Presentations and more of the
CSDMS 2026 Annual Meeting: Modeling Landscapes in Motion
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN, May 19 -21th 2026
Thank You
On behalf of CSDMS, we thank the Keynote Speakers, Clinic Leaders, Session Chairs, Poster Session Presenters, members of the Executive and Steering Committees, and every participant who helped to make this a productive and successful meeting.
Agenda
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Oral presentations and awards
| Presenter | Title and links to additional material and recordings |
|---|
| Dhital, Supath |
Enhancement of low-fidelity operational flood inundation mapping through surrogate modeling |
| Dickson, Jay |
All of the Earth at High-Resolution in 3D: Scaling Surface Processes From Local to Continental to Global |
| Lev, Einat |
Introducing VICTOR, a new cyberinfrastructure for volcanology |
| Mariotti, Giulio |
Three ingredients for numerically efficient 2D delta morphodynamic modeling |
| Monsalve, Angel |
New Landlab Components for Modeling River Hydraulics and Morphodynamics: Applications to Event-Scale Sediment Transport |
| Ng, Crystal |
Integrated hydrological modeling with Indigenous community partners |
| Shapero, Daniel |
Simulating debris-covered mountain glaciers with icepack |
| Stokes, Maya |
Topographic and biological signatures of repeated river captures |
| Tucker, Greg |
Update on CSDMS |
| Turner, Caitlin |
GaugePredict: From a Narrow Research Question to a General Open Source Forecasting Tool |
| Whipple, Kelin |
Alluvial Cover Effects in Mixed Bedrock-Alluvial Channels: Model Reconciliation, Improvement, and Best Practices |
| Yanites, Brian |
The lasting imprint of sediment pulses: linking river hazards and landscape evolution |
| Yoo, Kyungsoo |
Feedback between Soil Biogeochemistry and Landscape Evolution: Opportunities for the Two Mature Fields to Address Pressing Earth Surface Science Issues |
Clinics
| Presenter | Title and links to additional material and recordings |
|---|
| Del Vecchio, Joanmarie |
PyCoGSS: Helping you (and your students!) wrangle big landscape data |
| Fairfax, Emily |
Using Machine Learning for Landscape Feature Detection: Beaver Dams and Beyond! |
| Fathi Said, Mohamed |
Advancing Spatiotemporal Modeling with Deep Learning: CNN–LSTM Integration |
| Gasparini, Nicole |
Tips and Tricks for Submitting an NSF Proposal |
| Jagers, Bert |
Morphodynamical simulations using Delft3D FM |
| Keck, Jeff |
Simulating landslide sediment transport and runout hazard in Landlab using MassWastingRunout |
| Kwang, Jeffrey |
TopoRivBlender: Reproducible 3D Visualizations in Blender and Python |
| Over, Jin-Si |
Introduction to Structure-from-Motion Photogrammetry for Mapping Landscapes |
| Piper, Mark |
How Can I Share My Code? Building a Community-Ready Scientific Software Repository |
| Tucker, Greg |
The Art of Modeling: From Concept to Math with Balance Equations |
| Vetsch, David |
River morphodynamic modelling across scales using BASEMENT software |
| Zellner, Moira |
Fora.ai: Embedding earth systems modeling in a collaborative framework for innovative, impactful and resilient solution-building |
Poster Abstracts
| Name | Abstract title posters | Poster |
|---|
| Ashrani, Uma |
Simulated Effects of Drainage-Ditch Infilling on Wetland Extent | |
| Bui, Viet |
Sediment Partitioning and Shoreline Response to GIA-Driven Basement Deformation in Arctic Deltas | |
| Colaianne, Nicholas |
Measurement of turbulent pressure fluctuations to inform plucking and entrainment thresholds | |
| Cowgill, Ashlyn |
TBD | |
| Das, Sayan |
Quantifying grain size control on fluvial erosion and topographic expression of tectonics | |
| Davila Olivera, Selina |
Modeling three-dimensional hollow infilling and failure recurrence in the Oregon Coast Range | |
| Dealy, Aidan |
Rethinking the CERC Formula: Observations from XBeach Wave Field Modeling on Simple Shoreface Assemblages | |
| Del Vecchio, Joanmarie |
Exploring Arctic Landscape Data with PyCoGSS: Tutorials and Research Workflows for Everyone | |
| Dhital, Supath |
Enhancement of low-fidelity operational flood inundation mapping through surrogate modeling | |
| Fathi Said, Mohamed |
A Physics-Guided Input Framework for LSTM-Based Streamflow Modeling in Snow-Affected Watersheds | |
| Gallen, Sean |
Geomorphic controls on suspended sediment dynamics in Puerto Rico | |
| Gebriye, Senait |
Integrated Data Analytics and Machine Learning for Scalable Environmental Data Analysis | |
| Koech, Kibiwott |
Spectral modeling of Alaska North Slope permafrost landscape phenology | |
| Langston, Abigail |
Towards a mechanistic understanding of the evolution of wide bedrock valleys in landscape evolution models | |
| Lewandowski, Aidan |
Simulating the impact of glacial isostatic adjustment on Potomac River erosion patterns near Great Falls (Virginia) using hydrodynamic models | |
| Li, Yuan |
Floodplain slope organizes chute and neck meander cutoffs across rivers in the Amazon Basin | |
| Lund, Nate |
Earth-casting: Understanding the Role of Invasive Ecosystem Engineers in Landscape Evolution Through Organic Matter, Microtopography and Erosion | |
| Martin, Jo |
Can Neural Networks Think like Geomorphologists? | |
| Mayo, Talea |
No abstract submitted yet | |
| Moriarty, Julia |
Quantifying the Role of Floods on Chesapeake Bay Biogeochemistry and Sediment Transport Using K-Means, DBSCAN and Spatially Organized Maps | |
| Nghiem, Justin |
Field evidence for mud as flocculated bed-material load: Insights into improving fluvial mud transport predictions | |
| Ochieng, Kennedy |
Hydrological Resilience in a Reshaped World: Modelling Infiltration Shifts in Appalachian Mountaintop Mining and Valley Fill Landscapes | |
| Piercy, Candice |
PyWAVE: connecting ecogeomorphic modeling to beneficial use decision-making | |
| Platero, Derrick |
How Well Do Erosion Models Know Iowa? Comparing Semi-Empirical, Physically-Based, and U-Net Deep Learning Approaches Across Physiographic Watersheds | |
| Setegn, Shimelis |
Coupled Hydrologic–Hydraulic–Hydrodynamic Modeling Framework for Coastal watersheds/Estuaries and MFL Evaluation | |
| Sharma, Vidushi |
Unraveling Controls on the Scaling Relationship between Valley Width and Drainage Area: A Case Study for the Appalachian Plateau | |
| Shmilovitz, Yuval |
Extended Gravel-Bedrock Eroder 1.0: a Landlab component for sediment and bedrock dynamics across a range of river systems | |
| Silvestre, Jose |
Quantifying loop topology in coastal river channel networks | |
| Song, Yiyun |
Testing Soil-Routing versus Canopy-Loss Controls on Post-Fire Streamflow Response in the Humid Southern Appalachians Using DHSVM | |
| Thompson, Ann |
Impacts of Erosional Style on Tectonically Varied Landscapes | |
| Ward, Dylan |
An (over-) simplified model of sinkhole plain development near multistory cave systems in dipping rocks | |
| Zarrabi, Reihaneh |
Improving Operational Flood Mapping Across the CONUS Using Machine Learning and Bathymetric Adjustment | |
