IDEAS-Watersheds (Phase 2) All Hands Fall 2023



December 9-10, 2023
Stanford University
Green Earth Sciences Building
367 Panama Mall Stanford
Room 365
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Meeting Agenda:

Day 1: Saturday Noon-5PM (PST)

Wall Clock (PT) Elapsed Time (min) Talks/Activity
12:00 15 Introductions and Project Overview
12:15 45 Icebreaker Activities
  SFA Partnership Updates  
1:00 8+2 LBNL Watershed Function SFA: Sergi Molins
1:10 8+2 ORNL Watershed Dynamics and Evolution SFA: Scott Painter
1:20 8+2 PNNL River Corridor SFA: Xingyuan Chen
1:30 8+2 Shared Infrastructure: David Moulton
1:40 20 Group discussion and activities
2:00 Break (30 min)  
    Hands - On: Integrated Hydrology + RTM (Lead: Sergi Molins)
Duration: 2 - 2.5 hours
Details: Including objectives and instructions are in available in the README.md
2:30   Set up an integrated tracer transport problem in a column building on ATS integrated hydrology inputs (Sergi)
    Set up and test a geochemical problem in PFLOTRAN (Glenn) docker run -p 8888:8888 pflotran/jupyter:ideas-dec23-all-hands
    Set up a reactive transport problem building on the column simulation and PFLOTRAN inputs, LIVE! debugging (Sergi and Glenn)
    Set up more complex simulations: the hillslope example (Sergi)
  Break  
  Adjourn  



Day 2: Sunday 9:00 AM – 5PM (PST)

Wall Clock (PT) Elapsed Time (min) Talks/Activity
    Flash Talks
9:00 4+1 Phong Le (ORNL) A Multiscale Integrated Model for Transport in River Basins
    Saubhagya Rathore (ORNL) Spatially Resolved Integrated Hydrology Modeling for Managed Watersheds
    Jesus Gomez Velez (ORNL) Nitrate uptake in the benthic biolayer of streams and rivers across Conterminous US
    Zhi Li (PNNL) Modeling the fates of pyrogenic carbon in the wildfire-impacted watersheds using ATS-PFLOTRAN
    Tasneem Ahmadullah (PNNL) Organic Carbon Speciation in Microbial Respiration Using Lambda-PFLOTRAN Pipeline
    Mingjie Shi (PNNL) Ecosystem responses to wildfires in the Columbia River basin
    Lijing Wang (LBNL) Understanding Hydrologic Variability in Mountainous Hillslopes: From Intensive Monitoring to Scaling Up.
    Dipankar Dwivedi (LBNL) Reactive Transport Benchmarks for Problems Involving Gaseous Species.
    Andrew Graus (LBNL) Status update on coupling a fine-scale process-based ecosystem model (EcoSIM) with the Advanced Terrestrial Simulator (ATS).
    Luwen Wan (Stanford) Quantifying beaver-induced water storage across scales.
    Discussion
10:00 Break (30 min)  
    Hands-On: WW and Mixed-Polyhedral meshing (Lead: Saubhagya Rathore)
Duration: 2.5 hours
Details: Including objectives and docker setup is here.
10:30   Introduction to Watershed Workflow
    Exploring Key Conceptual Objects
11:15   Hands-On Session: Generating Stream-Aligned Mixed-Polyhedral Mesh
    Defining Regions and Labeled Sets
12:15   Debugging and Manipulating Key Objects
    Discussion and Feedbacks
1:00 Lunch (1 hour)  
    Hands-On: IHSI subsetting CONUS 2.0 data and simulation output
Duration: 2.5 hours
Details: Including objectives and docker instructions are in available in the README.md
2:00   Overview of new datasets, CONUS2
    Presentation of the new tools, the HydroFrame and HydroData and SubsetTools frameworks
    Hands-on Session: subset tools/hf_hydrodata sessions with Docker
    Discussion/Feedback
4:30   Group discussion: What’s next, what do you need, what’s slowing you down? (~1 hour)
5:00 Adjourn