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CSDMS CHESAPEAKE FOCUS RESEARCH GROUP MEETING, April 3, 2009

Date: April 3, 2009

Location:Johns Hopkins University,
Department of Geography Environmental Engineering,
3400 North Charles Street,
Ames Hall 313, Baltimore,
Maryland 21218

Host: Johns Hopkins University

Introduction

The Chesapeake FRG is the first Geographically-Focused Research Group associated with CSDMS. The group is a partnership between CSDMS and the Chesapeake Community Modeling Program (CCMP, http://ches.communitymodeling.org/) currently run by the Chesapeake Research Consortium. You can find out more about the CSDMS Chesapeake FRG at this link to the CSDMS wiki: http://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/index.php/CCMP

CCMP developed as the Chesapeake Bay research community came together to cooperatively build an open source system of watershed and estuary models. Through support from CRC member institutions and the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office, CCMP modelers have committed to developing a modeling framework that will enable free and open access to code specific to the Chesapeake Bay region. As a complementary activity to the CBP modeling program, the Chesapeake Community Model Program strives to develop a comprehensive model consisting of interchangeable individual modules covering all aspects of hydrodynamics, ecosystem dynamics, trophic exchanges, and watershed interactions towards a future linked watershed-estuary model. There are obvious areas of overlap between CSDMS and CCMP, and the CSDMS Chesapeake FRG intends to capitalize on synergies from both programs.

So, in addition to the geographical focus, attendance at the meeting will enable you to stay abreast of cutting-edge research developments applicable to many areas of study. The meeting intends to:

get everyone up to speed on CCMP, CSDMS and model integration pathway that CSDMS is employing (modified CCA for the Architecture and framework, BABEL as the language independent compiler, modified OpenMI for interface standards, etc.),
get everyone up to speed on appropriate Chesapeake modeling tools in use by the CCMP community,
get everyone up to speed on the valuable field data that CCMP offers for code testing,
develop some simple, doable short term, intermediate term and longer term goals for the group, and
perhaps assign some tasks to the members.

Participants

If you are interested to join this meeting, please contact as soon as possible: (csdms@colorado.edu). Thank you.

Circulars and Program

Please follow this link (pdf) to view the preliminary agenda.

Talks

Presentations will be placed here 3-4days after the meeting

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-===CSDMS Marine Working Group meeting, February 25-26, 2009===
+===CSDMS CHESAPEAKE FOCUS RESEARCH GROUP MEETING, April 3, 2009===
 [[Image:ocean.jpg|right|300px|Photo by Flickr user Micah A. Ponce used under a Creative Commons license]]
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-| width="450px"|'''Date:''' February 25-26, 2009
+| width="450px"|'''Date:''' April 3, 2009
 |-
-| '''Location:''' Charlottesville, VA, USA
+| '''Location:'''Johns Hopkins University,<br>Department of Geography Environmental Engineering,<br>3400 North Charles Street,<br>Ames Hall 313, Baltimore,<br>Maryland 21218
 |-
-| '''Host:''' University of Virginia
+| '''Host:''' Johns Hopkins University
 |}
 ==== Introduction ====
-The Coastal and Marine Working Groups will coordinate their meetings with each other carving out joint and separate sessions.  The meeting will begin at 9:00 AM on both February 25 and 26th.  It will end around 4:00 PM on February 26.
+The Chesapeake FRG is the first Geographically-Focused Research Group associated with CSDMS. The group is a partnership between CSDMS and the Chesapeake Community Modeling Program (CCMP, http://ches.communitymodeling.org/) currently run by the Chesapeake Research Consortium.  You can find out more about the CSDMS Chesapeake FRG at this link to the CSDMS wiki:  http://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/index.php/CCMP
-Patricia Wiberg, Chair of the Marine WG, and Brad Murray, Chair of the Coastal WG, are looking for broad representation and input to brainstorm proof-of-concept modeling projects to highlight, and discuss which models the Working Groups should prioritize as they move towards expanding the CSDMS model repository.  The meeting will also feature presentations from the CSDMS Executive Director, James Syvitski, and CSDMS Software Engineer, Eric Hutton, from the CSDMS Integration Facility in Boulder, Colorado.  They will present recent CSDMS organizational and model-linking-architecture development, and how to use CSDMS tools.  In addition, there will be workshop-style time on February 26th, for members to work on getting their own codes into the form appropriate for inclusion in the CSDMS toolbox, or to help make progress getting priority models form the community included. Please follow the link below for a more detailed agenda.
+CCMP developed as the Chesapeake Bay research community came together to cooperatively build an open source system of watershed and estuary models. Through support from CRC member institutions and the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office, CCMP modelers have committed to developing a modeling framework that will enable free and open access to code specific to the Chesapeake Bay region. As a complementary activity to the CBP modeling program, the Chesapeake Community Model Program strives to develop a comprehensive model consisting of interchangeable individual modules covering all aspects of hydrodynamics, ecosystem dynamics, trophic exchanges, and watershed interactions towards a future linked watershed-estuary model.  There are obvious areas of overlap between CSDMS and CCMP, and the CSDMS Chesapeake FRG intends to capitalize on synergies from both programs.
+So, in addition to the geographical focus, attendance at the meeting will enable you to stay abreast of cutting-edge research developments applicable to many areas of study.  The meeting intends to:
+# get everyone up to speed on CCMP, CSDMS and model integration pathway that CSDMS is employing (modified CCA for the Architecture and framework, BABEL as the language independent compiler, modified OpenMI for interface standards, etc.),
+# get everyone up to speed on appropriate Chesapeake modeling tools in use by the CCMP community,
+# get everyone up to speed on the valuable field data that CCMP offers for code testing,
+# develop some simple, doable short term, intermediate term and longer term goals for the group, and
+# perhaps assign some tasks to the members.
 ==== Participants ====
-If you are interested to join this meeting, please contact ([mailto:csdms@colorado.edu csdms@colorado.edu]). Registration deadline is February 12, 2009. If you have special circumstances and would like to join after February 12, please contact the Chair, Patricia Wiberg. Thank you.
+If you are interested to join this meeting, please contact as soon as possible: ([mailto:csdms@colorado.edu csdms@colorado.edu]). Thank you.
-Personal invitations have been sent to specific CSDMS members with expertise in these areas to contribute to the discussion and planning of short- and long-term goals.
 ==== Circulars and Program====
-This is a joint meeting with the Coastal Working Group.  Please follow [[media:Coastal_and_marinewg_agenda_feb09_pw.pdf|this link]] (pdf) to view the combined agenda.
+Please follow [[media:ChesapeakeFRGMtg2009Agenda_27_2_2009.pdf|this link]] (pdf) to view the preliminary agenda.
 ==== Talks ====
 ''Presentations will be placed here 3-4days after the meeting''