CESM Workshop 2026

Welcome

Everette Joseph (NSF NCAR Director)

David Lawrence (NSF NCAR)

CESM Distinguished Achievement Award - Charlie Koven

 

CESM Graduate Student Award - Genevieve Clow
 

 

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Plenary Speakers

Duncan Watson-Parris (Scripps/UCSD) - 

James Done (MMM/NSF NCAR) - 

Gretchen Mullendore (MMM/NSF NCAR) - 

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Atmosphere Working Group Agenda

AMWG

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1:00pm - AMWG Co-chairs 

Session 1: Dynamics, Numerics & Diagnostics

1:06pm - Timothy Andrews 

1:18pm - Thomas Toniazzo 

1:30pm - Hadi Zanganeh Kia 

1:42pm - Justin Richling 

1:54pm - Vincent Larson 

2:06pm - Hing Ong 

2:18pm - Julio Bacmeister 

2:30pm - Break

Session 2: Clouds, Microphysics, Convection, Aerosols & Phenomena

3:00pm - Paul Farron 

3:12pm - Joseph Ko

3:24pm - Cheng-Cheng Liu 

3:36pm - Hyun-Joon Sung 

3:48pm - Brandon Duran 

         Simple model reveals complexity of diagnosing the LWP adjustment in CAM6

4:00pm - Rich Neale

4:12pm - Meg Fowler 

4:30pm - Close / Adjourn

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 Land Model Working Group Agenda

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1:00pm - Will Wieder 

1:20pm - Yuan Sun 

1:35pm - Xinchang "Cathy" Li 

1:50pm - Bin Wang 

2:05pm - Yaqian He 

2:20pm - Discussion

2:30pm - Break

3:00pm - Peter Lawrence 

3:15pm - Nazanin Tavakoli 

3:30pm - Yan Chen 

3:45pm - Brendan Clark 

4:00pm - Robert Allen 

4:15pm - Xiuyi Wu 

4:30pm - Adjourn

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Ocean Model Working Group Agenda

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1:00pm - OMWG co-chairs - Welcome and overview of talks

1:02pm - John Dennis - 

1:22pm - Sang-Ki Lee - 

1:42pm - Frederic Castruccio - 

2:02pm - Kai-Yuan Li - 

2:22pm - OMWG co-chairs - Discussion

2:30pm - Break

3:00pm - Gokhan Danabasoglu - 

3:20pm - Rita Markina - 

3:40pm - William Xu - 

4:00pm - Gustavo Marques - 

4:20pm - OMWG co-chairs - Discussion 

4:30pm - Adjourn

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Poster Session and Information Exchange

 

Climate Variability and Change Working Group Agenda

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8:30am - Clara Deser - 

8:45am - Robert Payne -

9:00am - Katie Dagon - 

9:15am - Rudra Thaker - 

9:30am - Lizzie Collingwood - 

9:45am -  Svenja Ryan - 

10:00am- 

10:15am - Break

10:45am - Melody Lu - 

11:00am- Ash Gilbert - 

11:15am - Chengfei He - 

11:30am - Ashwin Seshadri - 

11:45am - Chandru Dhandapani - 

12:00pm - Margaret Duffy -

12:15pm - Bette Otto-Bliesner - 

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Chemistry Aerosol Working Group and Whole Atmosphere Working Group Agenda

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8:30am - Orlando Tomazelli - 

8:45am - Jian Guan - 

9:00am - Hope Hunter - 

9:15am - Ewa Bednarz - 

9:30am - Maria ValMartin - 

9:45am - Ben Gaubert - 

10:00am - Yingxiao Zhang - 

10:15am - Break

10:45am - Arlene Fiore - 

11:00am- Xinyuan Yu, Stephanie Elkins - 

11:15am - Siyuan Wang - 

11:30am - Yu Yao - 

11:45am - Xiaohong Liu - 

12:00pm - Ali Akherati - 

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Polar Climate / Land Ice Working Group Agenda

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LIWG

8:30am - 

8:35am - Shrayasi Samanta - 

 (Remote)

8:45am - Ishraque Fairuz - 

Towards Long Paleoclimate Simulations of Antarctica: Updates to the Community Ice Sheet Model (Remote)

8:55am - Bette Otto-Bliesner -

9:05am - Chloe Marie Paice - 

 (Remote)

9:15am - Miren Vizcaino - 

9:25am - Pranaykumar Tirpude - 

9:35am - Taco Broerse - 

Damage modulates calving of the Pine Island glacier: an analysis of deformation from SAR velocities (Remote)

9:45am - Caroline van Calcar - 

 (Remote)

9:55am- Bill Lipscomb - 

10:05am - Gunter Leguy - Additional time for questions to the morning speakers 

10:15am - Break 

PCWG

10:45am - David Bailey - 

10:55am - David Clemens-Sewall - 

11:05am - Diajeng Wulandari Atmojo - 

11:15am - Leo Balcer - 

11:25am - Christine Shields - 

11:35am - Joey Schnaubelt - 

 (Remote)

11:45am - Joseph Rotondo - 

 (Remote)

11:55am - Ed Blanchard-Wrigglesworth - 

12:05pm - Jun Yu - 

 (Remote)

12:15pm - Alice DuVivier - Discussion: Modeling contributions to major polar field efforts (e.g. IPY 2032, Antarctica INSYNC): How can/should the PCWG or LIWG be involved to coordinate modeling efforts across the community?

