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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 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 (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.


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Greg Tucker<br>CSDMS facility at INSTAAR<br>Fellow of CIRES<br>University of Colorado<br>Campus Box 399<br>Bouder, CO 80309<br>Email: [mailto:csdms@colorado.edu csdms@colorado.edu]<br>Tel: +1 303 492-6985<br>
Greg Tucker<br>CSDMS facility at INSTAAR<br>Fellow of CIRES<br>University of Colorado<br>Campus Box 399<br>Bouder, CO 80309<br>Email: [mailto:csdms@colorado.edu csdms@colorado.edu]<br>Tel: +1 303 492-6985<br>
| valign="top"|'''Executive Committee Chair; CSDMS Executive Director'''
| valign="top"|'''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 80 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.
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.
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===Irina Overeem===
===Irina Overeem===
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===Brad Murray===
===Paola Passalacqua===
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Brad Murray<br>Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences<br>Duke University<br>334 Old Chem, Box 90227<br>Durham, NC 27708<br>Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu]<br>Tel: +1-919-681-5069<br>
Paola Passalacqua<br>Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering<br>University of Texas<br>Austin, TX 78712<br>Email: [mailto:paola@austin.utexas.edu paola@austin.utexas.edu]<br>Tel: +1 (512) 471-3319<br>


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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.  In August 2017, he accepted election (by unanimous approval of the full CSDMS community) to CSDMS 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.   
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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.
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.
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===Nicole Gasparini===
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Nicole Gasparini<br>Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences<br>Tulane University<br>101 Blessey Hall<br>New Orleans, LA  70118<br>Email: [mailto:ngaspari@tulane.edu ngaspari@tulane.edu]<br>Tel: +1 504-862-3197
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Nicole is an associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Tulane University.  She received her MS and PhD in Civil and Environmental Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998 and 2003, respectively.  Nicole was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration from 2006-2007, a GSA/USGS AAAS Congressional Fellow, 2005-2006 and a Bateman Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University from 2003-2005. Her research focuses on landscape evolution over various spatial and temporal scales.  She is interested in the impacts of climate and tectonics on landscape evolution.  Nicole was elected as Chair of the Terrestrial Working Group in May, 2016.
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Leslie Hsu<br>U.S. Geological Survey<br>W 6th Ave Kipling St.<br>Box 25046, MS 302<br>Lakewood, CO 80225<br>Email: [mailto:lhsu@usgs.gov lhsu@usgs.gov]<br>Tel: +1 303-202-4080
Leslie Hsu<br>U.S. Geological Survey<br>W 6th Ave Kipling St.<br>Box 25046, MS 302<br>Lakewood, CO 80225<br>Email: [mailto:lhsu@usgs.gov lhsu@usgs.gov]<br>Tel: +1 303-202-4080
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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.
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.
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===Andrew Ashton===
===Andrew Wickert===
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Andrew Wickert<br>University of Minnesota<br>116 Church St. SE<br>John Tate Hall/Rm 375-10<br>Minneapolis, MN 55455<br>Email: [mailto:awickert@umn.edu awickert@umn.edu]<br>Tel: +1 612-625-6878
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Andy is an Associate Professor in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Minnesota.  He received his PhD in Geoscience from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2014.  His research focuses on ice, water, and landscapes through the past and present: growth and decay of ice sheets and glaciers and their interactions with climate, dynamics of river systems, global sea level variability, and modern hydrologic and Earth-surface processes. He uses a combination of field observations, field instrumentation, and numerical modeling for his research.  Andy was elected as Terrestrial Working Group Co-Chair during November of 2022.
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===Talea Mayo===
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Andrew Ashton<br>Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution<br>Geology & Geophysics Department<br>Mailstop 22<br>Woods Hole, MA 02543<br>Email: [mailto:aashton@whoi.edu aashton@whoi.edu]<br>Tel: +1-508-289-3751<br>
Talea Mayo<br>Department of Mathematics<br>Emory University<br>400 Dowman Dr<br>Atlanta, GA 30322<br>Email: [mailto:talea.mayo@emory.edu talea.mayo@emory.edu]<br>Tel: +1 404-727-7580<br>
| valign="top"|'''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.
