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 2012
- May 21-22, 2012
- Annapolis, MD
- ChesMS'12 Symposium Homepage
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 the third bi-annual Chesapeake Modeling Symposium as a venue to identify and showcase existing modeling efforts as well as communicate how models are used as decision support tools by different developer and user groups.
Environmental models are increasingly taking on higher profile roles in the management process. In Chesapeake Bay, the Chesapeake Bay Program Watershed and Water Quality models, used in a decision support role, are increasingly being used to support regulatory decisions such as TMDLs, rather than voluntary decisions. One of the effects of this changing role is that it is bringing to light concerns and conflicting interests within different stakeholder communities affected by the regulatory process. Another effect is that the models are increasingly under scrutiny with respect to their scientific validity and skill. It is anticipated that the thresholds set for TMDLs by these models will face numerous scientific and legal challenges in the coming months and years.
The 2012 Chesapeake Modeling Symposium will attempt to shed light on these emerging concerns and conflicts as they relate to regulatory thresholds and the environmental models that are used to set them, focusing on topics such as understanding, communication, and credibility. By bringing together modelers, managers, scientists, and stakeholders for a series of plenary talks, panel discussions, and special sessions, we hope to highlight the unique issues and concerns of each of these groups and provide a venue for open dialogue that will hopefully lead to greater understanding and adoption of these and other models.
Sessions:
- Peter R. Claggett - Modeling Alternative Future Land-Cover and Land-Use Scenarios to Inform Chesapeake Bay Restoration Efforts
- Lewis Linker - CBP Community Model Application to Local TMDLs
- Maria Tzortziou - Measuring and modeling biogeochemical cycles at land-estuarine interfaces: Current status, needed improvements, and applications to decision making and estuarine resource management.
- Howard Townsend - Linking Biogeochemical, Physical, Economic, and Fisheries Models for Ecosystem-based Management of Coasts and Estuaries
- Cherie Schultz - Modeling approaches to water resource/water supply issues
- Kevin McIhany - Science and Interfacing with the Public
- Kevin McIhany - Big Science and the Chesapeake Bay
- Carl Cerco - Development of Fringing Habitat Modules for Use in Eutrophication Models
- Lewis Linker - CBP Model Development for the 2017 Assessment and Beyond
- William Boicourt - General Modeling Aspects of the Chesapeake Bay and Estuaries with Similar Settings
- Courtney Harris - Sediment Dynamics Models for Chesapeake Bay, its Tributaries and Marshes
Prior Workshops
CCMP Hydrodynamic Model Workshop
A joint CCMP, CSDMS, CBP, and US IOOS Modeling Testbed and Chesapeake STAC Hydrodynamic Modeling Workshop will be convened at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, June 9-10, 2011. The purpose of this workshop will be to review state-of-the-art coastal and estuarine hydrodynamic modeling and compare the strengths and weaknesses of different model grids and their ability to simulate physical properties such as temperature and salinity variability and stratification.
The agenda for the workshop is listed below.
Day 1
- Introduction, Raleigh Hood, UMCES - View presentation
- CBP Model Need, Lewis Linker, CBPO - View presentation
- US IOOS Modeling Testbed Comparisons: Stratification and DO, Marjy Friedrichs, VIMS - View presentation
- Delaware River and Bay Model Evaluation Experiment, Rich Patchen, NOAA - View presentation
- CH3D, Carl Cerco, USACE - View presentation
- FVCOM, Robert Beardsley, WHOI - View presentation
- EFDC, Jian Shen, VIMS - View presentation
- sECOM, Nickitas Georgas, SIT - View presentation
- ADH, Gaurav Savant, USACE - View presentation
- ROMS, Hernan Arango, Rutgers - View presentation
Day 2
- Coastal Shelf Influences on Chesapeake Bay, from a Modeling Perspective Wen Long, UMCES - View presentation
- Estuarine Turbulence Modeling, Malcolm Scully, ODU - View presentation
- Modular Modeling Approaches, Scott Peckham, CSDMS - View presentation
- Panel Discussion, Dom Di Toro, UDelaware & Carl Friedrichs, VIMS - View presentation
- Wrap-up, Raleigh Hood, UMCES
Chesapeake Modeling Symposium 2010
- May 10-12, 2010
- Annapolis, MD
- ChesMS'10 Symposium Homepage
ChesMS ‘10 was the second symposium convened by CCMP. ChesMS ‘08 was focused on highlighting and communicating new and innovative Chesapeake ecosystem open source models and building the existing library of available models and tools. ChesMS ’10 expanded on this by continuing to showcase new modeling efforts while also demonstrating how new and existing models can be applied to aid in Management, Research and Restoration decision support. By bringing together the model developer and user communities at the symposium, we fostered greater intra group understanding and communication. This will lead to a more product focused model development and a more intelligent use of these models.
...to learn more, visit the ChesMS'10 Symposium Homepage!
Chesapeake Modeling Symposium 2008
- May 12-14, 2008
- Annapolis, MD
- CheMS'08 Workshop Homepage
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!
AD Model Builder Programming Course
- March 12-16, 2007
- Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)
- Annapolis, MD
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.
- To visit the course webpage, please click here..
Chesapeake Models and Data Distribution Workshop
- Friday, November 10, 2006
- Center of Marine Biology (Baltimore, MD)
- Workshop Homepage
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
- 3rd Biennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modeling & Software Society
- July 9-12, 2006 -- The Wyndham Hotel, Burlington, Vermont, USA
- Convenor: Dr. Alexey Voinov, University of Vermont
The workshop homepage can be found here.
W14: Building a Community Modeling Culture
- Open Source Research and Education
- Organized by Tom Gross, Raleigh Hood and Alexey Voinov
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