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Students

Are you interested in using surface process models for your science problems or classes? To explore sediment transport and morphodynamic problems either in the terrestrial, the coastal or the marine domain?

• You will find numerical models of other scientists documented, and made available as open-source codes in the model repository.

• You may take advantage of CSDMS integration staff to ask modeling questions. They are there to help you out!

• You may submit your modeling research for the Student Modeling Award 2012. CSDMS recognizes excellence in modeling and invites awardees to Boulder for a visit! How to submit your research

• If your model takes a long time to run on your own computer, you may want to sign up to securely access the CSDMS High Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC) and run your model remotely.

• Are you interested to run or couple models? The CSDMS Web Modeling Tool (WMT) allows you to quickly build model runs and visualize the results, without needing to be an expert in code development. See here for how you can use the WMT.

• Being a member of the CSDMS working groups allows you to connect with other members to learn more about knowledge gaps and opportunities for proposal writing. You will meet experts in the field of modeling and other students working on similar questions during the annual meetings. So, find out more about the Working groups.

• CSDMS repositories allow you to make your models, educational resources and data widely available to the science community and general public.

• Are you a Teaching Assistant? Find resources for quantitative modeling in the EKT repository

• Looking for a job? CSDMS posts earth surface modeling jobs here.

Model Users

Are you a researcher or student interested in using surface process models for scientific problems? To explore sediment transport and morphodynamic problems either in the terrestrial, the coastal or the marine domain?

• You will find numerical models of other scientists documented, and made available as open-source codes in the model repository.

• You may take advantage of CSDMS integration staff to ask modeling questions. They are there to help you out!

• If your model takes a long time to run on your own computer, you may want to sign up to securely access the CSDMS High Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC) and run your model remotely.

• Are you interested to run or couple models? The CSDMS Web Modeling Tool (WMT) allows you to quickly build model runs and visualize the results, without needing to be an expert in code development. See here for how you can use the WMT.

• Being a member of the CSDMS working groups allows you to connect with other members to learn more about knowledge gaps and opportunities for proposal writing. It may bring more competitive funding opportunities or better integrated proposals. So, find out more about the Working groups.

• CSDMS repositories allow you to make your models, educational resources and data widely available to the science community and general public. You can work with CSDMS while writing your proposal and comply to NSF broader impact and data management requirements more efficiently. CSDMS writes letters of support!

Model Developers

Are you a researcher or student interested in developing new numerical surface process models for scientific problems? You will have all the benefits of any model user, but in addition there are services specifically for model developers….

• You can make your numerical models easily available to other scientists and students by contributing your source code to the CSDMS model repository. It is an efficient way to gain academic and public recognition for code development. Your contribution may be a way to increase your user base; more users generally will help to make the code more robust. There are already 403 models in the model repository. So, contribute your source code.

• CSDMS can maintain your code in GitHub, this is a software management tool to make version control with different developers more manageable. Learn more about GitHub here.

• You may take advantage of the CSDMS integration staff to ask model development questions.

• Are you interested to run or couple models? The CSDMS Web Modeling tool (WMT) allows you to quickly build model runs and visualize the results in the powerful visualization package VisIT. Do you want to make your model a component that can be easily coupled to other models, CSDMS provides tutorials and examples on how to develop your model into a component.

• If your model takes a long time to run on your own computer, you may want to sign up to access the CSDMS High Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC). Want to bring your code up to the next level? Learn more about how to run your code in parallel processing mode.

• Being a member of the CSDMS working groups allows you to connect with other members to learn more about knowledge gaps and opportunities for proposal writing. Competitive funding opportunities - better integrated proposals. Connect with other model developers for proposal opportunities. Lear more about the various working groups.

• CSDMS repositories allow you to make your models, educational resources and data widely available to the science community and general public. You can work with CSDMS while writing your proposal and comply to NSF broader impact and data management requirements more efficiently. CSDMS writes letters of support!

Field Researchers

Are you an earth science researcher or student who collects and analyzes field data or experimental data and want to compare it with numerical model output?

• You may want to explore the CSDMS Model Repository to learn which models are applicable to your project. You will find numerical models of other scientists documented, and made available as open-source codes in the model repository.