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===Alejandra Ortiz===
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Alejandra Ortiz<br>Colby College<br>Geology Department<br>4000. Mayflower Hill<br>Waterville, Maine 04901<br>Email: [mailto:acortiz@colby.edu acortiz@colby.edu]<br>Tel: +1-207-859-4000<br>


| valign="top"|'''Coastal Working Group Co-Chair'''
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Andrew is an Associate Scientist with Tenure at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Geology and Geophysics DepartmentHe received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University in 1995 and Ph.D. from Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Division of Earth & Ocean Sciences in 2005.  
Aleja is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geology at Colby CollegeShe 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.  
His research interests involve development and testing of numerical and conceptual models of the formation and evolution of coastal sedimentary environments; plan-view delta evolution along wave-dominated coasts; coastal response to climate change, sea-level rise and anthropogenic activities; application of reduced complexity morphodynamic models to study earth-surface evolution. Andrew was elected Costal Working Group Co-Chair in August 2017.
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===Eli Lazarus===
===Julia Moriarty===
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Eli Lazarus<br>Geography & Environment Unit<br>University of Southampton<br>Highfield<br>Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK<br>Email: [mailto:E.D.Lazarus@soton.ac.uk E.D.Lazarus@soton.ac.uk]<br>Tel: +44 023-8059-3260<br>
Julia Moriarty<br>Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences<br>University of Colorado, Boulder<br>4001 Discovery Drive<br>Boulder, CO 80303<br>Email: [mailto:julia.moriarty@colorado.edu julia.moriarty@colorado.edu]<br>Tel: +1 303-492-7167
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Eli is a Lecturer in Geomorphology at the University of Southampton, Geography and Environment Unit. He also leads the Environmental Dynamics Lab, focusing on natural and anthropogenic processes of physical change in coastal and terrestrial landscapes. His research interests include coastal and terrestrial morphodynamics; geopattern formation and self-organization; human–environmental systems; Earth-surface processes in the Anthropocene; and complexity science. Eli was elected Costal Working Group Co-Chair in August 2017.
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.  
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===Courtney K. Harris===
===Michael Steckler===
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Courtney Harris<br>Department of Physical Sciences<br>Virginia Institute of Marine Science , VIMS<br>College of William & Mary<br>PO Box 1346<br>Gloucester Point, VA 23062<br>Email: [mailto:ckharris@vims.edu ckharris@vims.edu]<br>Tel: +1 804-684-7194<br>Fax: +1 804-684-7250
Mike Steckler<br>Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory<br>Columbia University<br>Earth Institute<br>61 Route 9W<br>PO Box 1000<br>Palisades, NY 10964<br>Email: [mailto:steckler@ldeo.columbia.edu steckler@ldeo.columbia.edu]<br>Tel: +1 845-365-8479
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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 shelvesHer 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. Courtney was elected to lead the CSDMS Marine Working Group as its Chair in September, 2012.  
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 geophysicsMike 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.  
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===Wei Luo===
===Kehui (Kevin) Xu===
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Wei Luo<br>Northern Illinois University<br>Department of Geography<br>DeKalb, IL 60115<br>Email: [mailto:wluo@niu.edu wluo@niu.edu]<br>
Kevin Xu<br>Louisiana State University<br>Professor<br>Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences<br>2165 Energy, Coast and Environment Building<br>Baton Rouge, LA 70803<br>Email: [mailto:kxu@lsu.edu kxu@lsu.edu]<br>
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Wei Luo earned a Bachelor’s degree in Geology (remote sensing emphasis) from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 1987, a Master's degree in GIS from Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China in 1990, and a PhD in Earth and Planetary Sciences from Washington University, St. Louis in 1995. After graduation, he joined the Department of Geography at Northern Illinois University and he is currently a Presidential Research Professor at NIUWei’s current research focuses on digital terrain analysis related to terrestrial and Martian surface processes and he has been actively involved a variety of education activities, including developing the Web-based Interactive Landform Simulation Model – Grand Canyon (WILSIM-GC) to enhance students learning about landform evolution.  He accepted the role of Chair of the Education and Knowledge Transfer Working Group in September 2015.
Kevin Xu is the James P. Morgan Distinguished Professor of Coastal Studies, Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences at Louisiana State University. He is also serving as Director of the Coastal Studies Institute.  Kevin received his Ph.D. in Marine Science at the College of William and Mary in 2006His 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.
