CSDMS meeting 2025

Presentations and more of the

CSDMS 2025 Annual Meeting: Exploring Earth's Surface with Models, Data & AI

University of Colorado - Boulder, May 13 -15^th 2025

Thank You

On behalf of CSDMS, we thank the Keynote Speakers, Clinic Leaders, Session Chairs, Poster Session Presenters, members of the Executive and Steering Committees, and every participant who helped to make this a productive and successful meeting.

Agenda

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Oral presentations and awards

Presenter	Title and links to additional material and recordings
Awards, Marie-Christin Wimmler	Student Modeler Award 2025
Awards, Brad Murray	Lifetime Achievement Award
Grimm, Volker	The Open Modeling Foundation: operationalizing FAIR principles
Grom, Vivian	Quantifying Spatial and Temporal Variation in LEM Outputs
Koeppel, Ari	Standardizing Soil Thermal Inertia Derivations with Bayesian Statistics
Kratzert, Frederik	Long Short-Term Memory networks for rainfall-runoff modeling
Liang Xue, John Naliboff &	Feedbacks between coupled surface processes and lithospheric deformation during multiphase continental rifting
Nienhuis, Jaap	Two worlds on a single planet: long-term coastal geomorphological data versus models
Reilly, Allison	Extending research on the burden of sea-level rise on the built environment beyond housing
Song, Yalan	High-Resolution Differentiable Models for Operational National and Global Water Modeling and Assessment
Stucky de Quay, Gaia	Global flood volumes on Mars: insights into a persisting water cycle
Team 1, ESPIn	How vegetation influence Landslides and landscape Evolution in the Longterm
Team 2, ESPIn	Short-term Landscape Evolution in Response to Mass Wasting
Team 3, ESPIn	Post-Glacial Landscape Lab: Exploring the Dynamic Environments of Glacial Retreat
Team 4, ESPIn	Channel Evolution - f(Water)
Team 5, ESPIn	Coupling CEM and HydroTrend to assess links between rivers and coastal morphology
Todd-Brown, Kathe	Global soil carbon potential – What if everyone is right and where do we go from here?
Tucker, Greg	State of CSDMS
Wickert, Andrew	Simulating alluvial river evolution from geological to human time scales
Wimmler, Marie-Christin	Advancing Ecological Modeling with pyMANGA: Modularity and Reusability for Robust and Reproducible Research
Yu, Manzhu	Spatiotemporal methodologies for the analysis and prediction of extreme weather events

Clinics

Presenter	Title and links to additional material and recordings
Bangerth, Wolfgang	The finite element method (FEM)
Eric Barefoot, Andrew Moodie &	Using the collaborative sandpiper toolchain to support interoperability in geomorphology research
Haedrich, Caitlin	An Introduction to GRASS GIS and Tangible Landscape
Lee, Allen	Get lazy with LLMs
Naliboff, John	Coupling models of lithospheric deformation and surface processes with the Advanced Solver for Planetary Evolution, Convection, and Tectonics (ASPECT) - Part 2
Naliboff, John	Coupling models of lithospheric deformation and surface processes with the Advanced Solver for Planetary Evolution, Convection, and Tectonics (ASPECT) - Part 1
Overeem, Irina	Accelerating Glacier and Surface Processes Modeling with Machine Learning and New Python Libraries
Perez, Fernando	From Exploration to Publication: Geospatial Research in the Jupyter Ecosystem
Pfeiffer, Allison	Landlab’s NetworkSedimentTransporter: A Lagrangian model for riverbed material transport dynamics
Said, Mohamed Fathi	Integrating CNN with LSTM Models for Capturing Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Flood Modeling
Shapero, Daniel	Simulating glacier flow with ICEPACK
Volker Grimm, Steve Railsback &	Pattern-oriented agent-based modeling to achieve structural realism and testable predictions
Zellner, Moira	Fora.ai: Reshaping collaboration for climate and social impact

