CSDMS organization

CSDMS Executive Committee

The Executive Committee (executive committee chair, steering committee chair and the working group chairs) is the primary decision-making body of the CSDMS, and meets twice a year to provide guidance to the Integration Facility, approve the annual project management plan, advise on major activities, review partnerships, and address 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

Greg Tucker

Greg Tucker CSDMS facility at INSTAAR Fellow of CIRES University of Colorado Campus Box 399 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: csdms@colorado.edu Tel: +1 303 492-6985

Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director Greg Tucker is a Professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder and is a fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES). His research focuses in the area of computational and theoretical geomorphology. He brings his training in geosciences, archaeology, and numerical computing to bear on understanding the dynamics of earth’s surface topography, both in the context of the “deep time” evolution of mountain ranges and other landforms, as well as contemporary processes such as river flooding, debris-flow erosion, and gully formation. In advancing our understanding of landscape dynamics, he and his students combine field measurements, digital terrain data, and numerical modeling. In recognition of this work, Prof. Tucker was awarded the Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal by the European Geosciences Union in 2012. Prof. Tucker has authored or co-authored over 100 journal publications and book chapters. He is also a co-creator of the popular CHILD landscape evolution model. He currently leads an NSF-supported project to develop Landlab, a contribution to the Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System that provides a Python-language library for efficient creation and coupling of two-dimensional numerical models. Prof. Tucker is a graduate of Brown University, with a BA in Anthropology, and of Penn State University, with a PhD in Geosciences. Prior to joining CU-Boulder, he was a postdoctoral research associate in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and later a faculty member at Oxford University’s School of Geography and the Environment. He was elected CSDMS Deputy Director in November of 2015 and assumed the role of Executive Director in October, 2017.

Irina Overeem

Irina Overeem CSDMS/INSTAAR University of Colorado, Boulder 4001 Discovery Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: irina.overeem@colorado.edu Tel: +1-303-492-6631

CSDMS Deputy Director Irina Overeem is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado. She graduated cum laude from Wageningen University, The Netherlands with a M.Sc. and engineering degree in Soil, Water and Atmosphere. She received her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and Applied Geosciences from Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. Her research focuses on river and coastal systems and their dynamic response to changing environmental factors. She develops numerical models to explore sediment transport processes, morphological change, depositional patterns and stratigraphy. Field observations of rivers and deltas worldwide guide her design of models and critical assessment of their predictions. Overeem has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles in journals like Nature Geoscience, GRL, Journal of Geophysical Research, as well as in domain journals like Sedimentary Geology, Basin Research and The Cryosphere. Her current projects with students and postdocs focus on modeling sedimentation and its impacts on delta sustainability, with special emphasis on the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta, and on rivers and deltas in a rapidly changing Arctic region, with field projects in Greenland and Alaska. Overeem leads a NSF-funded project to develop community cyberinfrastructure for modeling of permafrost processes. She won the National Oceanographic Partnership Program Award for work on Arctic Coastal Erosion in 2010. Overeem worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Jaia Syvitski between 2002-2005, and then became an Assistant Professor in Applied Earth Sciences at Delft University. In late 2007, she returned to the University of Colorado to join the CSDMS team as the Education and Knowledge Transfer Expert. Overeem assumed the role of deputy director in October 2017.

Paola Passalacqua

Paola Passalacqua Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering University of Texas Austin, TX 78712 Email: paola@austin.utexas.edu Tel: +1 (512) 471-3319

Steering Committee Chair Dr. Passalacqua is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas, Austin, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering. Her research interests lie at the intersection of water resources engineering, hydrologic sciences, and geomorphology. Her goal is to advance the understanding of how topographic patterns arise, evolve, and interact with climate and ecosystems, in order to improve predictions of the response of the Earth-surface to disturbance and change and develop sustainable management solutions. Paola's research merges the analysis of remote sensing data (high resolution topographic data - lidar - and satellite imagery), numerical modeling, statistical analysis, and field work. she received her PhD in Civil Engineering in 2009 from the University of Minnesota. Paola accepted appointment to the CSDMS Steering Committee in April, 2020 and in October of 2022, she was elected (by unanimous approval of the full CSDMS community) to CSDMS Steering Committee Chair.

