we couple the Community Sediment Transport Modeling System (CSTMS) to a biogeochemical model within the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS). The multi-layered sediment bed model accounts for erosion, deposition, and biodiffusion. It has recently been modified to include dissolved porewater constituents, particulate organic matter, and geochemical reactions. For this talk, we explore the role that resuspension and redeposition play in biogeochemical cycles within the seabed and in benthic boundary layer by running idealized, one-dimensional test cases designed to represent a 20-m deep site on the Louisiana Shelf. Results from this are contrasted to calculations from an implementation similar to a standard diagenesis model. Comparing these, the results indicate that resuspension acts to enhance sediment bed oxygen consumption.
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Wonsuck Kim
| affiliation = University of Texas
| title = Building a Network for Sediment Experimentalists and Modelers
| abstract ='''Wonsuck Kim''', ''University of Texas at Austin'' '''Leslie Hsu''', ''Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University'' '''Brandon McElroy''', ''University of Wyoming, Laramie'' '''Raleigh Martin''', ''University of Pennsylvania'' In the modeler community, hindcasting (a way to test models based on knowledge of past events) is required for all computer models before providing reliable results to users. CSDMS 2.0 “Moving forward” has proposed to incorporate benchmarking data into its modeling framework. Data collection in natural systems has been significantly advanced, but is still behind the resolution in time and space and includes natural variability beyond our understanding, which makes thorough testing of computer models difficult. In the experimentalist community, research in Earth-surface processes and subsurface stratal development is in a data-rich era with rapid expansion of high-resolution, digitally based data sets that were not available even a few years ago. Millions of dollars has been spent to build and renovate flume laboratories. Advanced technologies and methodologies in experiment allow more number of sophisticated experiments in large scales at fine details. Joint effort between modelers and experimentalists is a natural step toward a great synergy between both communities. Time for a coherent effort for building a strong global research network for these two communities is now. First, the both communities should initiate an effort to figure out a best practice, metadata for standardized data collection. Sediment experimentalists are an example community in the “long tail”, meaning that their data are often collected in one-of-a-kind experimental set-ups and isolated from other experiments. Second, there should be a centralized knowledge base (web-based repository for data and technology) easily accessible to modelers and experimentalists. Experimentalists also have a lot of “dark data,” data that are difficult or impossible to access through the Internet. This effort will result in tremendous opportunities for productive collaborations. The new experimentalist and modeler network will be able to achieve the CSDMS current goal by providing high quality benchmark datasets that are well documented and easily accessible.
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Louis Moresi
| affiliation = Monash University
| title = Underworld: A high-performance, modular long-term tectonics code
| abstract = Co-authors: John Mansour, Steve Quenette and Guillaume Duclaux The Underworld code was designed for solving (very) long timescale geological deformations accurately, tracking deformation and evolving interfaces to very high strains. It uses a particle-in-cell based finite element method to track the material history accurately and highly-tuned multigrid solvers for fast implicit solution of the equations of motion. The implementation has been fully parallel since the inception of the project, and a plugin/component architecture ensures that extensions can be built without significant exposure to the underlying technicalities of the parallel implementation. We also paid considerable attention to model reproducibility and archiving — each run defines its entire input state and the repository state automatically. A typical geological problems for which the code was designed is the deformation of the crust and lithospheric mantle by regional plate motions — these result in the formation of localised structures (e.g. faults), basins, folds and in the generation of surface topography. The role of surface processes — redistributing surface loads and changing boundary conditions, is known to be significant in modifying the response of the lithosphere to the plate-derived forces. The coupling of surface process codes to Underworld is feasible, but raises some interesting challenges (and opportunities !) such as the need to track horizontal deformations and match changes to the topography at different resolutions in each model. We will share some of our insights into this problem.
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Jaap Nienhuis
| affiliation = WHOI/MIT
| title = Growth and Abandonment: Quantifying First-order Controls on Wave Influenced Deltas.
| abstract = What determines the style of river delta growth? How do deltas change after fluvial sediment supply is cut off? River delta evolution is characterized by the progradation and transgression of individual (deltaic) lobes: the delta cycle. We investigate the behaviour of wave-influenced deltas with a simple shoreline model, and quantitatively relate several first-order controls.
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Mark Schmeeckle
| affiliation = Arizona State University
| title = Turbulence- and Particle-Resolving Numerical Modeling of Sediment Transport.
| abstract = Turbulence, bedload, and suspended sediment transport are directly simulated by a coupled large eddy simulation of the fluid and a distinct element method for every sediment grain. This modeling system directly calculates the motion of all grains by resolved turbulence structures. The model directly calculates modification of the flow and turbulence by the grains, such as the effects of grain momentum extraction and density stratification. Simulations such as these can be used in the future to parameterize sediment transport in large-scale morphodynamic simulations.
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Mauro Werder
| affiliation = Simon Fraser University
| title = Modeling channelized and distributed subglacial drainage in 2D
| abstract = This model of the subglacial drainage system simulates the pressurised flow of water at the ice-bed interface of glaciers and ice sheets. It includes both distributed and channelized water flow. Notably the model determines the geometry of the channel network as part of the solution. The resulting channel network is similar to subaerial stream networks with channels carving out hydraulic potential "valleys". However, there are some pronounced differences to subaerial drainage, for example that the time for a network to form (and decay) is on the order of weeks to months; or that, channels originating at point sources can lie on ridges of the hydraulic potential. The model employs a novel finite element approach to solve the parabolic equations for the hydraulic potential simultaneously on the 1D channel network and 2D distributed system.
}}
 

