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Benefits of membership in one or more working groups or focus research groups include:
- You are part of a family of experts sharing research;
- Advantages in staying current within a community taking Earth Sciences to the next level;
- Competitive funding opportunities - better integrated proposals;
- Improved knowledge of available models for education and application;
- Recognized service in an interesting and new field of interdisciplinary science;
- Better and faster penetration of one's numerical advances, data and simulation products;
- Closer interaction with a wide variety of industrial and NGO partners and federal agencies, with possible spin-off funding opportunities;
- Better academic and public recognition for code development;
- Access to the CSDMS High Performance Computational Resources;
- Increased outreach and knowledge transfer opportunities.
Tasks of the CSDMS Working Groups and Focus Research Groups
- Represent the Community knowledge base and state-of-the-science;
- Know the Community of practitioners and experts including ongoing funded projects and developing opportunities;
- Foster interdisciplinarity within and between CSDMS working groups;
- Decide what processes are in their disciplinary toolkit;
- Identify gaps in knowledge and areas where numerical tools need to be developed;
- Create and manage the various environmental process modules related to their discipline;
- Ensure quality control for the algorithms and modules for their area of expertise (benchmark testing, model validation/verification);
- Ensure adequacy of supporting boundary conditions and boundary initializations;
- Set scientific modeling priorities for their discipline;
- Make recommendations for resource prioritization;
- Stimulate proposals and input from the community;
- Facilitate the movement of these priorities up the hierarchy from technology group to steering committee;
- Coordinate the evaluation of numerical codes according to interoperability, scientific contribution and technical documentation;
- Address the CSDMS proof-of-concept challenges;
- Provide community continuity to meet long-term CSDMS objectives.