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===Tian-Jian (Tom) Hsu===
===Olaf David===
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Tian-Jian (Tom) Hsu<br>Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering<br>University of Delaware<br>301 Du Pont Hall<br>Newark, DE 19716<br>Email: [mailto:thsu@udel.edu thsu@udel.edu]<br>Tel: +1 (302) 831-4172
Olaf David<br>Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering<br>Colorado State University<br>Campus Delivery 1372<br>Fort Collins, CO 80526<br>Email: [mailto:odavid@coloradostate.edu odavid@coloradostate.edu]<br>Tel: +1 (970) 491-8026
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Tian-Jian Hsu (Tom) earned a Bachelor's degree (Ocean Engineering) from National Taiwan University in 1994 and a PhD (Civil Engineering) from Cornell University in 2002. He is currently Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Delaware (UD). Before joining UD, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar and Assistant Scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Assistant Professor at the University of Florida. He received a NSF Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2007. Hsu’s main research covers numerical modeling/simulation of various cohesive and non-cohesive sediment transport. Hsu and his team currently focus on turbulence-resolving simulation of wave-supported fine sediment transport, surf/swash zone sediment transport, and river plumes. In the past five years, his group devoted major efforts to develop open-source numerical tools for sediment transport in the OpenFOAM framework. He accepted the role of Chair of the CSDMS Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group in September 2015.
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.
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==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
==Focus Research Group Committee Members==
===Venkat Lakshmi===
===Anthony Castronova===
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Venkat Lakshmi<br>Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences<br>University of South Carolina<br>Columbia, South Carolina<br>Email: [mailto:vlakshmi@geol.sc.edu  vlakshmi@geol.sc.edu ]<br>Tel: +803 777-3552
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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.
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===Mary Hill===
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Mary Hill<br>Department of Geology<br>University of Kansas<br>Lindley Hall, Room 120D, 1475 Jayhawk Blvd
<br>Lawrence, KS 66045<br>Email: [mailto:mchill@ku.edu  mchill@ku.edu ]<br>Tel: +785-864-2728
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Dr. Mary C. Hill is a Professor in the Geology Department at the University of Kansas, and emeritus at the US Geological Survey following a 33-year career there. She authored the popular PCG2 solver for MODFLOW, and 140 reports and articles on solvers, nonlinear regression, confidence intervals, and calibration methodology. She co-authored UCODE, MODFLOW-2000, OPR-PPR, and MMA.  She has experience modeling saltwater intrusion, groundwater supply, stream interaction, and regional groundwater flow and transport, including flow and transport beneath the proposed Yucca Mountain USA high-level nuclear waste site. She has taught semester and short courses since 1981. She has received many awards and honors. In 2016, she was selected for the CSDMS Life-Time Achievement Award and was elected as Fellow of AGU. Dr. Hill holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from Princeton University.  Mary was elected to Co-Chair the Hydrology FRG in March of 2017.
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===Peter Burgess===
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Peter Burgess<br>Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Science<br>Jane Herdman Labs, University of Liverpool<br> Liverpool, L69 3GP<br>United Kingdom<br>Email: [mailto:pmb42@liverpool.ac.uk pmb42@liverpool.ac.uk]<br>Tel:
Anthony Castronova<br>Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc.<br>1167 Massachusetts Ave<br>Arlington, MS, 02476<br>Email: [mailto:acastronova@cuahsi.org acastronova@cuahsi.org]
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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.
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===Chris Jenkins===
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Anthony is a Senior Research Hydrologist at the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI). His work emphasizes the synergy between hydrologic data and software engineering with a specific focus on hydrologic modeling, cloud computing, and reproducible science. Prior to joining CUAHSI, Anthony was a Research Assistant Professor at Utah State University in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering where his research focused on integrated modeling solutions, hydrologic data interoperability, and web service standards. He received a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of South Carolina.
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Chris Jenkins<br>INSTAAR<br>University of Colorado<br>Campus Box 450<br>Bouder, CO 80309<br>Email: [mailto:jenkinsc0@gmail.com jenkinsc0@gmail.com]<br>Tel: +1 720-840-3303
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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.
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===Lejo Flores===
===Sagar Gautam===
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Lejo Flores<br>Associate Professor<br>Department of Geosciences<br>Boise State University<br>1910 University Dr.<br>Boise, ID 83725-1535<br>Email: [mailto:lejoflores@boisestate.edu lejoflores@boisestate.edu]<br>
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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.
