CSDMS organization

CSDMS Executive Committee

The Executive Committee is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to approve the annual science plan, the semi-annual reports, the management plan, budget, partner membership, and other day-to-day issues that arise in the running of the CSDMS. The Executive Committee also develops the By-Laws and Operational Procedures, to be approved by the Steering Committee. The Executive Committee develops and implements the 5-year Strategic Plan.

The Executive Committee further:

1. Reviews proposals from Working Groups for development that are within the priorities of the Annual Science Plan and CSDMS mission;
2. Ensures that CSDMS develops and maintains the capability to support collaborative proposals;
3. Reviews the ongoing CSDMS business operations through regular meetings, teleconferences, AccessGrid sessions, electronic mail, etc.
4. Ensures scientific progress in multiple areas of landscape-basin evolution (LBE) by providing the computational infrastructure needed for improved modeling;
5. Ensures the connection of LBE research with related scientific thrusts of scientific computing and Geoinformatics through the establishment of strategic partnerships, and
6. Ensures transparency of governance and intellectual involvement of community via reasonable criteria for partner membership and a mechanism that allows community input.

Executive Committee Members

James Syvitski

James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: james.syvitski@colorado.edu Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180

Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.

Rudy Slingerland

Rudy Slingerland Department of Geosciences Penn State University 503A Deike Building University Park, PA 16802 Email: sling@geosc.psu.edu Tel: +1 814 865-6892 Fax: +1 814 865-3191

Steering Committee Chair Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers.

Greg Tucker

Greg Tucker Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado 2200 Colorado Avenue Campus Box 399 Boulder, CO 80309-0399 Email: gtucker@cires.colorado.edu Tel: +1 303-492-6985

Terrestrial Working Group Chair Greg Tucker earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Brown University in 1988. After working as a field archaeologist, he attended Penn State University, receiving his Ph.D. in Geosciences in 1996. After spending time as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, he served on the faculty of the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University from 2000 to 2003. In 2004 he joined the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. His current research focuses on the dynamics of drainage basin evolution and the development and testing of numerical landscape evolution models. He is also interested in the statistical-physics underpinnings of sediment transport on hillslopes and in channels. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface and serves on the editorial board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.

Brad Murray

Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences Duke University 334 Old Chem, Box 90227 Durham, NC 27708 Email: abmurray@duke.edu Tel: +1-919-681-5069 Fax: +1 919-684-5833

Coastal Working Group Chair Brad received all his degrees from the University of Minnesota –a BA (Journalism) and a BIS (Science) in 1986, a Masters (Physics) in 1990, and a PhD (Geology) in 1995—and was a postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1998. He is currently Associate Professor of Geomorphology and Coastal Processes at Duke University. Brad studies landscape evolution and pattern formation in a variety of environments, but concentrates these days on the morphodynamics of shallow sea beds, tidal marshes, and sandy and rocky coastlines. Brad uses relatively simple numerical models to explore hypotheses, usually motivated by field observations, about how landscapes in these environments come to be and how they might respond as the climate forcing shifts. Increasingly, this research involves two-way couplings between physical and biological (including human) processes.

Patricia Wiberg

Patricia Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia 220 Clark Hall CPO Box 400123 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123 Email: pw3c@virginia.edu Tel: +1 434-924-7546 Fax: +1 434-982-2137

Marine Working Group Chair Patricia received her B.A. from Brown University (Mathematics) and her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle (Oceanography). She is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia in Charlottesville working within the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS). Her research interests include sediment transport dynamics, continental shelf boundary layer flow and sediment transport, sediment dynamics on tidal salt marshes and in lagoons, hydrodynamic interpretation of sedimentary deposits, post-depositional alteration and preservation of sedimentary strata, transport of sediment-associated contaminants, and evolution of continental margin morphology.

