CCMP Workshops

CCMP workshops emphasize modeling activities and build community. On this page, you can see what events are coming up as well as view information from past workshops. Included in these archives are presentations and other notes CCMP has kept available. If you are aware of any upcoming events you think CCMP should know about, please let us know.

Upcoming Workshops

Chesapeake Modeling Symposium 2008

The Chesapeake Community Modeling Program (CCMP) seeks to improve modeling tools and related resources specific to the Chesapeake Bay, its watershed, and connected environmental systems by fostering collaborative open source research. Toward this end the CCMP is convening a modeling symposium as a venue to identify and showcase existing modeling efforts as well as promote information exchange and open modeling.

The symposium is intended to facilitate the development of an inventory of models and data sets, and stimulate collaborative research on data processing and modeling. The resulting inventory of modeling tools and data will be made available through the CCMP web pages, in attempt to stimulate cross-pollination across modeling teams and paradigms and encourage future community modeling efforts. It is our hope that this will lead to the development of more comprehensive and integrated modeling tools for the Bay and its watershed, as well as for other watersheds around the country.

...to learn more, visit the CheMS'08 Workshop Homepage!

Prior Workshops

AD Model Builder Programming Course

CCMP hosted a programming course for the AD Model Builder (ADMB) in March, 2007. AMDB is a software tool developed specifically for non-linear parameter estimation, which facilitates efficient formulation of statistical models & more.

Chesapeake Models and Data Distribution Workshop

This is an exciting time to be working in the Chesapeake Basin environmental science. Over the past few months several major programs have been started which will transform our way of working in the Chesapeake. Community models and data access methodologies are being developed which will enable all Chesapeake researchers to significantly expand their capabilities. A common thread to many of these programs is the integration of systems across the whole Chesapeake watershed or bay. The scope of the programs will involve more collaborative work than ever before. We wish to hold an informational workshop at which the preliminary plans of these different programs can be shared and integrated.

The one day workshop will introduce the community to the various programs and provide a venue for sharing ideas and ambitions. This will be a small workshop, so prior registration will be required. Please request registration from potsiadlod@si.edu.

For more information please visit this workshop's homepage:

Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) Programming Course -- August 28-31, 2006

The Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) software is being redesigned and restructured. To introduce the user community of modelers/programmers to the newly redesigned software, the University of British Columbia is offering a short course on the programming/code underlying EwE. This course differs considerably from usual EwE Workshops, which usually focus on data and parameterization for running models built using the EwE software.

This programming course content will focus on the algorithms and programming structure of the code underlying EwE and training users to use the new structure and dynamic libraries to create their own modules and functionalities for the EwE software using Microsoft Visual Studio.

This first EwE programming course will be held in Annapolis, Maryland and is sponsored by the Chesapeake Community Modeling Program, the Lenfest Ocean Program, the Chesapeake Research Consortium, the Sea Around Us Project, and the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office.

More info can be found here.

Summit on Environmental Modeling and Software

The workshop homepage can be found here.

W14: Building a Community Modeling Culture

Overview: Everyone agrees and demands that their researchers should share methods, data and models more easily within their community and with outsiders. Why then, don't cooperative modeling communities arise spontaneously and grow vigorously? Modeling systems and the science behind them have grown out of individual laboratories, often communicating results only after extensive peer review and verification efforts have been completed. While this is laudable from the standpoint of the rigorous scientific method, it is contrary to what is desired to produce an open-source software system as professed by E. Raymond in "The Cathedral and the Bazaar". There are working examples of vigorous community open source projects and examples which are less successful.

Similar issues apply to education. How much of content and interactivity are we willing to share? How can education and research become an open source, shared experience?

This workshop will explore sociological questions of motivation and communication about the development of Community Modeling Systems.

The workshop homepage can be found here.

2004 CCMP Watershed Workshop

September 24 2004, Baltimore MD
Workshop Agenda, Power Points and Attendance List

2004 Physical Modeling Workshop

February 27, Fredericksburg VA
Workshop Agenda, Power Points and Attendance List

2003 CCMP Workshop

Workshop Agenda, Power Points and Attendance List