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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>
'''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> Phone:(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.
|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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Revision as of 16:32, 11 October 2019

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 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.



CSDMS Steering Committee

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 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.