Karen Campbell

Karen Campbell National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) University of Minnesota 2 Third Ave SE Minneapolis, MN 55414 Nashville, TN 37235 Email: kmc@umn.edu Tel: +1 612-626-6166

Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair Karen Campbell received her B.A. in Geology from Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, and her M.S. in Library and Information Science from Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts. She currently serves as the Education Director for the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) located at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Eckart Meiburg

Eckart Meiburg Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu Tel: +1 805-893-5278

Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Chair Professor Eckart Meiburg received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1981. He was a DAAD fellow in Chemical Engineering at Stanford during 1981-1982, before completing his Ph.D. degree at the DLR in Goettingen in 1985. After returning to Stanford as a postdoc from 1986 to 1987, he served on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Southern California. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2003-2007. His current research focuses on gravity and turbidity currents, as well as particle-laden and interfacial flows. Professor Meiburg has held visiting positions at the Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), ETH Zurich, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self- Organization (Goettingen), and the University of Western Australia (Perth). He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and the Senior Gledden Fellowship, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, he holds memberships in ASME, SIAM and Euromech. He is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Turbulence. Furthermore, he has served on the Frenkiel and Acrivos Award Committees.

CSDMS Steering Committee

The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 12 members: 10 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 2 selected by Partner Membership. The cognizant NSF program officer or his/her designate, and the Executive Director or his/her designate, serve as ex officio members of the SC. During SC meetings, there may be occasions when these ex officio members would exclude themselves from discussions.

The Steering Committee meets once a year to assess the competing objectives and needs of the CSDMS; will comment on the progress of CSDMS in terms of science (including the development of working groups and partner memberships), management, outreach, and education; and will comment on and advise on revisions to the 5-year strategic plan. The Steering Committee will provide a report to the Executive Director at the close of its meeting, to which s/he will respond within two weeks.

Steering Committee Members

Rudy Slingerland

Chair, Steering Committee Rudy Slingerland Department of Geosciences Penn State University 503A Deike Building University Park, PA 16802 Email: sling@geosc.psu.edu Tel: +1 814 865-6892 Fax: +1 814 865-3191

Dr. Rudy L. Slingerland received his graduate education in geology (M.S. 1974, PhD 1977) at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as a professor at Penn State for over 25 years. Between 1997-2003 he was Head of the Department of Geosciences and presently he is the Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. He has mentored 29 MSc and PhD students and received the 2005 Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching. His research interest is in sedimentary processes and deterministic modeling over a wide variety of environments and timescales. Current projects investigate; 1) clinoforms genesis in the Gulf of Papua, 2) the conditions that give rise to river channel bifurcations, 3) composition of sediment delivered to offshore basins, 4) geometry and internal characteristics of deltas, 5) the role of horizontal motions in orogenic landscapes in the Himalayas, and 6) Feedback loops between evolving land-use practices and sediment erosion off the landscape in the Appalachian mountains. Rudy has been closely involved with the CSDMS effort from the first hour; he has been part of the organizing committee for the workshops that laid out this initiative and was one of the lead authors on the CSDMS position papers.

Cecelia DeLuca

Member, Steering Committee Cecelia DeLuca Head, Earth System Modeling Infrastructure Section National Center for Atmospheric Research 1850 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov Tel: +1 (303) 497-3604 Fax: +1 (303) 497-1286

Cecilia has Ms degrees in Engineering from Boston University and in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting as a software Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory at 1996 and later on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Cecilia DeLuca developed an interest in the development of large, high-performance software systems and governance models for community software. Since 2002 Cecilia manages the Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Core Team who are responsible for building high-performance, flexible software infrastructure to increase ease of use, performance portability, interoperability, and reuse in climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science applications. Thus, Cecilia blends expertise in high performance computing, software project management, Earth sciences, and community organization. As section head of the Earth System Modeling Framework, NCAR, she is principal investigator of several million dollar projects like the “Earth System Curator”; an effort to better integrate models and datasets.

