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"Erosion and sediment yields in the changing environment" symposium continues the highly successful ongoing series of ICCE symposia. Recent symposia were held in Moscow (2004), Dundee (2006), Christchurch (2008) and Warsaw(2010). In Oct. 2012 we would like to invite you to Chengdu and to Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, CAS, where Symposium will be hosted.
The Chengdu ICCE'2012 Symposium will focus on both erosion and sediment yields in the changing environment, considering:
* Dynamics processes of erosion and sediment transport in fluvial systems
* Impacts of climate change and human activities on erosion and sediment yield
* Erosion and sediment yields modeling
* Mountain hazards and debris flows
* Monitoring and tracing methodology +
"Steepestdescent" is a "gilbertclub"-type event, held on the Saturday after the EGU meeting (3rd of May, this year).
Our objective is to add one day of focused interactions and networking between people interested in surface dynamics in a broad sense. We hope this will serve the growing community of surface dynamics in Europe, and that it will be a good opportunity to foster special atmosphere and good spirit among us.
The day's schedule is composed of three long research talks, informal scientific discussions, plus time for coffee, pastries and lunch. Everyone interested in geomorphology and earth surface processes is encouraged to attend! Bring, display and discuss your EGU poster(s).
'''Schedule:'''
9am: SteepestDescent team welcome & coffee/croissants
9.15am: Jean Braun (University of Grenoble):
"Density, Topography and Erosion"
10.30am: Coffee break and chatting around your posters
11am: Jane Willenbring (Penn State):
"The Null Hypothesis: Reconciling Cenozoic erosion, weathering, and the carbon cycle"
12.15am: Lunch on site
1.15pm: Mikael Attal (University of Edinburgh)
"Erosion of landscapes: recent advances intopographic analysis and future modelling challenges"
2.30pm: Closing discussion
'''Organizing committee:'''<br>
Sebastien Castelltort (U-Geneva)<br>
Jean-Daniel Champagnac (ETH-Zürich)<br>
Frederic Herman (U-Lausanne)<br>
Niels Hovius (GFZ-Potsdam)<br>
Bernhard Salcher, (U. Salzburg) +
'''''Are the results from a particular model more sensitive to changes in the model and the methods used to estimate its parameters, or to changes in the data?'''''
This remark by Giandomenico Majone goes the heart of the problem setting of sensitivity analysis, a tool which all modellers from all fields of application use to improve the quality of their inference. Sensitivity Analysis is crucial both in the model construction and model interpretation phases, and is considered an important ingredient of model verification and validation.
SAMO conferences are devoted to advances in research on sensitivity analysis methods and their interdisciplinary applications, they are held every third year. The aim of the SAMO conference in Barcelona is to bring together researchers involved in the development and improvement of methods and strategies and users of sensitivity analysis in all disciplines of science, including physics, operations research, chemistry, biology, nanotechnology, engineering, environmental science, nuclear and industrial safety, economics and finance, and many others. +
'''2nd IYFSWC will address:'''
* Challeangers/actions of soil and water management in the changing world
* Mechanism/processes and modelling of soil degradation
* Innovation of technology of soil and water conservation
* Ecological restoration and regional sustainable development
* How to play the roles of youth in soil and water conservation
'''Conference program will include:'''
* Plenary lectures by keynote speakers – internationally recognized scientists
* Oral and poster thematic sessions
* Field excursion to the World largest hydro-technical projects – water transfer from Volga River to Moscow city
* Cultural program in Moscow
* Post-conference tours to the cities of Saint-Petersburg and Kazan
* Extra-program – special thematic part-time courses for young scientists . The participants of the workshops will get certificate of Moscow State University +
'''Aims & Scope'''<br>
The EGU General Assembly 2017 will bring together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience. The EGU is looking forward to cordially welcoming you in Vienna. +
'''Announcements'''<br>
To participate in FACET II, please complete and submit application form (link) between 3/10 – 3/31/17. Successful applications will be notified in mid April. Registration will open in April.
'''Overview'''<br>
The recognition that climatically modulated erosion governs the geodynamic evolution of active mountain ranges remains one of the most transformative conceptual shifts in the geosciences in the past few decades. Despite much progress, the nature of interactions among processes operating in the fluid and solid earth, the strength of these interactions, and how they are manifest in Earth’s topography remain poorly understood. This workshop builds on a recent community efforts to take stock of the state of understanding of coupled orogenic-climate systems and to define a research agenda that will enable the next generation of studies into these complex systems. +
'''Application information'''<br>
Applications for this meeting must be submitted by June 10, 2018. Please apply early, as some meetings become oversubscribed (full) before this deadline. If the meeting is oversubscribed, it will be stated here. Note: Applications for oversubscribed meetings will only be considered by the conference chair if more seats become available due to cancellations.
