Mark Piper

INSTAAR affiliate Marika Holland has received a MacArthur "genius" grant! Marika's work lies at the intersection of sea ice modeling, climate change, and ecology. She works closely with INSTAARs, including the Brooks Lab, the Ocean Biogeochemistry Group, and Sharon Stammerjohn. buff.ly/UbOCMBS

Congratulations to NSF NCAR scientist Marika Holland for becoming a 2026 MacArthur Fellow, an award commonly known as the “genius grant.” Marika uses Earth system models to study polar regions, improving our understanding of sea ice predictability & polar climate variability. https://bit.ly/4xWSau7

As a researcher, I am trying to be more intentional about backing up files, data, and information in formats as close to raw text and images as possible. I want to be able to still access the information if a software company decides to no longer support the file formats or software I need anymore.

INQUA-CODE 2026 Programming and modelling skills workshop for early‑career researchers in quaternary science (www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/inq...).

I'm a contributing author on a new paper by Ling Zhu at Northeastern University. Check it out! doi.org/10.1016/j.ac...

I’ll be giving a talk on the Basic Model Interface next week at the PROPL 2026 workshop (organized by @dorchard.bsky.social!). pldi26.sigplan.org/home/propl-2...

Biannual meeting of the Landlab community on 3/11 @ 10AM MDT: short pop-up presentations by community members, followed by discussions on Landlab needs/wish list and pain points. The meeting is open to all active and soon-to-be-active landlab users. Register: cuboulder.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The ShoreShop 3 model intercomparison project will hold a workshop Oct 20-22 at the University of Colorado Boulder. Mark your calendars! shoreshop3.netlify.app

A new paper by Ogden et al. describes the framework of the NextGen National Water Model, which uses CSDMS technologies such as the Basic Model Interface (BMI). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Eric and I took the CSDMS Roadshow to Baton Rouge last week. We had a great time with great people at LSU! We also wrote a lot of code.

The CSDMS GeoTiff data component has been updated to v0.4.0. Available on PyPI and conda-forge. bmi-geotiff.csdms.io/en/stable/

Watching a Fortran webinar. :)

The application window for the 2026 Earth Surface Processes Institute (ESPIn) is open for one more week. csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/ESPIn Join us in Boulder for a week of science && software!

New blog post on my 'FirstPrelude' library for teaching beginner functional programming with Haskell: dorchard.github.io/blog/2026/01...

This Thursday (December 4) at 10a MST @csdms.bsky.social is hosting a Landlab Developers and Users Coffee Hour over Zoom. Please join us! cuboulder.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Food lines were 2X normal this morning at the Weld Food Bank, which told me 2/3rds of their visitors said they were impacted by the SNAP food benefit freeze. Our microgiving campaign has raised $50,000 for Weld Food Bank so far. Even $5 helps: weldfoodbank.org/wordofthanks/

New GRASS + Landlab example notebook just dropped. Check it out! grass-tutorials.osgeo.org/content/tuto...

Building Landlab from source on Windows can be tricky. Here's a step-by-step guide, based on recent experience, that should help. forum.csdms.io/t/landlab-de...

CUAHSI is offering a series or professional development webinars for early career hydrologists. www.cuahsi.org/cyberseminar...

CSDMS 2025 Student Modeler Awardee is Marie-Christin Wimmler, TU, Dresden for her submission "pyMANGA: A Modular, Open and Extendable Software Platform for Modelling Forest and Vegetation Dynamics". Full Citation: csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Syvitsk...

Software!!1! *shakes fist* Starting in about an hour, at 10 am MST. See you soon!

Registration is now open for the CSDMS 2025 Annual Meeting: "Exploring Earth’s Surface with Models, Data & AI". This year’s meeting is held at the University of Colorado Boulder from May 13–15. Registration and additional details, please visit: csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Form:An... Hope you can join!

I'm looking forward to this upcoming (Thu Feb 13) CSDMS webinar by Daniel Shapero, "Docker, or, What to do When Software Has Betrayed You". Daniel does cool science + software. I think this will be interesting and entertaining. Abstract and registration ->

I’ve called my members of congress and asked them to fight the administration’s federal spending freeze.

🌎 ESPIn 2025: Where Earth science meets code! Learn Python modeling, work on team projects, enjoy a Boulder field trip & boost your career. Topics: Git, Landlab, HPC & more. May 5-12 at CU Boulder. Early career scientists apply by Jan 28! @csdms.bsky.social APPLY HERE docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A thoughtful scientist, luminescence wizard, ultrasupportive colleague, and someone who's made me laugh till I cry on numerous occasions—Harrison is so deserving of the prestigious PECASE award!

Everyone in Boulder is out running before the cold snap.

Back to work after a really good holiday break, and lots of exciting things happening already! It reminded me we currently have an open #ResearchSoftwareEngineer #RSE position in our #AdvancedResearchComputing group at the #RosalindFranklinInstitute. #Job opportunities.rfi.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

After a month of wrangling, I finally got an example model (written in Fortran, wrapped in Python through Cython, built with CMake and Meson, componentized in the CSDMS Python Modeling Tool, pymt) to build and run on Windows. I am so relieved!

i'm moving away from a two column/week pace in favor of a single extended argument. here is this week's.

EarthscapeHub is undergoing semiannual maintenance Dec 18-20. There may be occasional outages. If you're using a Hub, please save your work often. csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Jupyter...

The application window for ESPIn 2025 opens today!

Bear Peak after today’s snow. #boulder

🌎 Are you an early career researcher keen on Earth surface processes? Want to learn about numerical modeling & software development? Apply for the *free* @csdms.bsky.social ESPIn immersive training experience May 5-12, 2025 in Boulder Colorado. Apply starting 02 Dec buff.ly/40Uefwu

And imo the CSDMS meeting is one of the best you can attend as a student. Both mini workshops and talks & small enough you can easily meet folks