10 Year Anniversary Meeting
The E3SM project held a special meeting to celebrate its 10th Anniversary on December 8, 2024 at the Hyatt Regency Bethesda in Bethesda, MD, to commemorate the significant achievements and milestones reached over the past decade.
Researchers, collaborators, and distinguished guests from various US Earth system modeling centers, including the DOE Undersecretary and DOE Management, along with representatives from supporting agencies, have been invited to participate in the event.
Figure 1. Session 1 presenters gave remarks from DOE.
The meeting began with the sessions on remarks from the DOE delivered by Dr. Geri Richmond, DOE Under Secretary for Science and Innovation, Dr. Dorothy Koch, DOE Office of Science (SC) Associate Director for Biological and Environmental Research (BER), Dr. Ceren Susut, DOE SC Associate Director for Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), Dr. Gary Geernaert, DOE SC/BER Director of Earth and Environmental Systems Sciences Division, Dr. Xujing Davis, DOE SC/BER Program Manager for E3SM and Mr. Michael Rinker, DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Senior Technical Advisor, the lead of DOE’s intra-agency Energy Water cross-cutting team (see Fig. 1).
During this session, Dr. Dorothy Koch, representing the DOE, awarded a Certificate of Appreciation to the project’s Principal Investigator, Dr. David Bader.
Figure 2. Dr. Dorothy Koch presents DOE Certificate of Appreciation to the E3SM Project’s PI, Dr. Dave Bader. Left to right: Dr. Dorothy Koch, Dr. Dave Bader, Dr. Gary Geernaert, Dr. Geri Richmond, Dr. Xujing Davis.
DOE Certificate of Appreciation for Dave Bader
“In recognition of his outstanding leadership, dedication to excellence, exceptional contribution to the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM), designed to address DOE science and mission needs and efficiently run on DOE current and future high-performance computers. Within just a decade, Dr. Bader’s strategic vision and unwavering commitment has been vital to the establishment of this outstanding multi-institutional, multidisciplinary project (team) and the development of the internationally recognized, best-in-class high-resolution E3SM model. Thanks to his leadership, E3SM is well on its way towards solving the global earth system crisis while also supporting future energy security.”
Figure 3. The panelists of the first panel session on “Future of Earth system modeling in the United States”
This first session was followed by two panel sessions. The first panel focused on “Future of Earth system modeling in the United States” and discussed what are the big questions that Earth system models will be used to answer in the next 5-10 years and what are the model development opportunities in answering these questions. The panelists (see Fig. 3) also gave their opinions on what the Earth system model will look like in US in 5 to 10 years.
Figure 4. The panelists of the second panel session on “E3SM for science and use-inspired research”
The second panel centered around the theme of “E3SM for Science and Use-Inspired Research.” The panelists, as illustrated in Fig. 4, shared insights into their respective projects and elaborated on how they utilize global Earth system models and simulation data in their research. They also discussed how they envision their use of E3SM, and their relationship with the E3SM project, in the future.
The participants unanimously agreed that the meeting was highly productive, featuring engaging discussions and visionary insights.
More details can be seen on the E3SM’s 10th Anniversary Meeting and the Agenda pages.
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