Poster Abstracts

Name	Abstract title posters	Poster
Rim, Donsub	A Stability Analysis of Neural Networks and Its Application to Tsunami Early Warning
Sherwood, Chris	Conceptual Model for Revegetation of Barrier Islands after Outwash and Overwash Events
Ghoshal, Suryodoy	From Earthquakes to Landslides: Predictive Modeling and Applications
Wanderley de Almeida, Matheus	From flames to flux: how wildfires alter soil formation and sediment dynamics
Amaya-Saldarriaga, Anderson	Influence of Vegetation-Induced Roughness on the Morphodynamics of River-Dominated Deltas
Pamula, Abhiram Siva Prasad	Data-driven Monitoring of Green Stormwater Infrastructure using Remote Sensing and AI Techniques
Haghiri, Mohammad	Simulation of seasonal water table dynamics Across North America using the Water Table Model (WTM)
Khalifa, Ahmed	Investigation of the environmental impact of annual sea level rise variability on the deltaic landscape evolution in estuarine environments
Oliveira, Pedro	“Dating the Incision of the Lower Amazon River using geomorphic markers and cosmogenic nuclides”
Marggraf, Jessica	Using flume and field measurements to estimate bedrock susceptibility to erosion
Joshi, Ayush	Bridging Temporal Gaps: TL Thermochronology as a Key to Active Tectonics and Knickpoint Migration in the San Gorgonio Pass
Martin, Jo	Neural Networks Can Infer Geomorphic Model Parameters From Topography, and We Might Be Able To Figure Out How!
Goldstein, Evan	Detecting inland coastal flooding with TinyCamML, a low-cost, privacy-aware camera with on-device ML and cellular connectivity
Byun, Jongmin	Effects of Relief on Headwater Catchment Landscapes
Bui, Viet	Quantifying Delta Planform Evolution Under Sea-Level Rise: Insights from Flume Experiments and Enthalpy-Based Modeling
da Silva, Renato	RiverCaptureFinder: A New Tool for Identifying and Classifying Drainage Captures in Landscape Evolution Models
Callaghan, Kerry	Global change in groundwater and lake storage over the past 21,000 years
Leung, Meredith	Co-producing a Mauka (Mountain) to Makai (Sea) Interconnected Systems Modeling Framework for Informed Management in a Changing Climate
Ashrani, Uma	Simulating Ditch Removal and Wetland Restoration Using Depression-Filling Algorithms
Carchipulla-Morales, David	A novel model uncovers the importance of dew deposition for canopy epiphytes in a tropical montane cloud forest
Murray, Brad	Theoretically and Empirically based modeling of the evolution of multi-species marshes
Bogan, Abner	Advancing FAIR Research Software Practices in Hydrology Domain through Metadata Standardization and Evaluation
Arcuri, Josie	Using a hydraulic model to identify the formative discharge for gravel-bedded rivers that fill with ice
Armstrong, William	Basal motion modulates glacier change in a warming climate
Borse, Dnyanesh	Hierarchical Link Length Distribution Controls Dynamic Connectivity Across Channel Networks
Boulton, Sarah	Exploring the role of normal faulting and strong lithological contrasts on landscape transience using Landlab.
Cang, Xuezhi	Landscape Structure Through Depression Hierarchy Analysis in the Continental United States
Chen, Qiuyang	Customizing River Corridor Segmentation from Satellite Imagery Using Deep Learning
De Santos, Carisa	Variability in Winds During River Flood and Quiescent Periods in Baltimore, MD: Implications for Modeling Estuarine Residence Time
Gedefa, Mulugeta Tesema	No abstract submitted yet
Grom, Vivian	Quantifying Spatial and Temporal Variation in LEM Outputs
Haque, Dewan Mohammad Enamul	Advancing dynamic multi-(hazard-) risk assessment method for a massive refugee camp in Bangladesh
Henry, Hannah	The Effect of Climate and Management Strategies on Barrier Island Evolution: Insights from a Case Study of Hatteras Island
Huang, Qin	Modeling Fire Dynamics, Human Behavior, and Power Supply in Complex Systems Using Agent-Based Models (ABMs)
Huffman, Emily	Modeling the environmental controls of uplifted beach ridge geomorphology
Iscen, Nilay	Equilibrium Geometry of Sand-Bed Rivers: Insights from Morphodynamic Controls and SRLP
Kelley, Madeline	First Application of AeoLiS to Fluvial-Aeolian Systems
Langhorst, Theodore (Ted)	Estimating Daily Suspended Sediment Flux from Multiple Data Sources using Deep Learning
LeVeque, Randall	Tsunami Early Warning from GNSS Data using Convolutional Neural Networks
McDougall, Dylan	Coupling Cross-shore and Alongshore Processes to Explore Long Term Coastline Morphodynamics
Messina, Francesca	Sediment Infilling Rate of Lowermost Mississippi River Borrow Pits and Impacts on Downstream Dredging
Minear, J. Toby	The NASA SWOT Satellite Mission and Fluvial Geomorphology
Mitchell, Hamish	Constructing Digital Elevation Models from Single Synthetic Aperture Radar Images
Morey, Susannah	Magnitude Matters: examining landsliding magnitude-frequency relationships and their impacts on mountain landscapes
Quigley, Louis	NDVI as a proxy for Hydrological Drought Monitoring around Cape Town, South Africa
Reahl, Jocelyn	Surface mass balance–driven ice flow emulator underpredicts terminus retreat at lake-terminating glaciers
Rengers, Francis	Using Big Data for Postfire debris flow situational awareness
Said, Mohamed Fathi	Accelerate Bed-Change Simulations Using Spatiotemporal Deep Learning Framework
Schanta, Ryan	Leveraging FUNWAVE-TVD Outputs as Training Data for Nearshore ML Models
Shacheri, Fatemeh	Comparative Influence of Channel Morphology and Sediment Lithology on Downstream Sediment Impacts in Several Rivers of Washington State
Shmilovitz, Yuval	Ecohydrology and lithological controls on ephemeral catchments landscape evolution: insights from the High Plains (Colorado) using high-resolution climate projections
Shobe, Charles	Modeling the influence of macro-roughness on gravel-bed river morphodynamics
Song, Yalan	High-Resolution Differentiable Models for Operational National and Global Water Modeling and Assessment
Steckler, Mike	Future projections of compaction-induced subsidence on the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta
Sulca, Debbie	Contaminant Transport Characterization at Los Alamos National Laboratory using a Vadose Zone Vapor Plume Model
Tull, Nelson	An open-source approach for modeling dynamic vegetation processes in coastal environments
Undzis, Brianna	Source Composition of Suspended Sediment Concentrations on the Alaskan Beaufort Sea Shelf
Volponi, Sabrina	No abstract submitted yet
Westoby, Matt	Using CAESAR-Lisflood to model the geomorphic recovery of a high-mountain fluvial system following an extreme sediment-charged flow
Wu, Zhenwei	Morphodynamic Response of River Deltas to Unsteady Discharge and Sediment Supply
Yadav, Anshul	Flow-driven bedload: A numerical study of monodisperse and bidisperse grain kinematics
Zhang, Jiaye	Large-Eddy Simulation of Bedform Evolution Driven by Turbulent Coherent Structures in an Oscillatory Flow