Meeting Notes 2026 Science

Feb 12

Updates and Announcements (10 minutes)

• Welcome:
• Wins:
  • LMWG and BGCWG > 100 registered and > 40 talks! Draft agenda posted
  • FATES one at a time paper led by Adrianna accepted in JAMES
• Announcement:
  • OK to be assigned as moderators for LMWG / BGCWG meetings?

Data Nugget: Katie Rocci - aligning field and model experiments

CESM fire tunings and parameter discussion

• Slides

Feb 5

Updates and Announcements (10 minutes)

• Welcome:
• Wins:
• Announcement:
  • Renewed parallel work session Weds Feb 11 2-4
  • (Hybrid, join to work on CTSM with others in same space to ask questions of)
  • (We will try a format of:
    • Start with asking what you'll be working on
    • Everyone works in parallel on their thing
    • Ask questions of people in the room
    • Have a room for a small group to work on the same thing together if applicable
    • At the end talk about any small wins they made in progress for their task
  • (Let us know how to make this useful/attractive for you to come)

Data Nugget: Generic crop parameters

• see github issue #3659
• discussion #3421

Current status and ideas forward for land C cycle in CESM3

• slides

Jan 22

Updates and Announcements (10 minutes)

• Welcome:

• Wins:

  • Keith's Dew PR merged
  • Sam L is testing a crop bug fix
  • Greenland snow hole filled
  • CUPiD runs both LDF and ILAMB on regular grids sample here. Tutorial development underway.

• Announcements:

  • LMWG Feb 24-26, registration open

Fig 1 discussion

• Slide
• You can see it in the original publication.

Jan 8

Updates and Announcements (10 minutes)

• Welcome:

• Wins:

  • Baby Kate arrived, congrats to Ruth & Daniel!
  • Katie Rocci and Teagan King have both taken new positions
  • Katya's paper on plant trait uncertainty out in New Phyt
  • 5.4 release tag, based on 5.4.002 (see What's New in 5.4)
  • CESM alpha08a tag, based on 5.4.003 (Fire, crop, and PPE tunings)
  • Historical BGC-Crop simulations based on 5.4.004
  • FATES JSON parameter files in 5.4.005

• Announcements:

  • LMWG Feb 24-26, registration open

Potpourri: questions and updates

• Evolving slide deck