Community Model for
Coastal Sediment Transport

NOPP Project

Town Meeting
Report

Existing Models

Test Cases

Links

USGS Positions in Santa Cruz

USGS Project Position in St. Petersburg

Mendenhall Post-doctoral Opportunities

Overview

The United States Geological Survey and others are promoting the development of an open-source numerical model for sediment-transport in coastal regions. We are collaborating with other federal agencies, academic institutions, and private industry, with the goal of adopting and/or developing one or more models for use as scientific tools by the research community. We hope these models will evolve into standards for us, and possibly for use in applications by the broader community interested in coastal issues.

For more information about this project, please contact:

Chris Sherwood, csherwood @usgs.gov, (508) 457-2269
Brad Butman, bbutman@usgs.gov, (508) 457-2212

USGS Project: National Community Sediment-Transport Model (NCSTM)

The Coastal and Marine Geology Program provides support for USGS activities in this project. The objectives of the NCSTM project are to:

• Promote/test/select/develop/adopt/improve/maintain community models
• Advance instrumentation and data analysis techniques for making measurements to test and improve sediment-transport models.
• Advance software analysis and visualization tools that support model applications
• Apply sediment transport models to benefit regional studies

Woods Hole Workshop, June, 2000

One of the first tasks of this project was to host a community-model workshop, where a group of more than 60 scientists discussed issues surrounding coastal modeling. The results of that meeting are summarized in "Sherwood, C. R., R. P. Signell, C. K. Harris, and B. Butman, 2000, Workshop Discusses Community Models for Coastal Sediment. EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 81(43):502", or USGS Report on Community Sediment Transport Model Workshop).