CSDMS groups

CSDMS Groups

Working Groups

CSDMS currently has five Working Groups, which includes three environmental (or discipline) working groups, two integrative working groups, and three focus research groups. As of Jan, 2011, membership came from 100 U.S. universities, 19 U.S. Federal Labs, 12 U.S. corporations, 109 foreign research institutions from more than 30 different countries. Working groups typically meet once per year, coordinating much of their activity via remote communication systems. Chairs of the Working Groups form the Executive Committee of CSDMS.

Learn more about the charge of the working groups (PDF file).

1. Terrestrial Working Group (Chair, Greg Tucker), 1204 members, weathering, hillslope, fluvial, glacial, aeolian, lacustrial
2. Coastal Working Group (Chair, Brad Murray), 914 members, delta, estuary, bays and lagoons, nearshore
3. Marine Working Group (Chair, Pat Wiberg), 550 members, shelf, carbonate, slope, deep marine
4. Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group (Chair, Karen Campbell), 412 members, targeting researchers with model & visualization tools; planners with decision-making tools; and educators with pre-packaged models to help illustrate surface processes, tools to build intuition.
5. Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group (Chair, Eckart Meiburg), 346 members includes technical computational aspects of the CSDMS, ensures that the modeling system properly functions and is accessible to users; software protocols are maintained, along with model standardization and visualization; works with our cyberinformatic partners.

Focus Research Groups

CSDMS currently has three Focus Research Groups or FRGs. FRGs differ from Working Groups in that they serve a unique subset of our surface dynamics community, and usually represent a well-developed community. FRGs are often co-sponsored by another organization. FRGs are similarly supported by the CSDMS Integration Facility as Working Groups, including access to CSDMS High Performance Computers. FRG's typically meet once per year, coordinating much of their activity via remote communication systems. Chairs of FRGs report directly to the CSDMS Executive Director, and often to the Chair or Director of the co-sponsoring organization.

1. Hydrology Focus Research Group, 967 members, represents the hydrological modeling community, and is being co-sponsored by CUAHSI. This FRG deals with aspects of the hydrological system that impact earth-surface dynamics. (Chair, Jon Goodall)
2. Carbonate Focus Research Group, 0 members, is the outgrowth of the recent NSF effort to coordinate the carbonate modeling community and their development of a numerical carbonate workbench (Chair, Peter Burgess)
3. Chesapeake Focus Research Group, 140 members, is our first 'geographically-focused' effort representing and co-sponsored by the Chesapeake Community Modeling Program, with their unique collection of models and field data set (Chair, Carl Friedrichs)

Groups Area

The links below will guide you to the different group web sites. Each community has its own web site set up, such to pursue their goals the best.

Chair	Working Groups (WG) / Focus Research Groups (FRG)	Members
Greg Tucker	Terrestrial WG	Members
Brad Murray	Coastal WG	Members
Patricia Wiberg	Marine WG	Members
Karen Campbell	Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) WG	Members
Eckart Meiburg	Cyberinformatics and Numerics WG	Members
Jon Goodall	Hydrology FRG	Members
Peter Burgess	Carbonate FRG	Members
Carl Friedrichs	Chesapeake FRG	Members
		All members of CSDMS

CSDMS Mailing lists

There are several e-mail lists that exist for CSDMS. These lists are all available as ordinary e-mail information lists, which you may subscribe to by using the links in the table below.

List	Description	List Admin
Mailing lists for CSDMS Working Groups
Mailing lists for CSDMS Focus Research Groups