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===Michael Young===
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Michael Young<br>Associate Director, Env Division<br>Bureau of Economic Geology<br>University of Texas, Austin<br>1910 University Station, Box X<br>Austin, TX  78713-8924<br>Email: [mailto:michael.young@beg.utexas.edu michael.young@beg.utexas.edu]<br>Phone: +1 512-475-8830<br>
Sagar Gautam<br>Research Scientist<br>Sandia National Laboratory<br>7011 East Ave.<br>Livermore, CA 94550<br>Email: [mailto:sgautam@lbl.gov sgautam@lbl.gov]<br>
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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 ecohydrologyMichael 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 AmericaMichael was elected as co-chair of the CSDMS Critical Zone Focus Research Group in July of 2017 (representing the International Soil Modeling Consortium).
Sagar is currently affiliated with Sandia National Laboratory where he develops/utilizes process, machine learning and Earth system models to explore ecosystem processes and assess impacts of land use and climate change.  His research specifically looks at impacts of biomass removal on soil carbon and the water cycle, soil carbon release under climate change, impacts of drought, lake and river eutrophication standards, and the application of machine learning models to predict spatial heterogeneity of surface soil organic carbon stocks and crop yieldsHe received a PhD in Bio-Environmental Engineering in 2018 from the University of MissouriSagar was appointed as chair of the Critical Zone Group in January of 2023.
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Moira Zellner<br>Department of Urban Planning and Policy<br>University of Illinois at Chicago<br>412 South Peoria Street<br>227CUPPAH, MC 348<br>Chicago, Illinois<br>United States<br>Email: [mailto:mzellner@uic.edu mzellner@uic.edu]<br>Phone: +1 312-996-2149<br>
Moira Zellner<br>College of Social Sciences and Humanities<br>Northeastern University<br>Boston, Massachusetts<br>United States<br>Email: [mailto:m.zellner@northeastern.edu m.zellner@northeastern.edu]<br>
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Moira Zellner is an Associate Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Policy and a research associate professor in the Institute for Environmental Science and Policy at UIC.  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 UIC, 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.
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.
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===Mark Rounsevell ===
===Derek Robinson ===
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Prof. Mark Rounsevell <br>Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU)<br>Karlsruhe Institute of Technology<br>Kreuzeckbahnstrasse 19<br>82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany<br>Email: [mailto:mark.rounsevell@kit.edu mark.rounsevell@kit.edu]<br>
Prof. Derek Robinson <br>Department of Geography and Environmental Management<br>University of Waterloo<br>200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1<br>Canada<br>Email: [mailto:dtrobinson@uwaterloo.ca dtrobinson@uwaterloo.ca]<br>
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|valign="top" |'''Human Dimensions Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''<br>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.
Prof. Mark Rounsevell holds the David Kinloch Michie Chair of Rural Economy & Environmental Sustainability within the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh. He was formerly Head of the Institute of Geography & the Lived Environment (2011-2013) and the Centre for the study of Environmental Change & Sustainability (2007-2011), and was the founding Director of the University’s Global Environment & Society Academy (2011-2014).<br><br>He conducts research on the human dimensions of environmental change, including the analysis of socio-ecological systems, and land use and land cover change. He also studies the impacts of climate change on land-based, natural resources and individual and societal adaptation responses to these impacts. His research approaches are based on combining qualitative, social elicitation methods (surveys and focus groups) with social simulation models to undertake experiments on human-environment interactions. He works with a number of different modelling approaches, especially Agent-Based Models, from local to global scale levels, both in the present and for future environmental change scenarios.<br><br> Internationally, Mark has been a Lead Author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II 2nd, 3rd 4th and 5th Assessment Reports. He is also a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the IGBP/Future Earth AIMES project (Analysis & Integrated Modelling of the Earth System), a member of the Expert Panel of the UK National Ecosystem Assessment, and a UK government nominated expert to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), Regional and Sub-regional Assessments. He is the Chair of the European Research Council (ERC) grant panel on Environment, Space and Society, and coordinates a €12m European Union research project on Operationalising Ecosystem Research Applications (OPERAs). He accepted the role of Co-Chair of the Human Dimensions Focus Research Group in November 2014.  
