CSDMS meeting 2014

Presentations and more of the CSDMS 2014 annual meeting

Uncertainty and Sensitivity in Surface Dynamics Modeling

May 20-22^th 2014 in Boulder Colorado, USA

Thank You

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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.

Meeting logistics

Agenda

Presentations

Keynote talks

Presented by	Title
Tom Hsu	Understanding wave-driven fine sediment transport through 3D turbulence resolving simulations – implications to offshore delivery of fine sediment
Jim McElwaine	The Dynamics of Granular Flows
Alexey Voinov	Exploring climate mitigation and low-carbon transitions: new challenges for model integration
Peter Koons	Unifying Tectonics and Surface Processes in Geodynamics
Elowyn Yager	Predictions of bedload transport in vegetated channels: uncertainties and steps forward
David Pyles	Testing the efficacy and uncertainty of outcrop- and model-based studies through collaboration: A field geologist’s perspective
Eric Larour	Towards better quantifications of the uncertainty in polar ice-sheet projections using the open source framework ISSM
Mick van der Wegen	Estuarine morphodynamics : better be certain about uncertainty
Rebecca Caldwell	A numerical modeling study of the effects of sediment properties on deltaic processes and morphology
Mariela Perignon	Predicting the influence of floodplain vegetation on the geomorphic effects of large floods
Attila Lazar	Coupling terrestrial and marine biophysical processes with livelihood dynamics for analysis of poverty alleviation in Bangladesh
Rudy Slingerland	The FESD Delta Dynamics Modeling Collaboratory: A Progress Report
Andrew Nicholas	Modelling the evolution of large river floodplains
Ajay Limaye	A vector-based method for bank-material tracking in coupled models of meandering and landscape evolution

Clinics

Presented by	Title
Ali Khosronejad	The SAFL Virtual StreamLab (VSL3D): High Resolution Simulation of Turbulent Flow, Sediment Transport, and Morphodynamics in Waterways
Greg Tucker & Daniel Hobley	Creative computing with Landlab: A flexible Python package for rapidly building and exploring 2D surface-dynamics models
Eunseo Choi	SNAC: A 3D parallel explicit finite element code for long-term lithospheric deformation modeling
Courtney Harris	Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS)
Chris Jenkins	Carbonate Models Clinic - carbo* suite
Laura Swiler & Adam Stephens	Dakota: A Toolkit for Sensitivity Analysis, Uncertainty Quantification, and Calibration
Mark Piper & Irina Overeem	WMT: The CSDMS Web Modeling Tool
Scott Peckham	Introduction to the Basic Model Interface and CSDMS Standard Names
Monte Lunacek	Interactive Data Analysis with Python
Joshua Watts	Agent-Based Modeling Research: Topics, Tools, and Methods

