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Interagency Steering Committee on Multimedia Environmental Models
This page serves to host documents and information pertaining to the Interagency Steering Committee on Multimedia Environmental Modeling (ISCMEM), a US Federal government group chartered through a Memorandum of Understanding that includes many U.S. Federal Agencies.
Environmental modeling and environmental monitoring networks can provide our global society with tools that can help quantify and predict how people affect the environment on which they depend. The analysis can serve to remediate and manage these vital resources.
This page seeks to increase the useful exchange of information about environmental modeling tools and techniques within the US Federal, state, and local governments, and seeks collaboration with foreign governments. Our goal is to enhance the development and use of freely shared public domain tools and data related to environmental modeling.
Participating Agencies:
United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research (RES),
United States Geological Survey (USGS),
United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Research and Development (ORD), National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL),
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS),
United States Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE), Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC),
United States Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
United States Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science and Technology,
United States Department of Interior (DOI), Bureau of Reclamation (USBR)
Meeting Announcement
Annual Public Meeting and Workshop
When: September, 2011 to be determined
9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Where: Auditorium
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Headquarters
11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, M D
Documentation:
Public Workshop and Annual Business Meeting Flyer
Current workshop and annual business meeting schedule
October 15 Annual public business meeting agenda
ISCMEM Workshop Program
Federal Register
ISCMEM Fact Sheet:
Conference proceedings
Proceedings of the Environmental Software Systems Compatibility and Linkage Workshop
Memorandum of Understanding
Working Groups
1. Software Systems Design and Implementation for Environmental Modeling
This workgroup colloborates in establishing software development standards and infrastructure components for environmental modeling systems.
2. Uncertainty Analysis and Parameter Estimation
This workgroup collaborates in the establishment of software development standards, infrastructure components, and methods for evaluating uncertainty of environmental models. A critical part of uncertainty analysis is related to the uncertainty of estimated parameters, and also extends to data uncertainty, model structure uncertainty, and scenario uncertainty. The activities of the workgroup involve all sources of uncertainty.
3. Subsurface Reactive Solute Transport Modeling
The specific goal of this workgroup is to collaborate in the establishment of software development standards and infrastructure components for environmental modeling systems.
4. Distributed Watershed / Water Quality Modeling
The specific goal of this workgroup is to collaborate in the establishment of software development standards and infrastructure components for environmental modeling systems.
Publications
JUPITER API
—The Joint Universal Parameter IdenTification and Evaluation of Reliability Application Programming Interface Description of Product: The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) developed the JUPITER API—the Joint Universal Parameter IdenTification and Evaluation of Reliability (JUPITER) Application Programming Interface (API).
This API provides resources for programming applications (computer programs) designed to analyze process models.
Process models simulate, for example, physical, chemical, and (or) biological processes of a site or experiment of interest, or may be an empirical model.
The analyses could include (a) sensitivity analysis, (b) data needs assessment, © calibration, (d) uncertainty evaluation, (e) optimization, and other types of applications that require similar capabilities. The API provides support for parallel computations; input, output, and communication between applications;
Documentation: Banta, E.R., Poeter, E.P., Doherty, J.E., and Hill, M.C., 2006, JUPITER: Joint Universal Parameter IdenTification and Evaluation of Reliability— An application programming interface (API) for model analysis: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods Book 6, Section E, Chapter 1, 268 p.
The documentation describes the conventions and the FORTRAN modules (including data, subroutines, functions, and generic interfaces) that constitute the API, and provides some example applications constructed using the API.
Web Site:
The documentation and related software are available at:
http://water.usgs.gov/nrp/gwsoftware/jupiter/jupiter_api.html
Disclaimer: This information is provided with the understanding that it is not guaranteed to be correct or complete and conclusions drawn from such information are the sole responsibility of the user.
Assessing Conceptual Models for Subsurface Reactive Transport of Inorganic Contaminants By J.A.Davis, S.B.Yabusaki, C.I.Steefel, J.M.Zachara, G.P.Curtis, G.D.Redden, L.J.Criscenti, B.D.Honeyman. EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 85, No. 44, pp. 449, 455, November 4, 2004. (PDF document, size 1.4 MB)
Steering Committee
Renewal MOU
Supplementary Info
ISCMEM MOU-2006 supplementary info.doc
Meetings
Meeting of the Interagency Steering Committee on Research and development of Multimedia Environmental Models on June 18 & 19, 2001 Details
Federal MOU on Multimedia Environmental Modeling Quarterly Committee Meeting on December 18, 2001 Details
Federal MOU on Multimedia Environmental Modeling Quarterly Committee Meeting on February 12, 2002 Details
Federal MOU on Multimedia Environmental Modeling Quarterly Committee Meeting on March 4, 2003 Details
Federal MOU on Multimedia Environmental Modeling Quarterly Committee Meeting June 11, 2003 Details
Federal MOU on Multimedia Environmental Modeling Annual Public Meeting on September 24, 2003 Details
Federal MOU on Multimedia Environmental Modeling Quarterly Committee Meeting on December 4, 2003 Details
Federal MOU on Multimedia Environmental Modeling Quarterly Committee Meeting on March 18, 2004 Details
Interagency Steering Committee on Multimedia Environmental Modeling Annual Public Meeting on August 24, 2004 Details
Interagency Steering Committee on Multimedia Environmental Modeling Quarterly Teleconference on February 8, 2005 Details
Interagency Steering Committee on Multimedia Environmental Modeling Quarterly Teleconference on May 3, 2005 Details
Interagency Steering Committee on Multimedia Environmental Modeling Annual Public Meeting on August 16, 2005 Details
Interagency Steering Committee on Multimedia Environmental Modeling Teleconference on September 23, 2005 Details
Interagency Steering Committee on Multimedia Environmental Modeling Teleconference on November 4, 2005 Details
Interagency Steering Committee on Multimedia Environmental Modeling Quarterly Teleconference on December 16, 2005 Details
Interagency Steering Committee on Multimedia Environmental Modeling Quarterly Teleconference on March 9, 2006 Details
Interagency Steering Committee on Multimedia Environmental Modeling Quarterly Teleconference on May 11, 2006 Details
Interagency Steering Committee on Multimedia Environmental Modeling Annual Public Meeting on August 24, 2006 Details
Interagency Steering Committee on Multimedia Environmental Modeling Quarterly Teleconference on December 16, 2006 Details
Interagency Steering Committee on Multimedia Environmental Modeling Quarterly Teleconference on March 7, 2007 Details
Interagency Steering Committee on Multimedia Environmental Modeling Quarterly Teleconference on June 21, 2007 Details
Interagency Steering Committee on Multimedia Environmental Modeling Annual Public Meeting on September 25, 2007 Details
Interagency Steering Committee on Multimedia Environmental Modeling Annual Public Meeting on September 3, 2008 Details