Christopher Sherwood

Chris Sherwood U.S. Geological Survey 384 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543 Email:csherwood@usgs.gov Tel: +508 457 2269

Interagency Working Group Chair Chris Sherwood received a B.A. from Bowdoin College (Economics and Environmental Studies) and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington (Geological Oceanography). He is currently a research oceanographer with the U.S. Geological Survey in Woods Hole, MA. Before joining the USGS in 1999, he worked for three years in Hobart, Tasmania as a research scientist with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and for ten years as a research scientist for Battelle at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland and Sequim, Washington. Chris has been a proponent of open-source software and helped develop the community sediment-transport modeling system used in the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS). Chris is interested in the development and application of sediment-transport models, and in making field measurements that provide insight and critical constraints for those models. With CSDMS, Chris is working to expand the interactions between government agencies and CSDMS scientists. In particular, Chris hopes to foster projects that allow government agencies to capitalize on the CSDMS investments on model algorithms and infrastructure. He accepted the role of Interagency Working Group Chair in September 2014.

Leslie Hsu

Leslie Hsu U.S. Geological Survey W 6th Ave Kipling St. Box 25046, MS 302 Lakewood, CO 80225 Email: lhsu@usgs.gov Tel: +1 303-202-4080

Terrestrial Working Group Co-Chair Leslie is the Coordinator of the Community for Data Integration at the US Geological Survey. She received her MS in Geosciences from University of Arizona in 2002 and her PhD in Earth & Planetary Science from UC, Berkeley in 2010. Leslie is currently serving as the 2017-2018 Chair of the Geoinformatics Division of GSA. She has also been involved with the Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance and was a co-PI of the Sediment Experimentalist Network Research Coordination Network. Her research has focused on fluvial seismology, debris flow erosion, creeping faults, alluvial fans and atmospheric chemistry. Leslie’s interests also include data and information technology and facilitation of communities of practice.

Talea Mayo

Talea Mayo Department of Mathematics Emory University 400 Dowman Dr Atlanta, GA 30322 Email: talea.mayo@emory.edu Tel: +1 404-727-7580

Coastal Working Group Co-Chair Dr. Mayo is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Emory University. Talea received her Ph.D. in Computational and Applied Mathematics from the University of Texas, Austin in 2013. Dr. Mayo completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Princeton University. She is a graduate of the SOARS program at NCAR and has a keen interest in promoting STEM education to historically underrepresented groups. Her research focuses on computational models used to forecast storm surges (ADCIRC), coastal ocean modeling with special interests in tides, waves, hurricane storm surges (SLOSH), flood risk analysis, wave energy, coastal erosion and data assimilation methods for state and parameter estimation of dynamic systems. Talea was elected Coastal Working group Co-Chair in April, 2020.

Alejandra Ortiz

Alejandra Ortiz Colby College Geology Department 4000. Mayflower Hill Waterville, Maine 04901 Email: acortiz@colby.edu Tel: +1-207-859-4000

Coastal Working Group Co-Chair Aleja is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geology at Colby College. She received her Ph.D. in Marine Geology from the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in 2015 working on coastal evolution of sandy-wave dominate shorefaces and understanding motu formation on atolls. Aleja then completed an NCED2 Synthesis Postdoctoral Fellowship at Indiana University Bloomington investigating pond expansion driving marsh collapse in the Mississippi River Delta Plain in 2016. Her current research focuses on the ecogeomorphic evolution of coastal landscapes. Aleja was elected Coastal Focus Group Co-Chair in October 2022.