Tom Drake

Member, Steering Committee Tom Drake Office of Naval Research, ONR 875 North Randolph Street Arlington, VA 22203-1995 Email: Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tel: +1 703 696-1206

Dr. Tom Drake is the Team Leader for the Coastal Geosciences program at the Office of Naval Research. The Coastal Geosciences program funds research to enable prediction of the 4D coastal, estuarine and riverine environments. Tom received a B.S in Geology from M.I.T in 1980 and a Ph.D. in Geology from UCLA in 1988. He was a research oceanographer and postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography until 1995, when he joined the faculty at North Carolina State University. As an associate professor at NCSU, Tom taught geomorphology, coastal processes, and sediment transport physics courses. He joined ONR in 2003. Tom's research interests include the physics of granular materials and sediment transport and he has published papers on field, experimental, and computational studies of transport phenomena at a particle-by-particle scale. Since joining ONR Tom's research interests have expanded to include aerial and satellite remote sensing, optics, acoustics, and development of unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing. Tom is the lead manager of the Community Sediment Transport Model supported by the National Ocean Partnership Program.

Dave Furbish

Member, Steering Committee Dave Furbish Vanderbilt University Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences 2301 Vanderbilt Place Station B 35-1805 Nashville, TN 37235 Email: david.j.furbish@vanderbilt.edu Tel: +1 615 322-2137 Fax: +1 615 322-2138

David Furbish is a professor of earth and environmental sciences and a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Vanderbilt University. David's research involves environmental fluid mechanics and transport theory applied to problems in hydrology and geomorphology, and the intersection of these fields with ecology. David has taught courses in introductory geology, hydrology and geomorphology, transport phenomena, and hydrodynamics. He is author of "Fluid Physics in Geology" (Oxford). David's interest in CSDMS centers on exploring ways to effectively incorporate stochastic properties of Earth-surface processes within numerical simulations of landform dynamics.

Bert Jagers

Member, Steering Committee Bert Jagers Deltares P.O. Box 177 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands Email: Bert.Jagers@deltares.nl Tel: +31 (0)15-285-8864 Fax: +31 (0)15-285-8582

Dr. Bert Jagers graduated cum laude in 1995 in Applied Mathematics (M.Sc.), and also cum laude in Applied Physics (M.Sc.) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. title from the Civil Engineering department at the same university for a study on the behavior and modeling of braided rivers. This study involved the analysis of detailed morphological processes in braided rivers, data acquisition in the Jamuna River, Bangladesh, and the numerical modeling of the large scale morphological changes using various modeling techniques (neural networks, object-oriented modeling, cellular models). He is currently working at Deltares on various (inter)national research and advisory projects in the field of river engineering and morphology. Research addressed a.o. non-uniform sediment mixtures, bank erosion, bed forms, and floodplain roughness. Currently he is as technical coordinator software development of the 1D, 2D and 3D modeling systems SOBEK and Delft3D involved in model coupling (OpenMI, ESMF) and the improvement and extension of physical process formulations. He is also involved in the ONR community efforts concerning Delft3D and the Coastal Sediment Transport Model. Bert is interested in the CSDMS effort to collect state-of-the-art environmental knowledge as much as possible into open and consistents frameworks of numerical components suitable for further research and operational use.

Boyana Norris

Member, Steering Committee Boyana Norris Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Building 221, Room D236, 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, IL 60439 Email: norris@mcs.anl.gov Tel: +1 (630) 252-7908 Fax: +1 (630) 252-5986

Boyana Norris received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. She joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher in 1999 and is currently a computer scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She is actively involved in three main areas of research: scientific component software development, automatic differentiation (AD), and performance modeling and tools. She has been involved in the Common Component Architecture Forum since 1999, focusing on the development of components for adaptive linear system solution, as well as leading the component infrastructure usability effort and participating in component specification definition. In the area of automatic differentiation, the main focus is on the development of robust tools for the differentiation of C and C++ codes, and a modular design and implementation of automatic differentiation tools, enabling rapid AD algorithm development and reuse of differentiation strategies by front-ends for different programming languages. In the area of performance modeling and optimization, Boyana is performing research on performance bounds modeling and source analysis tools for estimating performance bounds of C and C++ code. She is also developing annotation-based empirical performance tuning tools, as well as component infrastructure for managing performance experiments and data. She has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and co-edited a volume on automatic differentiation. Boyana's interest in CSDMS centers on the application of component technology to (1) provide consistent interfaces to software developed within CSDMS and (2) ensure that the component software infrastructure and tools meet the needs of CSDMS researchers.