==Clinics==
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Peter Burgess & Chris Jenkins
| affiliation = Royal Holloway, UK & Univ. of Co.
| title = Three carbonate sedimentation models for CSDMS
| abstract = This workshop will showcase three different models of carbonate sedimentation, produced under the CSDMS umbrella: carboCat for facies, carboCell for guilds, carboPop for communities. Participants will be able to download and run (on own or provided machines) these models in Python and Matlab environments, discuss how to select appropriate parameters for them using the various databases being developed in concert with the models, and contribute to plans for further development of models and databases.
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Gary Clow
| affiliation = USGS
| title = Introduction to the Weather Research & Forecasting (WRF) System, a High-Resolution Atmospheric Model
| abstract = WRF is a highly parallel state-of-the-art numerical weather prediction model hosted by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). This community model was designed from the onset to be fairly flexible, supporting both operational forecasting and atmospheric research needs at scales ranging from meters to thousands of kilometers. Given the model’s physics implementation and it’s modular design, WRF naturally became the core for a number of more specialized models, including: HWRF (used to forecast the track and intensity of tropical cyclones), WRF-CHEM (simulates the emission, transport, mixing, and chemical transformation of trace gases and aerosols simultaneously with meteorology), Polar WRF (a version of WRF optimized for the polar regions), CWRF and CLWRF (versions of WRF modified to enable regional climate modeling), and planetWRF (a general purpose numerical model for planetary atmospheres used thus far for Mars, Venus, and Titan). The goal of this clinic is to provide an overview of the WRF model, including: model architecture, physics options, data required to drive the model, standard model output, model applications, and system requirements. Several examples will be presented. A Basic Model Interface (BMI) is currently being developed for WRF to facilitate the coupling of this atmospheric model with other earth system models.
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Scott Peckham
| affiliation = University of Colorado
| title = Introduction to the Basic Model Interface and CSDMS Standard Names
| abstract = In order to simplify conversion of an existing model to a reusable, plug-and-play model component, CSDMS has developed a simple interface called the Basic Model Interface or BMI that model developers are asked to implement. In this context, an interface is a named set of functions with prescribed function names, argument types and return types. By design, the BMI functions are straightforward to implement in any of the languages supported by CSDMS, which include C, C++, Fortran (all years), Java and Python. Also by design, the BMI functions are noninvasive. A BMI-compliant model does not make any calls to CSDMS components or tools and is not modified to use CSDMS data structures. BMI therefore introduces no dependencies into a model and the model can still be used in a "stand-alone" manner. Any model that provides the BMI functions can be easily converted to a CSDMS plug-and-play component that has a CSDMS Component Model Interface or CMI. Once a BMI-enabled model has been wrapped by CSDMS staff to become a CSDMS component, it automatically gains many new capabilities. This includes the ability to be coupled to other models even if their (1) programming language, (2) variable names, (3) variable units, (4) time-stepping scheme or (5) computational grid is different. It also gains (1) the ability to write output variables to standardized NetCDF files, (2) a "tabbed-dialog" graphical user interface (GUI), (3) a standardized HTML help page and (4) the ability to run within the CSDMS Modeling Tool (CMT). This clinic will explain the key concepts of BMI, with step-by-step examples. It will also include an overview of the new CSDMS Standard Names, which provide a standard way to map input and output variable names between component models as part of BMI implementation. Participants are encouraged to read the associated CSDMS wiki pages in advance and bring model code with specific questions. See 1) BMI Page: [[BMI_Description]] 2) Standard Names Page: [[CSDMS_Standard_Names]]
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Irina Overeem
| affiliation = University of Colorado
| title = CMT clinic
| abstract = This clinic will look at the CSDMS Modeling Tool (CMT). We share the philosophy behind CMT, will demo the functionality of CMT and show what models are incorporated into it. New educational material on several models allows scientists and students to more easily use CSDMS models for classes and simple simulations and we will provide clinic participants with the latest information on these resources. The CMT clinic will be hands-on, we will run a few simple runs and visualize them. Finally, we will spend some time on discussing common problems and strategic solutions.
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Thomas Hauser & Monte Lunacek
| affiliation = University of Colorado
| title = Python for Matlab users clinic
| abstract = This workshop is a hands-on introduction to using Python for computational science. Python is a powerful open source interpreted language that has been adopted widely in many application areas. The goal of this workshop is to teach participants how to use Python as an open source alternative for MATLAB in their computational workflows. While we will demonstrate how to implement MATLAB-based scientific computing workflows in Python, attendees are not required to have MATLAB or Python experience. The goal of this tutorial is to show how an open source alternative to MATLAB can be used productively for computational science research. In the first part of this workshop we will introduce basic Python concepts and iPython with a focus on migrating from MATLAB to Python. We will show how the Python modules Numpy and Scipy, for scientific computing, and Matplotlib, for plotting, can make Python as capable as MATLAB for computational science research. In the second part of the tutorial we will discuss on how to interface Python with compiled languages like C or Fortran to improve performance of numerical codes. Additionally we will show how to use distributed parallel computing on a supercomputer from interactive python notebooks. This tutorial will be hands on, so we would like you to install python on your laptop before you arrive. The easiest way to get everything you need is to download the FREE Enthought distribution: [https://www.enthought.com/products/epd_free.php https://www.enthought.com/products/epd_free.php] The installation is fairly straight forward, but if you have any questions, please feel free to email Monte: [mailto:Monte.Lunacek@colorado.edu Monte.Lunacek@colorado.edu].
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Mary Hill
| affiliation = USGS
| title = Toward Transparent, Refutable Hydrologic Models in Kansas or Oz.
| abstract = Numerical models are critical to integrating knowledge and data for environmental systems and understanding future consequences of management decisions, weather variability, climate change, and so on. To attain the transparency and refutability needed to understand predictions and uncertainty and use models wisely, this clinic presents a strategy that emphasizes fundamental questions about model adequacy, sensitivity analysis, and uncertainty evaluation, and consistent use of carefully designed metrics. Emphasizing fundamental questions reveals practical similarities in methods with widely varying theoretical foundations and computational demands. In a field where models take seconds to months for one forward run, a credible strategy must include frugal methods for those in Kansas who can only afford 10s to 100s of highly parallelizable model runs in addition to demanding methods for those in Oz who can afford to do 10,000s to 1,000,000s of model runs. Advanced computing power notwithstanding, people may be in Kansas because they have chosen complex, high-dimensional models, want quick insight into individual models, and/or need systematic comparison of many alternative models. This class will briefly review the fundamental questions, demonstrate relations between existing theoretical approaches, and address challenges and limitations. Students will be able to examine a model constructed using FUSE and compare results from computationally frugal method evaluations conducted in class and demanding methods for which results are provided. '''Notice:''' During the clinic you will have the opportunity to run an exercise on your laptop. The exercise uses R, which is freely downloadable. The clinic is only an hour, so it will really be necessary to have downloaded and installed R prior to arriving. Do this as follows go to [http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/ http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/] Install version 2.15.3 Linux, Mac, or Windows versions are available. You can install with or without administrative privileges. The R scripts you will be working with and the file with results from Sobol' can be downloaded from ftp://ftpext.cr.usgs.gov/pub/cr/co/boulder/mchill, in case you would like to try it out. Here are the rest of the instructions for doing that, but you can wait and do this in class if you like, as long as you have downloaded R. 2) Open Rgui.exe In the bin subdirectory of the R distribution 3) Go to File > Open script "Sensitivities_Global_Local_v02.r" 4) Set your current working directory in the R script: setwd("full path") on line 17. This is the directory with the .r files distributed for class. Change any \ to /. There can be spaces in the pathname. 5) Run by using the shortcuts Ctrl+a and Ctrl+r. PDF files are produced showing plots of results. We will go through what these mean in class. The Sobol’ results take 6,000,000 model runs and about 12 hours, so can not be run in class. They are provided in the file: SOBOL_pergridpoint_K_c_9999samplesize_1000bootstrap.txt Each line presents average results for a bootstrapped Sobol’ sample for a portion of the full parameter space. The averages for the entire range of parameters is on the line with grid index=101 The R script using this file to create plots; it does not do the runs.
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Xiaofeng Liu
| affiliation = UT San Antonio
| title = Modeling of Earth Surface Dynamics and Related Problems using OpenFOAM®.
| abstract = This clinic aims to introduce the open source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) platform, OpenFOAM®, to the earth surface dynamics research community and to foster collaborations. OpenFOAM® is essentially a computational toolbox which solves general physical models (differential equations) using finite volume method. This short clinic is tailored to be suitable for an audience at various levels (from beginners to experienced code developers). It will provide an overview of OpenFOAM. We will demonstrate its usage in a variety of applications, including hydrodynamics, sedimentation, groundwater flows, buoyant plumes, etc. Participants can also bring the problems in their fields of interest and explore ways to solve them in OpenFOAM®. Knowledge of C++, object-oriented programming, and parallel computing is not required but will be helpful.
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Eckart Meiburg & students
| affiliation = University of California, SB
| title = TURBINS using PETSc
| abstract = This clinic will provide information on how laboratory scale flows and field scale flows can be simulated by direct numerical simulations (DNS) and large-eddy simulations (LES) using parallel, high-performance computing facilities. DNS results, from the software TURBINS, of gravity and turbidity currents propagating over complex sea floor topography will be discussed. The use of the PETSc software package within the DNS simulations will be highlighted. LES results of high Reynolds number gravity and turbidity currents, and reversing buoyancy currents over a flat topography will be discussed. Issues relevant to LES such as grid resolution, grid convergence, subgrid models and wall-layer modeling will also be discussed.
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Helena Mitasova
| affiliation = North Carolina State Univ.
| title = Modeling and analysis of evolving landscapes in GRASS GIS
| abstract = This clinic will introduce participants to GRASS6.4.3 with special focus on terrain modeling, geomorphometry, watershed analysis and modeling of landscape processes such as surface water flow and erosion/deposition. The hands-on section will explore lidar-based terrain models, multiple surface visualization, analysis of coastal lidar time series and visualization of terrain evolution using space-time cube. Overview of new capabilities in the GRASS7 development version will also be provided. Notice: The participants will be expected to download and install GRASS6.4.3 as well as the practice data sets from the provided web site prior to the clinic. (see below) Everything used in the clinic will be available through the following web site: http://courses.ncsu.edu/gis582/common/media/GRASS_clinic2013/GRASS_clinic.html (''I am still working on the material, but the install info is there''). Anytime before the clinic (which is on Monday March 25), please: - download the data following the instructions for # 3. Data for the practice - download and install GRASS following # 4. Software - try opening GRASS following [http://courses.ncsu.edu/gis582/common/media/GRASS_clinic2013/IntroGRASS.html the instructions here], especially the video capture [http://courses.ncsu.edu/gis582/common/media/GRASS_clinic2013/gettingstartedGRASS643edit3.mov Getting started with GRASS] You don't need to go through the entire video or the instructions - we will do it in Boulder, for now just open GRASS and make sure you can display one of the provided map layers. Please let Helena know if you have any problems: [mailto:hmitaso@ncsu.edu hmitaso@ncsu.edu]
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Ad Reniers
| affiliation = University of Miami
| title = Dune erosion and overwash with XBeach
| abstract = A short tutorial and hands-on workshop to set up and run XBeach to predict the morphodynamic response of dune protected areas under hurricane conditions. We will cover the set up of the computational grid, boundary conditions, model processes and data analysis. The XBeach model runs on a windows platform. If you have a Mac, you can still run the model provided you have software (like parallels or vmware) that enables you to run windows programs. To download XBeach, see: [http://oss.deltares.nl/ http://oss.deltares.nl/]
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Hari Rajaram
| affiliation = University of Colorado
| title = A very basic introduction to numerical methods for scientific computing
| abstract = I will give a overview of the basic foundations of numerical methods for modeling earth systems described by ordinary and partial differential equations. I will discuss the underlying foundations of finite-difference, finite-volume and finite-element methods using diffusion/conduction equations as an example. I will discuss explicit and implicit methods for time-stepping, and stability analysis of time-integration schemes. All numerical methods for ODEs and PDEs in some form arrive at algebraic approximations, translating them into systems of algebraic equations. I will discuss basic algorithms for solving systems of algebraic equations, and how they are incorporated into various software packages, and also emphasize the importance of sparsity
in matrix computations. I will include examples derived from practical problems in reactive transport and glacier dynamics to illustrate how basic concepts apply to real-world problems and make a difference when we want to develop efficient and accurate models.
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'''CSDMS 2.0: Moving Forward'''
March 23-25th 2013 Boulder Colorado, USA</center> 

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=Helpful Information for Travels Home=
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Reminder: The meeting address is UCAR Center Green, Bldg. #CG1, 3080 Center Green Drive, Boulder CO 80301

=Objectives and general description=
The CSDMS Meeting 2013 is designed to launch CSDMS 2.0 and shape its direction through engaging on the technical and community challenges over the next five years. 

The meeting includes: 1) ''State-of-the art keynote presentations'' in earth-surface dynamics and modeling; 2) ''Hands-on clinics'' related to community models, tools and approaches; 3) ''Transformative software products and approaches'' designed to be accessible, easy to use, and relevant; 4) ''New community initiatives'' to advance earth-surface process modeling across many disciplines; 5) ''Breakout sessions for Working and Focus Research Groups'' to update their strategic plans and define their long, medium and short term goals; 6) ''Poster Sessions''; and more. 
''Poster Information'': Those who are bringing posters have been assigned to one of the two poster sessions via an email that was sent on March 11th. (If you did not receive that email, contact: csdms@colorado.edu). The poster boards are configured for 4' wide by 6' tall (portrait orientation) posters. There are only a few spots available for posters with landscape orientation.
 

==Program==
[[media:CSDMS_Meeting_2013_Schedule_23Mar.pdf|Program Schedule]] updated March 23rd
 

==Join online Pre meeting discussions==
[[Coastal_WG_Discussion|Coastal Work Group]] 
[[Terrestrial_WG_Discussion|Terrestrial email send March 18th]]
 