Julia Moriarty

Julia Moriarty Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences University of Colorado, Boulder 4001 Discovery Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email: julia.moriarty@colorado.edu Tel: +1 303-492-7167

Marine Working Group Co-Chair Dr. Moriarty is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder. From 2017 to 2019 she was a USGS Mendenhall Post Doctoral scholar based at the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center. Julia received her Ph.D. in marine science in 2017 from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, and her M.S. in 2012 in Marine Science (physical oceanography) from College of William and Mary. Her research focuses on developing and using coupled numerical models to increase our understanding of, and ability to quantify, sediment and nutrient transport. She works in a variety of coastal environments, including estuaries and continental shelves. Her research questions focus on understanding temporal and spatial variability, as well as the extent to which different processes affect sediment and nutrient transport in the coastal ocean. Julia was elected to lead the CSDMS Marine Working Group as its Co-Chair in May, 2020.

Michael Steckler

Mike Steckler Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia University Earth Institute 61 Route 9W PO Box 1000 Palisades, NY 10964 Email: steckler@ldeo.columbia.edu Tel: +1 845-365-8479

Marine Working Group Co-Chair Mike is currently a Lamont Research Professor affiliated with the Marine Geology and Geophysics section of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University. His research interests include tectonics of sedimentary basins, isostasy, stratigraphic modeling and marine geophysics. Mike received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1981 (and a B.S. from MIT in 1976). He was elected as Co-Chair of the CSDMS Marine Working Group in October, 2018.

Kehui (Kevin) Xu

Kevin Xu Louisiana State University Associate Professor Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences 2165 Energy, Coast and Environment Building Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: kxu@lsu.edu

Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair Kevin Xu is an Associate Professor and James P. Morgan Distinguished Professor of Coastal Studies, Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences at Louisiana State University. He is also serving as Interim Director of the Coastal Studies Institute. Kevin received his Ph.D. in Marine Science at the College of William and Mary in 2006. His research interests includes Geological oceanography, coastal morphodynamics, observation and numerical modeling of sediment transport along bottom boundary layer; sedimentary geology; coastal processes. He accepted the role of Chair of the Education and Knowledge Transfer Working Group in February, 2020.

Olaf David

Olaf David Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Colorado State University Campus Delivery 1372 Fort Collins, CO 80526 Email: odavid@coloradostate.edu Tel: +1 (970) 491-8026

Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Co-Chair Olaf David received his B.S. degree in civil engineering and computer science from the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (Germany), and his Ph.D. degree in computer science/engineering from the Technical University in Ilmenau, Germany. He started his career as research assistant at several computing centers, worked for 6 years as assistant professor at the Department for Geography at the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena, Germany, and 18 years as research scientist at the Department of Civil Engineering at the Colorado State University. He is conducting the development of the Object Modeling System (OMS) and the Cloud Sevices Integration Platform (CSIP), two environmental modeling and service-oriented frameworks, and their integration into various research projects with the USDA Agricultural Research Service, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Army Corps of Engineers, the International Atomic Energy Agency, FFAR, Field-toMarket, and others as PI or Co-PI. His current research interests are focused on leveraging component based modeling for large scale environmental applications within the context of emerging technologies such as scientific cloud computing and machine learning. He accepted the role of Chair of the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group in May of 2019.

Scott Peckham

Scott Peckham Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research University of Colorado, Boulder 4001 Discovery Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Email:scott.peckham@colorado.edu Tel: +1 (303) 492-6752

Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Co-Chair Scott is a Senior Research Scientist and Fellow at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) at University of Colorado, Boulder. His research interests include cyberinfrastructure for modeling, hydrologic modeling, fluvial landscape evolution, seafloor and stratigraphic evolution, nonlinear PDEs, differential geometry, scaling theory, sediment plumes, coastal dynamics, efficient computer algorithms and source-to-sink sediment transport. Scott received his undergraduate and masters of science degrees from Oregon State University (Physics, 1987 and Engineering Physics, 1989, respectively) and his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder in Geophysics and Hydrology, 1995. He accepted the role of Co-Chair of the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group in April of 2017.

