Chesapeake FRG meeting 2009

CSDMS CHESAPEAKE FOCUS RESEARCH GROUP MEETING, April 3, 2009

Date: April 3, 2009

Location:Johns Hopkins University,
Department of Geography Environmental Engineering,
3400 North Charles Street,
Ames Hall 313, Baltimore,
Maryland 21218

Host: Johns Hopkins University

Introduction

The Chesapeake FRG is the first Geographically-Focused Research Group associated with CSDMS. The group is a partnership between CSDMS and the Chesapeake Community Modeling Program (CCMP, http://ches.communitymodeling.org/) currently run by the Chesapeake Research Consortium. You can find out more about the CSDMS Chesapeake FRG at this link to the CSDMS wiki: http://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/index.php/CCMP

CCMP developed as the Chesapeake Bay research community came together to cooperatively build an open source system of watershed and estuary models. Through support from CRC member institutions and the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office, CCMP modelers have committed to developing a modeling framework that will enable free and open access to code specific to the Chesapeake Bay region. As a complementary activity to the CBP modeling program, the Chesapeake Community Model Program strives to develop a comprehensive model consisting of interchangeable individual modules covering all aspects of hydrodynamics, ecosystem dynamics, trophic exchanges, and watershed interactions towards a future linked watershed-estuary model. There are obvious areas of overlap between CSDMS and CCMP, and the CSDMS Chesapeake FRG intends to capitalize on synergies from both programs.

So, in addition to the geographical focus, attendance at the meeting will enable you to stay abreast of cutting-edge research developments applicable to many areas of study. The meeting intends to:

get everyone up to speed on CCMP, CSDMS and model integration pathway that CSDMS is employing (modified CCA for the Architecture and framework, BABEL as the language independent compiler, modified OpenMI for interface standards, etc.),
get everyone up to speed on appropriate Chesapeake modeling tools in use by the CCMP community,
get everyone up to speed on the valuable field data that CCMP offers for code testing,
develop some simple, doable short term, intermediate term and longer term goals for the group, and
perhaps assign some tasks to the members.

Participants

If you are interested to join this meeting, please contact as soon as possible: (csdms@colorado.edu). Thank you.

Circulars and Program

Please follow this link (pdf) to view the preliminary agenda.

Talks

Presentations will be placed here 3-4days after the meeting