==Keynote speakers==
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = John Atkinson
| affiliation = ARCADIS U.S., Inc.
| title = A Coupled ADCIRC and SWAN model of Hurricane Surge and Waves.
| abstract = This presentation will briefly introduce the formulation, numerics, and parallel implementation of the coastal circulation model ADCIRC, discuss the strategy of coupling with the SWAN wave model, and provide background on recent enhancements of the bottom-friction formulation. Several recent applications of the coupled modeling system will be presented.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Katy Barnhart
| affiliation = University of Colorado
| title = Melting Coasts and Toppled Blocks: Modeling Coastal Erosion in Ice-Rich Permafrost Bluffs, Beaufort Sea, Alaska
| abstract =(with Robert S. Anderson, Irina Overeem, Gary Clow, and Frank Urban) (thanks to Adam LeWinter and Tim Stanton) Rates of coastal cliff erosion are a function of the geometry and substrate of the coast; storm frequency, duration, magnitude, and wave field; and regional sediment sources. In the Arctic, the duration of sea ice-free conditions limits the time over which coastal erosion can occur, and sea water temperature modulates erosion rates where ice content of coastal bluffs is high. Predicting how coastal erosion rates in this environment will respond to future climate change requires that we first understand modern coastal erosion rates. Arctic coastlines are responding rapidly to climate change. Remotely sensed observations of coastline position indicate that the mean annual erosion rate along a 60-km reach of Alaska’s Beaufort Sea coast, characterized by high ice content and small grain size, doubled from 7 m yr-1 for the period 1955-1979 to 14 m yr-1 for 2002-2007. Over the last 30 years the duration of the open water season expanded from ∼45 days to ∼95 days, increasing exposure of permafrost bluffs to seawater by a factor of 2.5. Time-lapse photography indicates that coastal erosion in this environment is a halting process: most significant erosion occurs during storm events in which local water level is elevated by surge, during which instantaneous submarine erosion rates can reach 1-2 m/day. In contrast, at times of low water, or when sea ice is present, erosion rates are negligible. We employ a 1D coastal cross-section numerical model of the erosion of ice-rich permafrost bluffs to explore the sensitivity of the system to environmental drivers. Our model captures the geometry and style of coastal erosion observed near Drew Point, Alaska, including insertion of a melt-notch, topple of ice-wedge-bounded blocks, and subsequent degradation of these blocks. Using consistent rules, we test our model against the temporal pattern of coastal erosion over two periods: the recent past (~30 years), and a short (~2 week) period in summer 2010. Environmental conditions used to drive model runs for the summer of 2010 include ground-based measurements of meteorological conditions (air temperature, wind speed, wind direction) and coastal waters (water level, wave field, water temperature), supplemented by high temporal frequency (4 frames/hour) time-lapse photography of the coast. Reconstruction of the 30-year coastal erosion history is accomplished by assembling published observations and records of meteorology and sea ice conditions, including both ground and satellite-based records, to construct histories of coastline position and environmental conditions. We model wind-driven water level set-up, the local wave field, and water temperature, and find a good match against the short-term erosion record. We then evaluate which environmental drivers are most significant in controlling the rates of coastal erosion, and which melt-erosion rule best captures the coastal history, with a series of sensitivity analyses. The understanding gained from these analyses provides a foundation for evaluating how continuing climate change may influence future coastal erosion rates in the Arctic.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Chris Duffy
| affiliation = Penn State University
| title = Modeling The Isotopic “Age” of Water in Hydroecological Systems with PIHM
| abstract = Co-authors: Gopal Bhatt and Evan Thomas Theories have been proposed using idealized tracer age modeling for ocean ventilation, atmospheric circulation, soil, stream and groundwater flow. In this research we developing new models for the dynamic age of water in hydroecological systems. Approaches generally assume a steady flow regime and stationarity in the concentration (tracer) distribution function for age, although recent work shows that this is not a necessary assumption. In this paper a dynamic model for flow, concentration, and age for soil water is presented including the effect of macropore behavior on the relative age of recharge and transpired water. Several theoretical and practical issues are presented including some new results for Shale Hills CZO (G. Bhatt, 2012).
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Michael S. Eldred
| affiliation = Sandia NL
| title = DAKOTA: An Object-Oriented Framework for Simulation-Based Iterative Analysis
| abstract = The DAKOTA project began in 1994 with the primary objective of reusing software interfaces to design optimization tools. Over nearly 20 years of development, it has grown into an open source toolkit supporting a broad range of iterative analyses, typically focused on high-fidelity modeling and simulation on high-performance computers. Today, DAKOTA provides a delivery vehicle for uncertainty quantification research for both the NNSA and the office of science, enabling an emphasis on predictive science for stockpile stewardship, energy, and climate mission areas. Starting with an overview of the DAKOTA architecture, this presentation will introduce processes for setting up iterative analyses, interfacing with computational simulations, and managing high-fidelity workflows. Algorithmic capabilities in optimization, calibration, sensitivity analysis, and uncertainty quantification (UQ) will be briefly overviewed, with special emphasis given to UQ. Core UQ capabilities include random sampling methods, local and global reliability methods, stochastic expansion methods, and epistemic interval propagation methods. This UQ foundation enables a variety of higher level analyses including design under uncertainty, mixed aleatory-epistemic UQ, and Bayesian inference.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Courtney Harris
| affiliation = VIMS
| title = Linking Sediment Transport Processes and Biogeochemistry with Application to the Louisiana Continental Shelf
| abstract = Though it enhances the exchange of porewater and solids with the overlying water, the role that sediment resuspension and redeposition play in biogeochemistry of coastal systems is debated. Numerical models of geochemical processes and diagenesis have traditionally parameterized relatively long timescales, and rarely attempted to include resuspension. Meanwhile, numerical models developed to represent sediment transport have largely ignored geochemistry. Here, we couple the Community Sediment Transport Modeling System (CSTMS) to a biogeochemical model within the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS). The multi-layered sediment bed model accounts for erosion, deposition, and biodiffusion. It has recently been modified to include dissolved porewater constituents, particulate organic matter, and geochemical reactions. For this talk, we explore the role that resuspension and redeposition play in biogeochemical cycles within the seabed and in benthic boundary layer by running idealized, one-dimensional test cases designed to represent a 20-m deep site on the Louisiana Shelf. Results from this are contrasted to calculations from an implementation similar to a standard diagenesis model. Comparing these, the results indicate that resuspension acts to enhance sediment bed oxygen consumption.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Wonsuck Kim
| affiliation = University of Texas
| title = Building a Network for Sediment Experimentalists and Modelers
| abstract ='''Wonsuck Kim''', ''University of Texas at Austin'' '''Leslie Hsu''', ''Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University'' '''Brandon McElroy''', ''University of Wyoming, Laramie'' '''Raleigh Martin''', ''University of Pennsylvania'' In the modeler community, hindcasting (a way to test models based on knowledge of past events) is required for all computer models before providing reliable results to users. CSDMS 2.0 “Moving forward” has proposed to incorporate benchmarking data into its modeling framework. Data collection in natural systems has been significantly advanced, but is still behind the resolution in time and space and includes natural variability beyond our understanding, which makes thorough testing of computer models difficult. In the experimentalist community, research in Earth-surface processes and subsurface stratal development is in a data-rich era with rapid expansion of high-resolution, digitally based data sets that were not available even a few years ago. Millions of dollars has been spent to build and renovate flume laboratories. Advanced technologies and methodologies in experiment allow more number of sophisticated experiments in large scales at fine details. Joint effort between modelers and experimentalists is a natural step toward a great synergy between both communities. Time for a coherent effort for building a strong global research network for these two communities is now. First, the both communities should initiate an effort to figure out a best practice, metadata for standardized data collection. Sediment experimentalists are an example community in the “long tail”, meaning that their data are often collected in one-of-a-kind experimental set-ups and isolated from other experiments. Second, there should be a centralized knowledge base (web-based repository for data and technology) easily accessible to modelers and experimentalists. Experimentalists also have a lot of “dark data,” data that are difficult or impossible to access through the Internet. This effort will result in tremendous opportunities for productive collaborations. The new experimentalist and modeler network will be able to achieve the CSDMS current goal by providing high quality benchmark datasets that are well documented and easily accessible.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Louis Moresi
| affiliation = Monash University
| title = Underworld: A high-performance, modular long-term tectonics code
| abstract = Co-authors: John Mansour, Steve Quenette and Guillaume Duclaux The Underworld code was designed for solving (very) long timescale geological deformations accurately, tracking deformation and evolving interfaces to very high strains. It uses a particle-in-cell based finite element method to track the material history accurately and highly-tuned multigrid solvers for fast implicit solution of the equations of motion. The implementation has been fully parallel since the inception of the project, and a plugin/component architecture ensures that extensions can be built without significant exposure to the underlying technicalities of the parallel implementation. We also paid considerable attention to model reproducibility and archiving — each run defines its entire input state and the repository state automatically. A typical geological problems for which the code was designed is the deformation of the crust and lithospheric mantle by regional plate motions — these result in the formation of localised structures (e.g. faults), basins, folds and in the generation of surface topography. The role of surface processes — redistributing surface loads and changing boundary conditions, is known to be significant in modifying the response of the lithosphere to the plate-derived forces. The coupling of surface process codes to Underworld is feasible, but raises some interesting challenges (and opportunities !) such as the need to track horizontal deformations and match changes to the topography at different resolutions in each model. We will share some of our insights into this problem.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Jaap Nienhuis
| affiliation = WHOI/MIT
| title = Growth and Abandonment: Quantifying First-order Controls on Wave Influenced Deltas.
| abstract = What determines the style of river delta growth? How do deltas change after fluvial sediment supply is cut off? River delta evolution is characterized by the progradation and transgression of individual (deltaic) lobes: the delta cycle. We investigate the behaviour of wave-influenced deltas with a simple shoreline model, and quantitatively relate several first-order controls.
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Mark Schmeeckle
| affiliation = Arizona State University
| title = Turbulence- and Particle-Resolving Numerical Modeling of Sediment Transport.
| abstract = Turbulence, bedload, and suspended sediment transport are directly simulated by a coupled large eddy simulation of the fluid and a distinct element method for every sediment grain. This modeling system directly calculates the motion of all grains by resolved turbulence structures. The model directly calculates modification of the flow and turbulence by the grains, such as the effects of grain momentum extraction and density stratification. Simulations such as these can be used in the future to parameterize sediment transport in large-scale morphodynamic simulations.
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Mauro Werder
| affiliation = Simon Fraser University
| title = Modeling channelized and distributed subglacial drainage in 2D
| abstract = This model of the subglacial drainage system simulates the pressurised flow of water at the ice-bed interface of glaciers and ice sheets. It includes both distributed and channelized water flow. Notably the model determines the geometry of the channel network as part of the solution. The resulting channel network is similar to subaerial stream networks with channels carving out hydraulic potential "valleys". However, there are some pronounced differences to subaerial drainage, for example that the time for a network to form (and decay) is on the order of weeks to months; or that, channels originating at point sources can lie on ridges of the hydraulic potential. The model employs a novel finite element approach to solve the parabolic equations for the hydraulic potential simultaneously on the 1D channel network and 2D distributed system.
}}
 