'''Conference description'''<br>
This biennial Gordon Research Conference has become the premier venue for researchers from academia, national labs, and industry to share their latest ideas and exciting research findings related to flow and transport in permeable media. The 2018 meeting will be an outstanding forum for recognized leaders in their respective fields to get together and meet exceptional young scientists (senior PhD students, post-docs). The conference will highlight theoretical, experimental, and field research aimed at understanding the physics of flow and transport in porous media, and elucidating processes across scales. Specific topics and speakers will focus on: microfluidics and wettability; wet granular physics; flow instabilities and chemical reactions; digital rock physics; geomechanics and induced seismicity; biogeochemistry and reactive transport; biophysics and biological porous media; geophysical subsurface flows; and flow and transport in nanoscale porous media.
The speakers and participants are expected to share new, evolving, and unpublished ideas and research findings. The presentations will be chaired by recognized leaders in each of the topical areas under discussion. A primary objective is to generate stimulating discussions that engage the entire conference community in a constructive atmosphere. The conference format - programmed morning and evening lectures and free afternoons - provides ample time for informal interactions and the exchange of ideas. The setting is a unique forum for young scientists to engage with leaders in the field. The highly interactive poster sessions are a critical part of the conference, and all the GRC attendees are strongly encouraged to submit a poster on their latest research work.
'''Background''': Record-breaking floods and droughts have made policymakers and the public increasingly aware of the need to improve management of the nation’s water resources. To maintain access to reliable and affordable water supply, water managers must regularly make decisions under uncertainty. Weather and water forecasts are important tools to minimize this uncertainty but can be difficult to incorporate into decision-making processes.
In an effort to address this challenge, NOAA recently created the National Water Center to bring together scientists from different agencies and produce the first continental United States water forecast. Additionally, the 2017 Weather Act requests NOAA to improve forecasts on subseasonal and seasonal time scales which could be instrumental to future water resource management.
Bringing together scientists and managers from across the United States, the primary goal for this workshop is to identify opportunities for more effective collaboration between forecasters and water managers. During the workshop, we will take stock of the current quality and use of weather and streamflow forecasts in different regions on different time scales (days to months).
Topics of interest:
* How can forecasts become more useful to water managers?
* How can decision-making processes take full advantage of available forecasts?
* How can forecasters and water managers work together to best take advantage of future improvements in in forecast skill?
* How will subseasonal and seasonal forecasts develop? How will they affect water resource managers?
* What are the most promising place-based and federal policy options for reducing future U.S. risk? How do public, private and academic partnerships fit into these policy options? +
'''For 2018, suggested topics include:'''
* Design Resiliency and Adaptation in Restoration
* Prioritization, Monitoring and Effectiveness
* Dam Removals and Sediment
* Watershed-scale Integrated Planning
* Ecosystem Functions Modeling
* Design/Build Challenges and Construction
* Navigating Regulatory ‘Waters’ and Permitting
* Community Engagement and the Integration of Tribal Knowledge +
'''INSTRUCTORS'''
* Giovanna De Filippis, the Institute of Life Sciences at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
* Laura Foglia, University of California Davis, Larry Walker Associates
* Dan Lu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
* Mary Hill, University of Kansas, Emeritus USGS
* Eileen Poeter, Emeritus Colorado School of Mines, Poeter Engineering
'''DESCRIPTION'''<br>
This course provides basic knowledge about MODFLOW, QGIS, building and running model applications using FREEWAT, data integration, and understanding of simulation dynamics using UCODE. By the end of the course, you will know how to:
* develop MODFLOW models using the QGIS-integrated FREEWAT GUI
* check problem set-up
* analyze model fit to data
* identify parameters that can and cannot be estimated given the available data
* estimate parameter values; and much more, including:
# identify existing and potential new observations important to predictions and forecasts
# quantify uncertainty using a range of fast methods (10 s of models runs) and provide approximate values to computationally intensive methods such as MCMC (10,000 s of model runs)
# engage skeptical stakeholders using alternative models
# account for alternative models in uncertainty evaluations
Strengths and weaknesses are discussed for all procedures and statistics.
