Coastal Integrated Hydro-Terrestrial Modeling: A Multi-Agency Invited Workshop
Citation:
Vallario, B., J. Arnold, J. Weyant, A. Scheetz, F. Lipschultz, J. Arrigo, C. Burleyson, K. Calvin, P. Claggett, E. Coon, K. Fisher-Vanden, R. Joseph, D. Judi, S. Julius, D. Lesmes, J. Li, C. Massey, E. Monier, P. Morefield, J. Morris, R. Moss, R. Nicholas, C. Peters-Lidard, B. Rashleigh, AND C. Vernon. Coastal Integrated Hydro-Terrestrial Modeling: A Multi-Agency Invited Workshop. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, 2020.
Impact/Purpose:
In mid-2019, the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) identified the coasts as a focal area to amplify and coordinate research. The USGCRP started a new Coastal Focus Group and identified coastal integrated hydro-terrestrial modeling (C-IHTM) as a priority to better leverage interagency capabilities and the strong network of USGCRP agency scientists, formed in the spring of 2020. This group held a workshop, which took place virtually over five Mondays in November 2020. The goal of the workshop was to explore ways to better integrate and combine models at different scales to create a more robust modeling ecosystem that can better represent complex system dynamics and feedbacks in order to be useful for studying the unique multifaceted problems facing the coasts.
Description:
This report summarizes the results of the Coastal Integrated Hydro-Terrestrial Modeling (C-IHTM) Workshop that was co-planned, co-hosted and attended by the MultiSector Dynamics (MSD) community, a collective of university- and national lab-based researchers who work on the modeling of coupled human and natural systems, and federal agencies and academic institutions. Invited speakers talked about current advances in integrated modeling and provided opportunities to build connections between workshop participants and outside networks, and gave participants a chance to learn about novel coastal modeling approaches that they can apply to their own work. The workshop was organized around five themes, each of which received a dedicated session over successive weeks that was co-led by federal and MSD partners and focused specifically on the coasts: Open science - concepts, methods, and enabling tools (Chapter 2); Use cases - regions and topics (Chapter 3); Integrated modeling frameworks (Chapter 4); Linking communities of practice (Chapter 5); and Synthesis and potential paths forward (Chapter 6). This sequential structure facilitated action-oriented discussions that built on the previous IHTM workshop to begin charting a concrete path forward. The workshop served as a launching point for ongoing coordination amongst federal agencies and academic networks, as well as improved dialogue between the two. It also set out to define priority topics and geographies that motivate the federal and academic communities, as well as to elucidate how to achieve those capabilities in a coastal setting.
URLs/Downloads:
Coastal Integrated Hydro-Terrestrial Modeling: A Multi-Agency Invited Workshop
USGCRP's Coasts Interagency Group