==Clinics==
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Peter Burgess & Chris Jenkins
| affiliation = Royal Holloway, UK & Univ. of Co.
| title = Three carbonate sedimentation models for CSDMS
| abstract = This workshop will showcase three different models of carbonate sedimentation, produced under the CSDMS umbrella: carboCat for facies, carboCell for guilds, carboPop for communities. Participants will be able to download and run (on own or provided machines) these models in Python and Matlab environments, discuss how to select appropriate parameters for them using the various databases being developed in concert with the models, and contribute to plans for further development of models and databases.
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Gary Clow
| affiliation = USGS
| title = Introduction to the Weather Research & Forecasting (WRF) System, a High-Resolution Atmospheric Model
| abstract = WRF is a highly parallel state-of-the-art numerical weather prediction model hosted by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). This community model was designed from the onset to be fairly flexible, supporting both operational forecasting and atmospheric research needs at scales ranging from meters to thousands of kilometers. Given the model’s physics implementation and it’s modular design, WRF naturally became the core for a number of more specialized models, including: HWRF (used to forecast the track and intensity of tropical cyclones), WRF-CHEM (simulates the emission, transport, mixing, and chemical transformation of trace gases and aerosols simultaneously with meteorology), Polar WRF (a version of WRF optimized for the polar regions), CWRF and CLWRF (versions of WRF modified to enable regional climate modeling), and planetWRF (a general purpose numerical model for planetary atmospheres used thus far for Mars, Venus, and Titan). The goal of this clinic is to provide an overview of the WRF model, including: model architecture, physics options, data required to drive the model, standard model output, model applications, and system requirements. Several examples will be presented. A Basic Model Interface (BMI) is currently being developed for WRF to facilitate the coupling of this atmospheric model with other earth system models.
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Scott Peckham
| affiliation = University of Colorado
| title = Introduction to the Basic Model Interface and CSDMS Standard Names
| abstract = In order to simplify conversion of an existing model to a reusable, plug-and-play model component, CSDMS has developed a simple interface called the Basic Model Interface or BMI that model developers are asked to implement. In this context, an interface is a named set of functions with prescribed function names, argument types and return types. By design, the BMI functions are straightforward to implement in any of the languages supported by CSDMS, which include C, C++, Fortran (all years), Java and Python. Also by design, the BMI functions are noninvasive. A BMI-compliant model does not make any calls to CSDMS components or tools and is not modified to use CSDMS data structures. BMI therefore introduces no dependencies into a model and the model can still be used in a "stand-alone" manner. Any model that provides the BMI functions can be easily converted to a CSDMS plug-and-play component that has a CSDMS Component Model Interface or CMI. Once a BMI-enabled model has been wrapped by CSDMS staff to become a CSDMS component, it automatically gains many new capabilities. This includes the ability to be coupled to other models even if their (1) programming language, (2) variable names, (3) variable units, (4) time-stepping scheme or (5) computational grid is different. It also gains (1) the ability to write output variables to standardized NetCDF files, (2) a "tabbed-dialog" graphical user interface (GUI), (3) a standardized HTML help page and (4) the ability to run within the CSDMS Modeling Tool (CMT). This clinic will explain the key concepts of BMI, with step-by-step examples. It will also include an overview of the new CSDMS Standard Names, which provide a standard way to map input and output variable names between component models as part of BMI implementation. Participants are encouraged to read the associated CSDMS wiki pages in advance and bring model code with specific questions. See 1) BMI Page: [[BMI_Description]] 2) Standard Names Page: [[CSDMS_Standard_Names]]
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Irina Overeem
| affiliation = University of Colorado
| title = CMT clinic
| abstract = This clinic will look at the CSDMS Modeling Tool (CMT). We share the philosophy behind CMT, will demo the functionality of CMT and show what models are incorporated into it. New educational material on several models allows scientists and students to more easily use CSDMS models for classes and simple simulations and we will provide clinic participants with the latest information on these resources. The CMT clinic will be hands-on, we will run a few simple runs and visualize them. Finally, we will spend some time on discussing common problems and strategic solutions.
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Thomas Hauser & Monte Lunacek
| affiliation = University of Colorado
| title = Python for Matlab users clinic
| abstract = This workshop is a hands-on introduction to using Python for computational science. Python is a powerful open source interpreted language that has been adopted widely in many application areas. The goal of this workshop is to teach participants how to use Python as an open source alternative for MATLAB in their computational workflows. While we will demonstrate how to implement MATLAB-based scientific computing workflows in Python, attendees are not required to have MATLAB or Python experience. The goal of this tutorial is to show how an open source alternative to MATLAB can be used productively for computational science research. In the first part of this workshop we will introduce basic Python concepts and iPython with a focus on migrating from MATLAB to Python. We will show how the Python modules Numpy and Scipy, for scientific computing, and Matplotlib, for plotting, can make Python as capable as MATLAB for computational science research. In the second part of the tutorial we will discuss on how to interface Python with compiled languages like C or Fortran to improve performance of numerical codes. Additionally we will show how to use distributed parallel computing on a supercomputer from interactive python notebooks. This tutorial will be hands on, so we would like you to install python on your laptop before you arrive. The easiest way to get everything you need is to download the FREE Enthought distribution: [https://www.enthought.com/products/epd_free.php https://www.enthought.com/products/epd_free.php] The installation is fairly straight forward, but if you have any questions, please feel free to email Monte: [mailto:Monte.Lunacek@colorado.edu Monte.Lunacek@colorado.edu].
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Mary Hill
| affiliation = USGS
| title = Toward Transparent, Refutable Hydrologic Models in Kansas or Oz.
| abstract = Numerical models are critical to integrating knowledge and data for environmental systems and understanding future consequences of management decisions, weather variability, climate change, and so on. To attain the transparency and refutability needed to understand predictions and uncertainty and use models wisely, this clinic presents a strategy that emphasizes fundamental questions about model adequacy, sensitivity analysis, and uncertainty evaluation, and consistent use of carefully designed metrics. Emphasizing fundamental questions reveals practical similarities in methods with widely varying theoretical foundations and computational demands. In a field where models take seconds to months for one forward run, a credible strategy must include frugal methods for those in Kansas who can only afford 10s to 100s of highly parallelizable model runs in addition to demanding methods for those in Oz who can afford to do 10,000s to 1,000,000s of model runs. Advanced computing power notwithstanding, people may be in Kansas because they have chosen complex, high-dimensional models, want quick insight into individual models, and/or need systematic comparison of many alternative models. This class will briefly review the fundamental questions, demonstrate relations between existing theoretical approaches, and address challenges and limitations. Students will be able to examine a model constructed using FUSE and compare results from computationally frugal method evaluations conducted in class and demanding methods for which results are provided. '''Notice:''' During the clinic you will have the opportunity to run an exercise on your laptop. The exercise uses R, which is freely downloadable. The clinic is only an hour, so it will really be necessary to have downloaded and installed R prior to arriving. Do this as follows go to [http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/ http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/] Install version 2.15.3 Linux, Mac, or Windows versions are available. You can install with or without administrative privileges. The R scripts you will be working with and the file with results from Sobol' can be downloaded from ftp://ftpext.cr.usgs.gov/pub/cr/co/boulder/mchill, in case you would like to try it out. Here are the rest of the instructions for doing that, but you can wait and do this in class if you like, as long as you have downloaded R. 2) Open Rgui.exe In the bin subdirectory of the R distribution 3) Go to File > Open script "Sensitivities_Global_Local_v02.r" 4) Set your current working directory in the R script: setwd("full path") on line 17. This is the directory with the .r files distributed for class. Change any \ to /. There can be spaces in the pathname. 5) Run by using the shortcuts Ctrl+a and Ctrl+r. PDF files are produced showing plots of results. We will go through what these mean in class. The Sobol’ results take 6,000,000 model runs and about 12 hours, so can not be run in class. They are provided in the file: SOBOL_pergridpoint_K_c_9999samplesize_1000bootstrap.txt Each line presents average results for a bootstrapped Sobol’ sample for a portion of the full parameter space. The averages for the entire range of parameters is on the line with grid index=101 The R script using this file to create plots; it does not do the runs.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Xiaofeng Liu
| affiliation = UT San Antonio
| title = Modeling of Earth Surface Dynamics and Related Problems using OpenFOAM®.
| abstract = This clinic aims to introduce the open source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) platform, OpenFOAM®, to the earth surface dynamics research community and to foster collaborations. OpenFOAM® is essentially a computational toolbox which solves general physical models (differential equations) using finite volume method. This short clinic is tailored to be suitable for an audience at various levels (from beginners to experienced code developers). It will provide an overview of OpenFOAM. We will demonstrate its usage in a variety of applications, including hydrodynamics, sedimentation, groundwater flows, buoyant plumes, etc. Participants can also bring the problems in their fields of interest and explore ways to solve them in OpenFOAM®. Knowledge of C++, object-oriented programming, and parallel computing is not required but will be helpful.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Eckart Meiburg & students
| affiliation = University of California, SB
| title = TURBINS using PETSc
| abstract = This clinic will provide information on how laboratory scale flows and field scale flows can be simulated by direct numerical simulations (DNS) and large-eddy simulations (LES) using parallel, high-performance computing facilities. DNS results, from the software TURBINS, of gravity and turbidity currents propagating over complex sea floor topography will be discussed. The use of the PETSc software package within the DNS simulations will be highlighted. LES results of high Reynolds number gravity and turbidity currents, and reversing buoyancy currents over a flat topography will be discussed. Issues relevant to LES such as grid resolution, grid convergence, subgrid models and wall-layer modeling will also be discussed.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Helena Mitasova
| affiliation = North Carolina State Univ.
| title = Modeling and analysis of evolving landscapes in GRASS GIS
| abstract = This clinic will introduce participants to GRASS6.4.3 with special focus on terrain modeling, geomorphometry, watershed analysis and modeling of landscape processes such as surface water flow and erosion/deposition. The hands-on section will explore lidar-based terrain models, multiple surface visualization, analysis of coastal lidar time series and visualization of terrain evolution using space-time cube. Overview of new capabilities in the GRASS7 development version will also be provided. Notice: The participants will be expected to download and install GRASS6.4.3 as well as the practice data sets from the provided web site prior to the clinic. (see below) Everything used in the clinic will be available through the following web site: http://courses.ncsu.edu/gis582/common/media/GRASS_clinic2013/GRASS_clinic.html (''I am still working on the material, but the install info is there''). Anytime before the clinic (which is on Monday March 25), please: - download the data following the instructions for # 3. Data for the practice - download and install GRASS following # 4. Software - try opening GRASS following [http://courses.ncsu.edu/gis582/common/media/GRASS_clinic2013/IntroGRASS.html the instructions here], especially the video capture [http://courses.ncsu.edu/gis582/common/media/GRASS_clinic2013/gettingstartedGRASS643edit3.mov Getting started with GRASS] You don't need to go through the entire video or the instructions - we will do it in Boulder, for now just open GRASS and make sure you can display one of the provided map layers. Please let Helena know if you have any problems: [mailto:hmitaso@ncsu.edu hmitaso@ncsu.edu]
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Ad Reniers
| affiliation = University of Miami
| title = Dune erosion and overwash with XBeach
| abstract = A short tutorial and hands-on workshop to set up and run XBeach to predict the morphodynamic response of dune protected areas under hurricane conditions. We will cover the set up of the computational grid, boundary conditions, model processes and data analysis. The XBeach model runs on a windows platform. If you have a Mac, you can still run the model provided you have software (like parallels or vmware) that enables you to run windows programs. To download XBeach, see: [http://oss.deltares.nl/ http://oss.deltares.nl/]
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Hari Rajaram
| affiliation = University of Colorado
| title = A very basic introduction to numerical methods for scientific computing
| abstract = I will give a overview of the basic foundations of numerical methods for modeling earth systems described by ordinary and partial differential equations. I will discuss the underlying foundations of finite-difference, finite-volume and finite-element methods using diffusion/conduction equations as an example. I will discuss explicit and implicit methods for time-stepping, and stability analysis of time-integration schemes. All numerical methods for ODEs and PDEs in some form arrive at algebraic approximations, translating them into systems of algebraic equations. I will discuss basic algorithms for solving systems of algebraic equations, and how they are incorporated into various software packages, and also emphasize the importance of sparsity
in matrix computations. I will include examples derived from practical problems in reactive transport and glacier dynamics to illustrate how basic concepts apply to real-world problems and make a difference when we want to develop efficient and accurate models.
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To the extent possible, CSDMS intends to reimburse the registration fee, lodging (shared rooms at 100% and single rooms at 50% at Millennium Harvest House Hotel), and a limited amount of travel expenses of qualified registrants - those members who have attended all three days of the meeting and are not industry or federal employees.

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'''CSDMS 2.0: Moving Forward'''
March 23-25th 2013 Boulder Colorado, USA</center> 

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=Objectives and general description=
The CSDMS Meeting 2013 is designed to launch CSDMS 2.0 and shape its direction through engaging on the technical and community challenges over the next five years. 

The meeting includes: 1) ''State-of-the art keynote presentations'' in earth-surface dynamics and modeling; 2) ''Hands-on clinics'' related to community models, tools and approaches; 3) ''Transformative software products and approaches'' designed to be accessible, easy to use, and relevant; 4) ''New community initiatives'' to advance earth-surface process modeling across many disciplines; 5) ''Breakout sessions for Working and Focus Research Groups'' to update their strategic plans and define their long, medium and short term goals; 6) ''Poster Sessions''; and more. 
''Poster Information'': Those who are bringing posters have been assigned to one of the two poster sessions via an email that was sent on March 11th. (If you did not receive that email, contact: csdms@colorado.edu). The poster boards are configured for 4' wide by 6' tall (portrait orientation) posters. There are only a few spots available for posters with landscape orientation.
 

==Program==
[[media:CSDMS_Meeting_2013_Schedule_23Mar.pdf|Program Schedule]] updated March 23rd
 

==Join online Pre meeting discussions==
[[Coastal_WG_Discussion|Coastal Work Group]] 
[[Terrestrial_WG_Discussion|Terrestrial email send March 18th]]
 

