Project Invitation
The Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System Project
University of Colorado at Boulder
For more information, please go to:
http://csdms.colorado.edu
The Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System Project (CSDMS) invites
institutions to join the governing body and individuals to take part in
one or more of the disciplinary or integrative Working Groups.
The Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System (CSDMS) focuses on
Earth's surface - the dynamic interface between lithosphere, atmosphere,
cryosphere, and hydrosphere. CSDMS develops, supports, and disseminates
integrated software modules that predict the erosion, transport, and
deposition of sediment and solutes in landscapes and their sedimentary
basins.
The CSDMS Project:
- offers an integrated community of scientific and engineering experts;
- promotes the quantitative modeling of earth-surface processes;
- produces protocols for community-generated, continuously evolving open
software;
- provides the cyber-infrastructure to distribute software tools and
models;
- addresses the properties of surface-dynamic systems:
self-organization, localization, thresholds, system linkages, scale
invariance, and interwoven biology and geochemistry.
- enables the rapid development and application of linked dynamic models
tailored to specific landscape-basin evolution problems, at specific
temporal and spatial scales;
- partners with related computational and scientific programs to
eliminate duplication of effort and to provide an intellectually
stimulating environment;
- supports a strong linkage between predictions and observations in
nature and experiments; and
- supports the imperatives in Earth Science research:
1) the discovery, use, and conservation of natural resources
2) the characterization and mitigation of natural hazards
3) the geotechnical support of commercial and infrastructure
development
4) the stewardship of the environment
5) the terrestrial surveillance for global security
CSDMS operates under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. National
Science Foundation (NSF) together with the support of other Federal
agencies (ONR, NASA, USGS, ACE, ARO, NOAA) and a variety of industrial
partners. As of October 2007, 130 experts from 70 institutions have
joined CSDMS.
Institutions are invited to join the CSDMS governing body, the
Directorate:
http://csdms.colorado.edu/organization/directorate.html
Individuals are invited to take part in one or more of the disciplinary
or integrative Working Groups:
http://csdms.colorado.edu/organization/groups.html
For more information about CSDMS, please go to:
http://csdms.colorado.edu