CSDMS Webinar next Tuesday! - Learn more about How Sediment and Floods Shape Landscapes: From Glacial Outbursts in Estuaries to Channel and Divide Dynamics Along Strike-Slip Faults, November 10: 10AM MST. Register and see full series: csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Webinars
November 5, 2026 at 6:02 PM
CSDMS Webinar next Tuesday! - Learn more about How Sediment and Floods Shape Landscapes: From Glacial Outbursts in Estuaries to Channel and Divide Dynamics Along Strike-Slip Faults, November 10: 10AM MST. Register and see full series: csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Webinars
Casual Friday: Irina Overeem introduces Sen. John Hickenlooper to the science enabled by NSF-funded CSDMS
October 31, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Casual Friday: Irina Overeem introduces Sen. John Hickenlooper to the science enabled by NSF-funded CSDMS
CSDMS Fall Webinar Series - Learn more about How Sediment and Floods Shape Landscapes: From Glacial Outbursts in Estuaries to Channel and Divide Dynamics Along Strike-Slip Faults, November 10: 10AM MST. Register and see full series: csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Webinars
October 29, 2026 at 4:30 PM
CSDMS Fall Webinar Series - Learn more about How Sediment and Floods Shape Landscapes: From Glacial Outbursts in Estuaries to Channel and Divide Dynamics Along Strike-Slip Faults, November 10: 10AM MST. Register and see full series: csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Webinars
Congratulations to Muriel Brückner who has been elected as Co-Chair of the CSDMS Ecosystems Dynamics Focus Research Group. Dr. Brückner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Coastal Engineering at Louisiana State University.
October 14, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Congratulations to Muriel Brückner who has been elected as Co-Chair of the CSDMS Ecosystems Dynamics Focus Research Group. Dr. Brückner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Coastal Engineering at Louisiana State University.
Call for Clinic presentations! Deadline October 31, 2026
CSDMS 2027 Annual Meeting,"CSDMS 2027: From Mountain Tops to Ocean Floor....and Back Again", May 18th - 20th, 2027. Travel and lodging support is available for selected presenters!
Details and submit: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
CSDMS 2027 Annual Meeting,"CSDMS 2027: From Mountain Tops to Ocean Floor....and Back Again", May 18th - 20th, 2027. Travel and lodging support is available for selected presenters!
Details and submit: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
October 5, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Call for Clinic presentations! Deadline October 31, 2026
CSDMS 2027 Annual Meeting,"CSDMS 2027: From Mountain Tops to Ocean Floor....and Back Again", May 18th - 20th, 2027. Travel and lodging support is available for selected presenters!
Details and submit: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
CSDMS 2027 Annual Meeting,"CSDMS 2027: From Mountain Tops to Ocean Floor....and Back Again", May 18th - 20th, 2027. Travel and lodging support is available for selected presenters!
Details and submit: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#centerforecohydraulicsresearch | Angel Monsalve
Day 2 of the Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System (CSDMS) Roadshow at the University of Idaho, Boise Campus. We are glad to host Mark Piper and Eric Hutton (University of Colorado Boulder) , who...
www.linkedin.com
September 25, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Oops, forgot to send to CSDMS.
November 13, 2024 at 2:35 AM
Oops, forgot to send to CSDMS.
🚨Calling all grad students who model earth surface processes.
You could win a CSDMS Syvitski Student Modeler Award, which includes *FREE* travel & lodging for the May CSDMS Annual Mtg in Minneapolis
JAN 26 DEADLINE to submit a project you completed in 2025. See csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Student...
You could win a CSDMS Syvitski Student Modeler Award, which includes *FREE* travel & lodging for the May CSDMS Annual Mtg in Minneapolis
JAN 26 DEADLINE to submit a project you completed in 2025. See csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Student...
Only a few weeks left to submit your latest and greatest codes and science finding for consideration for the #CSDMS student modeler award.
csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Student...
Any #ESPIN-eers ready to share their work?
csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Student...
Any #ESPIN-eers ready to share their work?