==Keynote speakers==
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = John Atkinson
| affiliation = ARCADIS U.S., Inc.
| title = A Coupled ADCIRC and SWAN model of Hurricane Surge and Waves.
| abstract = This presentation will briefly introduce the formulation, numerics, and parallel implementation of the coastal circulation model ADCIRC, discuss the strategy of coupling with the SWAN wave model, and provide background on recent enhancements of the bottom-friction formulation. Several recent applications of the coupled modeling system will be presented.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Katy Barnhart
| affiliation = University of Colorado
| title = Melting Coasts and Toppled Blocks: Modeling Coastal Erosion in Ice-Rich Permafrost Bluffs, Beaufort Sea, Alaska
| abstract =(with Robert S. Anderson, Irina Overeem, Gary Clow, and Frank Urban) (thanks to Adam LeWinter and Tim Stanton) Rates of coastal cliff erosion are a function of the geometry and substrate of the coast; storm frequency, duration, magnitude, and wave field; and regional sediment sources. In the Arctic, the duration of sea ice-free conditions limits the time over which coastal erosion can occur, and sea water temperature modulates erosion rates where ice content of coastal bluffs is high. Predicting how coastal erosion rates in this environment will respond to future climate change requires that we first understand modern coastal erosion rates. Arctic coastlines are responding rapidly to climate change. Remotely sensed observations of coastline position indicate that the mean annual erosion rate along a 60-km reach of Alaska’s Beaufort Sea coast, characterized by high ice content and small grain size, doubled from 7 m yr-1 for the period 1955-1979 to 14 m yr-1 for 2002-2007. Over the last 30 years the duration of the open water season expanded from ∼45 days to ∼95 days, increasing exposure of permafrost bluffs to seawater by a factor of 2.5. Time-lapse photography indicates that coastal erosion in this environment is a halting process: most significant erosion occurs during storm events in which local water level is elevated by surge, during which instantaneous submarine erosion rates can reach 1-2 m/day. In contrast, at times of low water, or when sea ice is present, erosion rates are negligible. We employ a 1D coastal cross-section numerical model of the erosion of ice-rich permafrost bluffs to explore the sensitivity of the system to environmental drivers. Our model captures the geometry and style of coastal erosion observed near Drew Point, Alaska, including insertion of a melt-notch, topple of ice-wedge-bounded blocks, and subsequent degradation of these blocks. Using consistent rules, we test our model against the temporal pattern of coastal erosion over two periods: the recent past (~30 years), and a short (~2 week) period in summer 2010. Environmental conditions used to drive model runs for the summer of 2010 include ground-based measurements of meteorological conditions (air temperature, wind speed, wind direction) and coastal waters (water level, wave field, water temperature), supplemented by high temporal frequency (4 frames/hour) time-lapse photography of the coast. Reconstruction of the 30-year coastal erosion history is accomplished by assembling published observations and records of meteorology and sea ice conditions, including both ground and satellite-based records, to construct histories of coastline position and environmental conditions. We model wind-driven water level set-up, the local wave field, and water temperature, and find a good match against the short-term erosion record. We then evaluate which environmental drivers are most significant in controlling the rates of coastal erosion, and which melt-erosion rule best captures the coastal history, with a series of sensitivity analyses. The understanding gained from these analyses provides a foundation for evaluating how continuing climate change may influence future coastal erosion rates in the Arctic.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Chris Duffy
| affiliation = Penn State University
| title = Modeling The Isotopic “Age” of Water in Hydroecological Systems with PIHM
| abstract = Co-authors: Gopal Bhatt and Evan Thomas Theories have been proposed using idealized tracer age modeling for ocean ventilation, atmospheric circulation, soil, stream and groundwater flow. In this research we developing new models for the dynamic age of water in hydroecological systems. Approaches generally assume a steady flow regime and stationarity in the concentration (tracer) distribution function for age, although recent work shows that this is not a necessary assumption. In this paper a dynamic model for flow, concentration, and age for soil water is presented including the effect of macropore behavior on the relative age of recharge and transpired water. Several theoretical and practical issues are presented including some new results for Shale Hills CZO (G. Bhatt, 2012).
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Michael S. Eldred
| affiliation = Sandia NL
| title = DAKOTA: An Object-Oriented Framework for Simulation-Based Iterative Analysis
| abstract = The DAKOTA project began in 1994 with the primary objective of reusing software interfaces to design optimization tools. Over nearly 20 years of development, it has grown into an open source toolkit supporting a broad range of iterative analyses, typically focused on high-fidelity modeling and simulation on high-performance computers. Today, DAKOTA provides a delivery vehicle for uncertainty quantification research for both the NNSA and the office of science, enabling an emphasis on predictive science for stockpile stewardship, energy, and climate mission areas. Starting with an overview of the DAKOTA architecture, this presentation will introduce processes for setting up iterative analyses, interfacing with computational simulations, and managing high-fidelity workflows. Algorithmic capabilities in optimization, calibration, sensitivity analysis, and uncertainty quantification (UQ) will be briefly overviewed, with special emphasis given to UQ. Core UQ capabilities include random sampling methods, local and global reliability methods, stochastic expansion methods, and epistemic interval propagation methods. This UQ foundation enables a variety of higher level analyses including design under uncertainty, mixed aleatory-epistemic UQ, and Bayesian inference.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Courtney Harris
| affiliation = VIMS
| title = Linking Sediment Transport Processes and Biogeochemistry with Application to the Louisiana Continental Shelf
| abstract = Though it enhances the exchange of porewater and solids with the overlying water, the role that sediment resuspension and redeposition play in biogeochemistry of coastal systems is debated. Numerical models of geochemical processes and diagenesis have traditionally parameterized relatively long timescales, and rarely attempted to include resuspension. Meanwhile, numerical models developed to represent sediment transport have largely ignored geochemistry. Here, we couple the Community Sediment Transport Modeling System (CSTMS) to a biogeochemical model within the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS). The multi-layered sediment bed model accounts for erosion, deposition, and biodiffusion. It has recently been modified to include dissolved porewater constituents, particulate organic matter, and geochemical reactions. For this talk, we explore the role that resuspension and redeposition play in biogeochemical cycles within the seabed and in benthic boundary layer by running idealized, one-dimensional test cases designed to represent a 20-m deep site on the Louisiana Shelf. Results from this are contrasted to calculations from an implementation similar to a standard diagenesis model. Comparing these, the results indicate that resuspension acts to enhance sediment bed oxygen consumption.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Wonsuck Kim
| affiliation = University of Texas
| title = Building a Network for Sediment Experimentalists and Modelers
| abstract ='''Wonsuck Kim''', ''University of Texas at Austin'' '''Leslie Hsu''', ''Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University'' '''Brandon McElroy''', ''University of Wyoming, Laramie'' '''Raleigh Martin''', ''University of Pennsylvania'' In the modeler community, hindcasting (a way to test models based on knowledge of past events) is required for all computer models before providing reliable results to users. CSDMS 2.0 “Moving forward” has proposed to incorporate benchmarking data into its modeling framework. Data collection in natural systems has been significantly advanced, but is still behind the resolution in time and space and includes natural variability beyond our understanding, which makes thorough testing of computer models difficult. In the experimentalist community, research in Earth-surface processes and subsurface stratal development is in a data-rich era with rapid expansion of high-resolution, digitally based data sets that were not available even a few years ago. Millions of dollars has been spent to build and renovate flume laboratories. Advanced technologies and methodologies in experiment allow more number of sophisticated experiments in large scales at fine details. Joint effort between modelers and experimentalists is a natural step toward a great synergy between both communities. Time for a coherent effort for building a strong global research network for these two communities is now. First, the both communities should initiate an effort to figure out a best practice, metadata for standardized data collection. Sediment experimentalists are an example community in the “long tail”, meaning that their data are often collected in one-of-a-kind experimental set-ups and isolated from other experiments. Second, there should be a centralized knowledge base (web-based repository for data and technology) easily accessible to modelers and experimentalists. Experimentalists also have a lot of “dark data,” data that are difficult or impossible to access through the Internet. This effort will result in tremendous opportunities for productive collaborations. The new experimentalist and modeler network will be able to achieve the CSDMS current goal by providing high quality benchmark datasets that are well documented and easily accessible.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Louis Moresi
| affiliation = Monash University
| title = Underworld: A high-performance, modular long-term tectonics code
| abstract = Co-authors: John Mansour, Steve Quenette and Guillaume Duclaux The Underworld code was designed for solving (very) long timescale geological deformations accurately, tracking deformation and evolving interfaces to very high strains. It uses a particle-in-cell based finite element method to track the material history accurately and highly-tuned multigrid solvers for fast implicit solution of the equations of motion. The implementation has been fully parallel since the inception of the project, and a plugin/component architecture ensures that extensions can be built without significant exposure to the underlying technicalities of the parallel implementation. We also paid considerable attention to model reproducibility and archiving — each run defines its entire input state and the repository state automatically. A typical geological problems for which the code was designed is the deformation of the crust and lithospheric mantle by regional plate motions — these result in the formation of localised structures (e.g. faults), basins, folds and in the generation of surface topography. The role of surface processes — redistributing surface loads and changing boundary conditions, is known to be significant in modifying the response of the lithosphere to the plate-derived forces. The coupling of surface process codes to Underworld is feasible, but raises some interesting challenges (and opportunities !) such as the need to track horizontal deformations and match changes to the topography at different resolutions in each model. We will share some of our insights into this problem.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Jaap Nienhuis
| affiliation = WHOI/MIT
| title = Growth and Abandonment: Quantifying First-order Controls on Wave Influenced Deltas.
| abstract = What determines the style of river delta growth? How do deltas change after fluvial sediment supply is cut off? River delta evolution is characterized by the progradation and transgression of individual (deltaic) lobes: the delta cycle. We investigate the behaviour of wave-influenced deltas with a simple shoreline model, and quantitatively relate several first-order controls.
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Mark Schmeeckle
| affiliation = Arizona State University
| title = Turbulence- and Particle-Resolving Numerical Modeling of Sediment Transport.
| abstract = Turbulence, bedload, and suspended sediment transport are directly simulated by a coupled large eddy simulation of the fluid and a distinct element method for every sediment grain. This modeling system directly calculates the motion of all grains by resolved turbulence structures. The model directly calculates modification of the flow and turbulence by the grains, such as the effects of grain momentum extraction and density stratification. Simulations such as these can be used in the future to parameterize sediment transport in large-scale morphodynamic simulations.
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Mauro Werder
| affiliation = Simon Fraser University
| title = Modeling channelized and distributed subglacial drainage in 2D
| abstract = This model of the subglacial drainage system simulates the pressurised flow of water at the ice-bed interface of glaciers and ice sheets. It includes both distributed and channelized water flow. Notably the model determines the geometry of the channel network as part of the solution. The resulting channel network is similar to subaerial stream networks with channels carving out hydraulic potential "valleys". However, there are some pronounced differences to subaerial drainage, for example that the time for a network to form (and decay) is on the order of weeks to months; or that, channels originating at point sources can lie on ridges of the hydraulic potential. The model employs a novel finite element approach to solve the parabolic equations for the hydraulic potential simultaneously on the 1D channel network and 2D distributed system.
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==Clinics==
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Peter Burgess & Chris Jenkins
| affiliation = Royal Holloway, UK & Univ. of Co.
| title = Three carbonate sedimentation models for CSDMS
| abstract = This workshop will showcase three different models of carbonate sedimentation, produced under the CSDMS umbrella: carboCat for facies, carboCell for guilds, carboPop for communities. Participants will be able to download and run (on own or provided machines) these models in Python and Matlab environments, discuss how to select appropriate parameters for them using the various databases being developed in concert with the models, and contribute to plans for further development of models and databases.
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Gary Clow
