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CSDMS 2015 Annual Meeting
Models meet Data, Data meet Models

May 26 -28^th 2015, Boulder Colorado, USA

Registration

Registration will open soon. Please email csdms@colorado.edu with questions.
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Objectives and general description

The CSDMS Meeting 2015 will bring the interaction between data and models to your attention.

The meeting includes: 1) State-of-the art keynote presentations in earth-surface dynamics and modeling; 2) Hands-on clinics related to community models, tools and approaches; 3) Transformative software products and approaches designed to be accessible, easy to use, and relevant; 4) Breakout sessions for Working, Focus Research Groups and the Initiatives ; 5) Poster Sessions; and more.

Poster Information: The poster boards are configured for 4' wide by 6' tall (portrait orientation) posters. The deadline to submit abstracts is April 1, 2015.

Invited Keynote speakers

Brian Fath Department of Biological Sciences, Towson University, Towson, Maryland, USA; Advanced Systems Analysis Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria. {{{participants}}}

Quo Vadis Ecosystem? Insights from Ecological Modelling and Systems Ecology

The question of ecosystem dynamics is relevant from a scientific and management perspective. Knowing the natural tendencies and trajectories of ecosystems will assist in planning for their development and restoration. One key feature is how the ecosystem uses the available energy flows to move further from thermodynamic equilibrium and increase its overall complexity in terms of total biomass, biodiversity, network connectivity, and information. In this presentation, I review some of the main concepts that have been used to identify these dynamic trajectories. Namely, it can be shown using network analysis that a number of ecological goal functions pertaining to energy, exergy, biomass, embodied energy, entropy, and information are complementary displaying various angles of the same general complexification phenomena.

Randy LeVeque University of Washington {{{participants}}}

GeoClaw

Joellen Russell University of Arizona {{{participants}}}

Paleo-climate Modeling

Kyle Straub Tulane {{{participants}}}

Signals of Relative Sea Level perturbations: Defining the divide between autogenic signal shredding vs. preservation in the stratigraphic record

Kyle M. Straub and Qi Li Tulane University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Recent theoretical work suggests that autogenic processes in sediment transport systems have the capacity to shred signals of environmental and tectonic perturbations prior to transfer to the stratigraphic record. We view this theory as a major conceptual and quantitative breakthrough in long time scale Earth-surface processes and stratigraphy, but the general theory still needs to be adapted to deal with specific types of signals. Many argue that the tug of Relative Sea Level (RSL) change represents the most important boundary condition forcing affecting continental margin transport systems. However, we still lack quantitative theory to explain what properties RSL cycles must have to be stored in stratigraphy, thus limiting the usefulness of stratigraphy for defining paleo-environments. Results from our previously conducted laboratory experiments suggest that RSL cycles with amplitudes less than a channel depth and of periodicities less than the amount of time necessary to deposit, on average, one channel depth of stratigraphy over a delta-top are susceptible to signal shredding. Our hypothesis is supported using existing data sets and new numerical and physical experiments in which the surface process response and preserved record of RSL cycles of varying magnitudes and periodicities is constrained. Quantitative theory and predictions produced from this work is benchmarked against stratigraphy from the Late Miocene to Quaternary stratigraphy of the Mississippi Delta. During this time interval a significant change in the magnitude and periodicity of RSL cycles occurred. RSL cycles in the Late Miocene for the Mississippi Delta are predicted to be shredded, while more recent cycles are predicted to be preserved.

Lejo Flores Boise State University {{{participants}}}

Critical Zone Observratory

Phaedra Upton GNS Science {{{participants}}}

Geodynamics

Forrest Hoffman Oakridge National Laboratory {{{participants}}}

International Land Model Benchmarking Project

Mary Hill University of Kansas {{{participants}}}

Data/model assessment

Raleigh Hood University of Maryland {{{participants}}}

Modeling the Chesapeake Bay

Ehab Meselhe The Water Institute of the Gulf {{{participants}}}

Integrated Compartment Model (ICM)

Additional speakers to be announced soon.