'''COURSE AUDIENCE'''<br>
This course is designed for modelers seeking better ways to use data and their models. Knowledge of groundwater modeling and basic statistics is useful but not necessary. Anyone interested in modeling will learn important skills in this course.
More information is available here: https://uzox244a2mtu64wa37z9d5qy-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/117/2019/01/FREEWAT_UCODE_course_info.pdf
'''PRICE'''<br>
$450 ($550 after April 15th); student $200. This fee covers instruction, refreshments, and continuing education units. Lodging and meals are not covered. Payment in full must be received prior to the beginning of the course in order to participate.
If cancellation is made before April 15, 2019 registration fee will be refunded except for a $25 deposit. Cancellations made after that date will forfeit a $50 processing fee in addition to the $25 deposit. In case of cancellation, the right to course material is forfeited. Substitutions are permitted any time prior to the start of the course. Please be advised that if the program is cancelled due to insufficient enrollment, the Integrated Groundwater Modeling Center (Colorado School of Mines) will return all course fees, but will not be liable for any other expenses incurred by the prospective attendees.
'''Introduction'''<br>
The Water and Society Conference is to be reconvened in 2017 following the success of the previous meetings, the first of which was held in Las Vegas in 2011, followed by a meeting in 2013 in the New Forest, UK, home to the Wessex Institute, and one in La Coruna, Spain in 2015.
Over the centuries, civilisations have relied on the availability of clean and inexpensive water. This can no longer be taken for granted as the need for water continues to increase due to the pressure from growing global population demanding higher living standards. Agriculture and industry, major users of water, are at the same time those that contribute to its contamination. Water distribution networks in urban areas, as well as soiled water collection systems, present serious problems in response to a growing population as well as the need to maintain ageing infrastructures.
Many technologically feasible solutions, such as desalination or pumping systems are energy demanding but, as costs rise, the techniques currently developed may need to be re-assessed. The Conference will address the interaction between water and energy systems.
This meeting will encourage trans-disciplinary communication on issues related to the nature of water, and its use and exploitation by society. The conference is motivated by the need to bridge the gap between the broad spectrum of social political sciences and humanistic disciplines and specialists in physical sciences, biology, environmental sciences and health, among others.
The socio-political implications of a world short of clean, easily available water are enormous. It will lead to realignments in international politics and the emergence of new centres of power in the world.
Policy makers need to be educated and advised on developing policies and regulations that will support the water systems of tomorrow. The role of society and its involvement with water is paramount. To meet the future demands for water, new standards, new training and additional support roles will best be delivered by those knowledgeable of the new technologies and direction of the industry.
The intention of the Water and Society series of conferences is to review these issues, as well as the more technical aspects of water resources management and quality, to help put forward policies and legislation that will lead to improved solutions for all.
The papers selected for presentation and included in the Conference Proceedings are permanently stored in the WIT eLibrary as Transactions of the Wessex Institute (see http://www.witpress.com/elibrary).
'''Conference Topics'''<br>
The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at Water and Society 2017. Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the conference are also welcome.
* Water resources management
* Water as a human right
* Water quality
* Water resources contamination
* Water, sanitation and health
* Water and disaster management
* Policy and legislation
* Future water demands
* Irrigation management
* Water management
* Urban water management
* Management of catchments
* Groundwater management and conservation
* Agribusiness
'''LOCATION'''<br>
Portland, Oregon, USA—the City of Roses—is located in the heart of one of the most dynamic geologic environments in the West, having been affected by megathrust earthquakes, giant flood-basalt eruptions, catastrophic glacial floods, continuing fluvial and hillslope processes, and human influences on the landscape. Founded along the banks of the Columbia and Willamette rivers, Portland is nestled between the magnificent volcanic arc of the Cascade Range to the east and the Coast Range to the west. Building on the exceptional local and regional geological features of the Cordillera, we have devised a diverse program reflecting fundamental and applied aspects across earth-science disciplines.
See event website for more information: https://www.geosociety.org/GSA/Events/Section_Meetings/GSA/Sections/cd/2019mtg/home.aspx +
'''Motivation & Aims'''<br>
The pressures and impacts on the World’s Large Rivers have increased greatly in recent years, as a consequence of their exploitation to meet human needs. Large rivers are particularly exposed to problems of multiple uses, often with conflicting aims. At the global scale, there is no overview assessment of the current status of the World’s Large Rivers, the conflicting demands on such rivers, and likely future anthropogenic impacts, as well as the potential for restoration and the associated problems.