| affiliation = USGS
| title = Introduction to the Weather Research & Forecasting (WRF) System, a High-Resolution Atmospheric Model
| abstract = WRF is a highly parallel state-of-the-art numerical weather prediction model hosted by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). This community model was designed from the onset to be fairly flexible, supporting both operational forecasting and atmospheric research needs at scales ranging from meters to thousands of kilometers. Given the model’s physics implementation and it’s modular design, WRF naturally became the core for a number of more specialized models, including: HWRF (used to forecast the track and intensity of tropical cyclones), WRF-CHEM (simulates the emission, transport, mixing, and chemical transformation of trace gases and aerosols simultaneously with meteorology), Polar WRF (a version of WRF optimized for the polar regions), CWRF and CLWRF (versions of WRF modified to enable regional climate modeling), and planetWRF (a general purpose numerical model for planetary atmospheres used thus far for Mars, Venus, and Titan). The goal of this clinic is to provide an overview of the WRF model, including: model architecture, physics options, data required to drive the model, standard model output, model applications, and system requirements. Several examples will be presented. A Basic Model Interface (BMI) is currently being developed for WRF to facilitate the coupling of this atmospheric model with other earth system models.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Scott Peckham
| affiliation = University of Colorado
| title = Introduction to the Basic Model Interface and CSDMS Standard Names
| abstract = In order to simplify conversion of an existing model to a reusable, plug-and-play model component, CSDMS has developed a simple interface called the Basic Model Interface or BMI that model developers are asked to implement. In this context, an interface is a named set of functions with prescribed function names, argument types and return types. By design, the BMI functions are straightforward to implement in any of the languages supported by CSDMS, which include C, C++, Fortran (all years), Java and Python. Also by design, the BMI functions are noninvasive. A BMI-compliant model does not make any calls to CSDMS components or tools and is not modified to use CSDMS data structures. BMI therefore introduces no dependencies into a model and the model can still be used in a "stand-alone" manner. Any model that provides the BMI functions can be easily converted to a CSDMS plug-and-play component that has a CSDMS Component Model Interface or CMI. Once a BMI-enabled model has been wrapped by CSDMS staff to become a CSDMS component, it automatically gains many new capabilities. This includes the ability to be coupled to other models even if their (1) programming language, (2) variable names, (3) variable units, (4) time-stepping scheme or (5) computational grid is different. It also gains (1) the ability to write output variables to standardized NetCDF files, (2) a "tabbed-dialog" graphical user interface (GUI), (3) a standardized HTML help page and (4) the ability to run within the CSDMS Modeling Tool (CMT). This clinic will explain the key concepts of BMI, with step-by-step examples. It will also include an overview of the new CSDMS Standard Names, which provide a standard way to map input and output variable names between component models as part of BMI implementation. Participants are encouraged to read the associated CSDMS wiki pages in advance and bring model code with specific questions. See 1) BMI Page: [[BMI_Description]] 2) Standard Names Page: [[CSDMS_Standard_Names]]
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Irina Overeem
| affiliation = University of Colorado
| title = CMT clinic
| abstract = This clinic will look at the CSDMS Modeling Tool (CMT). We share the philosophy behind CMT, will demo the functionality of CMT and show what models are incorporated into it. New educational material on several models allows scientists and students to more easily use CSDMS models for classes and simple simulations and we will provide clinic participants with the latest information on these resources. The CMT clinic will be hands-on, we will run a few simple runs and visualize them. Finally, we will spend some time on discussing common problems and strategic solutions.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Thomas Hauser & Monte Lunacek
| affiliation = University of Colorado
| title = Python for Matlab users clinic
| abstract = This workshop is a hands-on introduction to using Python for computational science. Python is a powerful open source interpreted language that has been adopted widely in many application areas. The goal of this workshop is to teach participants how to use Python as an open source alternative for MATLAB in their computational workflows. While we will demonstrate how to implement MATLAB-based scientific computing workflows in Python, attendees are not required to have MATLAB or Python experience. The goal of this tutorial is to show how an open source alternative to MATLAB can be used productively for computational science research. In the first part of this workshop we will introduce basic Python concepts and iPython with a focus on migrating from MATLAB to Python. We will show how the Python modules Numpy and Scipy, for scientific computing, and Matplotlib, for plotting, can make Python as capable as MATLAB for computational science research. In the second part of the tutorial we will discuss on how to interface Python with compiled languages like C or Fortran to improve performance of numerical codes. Additionally we will show how to use distributed parallel computing on a supercomputer from interactive python notebooks. This tutorial will be hands on, so we would like you to install python on your laptop before you arrive. The easiest way to get everything you need is to download the FREE Enthought distribution: [https://www.enthought.com/products/epd_free.php https://www.enthought.com/products/epd_free.php] The installation is fairly straight forward, but if you have any questions, please feel free to email Monte: [mailto:Monte.Lunacek@colorado.edu Monte.Lunacek@colorado.edu].
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Mary Hill
| affiliation = USGS
| title = Toward Transparent, Refutable Hydrologic Models in Kansas or Oz.
| abstract = Numerical models are critical to integrating knowledge and data for environmental systems and understanding future consequences of management decisions, weather variability, climate change, and so on. To attain the transparency and refutability needed to understand predictions and uncertainty and use models wisely, this clinic presents a strategy that emphasizes fundamental questions about model adequacy, sensitivity analysis, and uncertainty evaluation, and consistent use of carefully designed metrics. Emphasizing fundamental questions reveals practical similarities in methods with widely varying theoretical foundations and computational demands. In a field where models take seconds to months for one forward run, a credible strategy must include frugal methods for those in Kansas who can only afford 10s to 100s of highly parallelizable model runs in addition to demanding methods for those in Oz who can afford to do 10,000s to 1,000,000s of model runs. Advanced computing power notwithstanding, people may be in Kansas because they have chosen complex, high-dimensional models, want quick insight into individual models, and/or need systematic comparison of many alternative models. This class will briefly review the fundamental questions, demonstrate relations between existing theoretical approaches, and address challenges and limitations. Students will be able to examine a model constructed using FUSE and compare results from computationally frugal method evaluations conducted in class and demanding methods for which results are provided. '''Notice:''' During the clinic you will have the opportunity to run an exercise on your laptop. The exercise uses R, which is freely downloadable. The clinic is only an hour, so it will really be necessary to have downloaded and installed R prior to arriving. Do this as follows go to [http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/ http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/] Install version 2.15.3 Linux, Mac, or Windows versions are available. You can install with or without administrative privileges. The R scripts you will be working with and the file with results from Sobol' can be downloaded from ftp://ftpext.cr.usgs.gov/pub/cr/co/boulder/mchill, in case you would like to try it out. Here are the rest of the instructions for doing that, but you can wait and do this in class if you like, as long as you have downloaded R. 2) Open Rgui.exe In the bin subdirectory of the R distribution 3) Go to File > Open script "Sensitivities_Global_Local_v02.r" 4) Set your current working directory in the R script: setwd("full path") on line 17. This is the directory with the .r files distributed for class. Change any \ to /. There can be spaces in the pathname. 5) Run by using the shortcuts Ctrl+a and Ctrl+r. PDF files are produced showing plots of results. We will go through what these mean in class. The Sobol’ results take 6,000,000 model runs and about 12 hours, so can not be run in class. They are provided in the file: SOBOL_pergridpoint_K_c_9999samplesize_1000bootstrap.txt Each line presents average results for a bootstrapped Sobol’ sample for a portion of the full parameter space. The averages for the entire range of parameters is on the line with grid index=101 The R script using this file to create plots; it does not do the runs.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Xiaofeng Liu
| affiliation = UT San Antonio
| title = Modeling of Earth Surface Dynamics and Related Problems using OpenFOAM®.
| abstract = This clinic aims to introduce the open source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) platform, OpenFOAM®, to the earth surface dynamics research community and to foster collaborations. OpenFOAM® is essentially a computational toolbox which solves general physical models (differential equations) using finite volume method. This short clinic is tailored to be suitable for an audience at various levels (from beginners to experienced code developers). It will provide an overview of OpenFOAM. We will demonstrate its usage in a variety of applications, including hydrodynamics, sedimentation, groundwater flows, buoyant plumes, etc. Participants can also bring the problems in their fields of interest and explore ways to solve them in OpenFOAM®. Knowledge of C++, object-oriented programming, and parallel computing is not required but will be helpful.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Eckart Meiburg & students
| affiliation = University of California, SB
| title = TURBINS using PETSc
| abstract = This clinic will provide information on how laboratory scale flows and field scale flows can be simulated by direct numerical simulations (DNS) and large-eddy simulations (LES) using parallel, high-performance computing facilities. DNS results, from the software TURBINS, of gravity and turbidity currents propagating over complex sea floor topography will be discussed. The use of the PETSc software package within the DNS simulations will be highlighted. LES results of high Reynolds number gravity and turbidity currents, and reversing buoyancy currents over a flat topography will be discussed. Issues relevant to LES such as grid resolution, grid convergence, subgrid models and wall-layer modeling will also be discussed.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Helena Mitasova
| affiliation = North Carolina State Univ.
| title = Modeling and analysis of evolving landscapes in GRASS GIS
| abstract = This clinic will introduce participants to GRASS6.4.3 with special focus on terrain modeling, geomorphometry, watershed analysis and modeling of landscape processes such as surface water flow and erosion/deposition. The hands-on section will explore lidar-based terrain models, multiple surface visualization, analysis of coastal lidar time series and visualization of terrain evolution using space-time cube. Overview of new capabilities in the GRASS7 development version will also be provided. Notice: The participants will be expected to download and install GRASS6.4.3 as well as the practice data sets from the provided web site prior to the clinic. (see below) Everything used in the clinic will be available through the following web site: http://courses.ncsu.edu/gis582/common/media/GRASS_clinic2013/GRASS_clinic.html (''I am still working on the material, but the install info is there''). Anytime before the clinic (which is on Monday March 25), please: - download the data following the instructions for # 3. Data for the practice - download and install GRASS following # 4. Software - try opening GRASS following [http://courses.ncsu.edu/gis582/common/media/GRASS_clinic2013/IntroGRASS.html the instructions here], especially the video capture [http://courses.ncsu.edu/gis582/common/media/GRASS_clinic2013/gettingstartedGRASS643edit3.mov Getting started with GRASS] You don't need to go through the entire video or the instructions - we will do it in Boulder, for now just open GRASS and make sure you can display one of the provided map layers. Please let Helena know if you have any problems: [mailto:hmitaso@ncsu.edu hmitaso@ncsu.edu]
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Ad Reniers
| affiliation = University of Miami
| title = Dune erosion and overwash with XBeach
| abstract = A short tutorial and hands-on workshop to set up and run XBeach to predict the morphodynamic response of dune protected areas under hurricane conditions. We will cover the set up of the computational grid, boundary conditions, model processes and data analysis. The XBeach model runs on a windows platform. If you have a Mac, you can still run the model provided you have software (like parallels or vmware) that enables you to run windows programs. To download XBeach, see: [http://oss.deltares.nl/ http://oss.deltares.nl/]
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Hari Rajaram
| affiliation = University of Colorado
| title = A very basic introduction to numerical methods for scientific computing
| abstract = I will give a overview of the basic foundations of numerical methods for modeling earth systems described by ordinary and partial differential equations. I will discuss the underlying foundations of finite-difference, finite-volume and finite-element methods using diffusion/conduction equations as an example. I will discuss explicit and implicit methods for time-stepping, and stability analysis of time-integration schemes. All numerical methods for ODEs and PDEs in some form arrive at algebraic approximations, translating them into systems of algebraic equations. I will discuss basic algorithms for solving systems of algebraic equations, and how they are incorporated into various software packages, and also emphasize the importance of sparsity
in matrix computations. I will include examples derived from practical problems in reactive transport and glacier dynamics to illustrate how basic concepts apply to real-world problems and make a difference when we want to develop efficient and accurate models.
}}
 

