CSDMS meeting 2025

Presentations and more of the CSDMS 2025 annual meeting

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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Keynote presentations and panel discussion

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
Anarde, Katherine	Parameterizing human dynamics in geomorphic models: learning from coastal barrier evolution models
Austermann, Jacky	Solving the sea level equation: Earth’s response to ice and ocean load changes
Barnes, Richard	A Hands-On Workshop on GPU-Based Landscape Evolution Modeling
Best, Kelsea	Introduction to agent-based modeling for socio-environmental systems
Callaghan, Kerry	Using Fill-Spill-Merge to understand and analyze landscape depressions
Haedrich, Caitlin	Coastal evolution analysis and inundation modeling with GRASS GIS
LeVeque, Randy	New features and basic usage of the GeoClaw software for depth-averaged flow
Lee, Allen	The Last FAIR Clinic You'll Ever Need*
Liao, Chang	Mesh independent flow direction modeling using HexWatershed 3.0
Marder, Eyal	Coupling biological and surface processes in landscape evolution models
Roy, Samapriya	Introduction & Building with Google Earth Engine: Batteries Included
Swannack, Todd	Vegetation as ecogeomorphic features: incorporating vegetation into Earth Surface Models
Zellner, Moira	Fora.ai: A participatory modeling platform to reshape how we collaborate for climate and social impact

Poster Abstracts

Name	Abstract title posters	Poster
Apoznanski, Diana	Analysis of the geographic variations of storm tide joint probability exceedance curves in the Northeast United States
Arora, Bhavna	Modeling approaches for providing water and energy solutions to the world
Blanco, Daniel	Time of Emergence Analysis for Extreme Temperature-Related Mortality
Chadwick, Austin	A predictive model for delta subsidence
Cheng, Jun	The Effect of Beach Width in shore protection – A case study at Ortley Beach, New Jersey
Chester, Sam	On the Origin of Holocene Sea Level Transgressions in Formerly Glaciated Regions
Cortes, Isamar	The Interplay Between Salt Concentration, Mangrove Vegetation, and Die-Back: A case study of islands with complex geometries in Southern Puerto Rico
Dammann, Eric	Quantifying Methane Emissions in a Tidal Marsh System: Insights from a Morphodynamic Model
Davis, Julianne	Remote sensing constrains model inputs in a real-world delta
Du, Rongqing	Coupled Hydrodynamic-Sediment Transport Model in Galveston Bay during Hurricane Harvey
Dwivedi, Dipankar	Assessing Coastal Defense Vulnerabilities: Rising Sea Levels and DoD Site Risks
Esposito, Christopher	Advancing Capacity for Marsh Modeling Retrospective Analysis: Synthetic Historical DEMs for Model Initialization and Validation
Fathi Said, Mohamed	A Deep-Learning Model for Continuous Flood Extent and Water Depth Mapping
Gallen, Sean	Climate modulation of spatial and temporal fault slip in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado
George, David	Modeling the effects of bed-sediment entrainment on the dynamics and runout of outburst floods and emergent debris flows with the granular-fluid model D-Claw.
Grom, Vivian	Exploring Bias in Detrital Zircon Provenance Records Imparted by Landscape Evolution
Houssais, Morgane	Using a new fundamental equation of sediment creep to model coastal breaching and landsliding
Huff, Thomas	Comprehensive marsh model development through integration of Landlab and MarshMorpho2D
Iscen, Nilay	Evolution of Long-Profiles of a Sand-bed Alluvial River Network
Joshi, Ayush	Identifying active uplift across fault strands in the southern San Bernardino mountains: a TL thermochronology based Approach
Kadir, Md Nurul	Complex Patterns of Sediment Erosion and Deposition under Sea-Level Variations Change: Insights from a Coupled Stratigraphic Experiment and Moving Boundary Modelling Approach for Fluvio-Deltaic Evolution.
Khalifa, Ahmed	The Great Flood of 1927: Comparative Analysis of Historical and Current Sediment Trends
Kodama, Samuel	Glacial isostatic adjustment drives spatiotemporal trends of meander migration rate in a former glacial lake basin
LeVeque, Randall	Visualizing Ship Motion in Tsunami Currents
Lin, Yucheng	PaleoSTeHM - A modern, scalable Spatio-Temporal Hierarchical Modeling framework for paleo-environmental data
Long-Reid, Ashanie	How does abrasion impact the fluvial morphodynamics of a volcanic sediment pulse, Suiattle River, WA?
Lopez, Cesar	Evaluating Morphologic Controls on Wave Energy Delivery on the West Coast of the United States
Lyttek, Erik	The Spatial Impact of Fraxinus Snag Fall on Electric Distribution Infrastructure under Emerald Ash Borer Infestation
Manuel, Laura	Systemic analysis of the tradeoffs associated with management strategies for natural and built Mississippi River outlets
Martin, Jo	Fractal Dimensions of River Networks and Hack's Law
Morey, Susannah	The lasting legacy of megaflood boulder deposition in mountain rivers
Morgan, Paul	Shallow landslides and landscape evolution
Murray, Brad	Modeling the coupled evolution of barrier landscapes and communities
Naher, Taznin	Quantifying the role of estuarine geometric changes on tidal range variations: Insights from the Delaware River
Nash, Sebastian	On the impact of coastline anthropogenic geomorphological alterations on flood hazards and upscaling potential for coupled systems.
Overeem, Irina	Icy Landscapes: modeling sediment transport in permafrost regions
Panthi, Jeeban	Groundwater dynamics in barrier islands: Geophysics-informed numerical modeling
Phogat, Aman Kumar	A Comprehensive Machine Learning and GIS Approach for Dune Vegetation Mapping Using UAV-Based Imagery at an Undeveloped Dune System in Long Branch, New Jersey
Poudel, Sandeep	Flood Risk and Housing Market Dynamics Across US Coastal Communities
Reed, Miles	Designing and applying a landscape evolution model infused with cosmogenic nuclides for geomorphic insights
Rossi, Matthew	Emergent dynamics of soil production and sediment transport revealed using Agent-Based Models of biological agents
Rothman, Sophie	Landscape effects of self-formed waterfalls
Russ, Emily	A coupled ecogeomorphic modeling approach for understanding dune building on an Oregon coast dune
Schanta, Ryan	Prediction of Nearshore Nonlinear Wave Properties Using Machine Learning Models Trained on Wave-Resolving Hydrodynamics Models
Sharma, Abhinav	Enhancing Numerical Modeling of River Dynamics: Remote Sensing Solutions for Data-Scarce Environments
Sheehan, Christopher	Strange Knickpoints: A Case Study in Using Landscape Evolution Models to Understand Site-Specific Landscape Complexities
Sherwood, Chris	Conceptual Model for Revegetation of Barrier Islands after Outwash and Overwash Events
Shmilovitz, Yuval	Gully development and soil erosion in headwater catchments: An event-based approach using Landlab