In 2011 the first International Conference on „The Status and Future of the World’s Large Rivers“ in Vienna, Austria, provided a global forum for a wide-ranging discussion of key issues related to research on large rivers and to their effective and sustainable management, involving both scientists and decision makers. This successful event has been continued in 2014 in Manaus, Brazil at the fascinating Amazon River.
Based on the Vienna Declaration, which has been adopted by the participants in 2011, a new UNESCO / IHP Initiative (WLRI - World’s Large Rivers Initiative) has been called to life which aims in fostering a global network of programmes and partners related to the work and research at large rivers.
One of the main tasks of this Initiative is to continue the successful series of World’s Large Rivers Conferences. Since we have had five potential venues for the next conference in 2017, the applications have been reviewed by an internationally scientifically renowned Advisory Board which opted for India, New Delhi, as the next venue for the World’s Large Rivers Conference. +
'''Objectives'''<br>
ParFlow (parflow.org) is a numerical model that simulates the hydrologic cycle from the bedrock to the top of the plant canopy. It integrates three-dimensional groundwater flow with overland flow and plant processes using physically-based equations to rigorously simulate fluxes of water and energy in complex real-world systems. ParFlow is a computationally advanced model that can run on laptops and supercomputers and has been used in hundreds of studies evaluating hydrologic processes from the hillslope to the continental scale. ParFlow is open source (github.com/parflow) promoting community of active users and developers interested in advancing computational hydrology and improving hydrologic understanding.
Introduction to ParFlow (July 20-21, 2020)<br>
The trainee will learn about the basic theory of ParFlow, how to generate all necessary input information to construct basic ParFlow models, and perform simulations. In addition, post-processing and visualization of ParFlow results will be discussed.
Advanced applications with ParFlow (July 23-24, 2020)<br>
The trainee is familiar with ParFlow and will learn about advanced input functionality that is required to construct large-scale, sophisticated models to simulate terrestrial systems from the subsurface to the land surface. Simulations will be performed and the results will be discussed and analyzed in the context of high-performance computing, parallel scaling and big data analytics. +
'''Overarching Goals'''<br>
through a community process, (i) identify the current state-of-the-science to model critical zone and ecological processes, its strengths, limitations and frontiers, (ii) advance network science data integration into future model frameworks, and (iii) further build integrative user communities.
'''Specific Goals'''
# Use experience and insights from established networks (LTER and CZO) to develop long-term conceptual and numerical models for NEON sites.
# Explore challenges for data-model linking within and across networks in order to raise process understanding and improve ability to make predictions of critical zone and ecological trajectories.
# Discuss establishment of a platform to help facilitate cross-network data-model linkage (e.g., see ISMC website)
'''Desired Outcomes'''<br>
Build bridges between networks and user communities; Paper(s) on frontiers and challenges in this area; Proposal(s) for follow-up grants and/or workshops; Identify high-priority tools and functions for data model platform(s)
'''Meeting Overview'''<br>
Day 1 - Keynotes and lightning talks; focus on identifying key issues and scientific direction<br>
Day 2 - Small group break-outs to synthesize path forward for key topics & frontier activities.<br>
Day 3, morning - Bring all breakouts together and develop an action plan, which will likely includewhite papers, journal articles, and other engagement activities.<br>
Day 3, afternoon - Reserved for attendees that wish to continue to work together<br>
'''Additional Information:'''<br>
Requests for Keynote and Lightning Talks abstracts will be part of the registration process (workshop webpage coming soon). Science Coordinating Team will vet and select.
Target Audience: All user groups with experience or interest in utilizing data from CZO / LTER /
NEON / ISMC / for improved modeling of ecological and critical zone processes. This includes
theoreticians, modelers, data scientists, informatics scientists, decision-makers, etc. Underrepresented groups, early career scientists and graduate students are strongly encouraged to participate.
To build community involvement and input, a series of Charrettes (interactive webinars) will take place over the upcoming months. Those interested in attending the workshop as well as other stakeholders are highly encouraged to attend. First charrette: Weds, November 8th, 9 am MST, mark your calendars.