=Participants=
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=Reimbursement =
Within its budget, CSDMS intends to support member applicants to attend the annual meeting. Towards this goal, we encourage members to fully or partially cover their expenses if capable. We additionally thank those in the industry and agency fields for understanding that 1) we cannot compensate federal agency participants since our own funding is from NSF, and 2) we request that our industrial/ corporate participants cover their own costs thereby allowing more academic participants to attend.

To the extent possible, CSDMS intends to reimburse the registration fee, lodging (shared rooms at 100% and single rooms at 50% at Millennium Harvest House Hotel), and a limited amount of travel expenses of qualified registrants - those members who have attended all three days of the meeting and are not industry or federal employees.

'''Important for foreign travelers requesting reimbursement:''' If you need a visa to travel to USA, select a business visa. If you need an invitation letter, please email [mailto:csdms@colorado.edu csdms@colorado.edu] soonest. Also indicate whether specific wording is required in the letter. Second, we will need to copy the entry stamp in your passport sometime during the meeting as proof that you were here on business as required by US tax laws for reimbursement (especially when dealing with airfare.)
 

=Student Scholarships=
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=Travel, Lodging and Conference Center Information=
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Lodging for meeting participants is at the [http://www.millenniumhotels.com/millenniumboulder/index.html Millennium Harvest House Hotel] 
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'''CSDMS 2.0: Moving Forward'''
March 23-25th 2013 Boulder Colorado, USA</center> 

=Registration=
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Registration is now officially closed. Any requests to attend may be sent to [mailto:csdms@colorado.edu csdms@colorado.edu] with subject line: CSDMS Mtg 2013. 
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=Objectives and general description=
The CSDMS Meeting 2013 is designed to launch CSDMS 2.0 and shape its direction through engaging on the technical and community challenges over the next five years. 

