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EESM would like to extend a big thank you to everyone who has helped plan the 2024 Principal Investigator's meeting.

If you have any questions about the below meeting topics, please reach out to the listed individuals during the meeting.

Steering Committee Members

Water Cycle and Hydroclimate

Jiwen Fan

Adam Schlosser

Urban

Jennie Rice  

Stephanie Waldhoff

Coastal

Manu Di Lorenzo

Ian Kraucunas

Luke Van Roekal

Impacts, Tipping Points and
Systems Responses and Resilience

Pat Reed

Luke Van Roekal

Biogeochemistry (Processes and Feedbacks)

Ben Bond Lamberty

Forrest Hoffman

Energy, Water, and Land System Transition

Adam Schlosser

Peter Thornton

Extremes

Peter Caldwell

Travis O' Brien

High Latitude

Andrew Roberts

Wilbert Weijer

Modes of Variability & Teleconnections, Trends

Jerry Meehl

Paul Ullrich

Strengthening EESM Integrated Modeling–
Towards the Digital Earth

Casey Burleyson

Ruby Leung

Metrics and Benchmarks and Credibility of
Model Output and Data for Science and End Users

Dave Bader

Forrest Hoffman

Paul Ullrich

Innovative and Emerging Technologies:
ML/AI, Digital Earth, Exascale and Quantum Computing,
Advanced Software Infrastructures

Casey Burleyson

Peter Caldwell

Travis O'Brien

Pat Reed

Methods in Model Integration, Hierarchical Modeling,
Model Complexity 

Ruby Leung

Jennie Rice

Local/Regional Testbeds – An Integrative Framework for
Multidisciplinary Model Development and Applications

Nicole Jeffery

Shaocheng Xie

Model Uncertainty & Model Biases Fit for Purpose 

Forrest Hoffman

Luke Van Roekal

Topic Leads

Water Cycle and Hydroclimate

Ethan Coon

Chris Golaz

Bryce Harroop

Jiafu Mao

Alan Rhoades

Hailong Wang

Tom Wild

Urban

Melissa Allen-Dumas

Trithankar Chakraborty

Andy Jones

Kevin Reed

Youtong Zheng

Coastal

Gautam Bisht

Steve Brus

Weiqing Han

Rob Hetland

Nicole Jeffery

Yun Qian

Ning Sun

Impacts, Tipping Points and
Systems Responses and Resilience

Bill Collins

Alexey Fedorov

Aixue Hu

Jen Morris

Rob Nicholas

Jim Randerson

Andrew Roberts

Paul Ullrich

Wilbert Weijer

Biogeochemistry (Processes and Feedbacks)

Susannah Burrows

Alan Di Vittorio

Jennifer Holm

Charlie Koven

Dave Lawrence

Ryan McManamay

Umakant Misra

Kat Smith

Energy, Water, and Land System Transition

Naresh Devineni

Karen Fisher-Vanden

Jen Morris

Eva Sinha

Tom Wild

Marshall Wise

Qing Zhu

Extremes

Karthik Balaguru

Xianan Jiang

Chia-Ying Lee 

Jian Lu

Christine Shields

Paul Ullrich

Colin Zarzycki

Qing Zhu

High Latitude

Darin Comeau 

Matt Hoffman

Elizabeth Hunke 

Wieslaw Maslowski

Steve Price 

Debra Sulsky

Jon Schwenk

Erin Thomas

Milena Veneziani

Stephanie Waldhoff

Xiangdong Zhang

Modes of Variability & Teleconnections, Trends

Jim Benedict

John Fasullo

Samson Hagos

Shineng Hu

Wuyin Lin

Jian Lu

Hsi-Yen Ma

Yaga Richter

Abigail Swann

Strengthening EESM Integrated Modeling–
Towards the Digital Earth

Ethan Coon

Andrew Gettelman

Klaus Keller

Brian Medeiros

Jenni Rice

Chris Vernon

Hui Wan

Xubin Zeng

Qing Zhu

Metrics and Benchmarks and Credibility of
Model Output and Data for Science and End Users

Nate Collier

Klaus Keller

Rob Nicholas

Scott Rupp 

Mike Wehner

Jill Zhang

Innovative and Emerging Technologies:
ML/AI, Digital Earth, Exascale and
Quantum Computing, Advanced Software
Infrastructures

Libby Barnes

Bill Collins

Ethan Coon

Dan Lu

Elias Massoud

Maria Molina

Andy Salinger

Abigail Snyder

Sarat Sreepathi

Mark Taylor

Jiali Wang

Mort Webster

Methods in Model Integration,
Hierarchical Modeling,
Model Complexity 

Rob Jacob

Ian Kraucunas

Jon Lamontagne

Jian Lu

Brian O'Neill

Scott Painter

Claudia Tebaldi

Chris Vernon

Local/Regional Testbeds – An Integrative Framework for
Multidisciplinary Model Development and Applications

Peter Bogenschutz

Andrew Gettelman

Antonia Hadjimichael

Rob Hetland

Mark Peterson

Yun Qian

Ben Sulman

Qi Tang

Shaocheng Xie

Model Uncertainty & Model Biases Fit for Purpose 

Dan Lu

Erwan Mornier

Dan Ricciuto

Ian Sue Wing