Posters

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Author(s)	Title	Download (pdf)
Jordan Adams	Modeling hydrologic and erosional responses of landscapes to fire using the Landlab modeling environment
Alberto Canestrelli	An immersed boundary method in Delft3D	File:CSDMS2014 poster AlbertoCanestrelli.png
Dan Cazanacli	A Simple Rule-Based Model for Distributary Networks	File:CSDMS2014 poster DanCazanacli.png
Eunseo Choi	SNAC-CHILD Coupling: Preliminary Results Towards Interoperable Modeling Frameworks
Sagy Cohen	On the sensitivity of global suspended sediment modeling to dams
Barry Eakins	Challenges in building coastal digital elevation models	File:CSDMS2014 poster BarryEakins.png
Zhixuan Feng	Modeling sediment-related loading, transport, and inactivation of fecal indicator bacteria at a nonpoint source beach
Lian Feng	Modeling the evolution of a thrust system: a geological application of DynEarthSol2D	File:CSDMS2014 poster LianFeng.png
Jian Hua Gao	Changes in water and sediment exchange between the Changjiang River and Poyang Lake under natural and anthropogenic conditions, China
Harrison Gray	An iterative bleach-and-mix model for the change in luminescence signal with cumulative sediment transport.	File:CSDMS2014 poster HarrisonGray.png
Jianwei Han	Measuring the imprint of orographic rainfall gradients on the morphology of steady-state numerical landscapes	File:CSDMS2014 poster JianweiHan.png
Kevin Hanegan	Tidal Modulated Flow and Sediment Flux through Wax Lake Delta Distributary Channels: Implications for Delta Development
Adrian Harpold	Interrogating the Sensitivity of Snow-Season Water and Energy Fluxes from a Land-Surface Model to High-Resolution Forest Canopy Information	File:CSDMS2014 poster AdrianHarpold.png
Stephanie Higgins	InSAR measurements of compaction and subsidence in the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, Bangladesh
Mary Hill	Exploring how parameter importance to prediction changes in parameter space	File:CSDMS2014 poster MaryHill.png
Elchin Jafarov	Using ground-penetrating radar to measure an ice-wedge depth	File:CSDMS2014 poster ElchinJafarov.png
Albert Kettner	TBD	File:CSDMS2014 poster AlbertKettner.png
Tara Kniskern	Advances in sediment transport modeling offshore of a fluvial source
John Kondziolka	Spatial structure and evolution in emergent vegetated ecosystems
Abigail Langston	Developing and evaluating algorithms for lateral erosion of bedrock channels in landscape evolution models
Ehab Meselhe	Sediment Dynamics of the Lower Mississippi River: Understanding Sediment Availability and Delivery for Land Building	File:CSDMS2014 poster EhabMeselhe.png
Angel Monsalve	Including sediment patches in sediment transport predictions in steep mountain channels	File:CSDMS2014 poster AngelMonsalve.png
Phil Moore	TBD	File:CSDMS2014 poster PhilMoore.png
Julia Moriarty	Buoyant and Gravity-Driven Transport on the Waipaoa Shelf: Model Evaluation and Sensitivity Analyses	File:CSDMS2014 poster JuliaMoriarty.png
Jaap Nienhuis	Wave angle control on deltaic channel orientation
Sai Siddhartha Nudurupati	Coupling Fluvial and Eco-hydrologic Components in the Landlab Modeling Framework
Jean-Arthur Olive	The long-term evolution of normal faults controlled by lithospheric flexure and surface processes.	File:CSDMS2014 poster Jean-ArthurOlive.png
Francis Rengers	Parameter Optimization for a Headcut Erosion Model	File:CSDMS2014 poster FrancisRengers.png
Kimberly Rogers	Simplifying the Ganges-Brahmaputra sediment dispersal system using a coupled model-field approach
Salik Anders Rosing	Modeling the circulation of the NW European shelf seas – present and deep past.
Shimelis Setegn	Hydrological model application and prediction uncertainty analysis	File:CSDMS2014 poster ShimelisSetegn.png
Kristin Sweeney	Testing bedrock incision models in a mixed bedrock-alluvial system: High Cascades, Oregon	File:CSDMS2014 poster KristinSweeney.png
Arnaud Temme	A new soil-landscape model: focus on its subsurface architecture
Phaedra Upton	How does topography control shallow geological processes?
Ya Ping Wang	Water and sediment discharge into the sea from Yangtze River: an improving measurement	File:CSDMS2014 poster YaPingWang.png
Andrew Wickert	Integrating glaciers and isostatic deformation with Landlab, a computational framework for Earth-surface systems, and GRASS GIS
Fei Xing	Hydrodynamics and morphological changes of the Wax Lake Delta (WLD) during hurricane Rita, 2005
Xuan Yu	Parameter and model uncertainty analysis of a physics-based hydrologic model: a comparative study of GLUE and Gaussian process emulator
Yu Zhang	Fully-Coupled Hydrologic-Morphologic Processes for Modeling Landscape Evolution