January 16, 2026 at 12:26 AM
🚨Calling all grad students who model earth surface processes.
You could win a CSDMS Syvitski Student Modeler Award, which includes *FREE* travel & lodging for the May CSDMS Annual Mtg in Minneapolis
JAN 26 DEADLINE to submit a project you completed in 2025. See csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Student...
You could win a CSDMS Syvitski Student Modeler Award, which includes *FREE* travel & lodging for the May CSDMS Annual Mtg in Minneapolis
JAN 26 DEADLINE to submit a project you completed in 2025. See csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Student...
🌎 Are you an early career researcher keen on Earth surface processes? Want to learn about numerical modeling & software development?
Apply by 24 January for the *free* CSDMS ESPIn immersive training experience Aug 3-7, 2026 in Boulder Colorado ⬇️
csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/ESPIn2026
Apply by 24 January for the *free* CSDMS ESPIn immersive training experience Aug 3-7, 2026 in Boulder Colorado ⬇️
csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/ESPIn2026
December 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
🌎 Are you an early career researcher keen on Earth surface processes? Want to learn about numerical modeling & software development?
Apply by 24 January for the *free* CSDMS ESPIn immersive training experience Aug 3-7, 2026 in Boulder Colorado ⬇️
csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/ESPIn2026
Apply by 24 January for the *free* CSDMS ESPIn immersive training experience Aug 3-7, 2026 in Boulder Colorado ⬇️
csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/ESPIn2026
Abstracts due April 01
🌎 CSDMS Annual Meeting 2025: Exploring Earth’s Surface with Models, Data & AI
- Held at CU Boulder on May 13–15
- Keynotes
- Hands-on clinics
- Breakouts
- Posters & Epubs
csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Form:An...
🌎 CSDMS Annual Meeting 2025: Exploring Earth’s Surface with Models, Data & AI
- Held at CU Boulder on May 13–15
- Keynotes
- Hands-on clinics
- Breakouts
- Posters & Epubs
csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Form:An...
March 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Abstracts due April 01
🌎 CSDMS Annual Meeting 2025: Exploring Earth’s Surface with Models, Data & AI
- Held at CU Boulder on May 13–15
- Keynotes
- Hands-on clinics
- Breakouts
- Posters & Epubs
csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Form:An...
🌎 CSDMS Annual Meeting 2025: Exploring Earth’s Surface with Models, Data & AI
- Held at CU Boulder on May 13–15
- Keynotes
- Hands-on clinics
- Breakouts
- Posters & Epubs
csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Form:An...
📢 Monday seminar!
Development of cyberinfrastructure elements for advancing earth surface system modeling
TIAN GAN, CSDMS postdoc & software engineer
Mon 27 Jan 12-1 PM in SEEC S228 & Zoom
See abstract & more at https://buff.ly/40u1ZAU
Development of cyberinfrastructure elements for advancing earth surface system modeling
TIAN GAN, CSDMS postdoc & software engineer
Mon 27 Jan 12-1 PM in SEEC S228 & Zoom
See abstract & more at https://buff.ly/40u1ZAU
January 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
📢 Monday seminar!
Development of cyberinfrastructure elements for advancing earth surface system modeling
TIAN GAN, CSDMS postdoc & software engineer
Mon 27 Jan 12-1 PM in SEEC S228 & Zoom
See abstract & more at https://buff.ly/40u1ZAU
Development of cyberinfrastructure elements for advancing earth surface system modeling
TIAN GAN, CSDMS postdoc & software engineer
Mon 27 Jan 12-1 PM in SEEC S228 & Zoom
See abstract & more at https://buff.ly/40u1ZAU
🌎 Are you an early career researcher keen on Earth surface processes? Want to learn about numerical modeling & software development?