Focus Research Group Committee Members

Venkat Lakshmi

Venkat Lakshmi Engineering Systems and Environment University of Virginia 151 Engineers Way Charlottesville, Virginia, 22904 Email: vlakshmi@virginia.edu Tel: +434 982-2052

Hydrology Focus Research Group, Chair Venkat graduated from University of Roorkee in 1987 with a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and earned his Doctorate in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 1996 from Princeton. He worked at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from 1996-1999 as a research scientist in the Laboratory for the Atmospheres. His research interests are in the area of hydrometeorology and hydro-climatology, land-atmospheric-ecological interactions through modeling and remote sensing. He is a Full Professor and former Chair of the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of South Carolina (2008-2011). He is currently the Cox Visiting Professor of Earth Sciences at Stanford University (2015-2016) and also held this role from 2006-2007. Dr. Lakshmi has over 60 peer-reviewed articles and 200 presentations. He has served as the thesis advisor for around 20 graduate students. He has served as Editor EOS, Associate Editor of Water Resources Research, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering and Journal of Geophysical Research and currently is serving as Associate Editor of Journal of Hydrology and Communications Editor for Vadose Zone Journal. He has served on the board of directors of the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrological Sciences (CUAHSI) and on the American Geophysical Union Hydrological Executive Council, and has been the co-chair for the Hydrology Section for the Fall Meeting. He has served as a member of the Executive council for the American Geophysical Union Heads and Chairs of Geosciences. He is currently the chairman of the Chapman Conference committee for AGU. He has published in the areas of catchment hydrology, satellite data validation and assimilation, field experiments, land-atmosphere interactions, satellite data downscaling, vadose zone and water resources. Dr. Lakshmi accepted the role of Chair of the Hydrology Focus Research Group in September 2015.

Peter Burgess

Peter Burgess Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Science Jane Herdman Labs, University of Liverpool Liverpool, L69 3GP United Kingdom Email: pmb42@liverpool.ac.uk

Carbonates and Biogenics Focus Research Group Chair Peter received his PhD in stratigraphic forward modeling at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where he developed an interest in quantitative geology and numerical models. He was a postdoc in Caltech, Los Angeles as well as at the Liverpool University, United Kingdom where he broadened his experience developing numerical models as well as gaining valuable experience in field-based sedimentology. After four years as a lecturer in Cardiff University he joined the Shell research lab in Rijswijk in 2002, working on stratigraphic forward modeling as well as plate modeling and regional geology. Peter left Shell in 2010 and is now Professor of Sedimentary Geology at Royal Holloway University of London where he teaches various courses ranging from petroleum geology to field mapping, and pursues research interests in topics ranging from the geodynamics of basin formation to fine-scale heterogeneity of carbonate strata, all linked by development and application of stratigraphic forward models. Peter accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Carbonates and Biogenics Focus Research Group as its Chair in September, 2008.

Chris Jenkins

Chris Jenkins INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Bouder, CO 80309 Email: jenkinsc0@gmail.com Tel: +1 720-840-3303

Carbonates and Biogenics Focus Research Group Co-Chair Chris Jenkins received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, UK in 1979 in biostratigraphy, following a BSc HonsI degree from The University of Sydney, in geology, physics and math. He has extensive at-sea experience in the fields of marine sediments and geophysics including swath sonar mapping. Chris joined the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2002 and is also an associate at the University of Adelaide. Active funded projects involve the worldwide distributions of seafloor materials and their geoacoustic properties, physics of biological seafloors, machine-learning information extraction for building sediment databases, and numerical process modeling for the seafloor. He builds oceanographic data-software applications for marine infrastructure and operational projects. Biologically colonized seafloors, including carbonate sediments, are currently his primary thread of research. Chris accepted the role of Co-Chair of the Carbonates and Biogenics Focus Research Group in December 2015.

