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.

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

Steering Committee 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. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.

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 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.

Courtney K. Harris

Courtney Harris Department of Physical Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS College of William & Mary PO Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA 23062 Email: ckharris@vims.edu Tel: +1 804-684-7194 Fax: +1 804-684-7250

Marine Working Group Chair Courtney received her PhD from the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences, School of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, VIMS. Her research has been directed at improving the ability to quantify and predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Her interdisciplinary projects have considered the interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy, sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology with a research focus on numerically modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Her current projects include collaboration with oceanographers and geologists to develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic circulation. 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.

Sam Bentley

Sam Bentley Louisiana State University E235 Howe-Russell, Geology and Geophysics Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Email: sjb@lsu.edu Tel: +1 225-578-5735

Education and Knowledge Transfer (EKT) Working Group Chair Samuel J. Bentley, Sr., received his PhD from SUNY Stony Brook (Coastal Geological Oceanography), New York, and completed his postdoctoral work at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, Seafloor Sciences. He is currently the Harrison Chair in Sedimentary Geology and Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics.

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.

Focus Research Group Committee Members

Jon Goodall

Jon Goodall Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of South Carolina Columbia, SC Email: goodall@engr.sc.edu Tel: +1 803-777-8184

Hydrology Focus Research Group Chair Jon Goodall earned his M.S. (2003) as well as his PhD (2005) in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and is currently assistant professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and associate faculty in Environmental & Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina. His area of interest is in water resource engineering and, in particular, the application of computing and informatics to study both natural and built hydrologic systems. Jon works with graduate students and collaborators on research topics including watershed management, regional-scale hydrologic modeling, GIS in water resources, and decision support systems in water resources. His overarching goal in research is to create and apply novel computing approaches for better managining water resources.

Peter Burgess

Peter Burgess Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Egham, TW20 0EX United Kingdom Email: Peter.Burgess@rhul.ac.uk Tel: +44 178-441-4083

Carbonate 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.

Carl Friedrichs

Carl T. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science School of Marine Science College of William and Mary VIMS, P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Point, VA, 23062-1346, USA Email: cfried@vims.edu Tel: +1-804-684-7303

Chesapeake Focus Research Group Chair Carl received his B.A from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Carl is presently a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. His long-term research goals are to better understand the fundamental aspects of coastal and estuarine physics which control sediment and other material fluxes at time-and length-scales important to geology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. His technical approach involves field work, analytical theory, numerical modeling and the intersection of all three in the utilization of coastal observation and prediction systems.

Chris Duffy

Chris Duffy Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Penn State University 231G Sackett Building University Park PA USA 16802 Email: cxd11@psu.edu Phone: +1 (814) 863-4384

Critical Zone Focus Research Group Chair Dr. Chris Duffy, Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, received his PhD in Hydrology at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1992. His prime research interest is in stochastic and numerical modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport, modeling large-scale hydrologic systems. Chris Duffy's current projects include leading the Susquehanna / Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (CZO); directing a Synthesis of Community Data and Modeling for Advancing River Basin Science - the evolving Susquehanna River Basin Experiment and integrating modeling of snow, soil moisture, groundwater, and lake-levels for long range forecasting of water resources the Great Salt Lake Basin.

Mike Ellis

Mike Ellis Department of Climate Change Science British Geological Survey Nottingham NG12 5GG United Kingdom Email: Michael.Ellis@bgs.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)115-936-3356

Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair Dr. Michael Ellis, head of the department of Climate Change Science, BGS has his Ph.D. of Washington State University (1984) in active tectonics and its relation to landscape evolution. Ellis also brings experience and a strong desire in marrying communities in order to fashion a coherent and useful understanding and implementation of landscape evolution. Ellis has specific experience in developing landscape evolution models in connection with analyses of real and model landscapes; these models have been among the first to incorporate tectonic drivers, bedrock landslides, and heterogeneous climate forcings. Ellis is recently investigating the development of analog models of mountainous topography as a function of base-level fall, an investigation that parallels and reflects some recent theoretical complexity models by others. Ellis also brings to the CSDMS effort a specific interest in the anthropocene and its relationship to both climate change and the environmental impacts of climate change. Mike has served as Associate Editor for the J. Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, and Solid Earth, and the Geological Society of America journal, Geology, and is currently on the editorial board for Basin Research. He has served on numerous review panels, most recently for the European Science Foundation's Topo-Europe panel, the National Oceanographic Partnership Progra for Coastal Effects of a Diminished Ice Arctic Ocean.

Kathleen Galvin

Kathleen Galvin Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado United States Email: kathleen.galvin@colostate.edu Phone: +1 970-491-5784

Anthropocene Focus Research Group Co-Chair Kathleen Galvin, Professor at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at the department of Anthropology, Colorado State University, received her PhD at the State University of New York (1985). For the past two decades Kathleen conducted interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa, studying issues of African pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of African populations. Currently, she explores the dynamics of the coupled natural and human system of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem as well as analyzing the importance of spatial complexity and the costs of fragmentation of pastoral ecosystems around the world. Professor Galvin has been a member of a National Academy of Science/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) group as well as a panel member of the NAS NRC Human Dimensions of Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability group. She served on the National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program Panel. She was an Aldo Leopold Fellow in 2001.

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.

Mark Behn

Mark Behn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Department of Geology and Geophysics 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA Email: mbehn@whoi.edu Phone: +1 508-289-3637

Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair Mark Behn is an Associate Scientist at 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.

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

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

Steering Committee 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. Professor Wiberg has been a valuable contributor to the CSDMS effort since its beginning, and served as Chair of the Marine Working Group for many years prior to accepting the leadership role as Steering Committee Chair.

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, ESMF, 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.

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.

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.

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

Past Chair, Steering Committee 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. Professor Slingerland ably served as the Steering Committee Chair for many years, and now continues his service in the position of Past Chair.

Previous Steering Committee Members

Previous SC Members	Period served
Dr. Mike Ellis	2007 - 2008
Dr. Tom Dunne	2007 - 2009
Dr. Richard Yuretich	2008 - 2010
Dr. Dave Furbish	200x - 2013
Dr. Gary Parker	200x - 2013
Dr. Rick Sarg	200x - 2013
Dr. Dan Tetzlaff	200x - 2013