Chris Paola

Member, Steering Committee Chris Paola University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics 30B Pillsbury Hall Minneapolis MN 55455 Email: cpaola@umn.edu Tel: +1 (612) 624-8025 Fax: +1 (612) 625-3819

Chris Paola is professor of Geology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. (1983) in Marine Geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Prof. Paola has studied fluvial processes for many years and created one of the first models that captured the dynamics and time evolution of fully developed braided streams, a dominant contributor to the fluvial sedimentary record. Furthermore he worked on sediment fractionation in depositional systems, a major factor that drives downstream changes in fluvial morphology and sedimentary character. Other work of Prof. Paola has focused on the effect of statistical fluctuations on preserved stratigraphy, the formation of parallel lamination, and controls on rates of fluvial avulsion. Throughout his career, Chris tried to apply a mixture of theory, experiments and observations. Most of his experiments are carried out in a world-class facility known as the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL). He is co-founder and served as director of a NSF Science and Technology Center: the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) from 2003 till 2008. Chris' expertise in fluvial processes, his drive and interest to bring together scientists from a variety of fields to study the fundamental ways in which the Earth’s surface changes will be of great support to CSDMS.

Gary Parker

Member, Steering Committee Gary Parker University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 2527c HSL Hydrosystems Lab, MC-250 205 North Mathews Ave Urbana, IL 61801 Email: parkerg@uiuc.edu Tel: +1 217 244-5159

Based at the University of Illinois Urbana, Professor Gary Parker shares an appointment in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (75%) and the Department of Geology (25%). After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, he spent five years in the Department of Civil Engineering (now Civil & Environmental Engineering) at the University of Alberta and 25 years at the University of Minnesota before moving to the University of Illinois in 2005. His research interests lie in morphodynamics associated with rivers, debris flows and turbidity currents. He has served as a consulting engineer for river intake and bridge problems, for the disposal of tailings from mines, for dam sedimentation, and for submarine sedimentation processes related to oil exploration and risk to submarine pipelines.

Rick Sarg

Member, Steering Committee Rick Sarg Colorado School of Mines Department of Geophysics Golden, CO 80401-1887 Email: jsarg@mines.edu Tel: +1 303 273-3450 Fax: +1 303 273-3478

Dr. Rick Sarg received his Ph.D. (1976) in Geology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds an M.S. (1971) and a B.S. (1969) in Geology from the University of Pittsburgh. He has 31 years of petroleum exploration and production experience in research, supervisory, and operational assignments with Mobil (1976), Exxon (1976-90), as an Independent Consultant (1990-92), with Mobil Technology Company (1992-99) where he attained the position of Research Scientist, and with ExxonMobil Exploration (2000-05). Rick was a member of the research group at Exxon that developed sequence stratigraphy, where his emphasis was on carbonate sequence concepts. He has worldwide experience in integrated seismic-well-outcrop interpretation of siliciclastic and carbonate sequences. Rick achieved the position of Stratigraphy Coordinator at ExxonMobil Exploration Company. In August 2006, Rick joined the Colorado Energy Research Institute at the Colorado School of Mines as a Research Professor. He has authored and co-authored 30 publications and edited three volumes on carbonate stratigraphy, SEPM Special Publication 44 (1987), AAPG Memoirs 57 (1993), and 81 (2004). Rick is a GSA Fellow and active member of AAPG and SEPM. Rick recently completed a term as SEPM President. For the last decade, one of Rick's research interests has been to integrate stratigraphic observations with numerical process modeling to better understand and predict stratigraphy in the geological record.