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LUNCH

 

Cross Working Group Sessions

Storytelling Working Group Agenda

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1:30pm - James Done - Welcome

1:35pm - Haiyan Teng - 

1:45pm - Istvan Dunkl - 

1:55pm - Susanne Baur - 

2:05pm - Holly Olivarez - 

2:15pm - Allison Crimmins - 

2:25pm - Kristen Krumhardt - 

2:35pm - Discussion

3:00pm - Break 

3:30pm - Tim Barnes, Katie Wolfson, James Done - Facilitated synthesis identifying commonalities and differences across storytelling

3:45pm - Breakouts: Workshop stories themed by storytelling method 

4:30pm - Presentation and discussion 

5:00pm - Adjourn

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High-Resolution Working Group Agenda

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1:30pm - Kevin Reed - 

1:40pm - Danielle Touma - 

1:50pm - Gokhan Danabasoglu - 

 

2:00pm - Alice DuVivier - 

2:10pm - Bette Otto-Bliesner - 

2:20pm - Gustavo Marques - 

2:30pm - Cuong San - 

2:40pm - Zishun Qiao - 

2:50pm - Shawn Wang - 

3:00pm - Break 

3:30pm - Dan Amrhein -

3:40pm - Christiane Jablonowski - 

3:50pm - Adam Herrington - 

4:00pm - Ren Smith - 

4:10pm - Nattamon (Jeep) Maneenoi - 

4:20pm - Yang Tian - 

4:30pm - Samar Minallah - 

4:40pm - Aytaç Paçal - 

4:50pm - Benjamin Stephens - 

5:00pm - Adjourn 

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Self-paid evening networking event at Pattern Break Brewing, 3550 Frontier Ave. Ste A, Boulder, CO 80301

 

Cross Working Group Session

Earth System Prediction with CESM Working Group Agenda

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8:30am - Steve, Dillon, Andy - 

 

8:34am - Judith Berner - 

8:46am - Meg Fowler - 

 

8:58am - Matt Newman - 

9:10am - Kinya Toride - 

9:22am - Dan Amrhein - 

9:34am - David Clemens-Sewall - 

 

10:00am - Break

10:30am - Samar Minallah - 

10:42am- Alexander Thompson - 

 

10:54am - Justin Small - 

11:06am - Evan Meeker - 

 

11:18am - Jacob Cohen - 

11:30am -  Dylan Oldenburg - 

 (Remote)

11:42am - Helen Kershaw - 

 (Remote) 

11:54am - Jeff Anderson - 

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Harnessing Machine Learning for CESM Working Group Agenda 

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8:30am - Kirsten & Linnia - 

8:35am - Julien Savre - 

8:45am - Addisu Semie - 

8:55am - Xavier Levine - 

9:05am - Geraint Webb - 

9:15am - Racheet Matai - 

9:25am - Yakelyn Jauregui - 

9:35am - Marta Mrozowska - 

9:45am - Da Fan - 

9:55am- Discussion 

10:00am- Break 

10:30am - John Schreck - 

10:40am - Shreyas Muralidharan - 

10:50am - Aidan Janney - 

11:00am - Yingkai Sha -

11:10am - Kezhou (Melody) Lu - 

11:20am - Danni Du - 

11:30am - Max Bouman - 

11:40am - Leo Balcer - 

11:50am - Sky Gale - 

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LUNCH

 

Paleoclimate Working Group Agenda

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1:00pm - Jiang Zhu - 

1:03pm - Nicolas Cosentino - 

 (Remote)

1:18pm - Chunyu Yang - 

 (Remote) 

1:33pm - Xiaojing Du - 

1:48pm - Anson Cheung - 

 

2:03pm - Maya Tessler - 

 

2:18pm - Go Sato - 

2:33pm - Break

3:00pm - Elke Zeller - 

 

3:15pm - Dervla Meegan-Kumar - 

 

3:30pm - Chandler Morris - 

 

3:45pm - Charlie Marshall - 

 

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Biogeochemistry Working Group Agenda

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1:00pm - Kristen Krumhardt - Welcome and overview of talks

1:00pm - Shanlin Wang - 

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1:18pm - Riyanka Roy Chowdhury - 

 

1:36pm - Rui Jin - 

 

1:54pm - Courtney Payne - 

2:12pm - Priyanka Banerjee - 

 

2:30pm - Break

3:00pm - Christopher Wrenn - 

3:18pm - Charlie Koven - 

3:36pm - Holly Olivarez -

 

3:54pm - Discussion/extra time for questions 

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Software Engineering Working Group Agenda

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1:00pm - Ligia Bernardet and Mike Levy - 

 

1:15pm - Sheri Voelz - 

 

1:30pm - Daniel Sarmiento (Remote) - 

 

1:45pm - Rebecca Schwantes - 

 

2:00 pm - John Dennis - 

 

2:15pm - Manish Venumuddula - 

 

2:30pm - Break

 

3:00pm - Prani Nalluri - 

3:15pm - Iris Linck - 

 

3:30pm - Yueqi Chen - 

 

3:45pm - Ren Stengel - 

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Wrap-up; general discussion

 

End of Workshop