Raleigh Hood

Raleigh Hood Horn Point Laboratory University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science P.O. Box 775 Cambridge MD. 21613 Email: rhood@umces.edu Tel: +410 221-8434

Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair Raleigh Hood received a B.S. in Oceanography from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. in Oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He subsequently did postdoctoral research at Oregon State University and the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. He is currently a Professor of Oceanography at Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. Raleigh began his research career as a biological oceanographer when he was an undergraduate at the University of Washington, studying harmful algae blooms in Puget Sound. He has since conducted research in coastal and open ocean environments all over the world, including the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans and both the east and west coasts of North America. Presently his research is focused primarily on using models to simulate and predict biogeochemical and ecological variability in marine environments. Raleigh has been a leader in promoting open-source software for many years. He founded the Chesapeake Community Modeling Program (CCMP) in 2002, which is dedicated to advancing the cause of accessible, open-source environmental models of the Chesapeake Bay in support of research & management efforts. He is currently the Program Manager for the CCMP and the Chair of the CCMP Steering Committee. Raleigh is a founding member of the CSDMS Chesapeake Focus Research Group and he has served as Chair since July 2014.

Lejo Flores

Lejo Flores Associate Professor Department of Geosciences Boise State University 1910 University Dr. Boise, ID 83725-1535 Email: lejoflores@boisestate.edu

Critical Zone Focus Research Group Co-Chair Lejo Flores received his B.S and M.S. in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University in 2001 and 2003, respectively. He then enrolled in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT and received his Ph.D. in Hydrology in 2009. After a brief postdoc at MIT he began as an Assistant Professor at Boise State University in the Department of Geosciences in late 2009 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2014. Research focus areas include modeling coupled human and natural systems to quantify feedbacks between land management and regional hydroclimate and use of remote sensing data to improve model-based ecohydrologic prediction. He is serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Hydrometeorology and co-chairs the AGU Hydrology Section Remote Sensing Technical Committee. He was elected as co-chair of the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group in October 2014.

Michael Young

Michael Young Associate Director, Env Division Bureau of Economic Geology University of Texas, Austin 1910 University Station, Box X Austin, TX 78713-8924 Email: michael.young@beg.utexas.edu Phone: +1 512-475-8830

Critical Zone Focus Research Group Co-Chair Michael Young is currently Associate Director, Environmental Division, Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas, Austin. He moved to U Texas in 2010 from Desert Research Institute (DRI), Nevada, where he served most recently as Acting Executive Director of the Division of Hydrologic Sciences and as Research Professor. His personal research directions are in vadose zone hydrology, soil science and ecohydrology. Michael received his M.S. in Geological Sciences (Hydrology) from Ohio University in 1986 and his Ph.D. in Soil and Water Science from University of Arizona in 1995. He was recently elected as Fellow of the Geological Society of America and Soil Science Society of America. Michael was elected as co-chair of the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group in July of 2017 (representing the International Soil Modeling Consortium).

Moira Zellner

Moira Zellner College of Social Sciences and Humanities Northeastern University Boston, Massachusetts United States Email: m.zellner@northeastern.edu

Human Dimensions Focus Research Group Co-Chair Moira Zellner is Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Director of Participatory Modeling and Data ScienceDepartment of Urban Planning and Policy at the Northeastern University. Having completed her undergraduate degree in ecology in Argentina, she pursued graduate studies in urban and regional planning and in complex systems at the University of Michigan (Ph.D. 2005). Before coming to the US, she worked in Argentina as an environmental consultant for local and international environmental engineering firms and for the undersecretary of Environment in the City of Buenos Aires, in projects related to domestic and hazardous waste management, river remediation, industrial pollution control, and environmental impact assessments. She also participated in interdisciplinary and international research projects of urban air pollution and of the spread of tuberculosis through public transportation. In her position at University of Illinois, Dr. Zellner has served as Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator in interdisciplinary projects examining how specific policy, technological and behavioral factors influence the emergence and impacts of a range of complex environmental problems, where interaction effects make responsibilities and burdens unclear. Her research also examines the value of complexity-based modeling for participatory policy exploration and social learning with stakeholders and decision-makers. Dr. Zellner also teaches a variety of workshops on complexity-based modeling of socio-ecological systems, for training of both scientists and decision-makers. She has served the academic community as reviewer of journals and grants spanning across the social and natural sciences. Moira accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Human Dimensions Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in August, 2016.