'''Science Coordinating Team:'''
Roland Baatz, Kris Van Looy, and Harry Vereecken (Forschungszentrum Juelich); Jim Tang (Marine Biology Lab), Pamela Sullivan (University of Kansas); Michael Young (University of Texas), Henry Lin (Penn State); Peter Groffman (CUNY, Cary Inst.); Julia Jones (Oregon State University); Praveen Kumar (Univ. of Illinois), Lejo Flores (Boise State University); Hank Loescher, Samantha Weintraub, and Lee Stanish (Battelle NEON)
'''Overview''': Food and bioenergy demands of a growing global population and societies’ changing lifestyles are increasing the pressures on land and ecosystems. Further pressures arise from the demands on land resources for other ecosystem services, and the variable (often negative) impacts of
climate change on plant productivity. These multiple, often seemingly conflicting demands on land and ecosystems are a considerable stumbling-block for achieving sustainability goals. The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology will run an international Summer School on the topic of ecosystems and land use change during August 2018 located at the Campus Alpin of IMK-IFU (Garmisch-Partenkirchen). The summer school will introduce masters and doctoral students to a wide range of issues related to ecosystem functioning, socio-ecological systems and land use change by covering:
# Both the biophysical and human processes and concepts needed to understand the broader issues of socio-ecological systems. This will include, amongst others, ecosystem functioning, biodiversity, ecosystem services, resilience, vulnerability, risk management, tipping-points, sustainability and related concepts in the field. We will also explore current understanding of how environmental change (both physical and human changes in the environment) will affect socio-ecological systems. This will include content on international assessment processes such as the IPCC and IPBES.
# Different aspects of land use change processes across geographic scales and for the past, present and future drivers of change. This will include, for example, land abandonment, extensification vs intensification, deforestation, the role of social networks and knowledge diffusion, the role of pollinators and land management. There will be a focus on land use change assessment methods, including the role of observational data (e.g. from remote sensing and other sources) and land use modelling approaches using interactive exercises and case studies.
'''Format''': The summer school will include a mix of lectures, practical exercises and student presentations and a field excursion in and around the beautiful German Alps. The School is open to students currently studying for an MSc or PhD degree with backgrounds in, for example, environmental sciences, geography, environmental economics, meteorology and ecology. There are 25 student places available in 2018.
'''Applications''' will be open from 1 to 31 March 2018.
<br>'''Further information''' on applying will be posted on the IMK-IFU website (http://www.imk-ifu.kit.edu) from 1 March 2018. Further information: Prof Mark Rounsevell (mark.rounsevell@kit.edu) & Prof Almut Arneth (almut.arneth@kit.edu)
'''Overview'''<br>
Resilience thinking is a rapidly emerging concept that is being used to frame how we approach the study of biophysical systems. It also seeks to determine how societies, economies, and biophysical systems can be managed to ensure resilience; that is, how to maintain the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance. There are strong overlaps between the scientific discipline of geomorphology (the biophysical processes that shape Earth’s landscapes) and the concept of resilience. There is however a lack of awareness of the foundations of the former in the emergence of resilience. Thus, resilience is limited and limiting in its application to bio-geomorphic systems. This symposium will provide a collective examination of bio-geomorphic systems and resilience that will conceptually advance both areas of study and further cement the relevance and importance of understanding the complexities of bio-geomorphic systems in an emerging world of interdisciplinary research endeavors. The 48th annual Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium on Resilience and Bio-Geomorphic Systems will bring together leading and emerging scientists in bio-geomorphology and resilience thinking. +
'''Overview'''<br>
The emergence of massive data collections (i.e., “Big Data”) has ushered a paradigm shift in the way scientific research is conducted and new knowledge is discovered. Traditional observe-hypothesis-test model of small-scale scientific endeavor is increasingly augmented and in some cases supplanted with collaborative scientific research applying complex patterns of data integration and analysis involving multi-disciplinary teams from distributed organizations brought together to solve a common problem. Emerging cyber-infrastructure solutions necessitate addressing the needs of domain scientists from multiple angles, including data access, metadata management, large-scale analytics and workflows, data and application discovery and sharing, and data preservation. The aim of the Cyber Carpentry workshop is to make it easier for the trainee to learn all aspects of data-intensive computing environment and more importantly to work together with other researchers with complementary expertise - Domain Scientists with Computer and Information Scientists.<br>
This 2-week workshop will provide graduate students and researchers with an overview of best data management practices, data science tools and concrete steps and methods for performing end-to-end data intensive computing and data life-cycle management and for promoting reproducible science and data reuse. The workshop will be held in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, between July 16th – 27th, 2018. Travel and accommodation will be provided for participants. A certificate of completion from the School of Information and Library Science at UNC will be awarded on successful completion of the two-week workshop.