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===Phaedra Upton===
===Wolfgang Bangerth===
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Phaedra Upton<br>GNS Science<br>1 Fairway Drive, Avalon 5010<br>PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt 5040<br>New Zealand<br>Email: [mailto:P.Upton@gns.cri.nz P.Upton@gns.cri.nz]<br>Phone: +64 4 570-4198<br>
Wolfgang Bangerth<br>Colorado State University<br>Department of Mathmatics<br>1874 Campus Delivery<br>Fort Collins, CO 80523<br>USA<br>Email: [mailto:bangerth@colostate.edu bangerth@colostate.edu]<br>Phone: +1 (512) 689 7194<br>
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
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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.
Dr. Bangerth is professor of mathematics and (by courtesy) geosciences at Colorado State University. He received an MSc in physics and a PhD in mathematics from Heidelberg University, Germany, before being a postdoc in the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, as well as the Institute for Geophysics at the University of Texas at Austin. He was then on the faculty of Texas A&M before moving to Colorado. His work is in computational science applied to a wide range of interdisciplinary problems. He is the creator and one of the principal developers of the Advanced Solver for Problems in Earth Convection (ASPECT), a software used for the simulation of mantle convection and long-term tectonics. Wolfgang accepted responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in November, 2022.
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===Mark Behn===
===Sean Gallen===
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Mark Behn<br>Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution<br>Department of Geology and Geophysics<br>360 Woods Hole Road<br>Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 <br>USA<br>Email: [mailto:mbehn@whoi.edu mbehn@whoi.edu]<br>Phone: +1 508-289-3637<br>
Sean Gallen<br>Colorado State University<br>Department of Geociences<br>Smith Natural Resources Building 327<br>Fort Collins, CO 80523 <br>USA<br>Email: [mailto:Sean.Gallen@colostate.edu Sean.Gallen@colostate.edu]<br>Phone: +1 970-491-7248<br>
|valign="top" |'''Geodynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
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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. Mark accepted the responsibility to lead the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group as its co-Chair in March, 2013.
Sean Gallen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geosciences at Colorado State University.  Prior to that, he was a Senior Scientist and lecturer at the Geological Institute, Earth Surface Dynamics Research Group, ETH-Zurich. Sean received his PhD Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at North Carolina State University in 2013. His research interests include earth surface processes, active tectonics, natural hazards, structural geology, geodynamics and geochemistry.  He is currently interested in the development of topography above subduction zones, the influence of extreme events on continental erosion and sediment transport, and the co-evolution of landscapes and aquatic species. Sean accepted the responsibility to Co-Chair the CSDMS Geodynamics Focus Research Group in January, 2024.
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===Brian Fath===
===Todd Swannack===
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Brian Fath<br>Towson University<br>Biology Department<br>8000 York Road<br>Towson, MD 21252, USA<br>USA<br>Email: [mailto:bfath@towson.edu bfath@towson.edu]<br>Phone: 1-410-704-2535<br>
Todd Swannack<br>US Army Corps of Engineers<br>Engineering with Nature Initiative<br><br>Email: [mailto:Todd.M.Swannack@usace.army.mil Todd.M.Swannack@usace.army.mil]<br><br>
|valign="top" |'''Ecosystem Dynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
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Brian D. Fath is Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Towson University (Maryland, USA) where he teaches courses in ecosystem ecology, environmental biology, networks, and human ecology and sustainability. Prof. Fath has taught courses on ecological networks and modeling in Portugal, Denmark, China, France, Germany, Italy, Croatia, and South Africa. Prof. Fath is also research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria and is Editor-in-Chief for the journal Ecological Modelling. He has published over 100 research papers, reports, and book chapters and co-authored the book A New Ecology: Systems Perspective, Ecological Modelling (4th edition), and was Associate Editor in Chief for 5-volume Encyclopedia of Ecology. He currently serves as President of the North American Chapter of International Society for Ecological Modelling. He held a Fulbright Distinguished Chair position at Parthenope University of Naples, Italy in spring 2012. Professor Fath accepted the role of Chair of the Ecosystem Dynamics Focus Research Group in November 2014.  
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 Co-Chair of the Ecosystem Dynamics Focus Research Group in October 2022.  
