2021-04-01 All-Hands Presentation Meeting Notes

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Presenter: Ian Kraucunas,Vanessa Bailey, Rob Hetland, and Peter Thornton

Title:  Overview of the COMPASS Project

Abstract: 

 
Coastal terrestrial-aquatic interfaces occupy relatively small areas of the Earth’s surface, yet they are highly dynamic and play an outsized role in global biogeochemical and hydrological cycles. However, coastal processes are difficult to simulate in numerical models due to the presence of sharp horizontal gradients and complex coupled interactions across multiple systems and scales. In addition, many coastal regions are strongly influenced by human systems and processes such as agriculture, urbanization, and water management. DOE recently launched two new projects under the banner of Coastal Observations, Mechanisms, and Predictions Across Systems and Scales (COMPASS), with a long-term vision to dramatically enhance predictive understanding of coastal systems, including their response to short- and long-term changes. The COMPASS-FME (Field, Measurements, and Experiments) pilot study is designed to understand the interactions of the ecology and biogeochemistry of microbes, waters, soils, and plants within coastal terrestrial-aquatic interfaces at select sites in the Chesapeake Bay and Lake Erie regions. The COMPASS-GLM (Great Lakes Modeling) pilot study is designed to enhance predictive understanding of freshwater coastal systems, especially how they respond to climate warming and land-use and land-cover changes, at watershed-to-regional scales. COMPASS will deploy liaisons to other DOE projects to ensure that we fully leverage existing tools and that our efforts are incorporated into open-source models and data repositories, and a new high-performance computing system to support BER coastal science. We will establish connections with other agencies and groups studying the Chesapeake Bay, the Great Lakes, and other coastal systems to build understanding and share lessons learned. Ultimately, these activities are designed to support future efforts to integrate a fully coupled representation of terrestrial-aquatic systems into E3SM.

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30 min


Overview of the COMPASS project

Ian Kraucunas,Vanessa Bailey, Rob Hetland, and Peter Thornton

COMPASS slides for E3SM - Updated.pptx

MP4 Movie (on the E3SM YouTube Channel)