CESM Workshop 2025

30th Annual CESM Workshop, June 9-11, 2025

The CESM Workshop will begin on Monday, 9 June 2025. The day will include hybrid presentations on the state of the CESM, presentations by this year's award recipients, and plenary presentations followed by CESM Working Group Meetings in the afternoon and an interactive poster session (in person only).

On 10-11 June 2025, there are working group sessions designed to share information and encourage discussion and collaboration.

Tuesday afternoon will include a CESM 30th Annual Workshop Celebration (history talks and a round-table with former Chief Scientists) followed by a reception.

We will have two cross-working group sessions this year:

I. Harnessing Machine Learning for CESM:  Innovation and Integration that focuses on ML applications in both model development and CESM simulation analysis.

II. High Resolution: This session will focus on the successes, opportunities, and challenges with the development and application of CESM (coupled or component models) at high resolutions, inclusive of 10-25km resolutions down to km-scale resolutions and including regionally refined or regional modeling capabilities.

In addition, the Polar Climate (PCWG) and Biogeochemistry (BGCWG) sessions solicit abstracts about work related to traditional BGCWG and PCWG activities. In addition, we are especially interested in abstracts related to biogeochemical and ecological work in polar regions, and parts of both the BGCWG and PCWG sessions will be devoted to presentations on these cross-working group activities.

The deadline to submit a title and abstract for a talk or poster is April 30, 2025.

You will be notified if your talk or poster is accepted the week of May 5, 2025. Registration to participate in person will close on May 29, 2025

Registration to participate online will remain open through the duration of the workshop.

The link for registration, and to provide the $320 payment for in-person participants, will be available online soon.

Plenary Speakers for the 30th Annual CESM Workshop

From Earth System Science to Societal Impact: One Scientist's Journey

Dr. Hansi Singh is co-founder and CEO of Planette AI, a venture-backed, mission-driven environmental forecasting startup based in San Francisco, CA.  She has a PhD in atmospheric sciences and an MS in applied mathematics from the University of Washington, and was a recipient of the US Department of Energy's Computational Sciences Graduate Fellowship and Linus Pauling Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship.  Before Planette, she held a faculty position at the University of Victoria's School and Earth and Ocean Sciences, with research focused on coupled climate dynamics and polar sensitivity.  

Bridging the Gap: Communicating Earth System Science to Stakeholders, Communities, and Decision Makers

Dr. Paula R. Buchanan is a practitioner-academic (“pracademic”), sociohydrologist, and disaster and emergency management researcher. She researches sustainable drinking water access issues, focusing on the intersections between public health, risk and science communication, sociology, and emergency management. As a socio-hydrologist, her research focuses on how people interact with drinking water systems, and human behavior’s impact on these systems that support drinking water to sustain life. A central question of Dr. Buchanan’s research is the extent to which socio-technical systems function as a communication channel to provide populations with accurate information to mitigate impacts associated with, or exacerbated by, water-based disasters. She is interested in using mixed methods to better understand the multi-faceted nature of her interdisciplinary research interests. As a self-proclaimed data nerd, Dr.Buchanan is also passionate about using data science, information technology, and data

Mind the Gap: Human Systems are a Missing, Critical Component for Earth Systems Modeling

Michael Barton is a complex system scientist and Professor in the Schools of Complex Adaptive Systems and Human Evolution & Social Change at Arizona State University (USA). He is the Executive Director of the Open Modeling Foundation, a global consortium of organizations to promote standards and best practices in computational modeling across the social and natural sciences. He also directs the Network for Computational Modeling in Social and Ecological Sciences, an international scientific network to enable accessibility, open science, and best practices for computation in the socio-ecological sciences. Barton's research centers around long-term human ecology, landscape dynamics, and the multi-dimensional interactions between social and biophysical systems, integrating computational modeling, geospatial technologies, and data science with geoarchaeological field studies. Barton has directed transdisciplinary research on hunter-gatherers and smallholder farmers in the Mediterranean and North America for over three decades, and directs research on human-environmental interactions in the modern world. Web page and CV at: https://cmbarton.github.io/.