Workshop topics will include concepts and practices in:
* Data Life-Cycle Management and Policy Automation for increasing sustainability
* Data and Metadata Curation for effective data preservation
* Metadata, Ontology and Provenance for increasing interoperability
* Concepts in Federation for effective collaboration and sharing
* Abstraction, Virtualization and Containerization for reproducible science
* Effective Collaboration Techniques
* Information Analytics and Scientific Workflows
* Computation using clouds and cluster resources
This workshop is funded by the National Science Foundation under the Cyber Training program to prepare, nurture and grow the national scientific workforce for creating, utilizing, and supporting advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) that enables cutting-edge science and engineering and contributes to the Nation's overall economic competitiveness and security.
'''Instructors'''<br>
The instructors for this course are the investigators of the successful Datanet Federation Consortium (DFC) project which ran between 2013 and -2017. They come from multiple Universities and bring unique perspectives in applying cyberinfrastructure for problems in Science and Engineering disciplines. The DFC project implements a collaboration framework that promotes sharing in and across multiple Science and Engineering disciplines. The chief outcome of DFC is an integrated policy-oriented federation platform that intertwines human interactions, through policy sets, with evolving cyberinfrastructure, leading to a system that has proven to be extensible, sustainable and applicable across multiple disciplines. DFC meshes three core concepts of (a) virtualization, (b) policy-driven automations, and (c) federation to provide the extensibility, sustainability and technology independence needed for long-term scientific collaboration. The instructors for this course come from designers, developers and users of the DFC system. More information about the team can be found at the Cyber Carpentry website (http://cybercarpentry.web.unc.edu/).
'''Eligibility'''<br>
Space for this workshop is limited. Both post-doctoral fellows and doctoral students in basic sciences and computational sciences are encouraged to apply. Participants will be selected on the basis of their current research or work activities; their previous experience with open science practices, data management techniques and analysis methods; and their current or former opportunities to access training in these areas.<br>
Both doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers are eligible to apply. We seek applicants with the following types of expertise:
* Domain scientists who are using large data collections in their research.
* Computational scientists who are designing tools and techniques to facilitate data-intensive work.
* Information scientists who developing and implementing data management standards and practices.
Participants will be selected on the basis of their academic qualifications, current research activities and prior experience with open science practices, data management techniques, and analysis methods.<br>
Priority will be given to applicants who have not had opportunities to access training in data management practices and data science tools.<br>
Women, underrepresented groups and persons with disabilities are especially encouraged to submit applications.
'''Travel and Accommodation Support'''<br>
Participants will receive support to cover the cost of an economy round trip airfare within the contiguous United States. Course participants will also be provided with accommodation in Chapel Hill for the duration of the course.
'''How to Apply'''<br>
Applicants should complete the online application form at the link provided at the CyberCarpentry website. The application form requests basic demographics in addition to information about research background and data science training and skills. A recommendation letter from the advisor or post-doc mentor will also be needed. Please also submit a 2-page Curriculum Vita in PDF using the NSF guidelines.<br>
Your application will only be considered complete if we have received a completed application form, a recommendation letter from the advisor, and a 2-page CV. Details of how to send these material can be found at the course web site: https://cybercarpentry.web.unc.edu/<br>
There is no application fees.
'''PLEASE JOIN US!'''<br>
This course introduces professionals in Groundwater and other related environmental fields to model calibration and predictive uncertainty analysis. Calibration is presented via several open-source model-independent inversion codes: OSTRICH, PEST/PEST++, and UCODE_2014. Basic concepts covered include:
* Analyze data to be used for model development, considering data accuracy and the ability of the model to produce comparable values.
* Based on knowledge of the system, decide how to define a set of calibration parameters.
* Determine the “optimal” set of parameter values that provide a best fit to observations.
* Calculate predictions and obtain measures of prediction uncertainty.
* Evaluate post-calibration diagnostics and statistics to learn more about the model structure and prioritize additional data collection activity.
At every step we will ask “Does this make sense”? Models are artificial constructs that sometimes are useful in understanding real world systems. Diligent analysis is critical to useful models.
Registration begins each day at 7:30 AM and the course will be from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM on May 30 and May 31. Attendees have the option of registering for either Day 1, Day 2, or both days of this short course. +
'''Save the date, the 3day CSDMS annual meeting will be hold May 21-23rd: CSDMS 3.0 - Bridging Boundaries.<br><br>See for more information: https://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Form:Annualmeeting2019<br><br><br>'''
The meeting will bring together experts in earth surface process modeling in a three-day hands-on workshop to identify challenges in bridging boundaries in our current process understanding, both fundamentally in the earth surface processes as well as in the modeling approaches and technology. This includes interdisciplinary boundaries and how best to identify and address these numerically. +