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===Kim de Mutsert===
===Candice Piercy===
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Kim de Mutsert<br>George Mason University<br>Department of Environmental Science and Policy<br>4400 University Drive, MS5F2<br>Fairfax, VA 22030, USA<br>USA<br>Email: [mailto:kdemutse@gmu.edu kdemutse@gmu.edu]<br>Phone: 1-703-993-4480<br>
Candice Piercy<br>US Army Corps of Engineers - ERDC<br>Integrated Ecological Modeling<br><br>Email: [mailto:Candice.D.Piercy@usace.army.mil Candice.D.Piercy@usace.army.mil]<br><br>
|valign="top" |'''Ecosystem Dynamics Focus Research Group Co-Chair '''
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Kim de Mutsert is an assistant professor at the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at George Mason University, and a faculty fellow at the Potomac Environmental Research and Education Center. She has a PhD in Oceanography and Coastal Sciences from Louisiana State University, and a MS in Biology from the University of Amsterdam. She is specialized in coastal and estuarine fish ecology, with a research focus on the effects of environmental and anthropogenic stressors on nekton abundance, community structure, and foodweb dynamics. Examples of such stressors include eutrophication, pollution, habitat alteration, hypoxia, fishing, and changes in freshwater discharge. She uses a combination of field sampling, community analysis, stable isotope analysis, and ecosystem modeling in her projects. Professor de Mutsert accepted the role of Co-Chair of the Ecosystem Dynamics Focus Research Group in August 2016.  
Dr. Piercy is a research environmental engineer with 12 years of experience working with the Integrated Ecological Modeling team at USACE-ERDC. Her research focus is on the simulation of feedbacks between ecological and physical processes, primarily driven by vegetation, in a variety of ecosystems including salt marshes, dunes, estuaries, and river floodplains. She also conducts research related to the evolution and analysis of nature-based solutions for flood risk management and beneficial use of dredged sediment. Additionally, she helps develop ecologically-informed engineering guidance for coastal ecosystems and nature-based solutions. Candice received her PhD from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2010.  Dr. Piercy accepted the role of Chair of the Ecosystem Dynamics Focus Research Group in January 2023.  
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The CSDMS Steering Committee (SC) is comprised of 10 members: 8 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 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.
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.
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===Brad Murray===
===Paola Passalacqua===
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Brad Murray<br>Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences<br>Duke University<br>334 Old Chem, Box 90227<br>Durham, NC 27708<br>Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu]<br>Tel: +1-919-681-5069<br>
Paola Passalacqua<br>Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering<br>University of Texas<br>Austin, TX 78712<br>Email: [mailto:paola@austin.utexas.edu paola@austin.utexas.edu]<br>Tel: +1 (512) 471-3319<br>


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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.  In August 2017, he accepted election (by unanimous approval of the full CSDMS community) to CSDMS 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.   
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'''Member, Steering Committee'''<br>Guillermo Auad<br>Environmental Studies Program<br>Bureau of Ocean Energy Management<br>US Department of the Interior<br>Email: [mailto:guillermo.auad@boem.gov guillermo.auad@boem.gov]
'''Member, Steering Committee'''<br>Guillermo Auad, Senior Research Coordinator<br>Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement<br>US Department of the Interior<br>Email: [mailto:Guillermo.Auad@bsee.gov Guillermo.Auad@bsee.gov]
|valign="top" |Guillermo earned his PhD in Physical 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. Since his arrival to BOEM in 2010, Guillermo has focused on the project management of different scientific studies in the Gulf of Mexico and the Alaskan Arctic having spearheaded two partnerships that address fundamental questions in those very different environments. He is currently collaborating with the White House Office of Science Technology and Policy to improve the coordination of environmental research in the Arctic region. Guillermo represents BOEM before several research and policy committees.
|valign="top" |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.
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===Cecelia DeLuca===
===Kadidia Thiero===
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'''Member, Steering Committee'''<br>Cecelia DeLuca<br>Group Head, NOAA Environmental Software Infrastructure and Interoperability Group<br>NOAA Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences<br>Email: [mailto:cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov cecelia.deluca@noaa.gov]<br>
'''Member, Steering Committee'''<br>Kadidia Thiero<br>SOARS Program Lead, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research<br>Boulder, CO<br>Email: [mailto:thiero@ucar.edu thiero@ucar.edu]<br>
|valign="top" |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. Cecelia accepted the responsibility to serve as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee in September, 2009.
|valign="top" |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.
