The Department of Energy's Earth and Environmental Systems Modeling (EESM) Program will hold its annual Principal Investigators Meeting in-person at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Rockville, Maryland.

Purpose

The goal of the EESM portfolio within the Earth and Environmental Systems Sciences Division (EESSD) is to develop and demonstrate advanced modeling and simulation capabilities to enhance the predictive capacity for the Earth system over multiple temporal and spatial scales. EESM investments therefore focus on Earth system model development, regional and global model analysis, and understanding of multisector dynamics within the coupled human-Earth system. This PI meeting is essential to foster and sustain important collaborations among EESM scientists, as well as to continue progress toward programmatic goals.  The meeting is for PIs and team members of EESM-funded activities, PIs or representatives from other BER-funded, EESM-relevant projects and facilities, BER staff, and invited guests and observers.  The meeting also provides BER program managers the opportunity to interact with PIs including early career researchers, exercise programmatic oversight, review progress of DOE-funded university and national lab projects and identify significant advances as well as future research needs.  The EESM PI meeting will include brief presentations from a representative set of funded projects, topical breakout and poster sessions, and plenary talks on topics of broad interest.

Important Information

The EESM PI meeting will be held in a hybrid in-person and virtual format, to begin on Tuesday, August 6, 2024, and conclude on Friday, August 9, 2024. Plenary and breakout sessions will allow participation by both in-person and virtual attendees (virtual attendees will not be able to participate or present in poster sessions). The PI or a project representative is expected to attend the entire meeting. All attendees are encouraged to submit an abstract.  Each attendee can only submit one abstract as the lead author but can be included in multiple abstracts as co-authors.

All attendees must register for the meeting on the meeting registration site. Abstracts for posters must be received by the submission deadline: 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time (EST) on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Attendees must first register for the meeting to submit an abstract.

Register for the EESM PI Meeting.

Submit your presentation/poster abstract.

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