• Connect with model developers through the working groups, and with the CSDMS Integration Facility Staff to properly configure your model runs. Find out more about the working groups.

• Use the CSDMS Web Modeling Tool (WMT) to quickly build model runs and visualize the results, without needing to be an expert in code development. See here for how you can use the WMT.

• Connect with other members to learn more about knowledge gaps and opportunities for proposal writing, competitive funding opportunities - better integrated proposals. Learn more about the working groups.

• You may be interested to contribute datasets that are appropriate to be test-data for numerical models? CSDMS maintains a data repository and the different working groups have a task of vetting CSDMS models with data, which may include model inter-comparisons.The data repository allows you to make your results more widely available to the science modeling community and general public. You can work with CSDMS while writing your proposal and comply to NSF data management requirements more efficiently. CSDMS writes letters of support!

Browse the data repository or contribute data.

Educators

Are you an educator interested in using numerical models in class? Are you looking for material to use teaching about earth surface processes, hydrology and sediment transport? Do you want your students to be more familiar with handling quantitative data and mathematical analysis?

• Learn about our survey of quantitative earth surface process courses that are being taught, and contribute your own ideas about teaching modeling. More about the survey is posted here.

• You can use our growing educational repository. It features lectures, classroom labs, modeling textbooks, and documented model simulations. All are focused on (quantitative) learning about earth surface processes.

• There is a special section with earth surface process movies, you may have your own movie that you want to share? Contribute it!

• Your can contribute your teaching resources to our repository and gain recognition for developing educational resources. Or work with the CSDMS integration staff to develop new educational products targeted for your needs. Contact the CSDMS EKT specialist, irina Overeem irina.overeem@colorado.edu.

• You may want to use the CSDMS Web Modeling Tool (WMT) in your classroom to easily couple models and run jobs on the CSDMS High Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC). There are a number of labs that have been developed already using the WMT Tool. See the notes for the labs that are downloadable.

• Being a member of the CSDMS EKT working group allows you to connect with other members to learn more about knowledge gaps and opportunities for proposal writing. Competitive funding opportunities - better integrated proposals. Connect with other model developers for proposal opportunities. Learn more about the different working groups.

Planners

Are you a planner or a policy-maker interested in modeling to support your efforts? CSDMS is a community of experts that promotes the understanding of earth-surface processes through numerical simulation experiments. The experiments employ an open-source library of community-generated, continuously evolving software. CSDMS is partnered with related scientific programs in order to provide a strong linkage between predictions and observations.

• Connect with model developers through the working groups, and with the CSDMS Integration Facility Staff to find out about their model simulations.

• You may even want to explore the CSDMS Model Repository to learn which models are applicable to your applied research project. You will find numerical models of other scientists documented, and made available as open-source codes in the model repository.

• Use the CSDMS Web Modeling Tool (WMT) to quickly build model runs and visualize the results, without needing to be an expert in code development. See here for how you can use the WMT.

• Connect with other members to learn more about the current simulations and knowledge gaps. Encourage model developers to make models applicable to applied modeling questions. Learn more about the working groups.

Industry

Are you working on applied stratigraphic, fluid flow and reservoir modeling problems? CSDMS members work on applied sedimentary geological problems and develop models for industry.

• You may want to explore the CSDMS model repository to learn which models are applicable to your applied research project. You will find numerical models of other scientists documented, and made available as open-source codes in the model repository.

• Connect with model developers through the working groups, and with the CSDMS Integration Facility staff to properly configure your model runs. Find out more about the working groups.

• Use the CSDMS Web Modeling Tool (WMT) to quickly build model runs and visualize the results, without needing to be an expert in code development. See here for how you can use the WMT.

• Connect with other members to learn more about knowledge gaps and opportunities for proposal writing. Encourage model developers to make models applicable to applied modeling questions. Find out more about the working groups.

• The CSDMS Industry Consortium has as its primary goal to engage industry stakeholders in CSDMS research. Consortium members join with the CSDMS community to address key issues in the development and use of the models and tools produced by the CSDMS initiative. Learn more about the CSDMS Industry Consortium.