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===Tom Drake===
===Michael Barton===
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'''Member, Steering Committee'''<br>Tom Drake<br>Office of Naval Research, ONR<br>875 North Randolph Street<br>Arlington, VA 22203-1995<br>Email: [mailto:Tom.Drake@navy.mil Tom.Drake@navy.mil]<br>Tel: +1 703 696-1206<br>
'''Member, Steering Committee'''<br>Michael Barton<br>Arizona State University<br>Tempe, AZ<br>Email: [mailto:michael.barton@asu.edu Michael.barton@asu.edu]<br>Tel: +1 (480) 965-6262<br>
|valign="top" |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. Tom has served as a member of the CSDMS Steering Committee since its inception in 2007.
|valign="top" |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.  
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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.
===Marcelo H. Garcia===
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.
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'''Member, Steering Committee'''<br>Marcelo H. Garcia<br>Siess Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering <br>Director, Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory http://www.vtchl.illinois.edu/<br>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<br>205 North Mathews Ave.<br>Urbana, Illinois 61801<br>Email: [mailto:mhgarcia@illinois.edu mhgarcia@illinois.edu]<br>Tel:(217) 244-4484<br>
|valign="top" |Marcelo H. García holds a Diploma in Water Resources Engineering from Universidad Nacional del Litoral in Santa Fe, Argentina, and both MSCE and PhD degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Minnesota. He has been on the faculty of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1990, and has served as Director of the Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory since 1997. Prior to joining UIUC, he was a Research Fellow at St. Anthony Falls Hydraulic Laboratory, University of Minnesota. His research interests are in the field of river mechanics, sediment transport, gravity currents, sedimentation engineering and environmental hydraulics. He is best known for his work on sediment entrainment from riverbeds, flow and transport in vegetated channels, the mechanics of oceanic turbidity currents, fluid-sediment-structure interaction in oscillatory boundary-layer flows, oil-sediment-aggregate transport after oil spills and dynamics of debris and mudflows. He has played a leadership role with the organization of the River, Coastal, and Estuarine Morphodynamics (RCEM) series of conferences. He was also editor and co-author of “Sedimentation Engineering: theory, measurements, modeling and practice” Manual of Practice 110, published by ASCE in 2008.
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===Efi Foufoula-Georgiou===
===Pat Wiberg===
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'''Member, Steering Committee'''<br>Efi Foufoula-Georgiou<br>Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine<br>Engineering Hall 5400<br>Irvine, CA 92697-2175<br>Email: [mailto:efi@uci.edu efi@uci.edu]<br>Tel: +1(949) 824-5333<br>
'''Member, Steering Committee'''<br>Pat Wiberg<br>Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia<br>291 McCormick Road<br>Charlottesville, VA  22904<br>Email: [mailto:pw3c@virginia.edu pw3c@virginia.edu]<br>Tel: +1(434) 924-7546<br>
| valign="top"|Efi is currently a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental at University of California, IrvinePreviously she was the Joseph T. and Rose S. Ling Chair in Environmental Engineering, and a Founding Fellow of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota. She has served as Director of the NSF Science and Technology Center “National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics” (NCED) and of the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory at the University of Minnesota. She received a diploma in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and an M.S. and Ph.D. (1985) in Environmental Engineering from the University of Florida. Her area of research is hydrology and geomorphology, with special interest on scaling theories, multiscale dynamics and space-time modeling of precipitation and landforms. Current areas of research include modeling and estimation of space-time rainfall from multiple sensors, stochastic theories of transport on the Earth's surface, river network dynamics, channel morphology, and hydrologic response. She has served as associate editor of Water Resources Research, J. of Geophysical Research, Advances in Water Resources, Hydrologic and Earth System Sciences, and as editor of J. Hydrometeorology. She is past chair of the Board of Directors for CUAHSI (Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences) and a member of the Board of Trustees of UCAR (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research). She is currently a presidential appointee to the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board and the elected President of the Hydrology Section of AGU.  
| valign="top"|Professor, University of Virginia, Department of Environmental SciencesPat’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.