Apply by 24 January for the *free* CSDMS ESPIn immersive training experience May 5-12, 2025 in Boulder Colorado ⬇️
Apply by 24 January for the *free* CSDMS ESPIn immersive training experience May 5-12, 2025 in Boulder Colorado ⬇️
The Earth Surface Processes Institute (ESPIn) is a 6day training experience organized by CSDMS for 25 early career scientists, incl. grad. students, PD fellows, researchers, and faculty, at the CU Boulder, May5-12, 2025. Application deadline is Jan. 24. Apply details: csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/ESPIn
January 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
🌎 Are you an early career researcher keen on Earth surface processes? Want to learn about numerical modeling & software development?
Apply by 24 January for the *free* CSDMS ESPIn immersive training experience May 5-12, 2025 in Boulder Colorado ⬇️
Apply by 24 January for the *free* CSDMS ESPIn immersive training experience May 5-12, 2025 in Boulder Colorado ⬇️
The Topography Data Component fetches land elevation data from OpenTopography and loads it into an Xarray DataArray. Learn more about the Topography Data Component at github.com/csdms/bmi-to....
GitHub - csdms/bmi-topography: Fetch and cache land elevation data from OpenTopography through an API, BMI, or CLI
Fetch and cache land elevation data from OpenTopography through an API, BMI, or CLI - csdms/bmi-topography
github.com
March 24, 2026 at 4:07 PM
The Topography Data Component fetches land elevation data from OpenTopography and loads it into an Xarray DataArray. Learn more about the Topography Data Component at github.com/csdms/bmi-to....
I'd like to do a series of posts this week to highlight CSDMS Data Components.
Data Components are software that help connect data sources to numerical models. For more information on the idea behind Data Components and their implementation, see Gan et al. 2024: doi.org/10.5194/gmd-....
Data Components are software that help connect data sources to numerical models. For more information on the idea behind Data Components and their implementation, see Gan et al. 2024: doi.org/10.5194/gmd-....
CSDMS Data Components: data–model integration tools for Earth surface processes modeling
Abstract. Progress in better understanding and modeling Earth surface systems requires an ongoing integration of data and numerical models. Advances are currently hampered by technical barriers that i...
doi.org
March 23, 2026 at 5:48 PM
I'd like to do a series of posts this week to highlight CSDMS Data Components.
Data Components are software that help connect data sources to numerical models. For more information on the idea behind Data Components and their implementation, see Gan et al. 2024: doi.org/10.5194/gmd-....
Data Components are software that help connect data sources to numerical models. For more information on the idea behind Data Components and their implementation, see Gan et al. 2024: doi.org/10.5194/gmd-....
A new paper by Ogden et al. describes the framework of the NextGen National Water Model, which uses CSDMS technologies such as the Basic Model Interface (BMI).
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The NextGen Water Resources Modeling Framework: Community Innovation at the Intersection of Hydrologic, Data and Computer Sciences
Hydrologic science lacks a comprehensive theory of stormflow generation, preventing the development of a general hydrologic model. Studies show that models focusing on dominant local processes often ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:19 PM
A new paper by Ogden et al. describes the framework of the NextGen National Water Model, which uses CSDMS technologies such as the Basic Model Interface (BMI).
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Eric and I took the CSDMS Roadshow to Baton Rouge last week. We had a great time with great people at LSU! We also wrote a lot of code.
February 4, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Eric and I took the CSDMS Roadshow to Baton Rouge last week. We had a great time with great people at LSU! We also wrote a lot of code.
The CSDMS GeoTiff data component has been updated to v0.4.0. Available on PyPI and conda-forge.
bmi-geotiff.csdms.io/en/stable/
bmi-geotiff.csdms.io/en/stable/
bmi-geotiff — bmi-geotiff 0.4.0 documentation
bmi-geotiff.csdms.io
January 21, 2026 at 9:44 PM
The CSDMS GeoTiff data component has been updated to v0.4.0. Available on PyPI and conda-forge.
bmi-geotiff.csdms.io/en/stable/
bmi-geotiff.csdms.io/en/stable/
I'm looking forward to this upcoming (Thu Feb 13) CSDMS webinar by Daniel Shapero, "Docker, or, What to do When Software Has Betrayed You".