Clinic Invitees

Zhen Cheng (Charlie) & Tian-Jian Hsu (Tom) University of Delaware {{{participants}}}

Modeling Coastal Sediment Transport Using OpenFOAM®

During a clinic session in the 2013 CSDMS annual meeting, the OpenFOAM®, an open source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) platform, was first introduced by Dr. Xiaofeng Liu (now at Penn State University) for modeling general earth surface dynamics. OpenFOAM® provides various libraries, solvers and toolboxes for solving various fluid physics via finite volume method. The objective of this clinic is to further discuss its recent development and applications to coastal sediment transport. The clinic will start with an overview of a range of coastal applications using OpenFOAM®. We will then focus on a recently released solver, SedFOAM, for modeling sand transport by using an Eulerian two-phase flow methodology. Specifically, we will focus on applying the model to study wave-driven sheet flows and the occurrence of momentary bed failure. The code can be downloaded via CSDMS code repository and participants will receive a hands-on training of the coding style, available numerical schemes in OpenFOAM®, computational domain setup, input/output and model result analysis. Knowledge of C++, object-oriented programming, and parallel computing is not required but will be helpful.

Greg Tucker CIRES, University of Colorado {{{participants}}}

LandLab

Phaedra Upton & Sam Roy GNS Science & University of Maine {{{participants}}}

Geodynamics

Jon Pollak CUASHI {{{participants}}}

CUASHI Water Data Center

Chris Duffy Pennsylvania State University {{{participants}}}

PIHM/HydroTerre

Jon Goodall University of Virginia {{{participants}}}

Integrated Model Concepts

Brad Murray & Andrew Ashton Duke University {{{participants}}}

Coastline Evolution Model (CEM)

Irina Overeem CSDMS, University of Colorado {{{participants}}}

Bringing CSDMS to the Classroom

CSDMS Staff CSDMS, University of Colorado {{{participants}}}

WMT (Web Modeling Tool) Clinic

Mark Piper & Eric Hutton CSDMS, University of Colorado {{{participants}}}

Basic Model Interface (BMI)

Reimbursement

Within its budget, CSDMS intends to support member applicants to attend the annual meeting. Towards this goal, we encourage members to fully or partially cover their expenses if capable. We additionally thank those in the industry and agency fields for understanding that 1) we cannot compensate federal agency participants since our own funding is from NSF, and 2) we request that our industrial/ corporate participants cover their own costs thereby allowing more academic participants to attend.

To the extent possible, CSDMS intends to reimburse the registration fee, lodging (shared rooms at 100% and single rooms at 50% at Millennium Harvest House Hotel), and a limited amount of travel expenses of qualified registrants - those members who have attended all three days of the meeting and are not industry or federal employees.

Important for foreign travelers requesting reimbursement: If you need a visa to travel to USA, select a business visa. If you need an invitation letter, please email csdms@colorado.edu soonest. Also indicate whether specific wording is required in the letter. Second, we will need to copy the entry stamp in your passport sometime during the meeting as proof that you were here on business as required by US tax laws for reimbursement (especially when dealing with airfare.) We are only able to provide reimbursement for airfare within the U.S.

Travel, Lodging and Conference Center Information

The meeting will be held at UCAR Conference Center
Lodging for meeting participants is at the Millennium Harvest House Hotel under the CSDMS room block

Student Scholarships

This year CSDMS is offering a limited number of scholarships (up to 10) for graduate students to attend the CSDMS annual meeting. To be eligible, graduate students need to meet the following requirements:

• Attend the whole meeting (May 26-28, 2015)
• Submit an abstract
• Be enrolled as a graduate student at the time of the meeting (bring proof)
• Submit a letter of motivation that states why you wish to participate in the meeting

Please submit your materials to csdms@colorado.edu by March 1, 2015.

The CSDMS scholarships will cover:

• Registration costs
• Travel (air fare ONLY within the United States and local transport)
• Per diem to help reimburse the cost of meals from 26-28 May 2015 not offered in the conference schedule

Important dates

• February 1^st: Registration opens
• March 1^st: Deadline for student scholarship applications
• April 1^st: Deadline for abstract submission & registration
• May 26-28^th: CSDMS annual meeting
• May 29^th: CSDMS Executive and Steering committees meeting (by invitation only)