The meeting includes: 1) ''State-of-the art keynote presentations'' in earth-surface dynamics and modeling; 2) ''Hands-on clinics'' related to community models, tools and approaches; 3) ''Transformative software products and approaches'' designed to be accessible, easy to use, and relevant; 4) ''New community initiatives'' to advance earth-surface process modeling across many disciplines; 5) ''Breakout sessions for Working and Focus Research Groups'' to update their strategic plans and define their long, medium and short term goals; 6) ''Poster Sessions''; and more. 
''Poster Information'': Those who are bringing posters have been assigned to one of the two poster sessions via an email that was sent on March 11th. (If you did not receive that email, contact: csdms@colorado.edu). The poster boards are configured for 4' wide by 6' tall (portrait orientation) posters. There are only a few spots available for posters with landscape orientation.
 

==Program==
[[media:CSDMSMeeting2013Schedule.pdf|Program Schedule]] updated March 16th
 

==Join online Pre meeting discussions==
[[Coastal_WG_Discussion|Coastal Work Group]] 
[[Terrestrial_WG_Discussion|Terrestrial email send March 18th]]
 

==Keynote speakers==
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = John Atkinson
| affiliation = ARCADIS U.S., Inc.
| title = A Coupled ADCIRC and SWAN model of Hurricane Surge and Waves.
| abstract = This presentation will briefly introduce the formulation, numerics, and parallel implementation of the coastal circulation model ADCIRC, discuss the strategy of coupling with the SWAN wave model, and provide background on recent enhancements of the bottom-friction formulation. Several recent applications of the coupled modeling system will be presented.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Katy Barnhart
| affiliation = University of Colorado
| title = Melting Coasts and Toppled Blocks: Modeling Coastal Erosion in Ice-Rich Permafrost Bluffs, Beaufort Sea, Alaska
| abstract =(with Robert S. Anderson, Irina Overeem, Gary Clow, and Frank Urban) (thanks to Adam LeWinter and Tim Stanton) Rates of coastal cliff erosion are a function of the geometry and substrate of the coast; storm frequency, duration, magnitude, and wave field; and regional sediment sources. In the Arctic, the duration of sea ice-free conditions limits the time over which coastal erosion can occur, and sea water temperature modulates erosion rates where ice content of coastal bluffs is high. Predicting how coastal erosion rates in this environment will respond to future climate change requires that we first understand modern coastal erosion rates. Arctic coastlines are responding rapidly to climate change. Remotely sensed observations of coastline position indicate that the mean annual erosion rate along a 60-km reach of Alaska’s Beaufort Sea coast, characterized by high ice content and small grain size, doubled from 7 m yr-1 for the period 1955-1979 to 14 m yr-1 for 2002-2007. Over the last 30 years the duration of the open water season expanded from ∼45 days to ∼95 days, increasing exposure of permafrost bluffs to seawater by a factor of 2.5. Time-lapse photography indicates that coastal erosion in this environment is a halting process: most significant erosion occurs during storm events in which local water level is elevated by surge, during which instantaneous submarine erosion rates can reach 1-2 m/day. In contrast, at times of low water, or when sea ice is present, erosion rates are negligible. We employ a 1D coastal cross-section numerical model of the erosion of ice-rich permafrost bluffs to explore the sensitivity of the system to environmental drivers. Our model captures the geometry and style of coastal erosion observed near Drew Point, Alaska, including insertion of a melt-notch, topple of ice-wedge-bounded blocks, and subsequent degradation of these blocks. Using consistent rules, we test our model against the temporal pattern of coastal erosion over two periods: the recent past (~30 years), and a short (~2 week) period in summer 2010. Environmental conditions used to drive model runs for the summer of 2010 include ground-based measurements of meteorological conditions (air temperature, wind speed, wind direction) and coastal waters (water level, wave field, water temperature), supplemented by high temporal frequency (4 frames/hour) time-lapse photography of the coast. Reconstruction of the 30-year coastal erosion history is accomplished by assembling published observations and records of meteorology and sea ice conditions, including both ground and satellite-based records, to construct histories of coastline position and environmental conditions. We model wind-driven water level set-up, the local wave field, and water temperature, and find a good match against the short-term erosion record. We then evaluate which environmental drivers are most significant in controlling the rates of coastal erosion, and which melt-erosion rule best captures the coastal history, with a series of sensitivity analyses. The understanding gained from these analyses provides a foundation for evaluating how continuing climate change may influence future coastal erosion rates in the Arctic.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Chris Duffy
| affiliation = Penn State University
| title = Modeling The Isotopic “Age” of Water in Hydroecological Systems with PIHM
| abstract = Co-authors: Gopal Bhatt and Evan Thomas Theories have been proposed using idealized tracer age modeling for ocean ventilation, atmospheric circulation, soil, stream and groundwater flow. In this research we developing new models for the dynamic age of water in hydroecological systems. Approaches generally assume a steady flow regime and stationarity in the concentration (tracer) distribution function for age, although recent work shows that this is not a necessary assumption. In this paper a dynamic model for flow, concentration, and age for soil water is presented including the effect of macropore behavior on the relative age of recharge and transpired water. Several theoretical and practical issues are presented including some new results for Shale Hills CZO (G. Bhatt, 2012).
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Michael S. Eldred
| affiliation = Sandia NL
| title = DAKOTA: An Object-Oriented Framework for Simulation-Based Iterative Analysis
| abstract = The DAKOTA project began in 1994 with the primary objective of reusing software interfaces to design optimization tools. Over nearly 20 years of development, it has grown into an open source toolkit supporting a broad range of iterative analyses, typically focused on high-fidelity modeling and simulation on high-performance computers. Today, DAKOTA provides a delivery vehicle for uncertainty quantification research for both the NNSA and the office of science, enabling an emphasis on predictive science for stockpile stewardship, energy, and climate mission areas. Starting with an overview of the DAKOTA architecture, this presentation will introduce processes for setting up iterative analyses, interfacing with computational simulations, and managing high-fidelity workflows. Algorithmic capabilities in optimization, calibration, sensitivity analysis, and uncertainty quantification (UQ) will be briefly overviewed, with special emphasis given to UQ. Core UQ capabilities include random sampling methods, local and global reliability methods, stochastic expansion methods, and epistemic interval propagation methods. This UQ foundation enables a variety of higher level analyses including design under uncertainty, mixed aleatory-epistemic UQ, and Bayesian inference.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Courtney Harris
| affiliation = VIMS
| title = Linking Sediment Transport Processes and Biogeochemistry with Application to the Louisiana Continental Shelf
| abstract = Though it enhances the exchange of porewater and solids with the overlying water, the role that sediment resuspension and redeposition play in biogeochemistry of coastal systems is debated. Numerical models of geochemical processes and diagenesis have traditionally parameterized relatively long timescales, and rarely attempted to include resuspension. Meanwhile, numerical models developed to represent sediment transport have largely ignored geochemistry. Here, we couple the Community Sediment Transport Modeling System (CSTMS) to a biogeochemical model within the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS). The multi-layered sediment bed model accounts for erosion, deposition, and biodiffusion. It has recently been modified to include dissolved porewater constituents, particulate organic matter, and geochemical reactions. For this talk, we explore the role that resuspension and redeposition play in biogeochemical cycles within the seabed and in benthic boundary layer by running idealized, one-dimensional test cases designed to represent a 20-m deep site on the Louisiana Shelf. Results from this are contrasted to calculations from an implementation similar to a standard diagenesis model. Comparing these, the results indicate that resuspension acts to enhance sediment bed oxygen consumption.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Wonsuck Kim
| affiliation = University of Texas
| title = Building a Network for Sediment Experimentalists and Modelers
| abstract ='''Wonsuck Kim''', ''University of Texas at Austin'' '''Leslie Hsu''', ''Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University'' '''Brandon McElroy''', ''University of Wyoming, Laramie'' '''Raleigh Martin''', ''University of Pennsylvania'' In the modeler community, hindcasting (a way to test models based on knowledge of past events) is required for all computer models before providing reliable results to users. CSDMS 2.0 “Moving forward” has proposed to incorporate benchmarking data into its modeling framework. Data collection in natural systems has been significantly advanced, but is still behind the resolution in time and space and includes natural variability beyond our understanding, which makes thorough testing of computer models difficult. In the experimentalist community, research in Earth-surface processes and subsurface stratal development is in a data-rich era with rapid expansion of high-resolution, digitally based data sets that were not available even a few years ago. Millions of dollars has been spent to build and renovate flume laboratories. Advanced technologies and methodologies in experiment allow more number of sophisticated experiments in large scales at fine details. Joint effort between modelers and experimentalists is a natural step toward a great synergy between both communities. Time for a coherent effort for building a strong global research network for these two communities is now. First, the both communities should initiate an effort to figure out a best practice, metadata for standardized data collection. Sediment experimentalists are an example community in the “long tail”, meaning that their data are often collected in one-of-a-kind experimental set-ups and isolated from other experiments. Second, there should be a centralized knowledge base (web-based repository for data and technology) easily accessible to modelers and experimentalists. Experimentalists also have a lot of “dark data,” data that are difficult or impossible to access through the Internet. This effort will result in tremendous opportunities for productive collaborations. The new experimentalist and modeler network will be able to achieve the CSDMS current goal by providing high quality benchmark datasets that are well documented and easily accessible.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Louis Moresi
| affiliation = Monash University
| title = Underworld: A high-performance, modular long-term tectonics code
| abstract = Co-authors: John Mansour, Steve Quenette and Guillaume Duclaux The Underworld code was designed for solving (very) long timescale geological deformations accurately, tracking deformation and evolving interfaces to very high strains. It uses a particle-in-cell based finite element method to track the material history accurately and highly-tuned multigrid solvers for fast implicit solution of the equations of motion. The implementation has been fully parallel since the inception of the project, and a plugin/component architecture ensures that extensions can be built without significant exposure to the underlying technicalities of the parallel implementation. We also paid considerable attention to model reproducibility and archiving — each run defines its entire input state and the repository state automatically. A typical geological problems for which the code was designed is the deformation of the crust and lithospheric mantle by regional plate motions — these result in the formation of localised structures (e.g. faults), basins, folds and in the generation of surface topography. The role of surface processes — redistributing surface loads and changing boundary conditions, is known to be significant in modifying the response of the lithosphere to the plate-derived forces. The coupling of surface process codes to Underworld is feasible, but raises some interesting challenges (and opportunities !) such as the need to track horizontal deformations and match changes to the topography at different resolutions in each model. We will share some of our insights into this problem.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Jaap Nienhuis
| affiliation = WHOI/MIT
| title = Growth and Abandonment: Quantifying First-order Controls on Wave Influenced Deltas.
| abstract = What determines the style of river delta growth? How do deltas change after fluvial sediment supply is cut off? River delta evolution is characterized by the progradation and transgression of individual (deltaic) lobes: the delta cycle. We investigate the behaviour of wave-influenced deltas with a simple shoreline model, and quantitatively relate several first-order controls.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Mark Schmeeckle
| affiliation = Arizona State University
| title = Turbulence- and Particle-Resolving Numerical Modeling of Sediment Transport.
| abstract = Turbulence, bedload, and suspended sediment transport are directly simulated by a coupled large eddy simulation of the fluid and a distinct element method for every sediment grain. This modeling system directly calculates the motion of all grains by resolved turbulence structures. The model directly calculates modification of the flow and turbulence by the grains, such as the effects of grain momentum extraction and density stratification. Simulations such as these can be used in the future to parameterize sediment transport in large-scale morphodynamic simulations.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Mauro Werder
| affiliation = Simon Fraser University
| title = Modeling channelized and distributed subglacial drainage in 2D
| abstract = This model of the subglacial drainage system simulates the pressurised flow of water at the ice-bed interface of glaciers and ice sheets. It includes both distributed and channelized water flow. Notably the model determines the geometry of the channel network as part of the solution. The resulting channel network is similar to subaerial stream networks with channels carving out hydraulic potential "valleys". However, there are some pronounced differences to subaerial drainage, for example that the time for a network to form (and decay) is on the order of weeks to months; or that, channels originating at point sources can lie on ridges of the hydraulic potential. The model employs a novel finite element approach to solve the parabolic equations for the hydraulic potential simultaneously on the 1D channel network and 2D distributed system.
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==Clinics==
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Peter Burgess & Chris Jenkins
| affiliation = Royal Holloway, UK & Univ. of Co.
| title = Three carbonate sedimentation models for CSDMS
| abstract = This workshop will showcase three different models of carbonate sedimentation, produced under the CSDMS umbrella: carboCat for facies, carboCell for guilds, carboPop for communities. Participants will be able to download and run (on own or provided machines) these models in Python and Matlab environments, discuss how to select appropriate parameters for them using the various databases being developed in concert with the models, and contribute to plans for further development of models and databases.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Gary Clow
| affiliation = USGS
| title = Introduction to the Weather Research & Forecasting (WRF) System, a High-Resolution Atmospheric Model
| abstract = WRF is a highly parallel state-of-the-art numerical weather prediction model hosted by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). This community model was designed from the onset to be fairly flexible, supporting both operational forecasting and atmospheric research needs at scales ranging from meters to thousands of kilometers. Given the model’s physics implementation and it’s modular design, WRF naturally became the core for a number of more specialized models, including: HWRF (used to forecast the track and intensity of tropical cyclones), WRF-CHEM (simulates the emission, transport, mixing, and chemical transformation of trace gases and aerosols simultaneously with meteorology), Polar WRF (a version of WRF optimized for the polar regions), CWRF and CLWRF (versions of WRF modified to enable regional climate modeling), and planetWRF (a general purpose numerical model for planetary atmospheres used thus far for Mars, Venus, and Titan). The goal of this clinic is to provide an overview of the WRF model, including: model architecture, physics options, data required to drive the model, standard model output, model applications, and system requirements. Several examples will be presented. A Basic Model Interface (BMI) is currently being developed for WRF to facilitate the coupling of this atmospheric model with other earth system models.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Scott Peckham
| affiliation = University of Colorado
| title = Introduction to the Basic Model Interface and CSDMS Standard Names
| abstract = In order to simplify conversion of an existing model to a reusable, plug-and-play model component, CSDMS has developed a simple interface called the Basic Model Interface or BMI that model developers are asked to implement. In this context, an interface is a named set of functions with prescribed function names, argument types and return types. By design, the BMI functions are straightforward to implement in any of the languages supported by CSDMS, which include C, C++, Fortran (all years), Java and Python. Also by design, the BMI functions are noninvasive. A BMI-compliant model does not make any calls to CSDMS components or tools and is not modified to use CSDMS data structures. BMI therefore introduces no dependencies into a model and the model can still be used in a "stand-alone" manner. Any model that provides the BMI functions can be easily converted to a CSDMS plug-and-play component that has a CSDMS Component Model Interface or CMI. Once a BMI-enabled model has been wrapped by CSDMS staff to become a CSDMS component, it automatically gains many new capabilities. This includes the ability to be coupled to other models even if their (1) programming language, (2) variable names, (3) variable units, (4) time-stepping scheme or (5) computational grid is different. It also gains (1) the ability to write output variables to standardized NetCDF files, (2) a "tabbed-dialog" graphical user interface (GUI), (3) a standardized HTML help page and (4) the ability to run within the CSDMS Modeling Tool (CMT). This clinic will explain the key concepts of BMI, with step-by-step examples. It will also include an overview of the new CSDMS Standard Names, which provide a standard way to map input and output variable names between component models as part of BMI implementation. Participants are encouraged to read the associated CSDMS wiki pages in advance and bring model code with specific questions. See 1) BMI Page: [[BMI_Description]] 2) Standard Names Page: [[CSDMS_Standard_Names]]
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Irina Overeem
| affiliation = University of Colorado
| title = CMT clinic
| abstract = This clinic will look at the CSDMS Modeling Tool (CMT). We share the philosophy behind CMT, will demo the functionality of CMT and show what models are incorporated into it. New educational material on several models allows scientists and students to more easily use CSDMS models for classes and simple simulations and we will provide clinic participants with the latest information on these resources. The CMT clinic will be hands-on, we will run a few simple runs and visualize them. Finally, we will spend some time on discussing common problems and strategic solutions.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Thomas Hauser & Monte Lunacek
| affiliation = University of Colorado
| title = Python for Matlab users clinic
| abstract = This workshop is a hands-on introduction to using Python for computational science. Python is a powerful open source interpreted language that has been adopted widely in many application areas. The goal of this workshop is to teach participants how to use Python as an open source alternative for MATLAB in their computational workflows. While we will demonstrate how to implement MATLAB-based scientific computing workflows in Python, attendees are not required to have MATLAB or Python experience. The goal of this tutorial is to show how an open source alternative to MATLAB can be used productively for computational science research. In the first part of this workshop we will introduce basic Python concepts and iPython with a focus on migrating from MATLAB to Python. We will show how the Python modules Numpy and Scipy, for scientific computing, and Matplotlib, for plotting, can make Python as capable as MATLAB for computational science research. In the second part of the tutorial we will discuss on how to interface Python with compiled languages like C or Fortran to improve performance of numerical codes. Additionally we will show how to use distributed parallel computing on a supercomputer from interactive python notebooks. This tutorial will be hands on, so we would like you to install python on your laptop before you arrive. The easiest way to get everything you need is to download the FREE Enthought distribution: [https://www.enthought.com/products/epd_free.php https://www.enthought.com/products/epd_free.php] The installation is fairly straight forward, but if you have any questions, please feel free to email Monte: [mailto:Monte.Lunacek@colorado.edu Monte.Lunacek@colorado.edu].
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Mary Hill
| affiliation = USGS
| title = Toward Transparent, Refutable Hydrologic Models in Kansas or Oz.
| abstract = Numerical models are critical to integrating knowledge and data for environmental systems and understanding future consequences of management decisions, weather variability, climate change, and so on. To attain the transparency and refutability needed to understand predictions and uncertainty and use models wisely, this clinic presents a strategy that emphasizes fundamental questions about model adequacy, sensitivity analysis, and uncertainty evaluation, and consistent use of carefully designed metrics. Emphasizing fundamental questions reveals practical similarities in methods with widely varying theoretical foundations and computational demands. In a field where models take seconds to months for one forward run, a credible strategy must include frugal methods for those in Kansas who can only afford 10s to 100s of highly parallelizable model runs in addition to demanding methods for those in Oz who can afford to do 10,000s to 1,000,000s of model runs. Advanced computing power notwithstanding, people may be in Kansas because they have chosen complex, high-dimensional models, want quick insight into individual models, and/or need systematic comparison of many alternative models. This class will briefly review the fundamental questions, demonstrate relations between existing theoretical approaches, and address challenges and limitations. Students will be able to examine a model constructed using FUSE and compare results from computationally frugal method evaluations conducted in class and demanding methods for which results are provided.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Xiaofeng Liu
| affiliation = UT San Antonio
| title = Modeling of Earth Surface Dynamics and Related Problems using OpenFOAM®.
| abstract = This clinic aims to introduce the open source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) platform, OpenFOAM®, to the earth surface dynamics research community and to foster collaborations. OpenFOAM® is essentially a computational toolbox which solves general physical models (differential equations) using finite volume method. This short clinic is tailored to be suitable for an audience at various levels (from beginners to experienced code developers). It will provide an overview of OpenFOAM. We will demonstrate its usage in a variety of applications, including hydrodynamics, sedimentation, groundwater flows, buoyant plumes, etc. Participants can also bring the problems in their fields of interest and explore ways to solve them in OpenFOAM®. Knowledge of C++, object-oriented programming, and parallel computing is not required but will be helpful.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Eckart Meiburg & students
| affiliation = University of California, SB
| title = TURBINS using PETSc
| abstract = This clinic will provide information on how laboratory scale flows and field scale flows can be simulated by direct numerical simulations (DNS) and large-eddy simulations (LES) using parallel, high-performance computing facilities. DNS results, from the software TURBINS, of gravity and turbidity currents propagating over complex sea floor topography will be discussed. The use of the PETSc software package within the DNS simulations will be highlighted. LES results of high Reynolds number gravity and turbidity currents, and reversing buoyancy currents over a flat topography will be discussed. Issues relevant to LES such as grid resolution, grid convergence, subgrid models and wall-layer modeling will also be discussed.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Helena Mitasova
| affiliation = North Carolina State Univ.
| title = Modeling and analysis of evolving landscapes in GRASS GIS
| abstract = This clinic will introduce participants to GRASS6.4.3 with special focus on terrain modeling, geomorphometry, watershed analysis and modeling of landscape processes such as surface water flow and erosion/deposition. The hands-on section will explore lidar-based terrain models, multiple surface visualization, analysis of coastal lidar time series and visualization of terrain evolution using space-time cube. Overview of new capabilities in the GRASS7 development version will also be provided. Notice: The participants will be expected to download and install GRASS6.4.3 as well as the practice data sets from the provided web site prior to the clinic. (see below) Everything used in the clinic will be available through the following web site: http://courses.ncsu.edu/gis582/common/media/GRASS_clinic2013/GRASS_clinic.html (''I am still working on the material, but the install info is there''). Anytime before the clinic (which is on Monday March 25), please: - download the data following the instructions for # 3. Data for the practice - download and install GRASS following # 4. Software - try opening GRASS following [http://courses.ncsu.edu/gis582/common/media/GRASS_clinic2013/IntroGRASS.html the instructions here], especially the video capture [http://courses.ncsu.edu/gis582/common/media/GRASS_clinic2013/gettingstartedGRASS643edit3.mov Getting started with GRASS] You don't need to go through the entire video or the instructions - we will do it in Boulder, for now just open GRASS and make sure you can display one of the provided map layers. Please let Helena know if you have any problems: [mailto:hmitaso@ncsu.edu hmitaso@ncsu.edu]
}}
{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Ad Reniers
| affiliation = University of Miami
| title = Dune erosion and overwash with XBeach
| abstract = A short tutorial and hands-on workshop to set up and run XBeach to predict the morphodynamic response of dune protected areas under hurricane conditions. We will cover the set up of the computational grid, boundary conditions, model processes and data analysis.
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{{Keynote-clinics
| name = Hari Rajaram
| affiliation = University of Colorado
| title = A very basic introduction to numerical methods for scientific computing
| abstract = I will give a overview of the basic foundations of numerical methods for modeling earth systems described by ordinary and partial differential equations. I will discuss the underlying foundations of finite-difference, finite-volume and finite-element methods using diffusion/conduction equations as an example. I will discuss explicit and implicit methods for time-stepping, and stability analysis of time-integration schemes. All numerical methods for ODEs and PDEs in some form arrive at algebraic approximations, translating them into systems of algebraic equations. I will discuss basic algorithms for solving systems of algebraic equations, and how they are incorporated into various software packages, and also emphasize the importance of sparsity
in matrix computations. I will include examples derived from practical problems in reactive transport and glacier dynamics to illustrate how basic concepts apply to real-world problems and make a difference when we want to develop efficient and accurate models.
}}
 

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=Reimbursement =
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To the extent possible, CSDMS intends to reimburse the registration fee, lodging (shared rooms at 100% and single rooms at 50% at Millennium Harvest House Hotel), and a limited amount of travel expenses of qualified registrants - those members who have attended all three days of the meeting and are not industry or federal employees.

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