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===David Mohrig===
==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Raleigh Martin===
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'''Member, Steering Committee'''<br>David Mohrig<br>Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas, Austin<br>1 University Station C1100, Austin, TX 78712<br>Email: [mailto:mohrig@jsg.utexas.edu mohrig@jsg.utexas.edu]<br>Tel: +1 512 471 2282 <br>
'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee'''<br>Raleigh Martin<br>Director-Geoinformatics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences<br>National Science Fdn<br>(NSF), 2415 Eisenhower Ave.,<br>Alexandria, VA 22314<br>Email: [mailto:ramartin@nsf.gov ramartin@nsf.gov]<br>Tel: +1 703-292-7199<br>
| valign="top"|Dr. Mohrig is currently Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Texas, AustinHe received his M.S and Ph.D in Geological Sciences from the University of Washington ('87 and '94 respectively)His research focuses on the application of sedimentary deposits and transport processes to unraveling the evolutions of terrestrial and submarine landscapes. They study the behavior of topography generated at the interface between a granular material and a moving fluid from very short to very long time and space scales, with particular emphasis on processes controlling channel formation, both on land and in the deep ocean. Research methods used by his group include carefully designed laboratory and natural experiments on sediment-transporting flows, field studies of modern and ancient sediment-dispersal systems, theoretical modeling of evolving granular-bed topography, and the remote sensing of subsurface sedimentary deposits using seismic data.
|valign="top" |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 decisionsRaleigh received his Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from the University of PennsylvaniaPrior 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.
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==Ex Officio Steering Committee Members==
===Brad Murray===
===Richard Yuretich===
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee'''<br>Richard Yuretich<br>Director-Geoinformatics Pgm, Div. Earth Sciences<br>National Science Fdn<br>(NSF), 4201 Wilson Blvd.,<br>Arlington, VA 22230<br>Email: [mailto:ryuretic@nsf.gov ryuretic@nsf.gov]<br>Tel: +1 703-292-4744<br>
'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee'''<br>Brad Murray<br>Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences<br>Duke University<br>334 Old Chem, Box 90227<br>Durham, NC 27708<br>Email: [mailto:abmurray@duke.edu abmurray@duke.edu]<br>Tel: +1-919-681-5069<br>
|valign="top" |Dr. Richard Yuretich is Director of the GeoInformatics program at the National Science Foundation. He has multiple interests in lake sediments, clay minerals, environmental geochemistry, sedimentology and education research.  He received his Ph.D. in Geology from Princeton University.  Prior to joining NSF, Richard was Professor of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In 2014, he became the Program Manager at NSF for CSDMS.
 
|valign="top" |'''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.  
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'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee'''<br>Jai Syvitski<br>CSDMS facility at INSTAAR<br>University of Colorado<br>Campus box 0450<br>Bouder, CO 80309-0450<br>Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu]<br>Tel: +1 303 735-5484<br>
'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee'''<br>Jai Syvitski<br>CSDMS facility at INSTAAR<br>University of Colorado<br>Campus box 0450<br>Bouder, CO 80309-0450<br>Email: [mailto:james.syvitski@colorado.edu james.syvitski@colorado.edu]<br>Tel: +1 303 735-5484<br>
|valign="top" |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.
|valign="top" |Prof. Jaia 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.  Jaia 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 Jaia 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. Jaia 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 Jaia became the Executive Director of CSDMS and Emeritus Director in 2017.  
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===Rudy Slingerland===
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|width="200pt" valign="top" style="font-size:0.88em;"|[[image:Photo_slingerland.jpg|95px]]<br>'''Ex Officio Member, Steering Committee'''<br>Rudy Slingerland<br>Department of Geosciences<br>Penn State University<br>503A Deike Building<br>University Park, PA 16802<br>Email: [mailto:sling@geosc.psu.edu sling@geosc.psu.edu]<br>Tel: +1 814 865-6892<br>
| valign="top"|'''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 since September, 2012, continues to contribute to CSDMS in the position of Past Chair of the CSDMS Steering Committee.
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!{{H13}}|Previous SC Members
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!{{H13}}|Period served
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|Dr. Marcelo Garcia
| 2012 - 2020
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|Dr. Tom Drake
| 2007 - 2020
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|Dr. Efi Foufoula Georgiou
| 2017 - 2020
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|Dr. Cecilia Deluca
| 2012 - 2020
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|Dr. Mike Ellis
|Dr. Mike Ellis
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| 2009 - 2015
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|Dr. Rudy Slingerland
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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.



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.