Derek Robinson

Prof. Derek Robinson Department of Geography and Environmental Management University of Waterloo 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1 Canada Email: dtrobinson@uwaterloo.ca

Human Dimensions Focus Research Group Co-Chair Derek is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo. His research interests lie at the center of land use, land management, and the carbon cycle. He uses agent-based modelling to integrate GIS, ecological, and human decision-making models to evaluate the effects of socio-economic and policy scenarios on ecological function and human well-being. Recent projects outside of this area of research have focused on describing retail location behaviours, characterizing complex landscapes for wetland reclamation, and investigating the use of unmanned aerial systems for to calibrate and validate natural-process models at the scale of human decision makers. Derek was a founding participant of the 2016 CSDMS Workshop Linking Earth System Dynamics and Social System Modeling which produced recommendations for modeling priorities and resource needs, and a new community of modelers of global-scale coupled human and Earth system models. He accepted the role of Co-Chair of the Human Dimensions Focus Research Group in October 2019.

Phaedra Upton

Phaedra Upton GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010 PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand Email: P.Upton@gns.cri.nz Phone: +64 4 570-4198

Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair Phaedra Upton, a landform modeller at GNS Science, New Zealand, received her PhD in Geology at the University of Otago in 1996. Her research focuses on process and mechanics. Dr. Upton studies the geodynamic responses of collisional orogens to far field tectonic boundary conditions, surface boundary conditions and the extent to which rheological parameters can influence that response. She is also interested in the geomorphology of actively deforming regions, particularly New Zealand and Taiwan, and the coupling between tectonics and landscape evolution. In her research she uses a variety of numerical methods, constrained by geophysical, geochemical, and field observations. In addition to her position at GNS, she is also a Faculty Associate at the University of Maine, USA. Phaedra accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.

Mark Behn

Mark Behn Boston College Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Devlin Hall 320B Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 USA Email: mark.behn@bc.edu Phone: +1 617-552-2180

Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair Mark Behn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Boston College. Prior to that, Mark was a Senior Scientist in the Department of Geology & Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Mark received his PhD in 2002 at MIT/WHOI in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He uses geodynamic models to quantify the behavior of tectonic and magmatic systems in marine and terrestrial environments. His primary research interests are in Geodynamics and geophysics; dynamics of faulting and magma injection at mid-ocean ridges; seismic anisotropy and imaging of sub-asthenospheric mantle flow; rheology and mechanical behavior of oceanic transform faults; seismic and crustal structure of volcanic arcs; ice-sheet dynamics; and computational geodynamic modeling. Mark served as a steering committee member on NSF MARGINS AND GeoPRISMS program, and is still heavily involved in GeoPRISMS. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.

Todd Swannack

Todd Swannack US Army Corps of Engineers Engineering with Nature Initiative Email: Todd.M.Swannack@usace.army.mil

Ecosystem Dynamics Focus Research Group Chair Todd Swannack currently serves as the lead for the US Army Corps of Engineers, Integrated Ecological Modeling Team, which develops and applies coupled ecological and engineering models for the Engineering With Nature Initiative. His EWN-related research explores the roles of coupling ecological and physical process to predict environmental responses. Todd is also Adjunct Faculty at Texas State University, Department of Biology. He received his PhD from Texas A&M University in 2007. Dr. Swannack accepted the role of Chair of the Ecosystem Dynamics Focus Research Group in October 2022.

