2024 DAta-model integration Meeting at mines

We're really excited about our workshop on 28-30 July, 2024, focused on early-career scientists interested in data-model integration.

This workshop will be held at the Colorado School of Mines on 28-30 July 2024. The goal of this workshop is to bring together early-career scientists with data and more-senior scientists with modeling expertise to enhance data-model integration in the CZ sciences to improve our understanding of CZ processes. Numerous senior scientists (below) have volunteered to train early career researchers on hydrologic, reactive-transport, big data, earth-surface process and/or geophysical models:

- Xingyuan Chen and Alexis Sitchler: massively parallel reactive flow and transport with PFLOTRAN
- Zach Perzan: reactive transport at multiple scales with CrunchFlow/CrunchTope
- Ethan Coon: integrated surface and subsurface hydrology with watershed-scale processes including ecohydrology, cryosphere hydrology, and biogeochemical transport in ATS
- Jan Seibert: semi-distributed hydrologic modeling of catchment runoff with HBV
- Li Li/Kayal Sadayappan: watershed-scale biogeochemical reactive transport with BioRT
- Naomi Tague: hydro-ecological modeling of integrated water, carbon, and nutrient cycling and transport with RHESSys
- Jeffrey Hyman: subsurface flow and transport in fractured rock with dfnWorks
- Lijing Wang: coupled groundwater/surface-water systems, parameter estimation, and groundwater management in Modflow
- Laura Condon and Zach Perzan: high-performance computing of surface and subsurface flows with ParFlow and particle tracking with EcoSLIM
- Lejo Flores: modeling the critical zone in the global climate system with the Community Land Model (CLM)
- Laurent Roberge: earth-surface processes with Landlab
- Kamini Singha: inversion of electrical resistivity geophysical data with ResIPy
- Brady Flinchum: inversion of seismic, EM electrical, or magnetics geophysical data with PyGIMLi

The workshop will focus on training early-career scientists on modeling platforms to enhance data model integration in the CZ sciences. We envision this workshop leading to fruitful collaborations between researchers of different career stages with the common goal of pushing CZ data to the boundaries to understand something new about the near-surface environment. This is going to be an interactive workshop and a big part of the goal is collaboration and networking with others.

Participants are expected to have their data organized in a thoughtful way before the workshop, and have completed all of the model set-up required for a given model, which could include running practice problems, before attending so that the focus of the workshop will be science, not model installation, which sometimes can take some time.

Agenda

July 28

5-8 pm: Evening catered mixer and icebreaker

July 29

until 8:30 am: Breakfast at Mines Market
9-9:30 am: Introduction to the workshop (Singha)
9:30-10:00 am: The process of modeling (Navarre-Sitchler)
10-10:15 am: Break
10:15 am-12 pm: Lightning introductions (all participants) and connecting mentors and mentees
12-1 pm: Lunch at Mines Market in mentor-mentee groups
1-4:30 pm: Breakout sessions in mentor-mentee groups. Start by drawing conceptual models, boundary conditions, and initial conditions for a first model shape. Share out within groups, and then simplify as needed. Mentors introduce the numerical model and how it works, what it can do (versus what others might want it to do), and talk through how they usually get started with their numerical models. Mentor-mentee groups revisit first models, and start working on input files. Mentees end this session by defining their first model.
4:30-5 pm: Rapid prototyping (Navarre-Sitchler)
After 5:00 pm: Dinner at Mines Market

July 30

until 8:30 am: Breakfast at Mines Market
9-10 am: Check in, whole group share-out on yesterday's session, sharing of simplified first model. Move back into groups at end.
10 am-12 pm: Modeling "office hours". Student-driven time.
12-1 pm: Lunch at Mines Market
1-3 pm: Continued "office hours".
3-4 pm: Final session at end for reflection. Planning your next steps.
4 pm: Close out

Meeting FAQ are here.