Daniel does cool science + software. I think this will be interesting and entertaining.
Abstract and registration ->
Daniel does cool science + software. I think this will be interesting and entertaining.
Abstract and registration ->
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: "Docker, or, What to do When Software Has Betrayed You". After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Presented by: Dan Shapero, University of Washington
Have you ever needed to use a software package and it won't build on your machine? Have you ever needed to distribute a set of software packages b...
cuboulder.zoom.us
January 31, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I'm looking forward to this upcoming (Thu Feb 13) CSDMS webinar by Daniel Shapero, "Docker, or, What to do When Software Has Betrayed You".
Daniel does cool science + software. I think this will be interesting and entertaining.
Abstract and registration ->
Daniel does cool science + software. I think this will be interesting and entertaining.
Abstract and registration ->
After a month of wrangling, I finally got an example model (written in Fortran, wrapped in Python through Cython, built with CMake and Meson, componentized in the CSDMS Python Modeling Tool, pymt) to build and run on Windows. I am so relieved!
December 20, 2024 at 11:22 PM
After a month of wrangling, I finally got an example model (written in Fortran, wrapped in Python through Cython, built with CMake and Meson, componentized in the CSDMS Python Modeling Tool, pymt) to build and run on Windows. I am so relieved!
We gratefully acknowledge the Institute of Computing for Climate Science at the University of Cambridge (iccs.cam.ac.uk) for their support of the CSDMS Forum. (Thanks, @dorchard.bsky.social!)
December 5, 2024 at 6:53 PM
We gratefully acknowledge the Institute of Computing for Climate Science at the University of Cambridge (iccs.cam.ac.uk) for their support of the CSDMS Forum. (Thanks, @dorchard.bsky.social!)
Hi, CSDMS-ers! We've started a brand new forum at forum.csdms.io. If you're into earth surface processes, geoscientific software development, or anything between, please consider signing up. It would be awesome if we made this a place to easily discuss research, ask questions, and share ideas.
The CSDMS Forum
A place for researchers to connect, share information, and discuss all things CSDMS.
forum.csdms.io
December 5, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Hi, CSDMS-ers! We've started a brand new forum at forum.csdms.io. If you're into earth surface processes, geoscientific software development, or anything between, please consider signing up. It would be awesome if we made this a place to easily discuss research, ask questions, and share ideas.
The CSDMS RSEs (>99% Eric, <1% me) overhauled the documentation for the Basic Model Interface (BMI), improving navigation and modifying internals to make it easier to maintain over time.
We've also given the docs a new home: bmi.csdms.io.
Please visit and check out the changes!
We've also given the docs a new home: bmi.csdms.io.
Please visit and check out the changes!
November 25, 2024 at 5:13 PM
The CSDMS RSEs (>99% Eric, <1% me) overhauled the documentation for the Basic Model Interface (BMI), improving navigation and modifying internals to make it easier to maintain over time.
We've also given the docs a new home: bmi.csdms.io.
Please visit and check out the changes!
We've also given the docs a new home: bmi.csdms.io.
Please visit and check out the changes!
@alexglipp.bsky.social and I showing off our snazzy socks at Euro-CSDMS!
October 29, 2024 at 11:04 AM
@alexglipp.bsky.social and I showing off our snazzy socks at Euro-CSDMS!
Looking forward to the Euro-CSDMS workshop next week! What does the next generation of environmental models look like?
eurocsdmswork.shop
eurocsdmswork.shop
Euro-CSDMS Workshop: Next generation environmental models
eurocsdmswork.shop
October 23, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Looking forward to the Euro-CSDMS workshop next week! What does the next generation of environmental models look like?
eurocsdmswork.shop
eurocsdmswork.shop
The CSDMS website (csdms.colorado.edu) has been very slow to load the past few days. It's possible (we're not sure) that it's being DDOSed.
June 26, 2024 at 4:27 PM
The CSDMS website (csdms.colorado.edu) has been very slow to load the past few days. It's possible (we're not sure) that it's being DDOSed.