CSDMS Steering Committee

The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 9 members: 8 selected by the EC to represent the spectrum of relevant Earth science and computational disciplines, and 1 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

Paola Passalacqua

Paola Passalacqua Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering University of Texas Austin, TX 78712 Email: paola@austin.utexas.edu Tel: +1 (512) 471-3319

Steering Committee Chair Dr. Passalacqua is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas, Austin, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering. Her research interests lie at the intersection of water resources engineering, hydrologic sciences, and geomorphology. Her goal is to advance the understanding of how topographic patterns arise, evolve, and interact with climate and ecosystems, in order to improve predictions of the response of the Earth-surface to disturbance and change and develop sustainable management solutions. Paola's research merges the analysis of remote sensing data (high resolution topographic data - lidar - and satellite imagery), numerical modeling, statistical analysis, and field work. she received her PhD in Civil Engineering in 2009 from the University of Minnesota. Paola accepted appointment to the CSDMS Steering Committee in April, 2020 and in October of 2022, she was elected (by unanimous approval of the full CSDMS community) to CSDMS Steering Committee Chair.

Guillermo Auad

Member, Steering Committee Guillermo Auad, Senior Research Coordinator Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement US Department of the Interior Email: Guillermo.Auad@bsee.gov

Guillermo is a senior research coordinator for the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement at the Department of the Interior. He earned his PhD in Oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, in 1995. He then became a faculty at Scripps and an adjunct Professor of Oceanography at Palomar College. While at Scripps’ Climate Research Division, he combined observational and modeling results to investigate dynamical and climatic problems on scales ranging from a few days for coastal processes to interdecadal variability for basin-scale phenomena. In 2008 Guillermo’s seminar on Climate Change aired on public television to a potential audience of 27 million households in the US. More recently, he was one of the US Government lead reviewers of the IPCC report, and a contributing author to the National Climate Assessment. Prior to his arrival at BSEE, Guillermo was a Senior Advisor at the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, where he focused on the management of different research projects, having spearheaded national and international partnerships. More recently he has focused on using socio-ecological systems to address management, policy and governance issues through resilience-thinking. Since 2013 he has been collaborating with the White House Office of Science Technology and Policy to improve the coordination of environmental research in the Arctic region. Guillermo has been part of the CSDMS Steering Committee since 2012.

Kadidia Thiero

Member, Steering Committee Kadidia Thiero SOARS Program Lead, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Boulder, CO Email: thiero@ucar.edu

Education Advocate, Kadidia Thiero leads and manages the Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science (SOARS) Program and affiliated efforts aimed at increasing diversity in the atmospheric sciences. SOARS is designed to support students from backgrounds, traditionally under-represented in the geosciences, to enter and succeed in graduate school and STEM careers. Prior to SOARS, Ms. Thiero served as Outreach Coordinator for the NOAA Center for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS); a multi-institution Cooperative Science Center, led by Howard University. She managed and supported all K-12 programs, and coordinated the undergraduate summer internship program (USIP); as well as NCAS’ national high school weather camp, CAREERS, in the summer. Kadidia graduated from Howard University with a BA in Spanish Language and Literature; and received her MA in Latin American Studies from the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Kadidia accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in April, 2020.

Michael Barton

Member, Steering Committee Michael Barton Arizona State University Tempe, AZ Email: Michael.barton@asu.edu Tel: +1 (480) 965-6262

Professor, Arizona State University, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Director of Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity, Director COMSES Net. Michael is a geoarchaeologist and anthropologist whose research centers on the dynamics of socioecological systems, expecially in the context of hunter/gatherers and small-scale agricultural societies. His expertise includes Quaternary landscapes, geospatial technologies, computational modeling, complex systems science, evolutionary theory, and lithic technology. Barton's interests center around long-term human ecology and landscape dynamics with ongoing projects in the Mediterranean (late Pleistocene through mid-Holocene) and American Southwest (Holocene-Archaic). Barton is also member of the open source GRASS GIS international development team that is making cutting edge spatial technologies available to researchers and students around the world. The Mediterranean Landscape Dynamics project, which Barton directs, combines computational modeling and interdisciplinary fieldwork to study the emergence of coupled human and natural landscapes, and long-term interactions of agricultural land-use practices and landscape change. He also directs the CoMSES Network and CoMSES CoRe, an international research network and NSF Big Data Spoke facility to promote open science, knowledge sharing, reproducibility, and best practices in emerging cybertools in the socio-ecological sciences. Barton also co-directs collaborative projects with the National Center for Atmospheric Research. One of these projects is building a computational tool set for integrating global climate models and global socio-economic models. He is Lead PI on the Sloan Foundation supported Open Modeling Foundation initiative. Michael joined the Steering Committee in April, 2020.

