The CCMP Newsletter for June, 2008 has been released. This issue contains many exciting news items, including a summary of the Chesapeake Modeling Symposium ‘08. A list of items discussed can be found below:

1. CheMS’08
2. CCMP News in brief
3. News from other communities
4. Open Source on the March
5. Featured Blog Question: How can we improve the CCMP newsletter?
6. CCMP membership
7. Featured Modeler: Doug Wilson
8. Featured Model: ChesROMS
9. Announcement: Job Opportunities at NOAA & USACE

To view this issue of the newsletter in full, please click here.

We would love to hear some community feedback to help us improve this newsletter and make it more useful. What other content would you like to see? How can we improve the format? What you like and what you don’t like? Should we send this out at all?

Your thoughts? Please share them with the community by leaving a comment via the “comment” link below.

You can now access all of the posters, presentations, and papers that were submitted or presented at CheMS’08 (May 12-14 in Annapolis).  This collection of work represents a great amount of effort and preparation from various attendees and plenary speakers.  The presentations are grouped by workshop.  Plenary talks (opening and closing) are also available.

To view these files, please visit the CheMS Presentations page.

Interested in installing the ChesROMS model? You are in luck: Wen Long (UMCES/HPL) has created various video walkthroughs to guide you through the installation process. These were created in preparation for the Chesapeake Modeling Symposium 2008 (May 12-14). The guide can be accessed through the following links:

• Installation Overview (Powerpoint)
• 52 minute video walkthrough (with sound)
• 25 minute video walkthrough (without sound)

Note: If your media player does not properly play the movies, the VLC movie player is the recommended alternative. VLC Media player is available for free for Windows, Linux, and Mac at http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

The most recent issue of the CCMP newsletter has been released. This newsletter features numerous news stories and updates pertaining to the entire Chesapeake modeling & data community. Topics include:

1. CheMS’08
2. Student Grants Available for CheMS’08
3. CCMP News in brief
4. News from other communities
5. CCMP Model & Data Repository, CheMS iPod Raffle
6. Models or data?
7. Featured Question: Does CCMP need by-laws?
8. Featured Modeler: Claire Welty
9. Featured Model: CE-QUAL-ICM

To view the newsletter in full, follow the links in the list above… and while you are at it, leave a comment to share your thoughts! A stand-alone version of the newsletter can be viewed here.

The question we want to ask you today: should CCMP develop By-Laws to make sure we have a clear & transparent structure and governing mechanism?

There are many questions that are related: Who are the officers, how do they get elected? What are the committees? Where/When are the meetings, and how often? What are the working groups? Who makes up the Steering Committee? How to deal with education/knowledge? And so forth.

Your thoughts? Please share them with the community by leaving a comment.

Interested in attending seminars or lectures in the Chesapeake Bay area? CCMP is proud to present a roundup of the following regularly scheduled events. Follow the links to learn more about each event:

• Cafe Scientifique: Last Friday of each month (dinner)
• CBF: activities and events approximately every week
• HPL: Wednesdays @ 11am
• IAN: Near the start of each month @ 12pm
• JHU: Fridays @ 11:00am and 12:10pm (Env. Engineering & Chemistry; Env. & Applied Fluid Mechanics)
• ODU: Mondays @ 3:30pm
• SERC: Once at month, 6:30-8:30pm (refreshments & discussion included)
• SERC: Weekly at 11am (usually Tuesday or Thursday)
• UMBC: Fridays @ 2pm
• VIMS: the last Thursday of each month @ 7pm (except for May and December)

Please contact CCMP if you know of any seminar or lecture series you would like added to this list.

If you have ever had a difficult time coordinating the availability of multiple individuals, check out the online web utility Doodle. It allows prospective attendees to provide their potential availability for multiple dates, leaving the planner with an tallied list of the dates which work best for the most people.

Check it out!

The CCMP is convening a modeling symposium on May 12-14, 2008 in Annapolis, MD. This symposium will be a venue to identify and present existing modeling efforts and will serve to improve collaboration and communication between researchers working in the Chesapeake region. Please see the attached PDF for a full overview.

At this early stage, we would like to reach out to prospective attendees and invite you to submit proposals for workshop topics to be held at the Symposium. The deadline for these submissions is November 20, 2007. Please send proposals to Alexey Voinov or David Potsiadlo.

For a full overview of relevant dates leading up to the event, see the symposium website.