Summary Report from the 2025-02 E3SM All-Hands
The Westin Westminster hotel in Colorado.
The E3SM annual All-Hands Meeting was held February 25 to 27 in Westminster, CO. The agenda can be found at Agenda 2025 E3SM All-Hands Meeting. Recordings of the plenary sessions can be found at
2025-02 Meeting Recordings (internal audience only). In addition to the main meeting, there were tutorial sessions focused on EAMxx and Offline Land Model Testbed (OLMT) and a separate meeting for the OMEGA group.
The objectives of the meeting were to 1) work across the project relevant teams to develop the roadmap for the remainder of Phase 3 and 2) develop the new decadal strategic plan including E3SM AI strategies.
Figure 1. Group photo at the E3SM Meeting in Denver, Feb. 2025.
The meeting kicked off with remarks from Dr. Dorothy Koch, DOE Office of Science (SC) Associate Director for Biological and Environmental Research (BER), Dr. Gary Geernaer, DOE SC/BER Director of Earth and Environmental Systems Sciences Division, Dr. Xujing Davis, DOE SC/BER Program Manager for E3SM. Dr. Dave Bader announced his stepping down from the E3SM PI role.
Updates were given by all the groups: Coupled; Water Cycle Changes and Impacts; Human-Earth System Feedbacks; Polar Processes; Sea-Level Change, and Coastal Impacts; Infrastructure; OMEGA; EAMxx; Atmosphere; Land; Ice. Groups also participated in breakout sessions, which were later reported on to other meeting attendees.
Reports on AI/ML in E3SM and the E3SMv3 coupled version were also given, as were recaps of the NERSC E3SM tutorial and the EAMxx tutorial held earlier in the week.
The meeting concluded with E3SM’s strategic plan and “speed dating” allowing different groups to learn about each others’s needs.
As traditional, Outstanding Achievement awards were given, and our very own band, the “Deep Dives,” performed their latest tunes. Additionally, Dave Bader presented “Founders Awards” to recognize people who he regarded as central to the success of the project.
Overall, the meeting participants were unanimously acknowledging that the meeting was a big success in connecting people and disperse groups, and stressing the need for more the in-person meetings.
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