Dan Tetzlaff

Member, Steering Committee Dan Tetzlaff Schlumberger 5599 San Felipe Ave., ste. 1700 Houston TX 77056 Email: dtetzlaff@slb.com Tel: +1 713 513-2182

Dr. Dan M. Tetzlaff holds a Licentiate Degree in Geology from the University of Buenos Aires (1989), and M.S. (1983) and Ph.D. (1987) degrees in Applied Earth Sciences from Stanford University. As a graduate student, he developed one of the earliest three-dimensional sedimentary process models, SEDSIM, under the direction of John Harbaugh. In later assignments in industry, Dan developed well-log interpretation methods and software for Baker Atlas (1987-1990), performed research in petroleum geology and sedimentology at Texaco EPTD (1990-1994), and was Geoscience Application Development Manager at Baker Atlas (1994-2000). He then joined Western Geco (2000-2003) to develop a sedimentary process modeling package coupled with compaction and fluid expulsion (GPM) that assists in seismic interpretation of siliciclastic reservoirs. Dan joined Schlumberger-Doll Research in February 2003, as Senior Research Scientist. There he advised university research groups extending the GPM package to carbonate modeling, investigated image characterization and geostatistical methods, and incorporated Multipoint Geostatistics into a major commercial package. In January 2007 he transferred to Schlumberger Information Solutions in Houston as a Principal Research Scientist. Presently, his main scientific interest is the integration of geologic process modeling with advanced geostatistical techniques. Dan has published numerous technical papers on sedimentology, well logging, and geostatistics, one early book on sedimentary process modeling. Dan is interested in supporting any aspect of the CSDMS where his experience may be helpful, from technical aspects of model development and integration, to practical issues where contacts in industry and academia may be helpful.

Ex Officio Steering Committee Members

Paul Cutler

Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee Paul M. Cutler Director-Geomorphology & Land Use Dynamics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 785.43 Arlington, VA 22230 Email: pcutler@nsf.gov Tel: +1 703-292-4961

Dr. Paul Cutler is Director of the Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics program at the National Science Foundation. His research on glacial processes has ranged from hydrometeorological fieldwork and modeling on contemporary valley glaciers to glacier-permafrost interactions, paleohydrology, and numerical modeling of Laurentide Ice Sheet dynamics. Dr. Cutler received a Ph.D in Geology from the University of Minnesota, and taught and conducted post-doctoral research in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked with the geoscience and Earth system science community on many fronts. Prior to joining NSF, Paul was with the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris, where he worked on interdisciplinary science collaborations such as the International Polar Year and global changeresearch programmes. And prior to ICSU, he was a Senior Program Officer with the Boards on Earth Sciences and Resources, Atmospheric Science and Climate, and Polar Research at the National Research Council. At NSF, he aims to strengthen the core opportunities for high-quality research in Earth surface processes in parallel with increasing the opportunities for (and engagement in) collaborations across Geoscience and other NSF directorates.

James Syvitski

Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee James Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: james.syvitski@colorado.edu Tel: +1 303 492-7909 Fax: +1 303 735-8180

Prof. James P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. He then worked as an Assist. Professor in Geology and Geophysics at the Univ. Calgary (1978-1980) and then as a Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1981-1995). During the BIO period, Prof. Syvitski was appointed Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie U., U. Laval, Memorial U., and INRS-oceanologie. In 1995 James joined the U. Colorado - Boulder as a Professor of Geological Sciences, and until 2007 served as Director of INSTAAR - an Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, While at CU, other faculty appointments include Applied Mathematics, Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, and Geophysics. James has over 500 publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 57 peer-reviewed books, and has served in various editorial positions for many international journals. Professor Syvitski has taken leadership roles in large International Projects (e.g. SAFE, ADFEX, SEDFLUX, COLDSEIS, STRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM, CSDMS), and served as an advisor for NSF, ONR, ARCUS, LOICZ, IGBP, IUGS, INQUA, SCOR, GWSP, and various energy, mining, and environmental companies. Prof. Syvitski has worked in the forefront of Computational Geosciences: sediment transport, land-ocean interactions and Earth-surface dynamics, and has won numerous awards for his efforts. In 2007 James became the Executive Director of CSDMS.

Previous Steering Committee Members

Previous SC Members	Period served
Dr. Mike Ellis	2007 - 2008
Dr. Tom Dunne	2007 - 2009
Dr. Richard Yuretich	2008 - 2010