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-....

Biannual meeting of the Landlab community on 3/11 @ 10AM MDT: short pop-up presentations by community members, followed by discussions on Landlab needs/wish list and pain points. The meeting is open to all active and soon-to-be-active landlab users. Register: cuboulder.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The ShoreShop 3 model intercomparison project will hold a workshop Oct 20-22 at the University of Colorado Boulder. Mark your calendars! shoreshop3.netlify.app

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/...

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/

Watching a Fortran webinar. :)

The application window for the 2026 Earth Surface Processes Institute (ESPIn) is open for one more week. csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/ESPIn Join us in Boulder for a week of science && software!

The CASS UDX webinar last week was interesting: "The State of AI Use among Research Software Engineers". People surveyed are “curious, but cautious” about generative AI tools, which mirrors my feelings. The recording is online at www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRru....

New blog post on my 'FirstPrelude' library for teaching beginner functional programming with Haskell: dorchard.github.io/blog/2026/01...

This Thursday (December 4) at 10a MST @csdms.bsky.social is hosting a Landlab Developers and Users Coffee Hour over Zoom. Please join us! cuboulder.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Food lines were 2X normal this morning at the Weld Food Bank, which told me 2/3rds of their visitors said they were impacted by the SNAP food benefit freeze. Our microgiving campaign has raised $50,000 for Weld Food Bank so far. Even $5 helps: weldfoodbank.org/wordofthanks/

New GRASS + Landlab example notebook just dropped. Check it out! grass-tutorials.osgeo.org/content/tuto...

Building Landlab from source on Windows can be tricky. Here's a step-by-step guide, based on recent experience, that should help. forum.csdms.io/t/landlab-de...

CUAHSI is offering a series or professional development webinars for early career hydrologists. www.cuahsi.org/cyberseminar...

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CSDMS 2025 Student Modeler Awardee is Marie-Christin Wimmler, TU, Dresden for her submission "pyMANGA: A Modular, Open and Extendable Software Platform for Modelling Forest and Vegetation Dynamics". Full Citation: csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Syvitsk...

Software!!1! *shakes fist* Starting in about an hour, at 10 am MST. See you soon!

Registration is now open for the CSDMS 2025 Annual Meeting: "Exploring Earth’s Surface with Models, Data & AI". This year’s meeting is held at the University of Colorado Boulder from May 13–15. Registration and additional details, please visit: csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Form:An... Hope you can join!

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 ->

I’ve called my members of congress and asked them to fight the administration’s federal spending freeze.

🌎 ESPIn 2025: Where Earth science meets code! Learn Python modeling, work on team projects, enjoy a Boulder field trip & boost your career. Topics: Git, Landlab, HPC & more. May 5-12 at CU Boulder. Early career scientists apply by Jan 28! @csdms.bsky.social APPLY HERE docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The inversion trapping a puddle of cold air in Boulder Valley finally broke up, allowing winds just above to reach the surface.

A thoughtful scientist, luminescence wizard, ultrasupportive colleague, and someone who's made me laugh till I cry on numerous occasions—Harrison is so deserving of the prestigious PECASE award!

Everyone in Boulder is out running before the cold snap.

Back to work after a really good holiday break, and lots of exciting things happening already! It reminded me we currently have an open #ResearchSoftwareEngineer #RSE position in our #AdvancedResearchComputing group at the #RosalindFranklinInstitute. #Job opportunities.rfi.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

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!

i'm moving away from a two column/week pace in favor of a single extended argument. here is this week's.

EarthscapeHub is undergoing semiannual maintenance Dec 18-20. There may be occasional outages. If you're using a Hub, please save your work often. csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Jupyter...

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 application window for ESPIn 2025 opens today!

Bear Peak after today’s snow. #boulder

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!

🌎 Are you an early career researcher keen on Earth surface processes? Want to learn about numerical modeling & software development? Apply for the *free* @csdms.bsky.social ESPIn immersive training experience May 5-12, 2025 in Boulder Colorado. Apply starting 02 Dec buff.ly/40Uefwu

And imo the CSDMS meeting is one of the best you can attend as a student. Both mini workshops and talks & small enough you can easily meet folks

Are you a grad student (or a recent graduate) that has written a model, or a component for a modeling system, or done something cool and modeling-adjacent as part of your research? If so, consider submitting your work for the 2025 Syvitski Student Modeler Award! csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Student...

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The application window for the 2025 Earth Surface Processes Institute (ESPIn) opens Monday December 2. csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/ESPIn Join us in Boulder for two weeks of science && software!

I'm giving a guest lecture in Prof. Irina Overeem's GEOL 3600 class tomorrow on best practices in geoscientific software development. csdms.io/best-practices Any suggestions on my slides? I've got ~27 hours to revise them.

There are over 10000 commits to the Landlab repository. github.com/landlab/land...

Last week I had the pleasure of hosting a Euro-CSDMS workshop to envision future models of the natural world. Inspirational discussions & tangible next steps towards a thriving international community pioneering the next generation of environmental models! @csdms.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social

Back in Boulder

Thinking about next-generation environmental models and societal implications with #EuroCSDMS never felt more pressing. With @alexglipp.bsky.social @mdpiper.bsky.social @gregtucker.bsky.social @csdms.bsky.social and many more!

@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

WANTED: Assistant Professor in climate-related extreme events & hazards 🌊 Floods 🥵 Droughts 🔥 Wildfires 🧊 Glacial failure 🏔️ Landslides - Joint appointment with 1 of these CU Boulder departments: ATOC, CEAE, ENVS, GEOG, or GEOL - Apply by December 15th 2024 jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

I wanna talk about the "why don'/didn't they just evacuate" sentiment (because I keep hearing it). 1) Evacuation is expensive. Especially if you don't have family to evacuate to, it can cost thousands of dollars. How many of you have thousands of dollars to spend on a week in a hotel?

Job opportunity! We're looking to hire a Research Software Engineer for a cool new project that involves coupling tectonic and geomorphic models. 🧪 @csdms.bsky.social Details here: bc.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

CSDMS Fall Webinar Series: Earth Surface Processes Inst Student Presentations, 9/17@10AM MDT. Please join us to see how quickly this year's cohort was able to utilize their knowledge gained to complete research projects!! Register: csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Webinars

Hydrology Papers of the Day @alexglipp.bsky.social on an approach to determine sources of river pollution by working backward from locations with known concentrations: a Directed Acyclic Graph and an optimization problem; an open source implementation; and application to an urban UK river.