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. Bert has served as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee since its inception in 2007.

Boyana Norris

Member, Steering Committee Boyana Norris University of Oregon Department of Computer and Information Science Email: norris@cs.uoregon.edu Tel: 541-346-4413

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. Boyana accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.

Pat Wiberg

Member, Steering Committee Pat Wiberg Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia 291 McCormick Road Charlottesville, VA 22904 Email: pw3c@virginia.edu Tel: +1(434) 924-7546

Professor, University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences. Pat’s primary research interest is in sediment erosion, transport, and deposition in river, coastal, and wetland environments. Her current research topics include storm-driven transport and the formation of sedimentary strata on the continental shelf, erosion and deposition on tidal salt marshes, flow-sediment-vegetation interactions in shallow coastal bays, mud dynamics in meso- and macro-tidal flats, wave-formed ripples, impact of climate change on barrier-bay-marsh morphology, and sediment associated contaminant transport. Pat has been a tireless advocate of CSDMS. She's served the CSDMS community since it's inception; first as Chair of the Marine Working Group from 2007 to 2012 and then as Chair of the Steering Committee from 2012 to 2017. Pat re-joined the Steering Committee in April, 2020.

Ex Officio Steering Committee Members

Raleigh Martin

Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee Raleigh Martin Director-Geoinformatics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences National Science Fdn (NSF), 2415 Eisenhower Ave., Alexandria, VA 22314 Email: ramartin@nsf.gov Tel: +1 703-292-7199

Dr. Raleigh Martin is Director of the GeoInformatics program at the National Science Foundation. His previous research focused on aeolian sediment transport processes. In his more recent positions, Raleigh leverages scientific understanding of Earth and environmental processes to inform federal, state, and local policy responses to climate change and other environmental challenges. He is dedicated to making science and data more open, transparent, and accessible to advance scientific discovery and inform policy decisions. Raleigh received his Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining NSF, Raleigh was a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow and served the U.S. House of Representatives as a Congressional Geosciences Fellow on the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis. In 2020, he became the Program Manager at NSF for CSDMS.

Brad Murray

Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee 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

Past Chair, Steering Committee 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 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. Brad is a long-term community supporter and served as Chair of the CSDMS Coastal Working Group since its inception in 2007 until August of 2017 and SC Chair from 2017 to 2022.

Jaia Syvitski

Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee Jai Syvitski CSDMS facility at INSTAAR University of Colorado Campus box 0450 Bouder, CO 80309-0450 Email: james.syvitski@colorado.edu Tel: +1 303 735-5484

Prof. Jai P.M. Syvitski received a Ph.D. in both oceanography and geological sciences (1978) at the University of British Columbia, developing a quantitative understanding of particle dynamics across the land-sea boundary. Jai 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 Jai 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. Jai 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. IGBP, 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 these efforts. In 2007 Jai became the Executive Director of CSDMS and Emeritus Director in 2017.

Previous Steering Committee Members

Previous SC Members	Period served
Dr. Marcelo Garcia	2012 - 2020
Dr. Tom Drake	2007 - 2020
Dr. Efi Foufoula Georgiou	2017 - 2020
Dr. Cecilia Deluca	2012 - 2020
Dr. Mike Ellis	2007 - 2008
Dr. Tom Dunne	2007 - 2009
Dr. Richard Yuretich	2008 - 2010
Dr. Dave Furbish	2007 - 2013
Dr. Gary Parker	2007 - 2013
Dr. Rick Sarg	2007 - 2013
Dr. Dan Tetzlaff	2007 - 2013
Dr. Marty Perlmutter	2009 - 2015
Dr. Rudy Slingerland	2007 - 2012