2024 ADCIRC Week

Every year, the ADCIRC Community comes together for ADCIRC Week to share experiences, teach, learn, discuss, plan, connect, and build capacity for coastal ocean modelling with ADCIRC. These activities are organized into mutually supportive events: the ADCIRC Users Group Meeting and the ADCIRC Boot Camp.

We're excited to announce NOAA will host the 2024 ADCIRC Week! We're looking forward to an exciting series of ADCIRC Community Events from Monday April 29 to Friday May 3, 2024 at NOAA in College Park, Maryland, USA. As a result, the theme of our meeting this year is "ADCIRC in the UFS Context" (NOAA Unified Forecast System). All ADCIRC topics are welcome, and we encourage each presenter to reference this event theme in their talk.

Deadline for registration by non-US citizens for this event has now passed (12 April 2024).

Users Group Meeting

The theme of our meeting this year is "ADCIRC in the UFS Context" (NOAA Unified Forecast System). All ADCIRC topics are welcome, and we encourage each presenter to reference this event theme in their talk.

Presentations and Posters

Each presentation at the Users Group Meeting will be 15 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions and discussion. If you are planning on giving a presentation at the Meeting or presenting a poster at the Dinner on Monday night, please email your title(s), ~300 word abstract(s), head shot, and another graphic or animation (for publicizing your talk and/or poster on social media) to the event organizers before Friday 12 April 2024. Your registration confirmation will contain an email address where this information should be submitted.

Student Participation

Career Fair: Students who are nearing graduation or looking for a graduate or professional position are encouraged to update their resume or CV and to provide this information to the organizers (before 12 April 2024) for distribution to professionals attending this meeting and looking to hire. Your registration confirmation will contain an email address where this information should be submitted.

Virtual Access

We cannot promise a real time virtual option for the meeting at this time, but we are planning on collecting slides and presenter's audio during the meeting presentation to post to a central site after the event is finished. This will allow anyone who could not attend in person to have access to the content of the presentations.

Boot Camp

The ADCIRC Boot Camp is an intense information and training session; it could be considered a "forced march" of knowledge transfer, hence the name "Boot Camp". The 2024 ADCIRC Boot Camp will begin immediately after the end of the Users Group Meeting on Tuesday afternoon and will continue through Friday.

This year we have added ADCIRC After Dark sessions in the evenings to add value for participants who are interested in special topics. The ADCIRC After Dark session are sold as a package for only $225 (total) to access to all four evening sessions.

Led by Jason Fleming of Seahorse Coastal Consulting, this content covers the nitty gritty basics of ADCIRC input files, output files, and the detailed functioning of the code. It is helpful for complete newcomers who will make their own models, and is also valuable for ADCIRC analysts with some experience to learn how to go deeper into the meaning behind the each model parameter.

ADCIRC newcomers will be especially interested in the daytime content with two components: (a) Dr. Jason Fleming will teach ADCIRC 101: Fundamentals, and (b) Dr. Alan Zundel will teach ADCIRC 102: SMS for ADCIRC, which covers the graphical construction of input data sets and the visualization of ADCIRC output. Topics will include the following:

1. Comprehensive coverage of ADCIRC's fort.15 (control) file, each parameter, line-by-line
2. Nodal attributes file (fort.13)
3. Output files, including hotstart files
4. Use of parametric vortex wind models for tropical cyclones
5. Discussion of boundaries and boundary conditions, including tidal B.C.sand levee B.C.s
6. Output visualization and validation tools

Dr. Alan Zundel will teach ADCIRC 102: SMS for ADCIRC; the SMS software from Aquaveo is used to visually create and modify input files for ADCIRC and is widely used in the ADCIRC community for this purpose, as well as visualization of results. For these reasons, knowledge of the SMS software is practically required for new ADCIRC users. Please download the latest version (13.2) to prepare for this session. We will email you a trial license key. SMS concepts will include the following:

1. The modeling process within SMS (overview)
2. Background data (images, surveys/LIDAR/DEM)
3. Conceptual model (vector coastline databases, features, GIS)
4. Mesh generation for ADCIRC
5. Mesh editing
6. ADCIRC parameter specification including nodal attributes

We are also fortunate to have guest presenters on several special topics. These include the latest global modeling capabilities for ADCIRC presented by Joannes Westerink; the DesignSafe-ci advanced cyberinfrastructure for ADCIRC analysts presented by Clint Dawson and Carlos del Castillo Negrete; and ADCIRC Buildfest and ADCIRC virtual environments presented by Brett Estrade.

Student Discount

Full time students are eligible for a significant discount on the full professional registration price for the Boot Camp. To apply, please contact the organizers using the Contact form on this page to provide us with the name and email address of your advisor and a brief rationale for the value of this training for your academic program. If you are approved, we will send you a discount code to use in registration.

Engaging Format

The presentation style will be a mix of lecture, demonstration, and interactive discussion. The instructors will also specify hands-on work for those trainees that have a laptop with them.

Value

The three days that a new ADCIRC analyst invests in this training event could save weeks of project time spent in guesswork and trial-and-error. The Boot Camp also provides value for more experienced users, because the discussion includes the underlying rationale behind various features, as well as highlighting time-saving tips and tricks that are not especially prominent in the documentation.

The registration fee includes light lunches and morning and afternoon coffee breaks and snacks for all days of the Boot Camp. Break times present great opportunities for professional networking as well as knowledge transfer and sharing of ideas among ADCIRC users at all levels of experience.

Some representative feedback from past attendees:

“I liked the format of the adcirc portion of going through each parameter. Thanks again, I think we all got a lot out of it.”

“I thought the Boot Camp was awesome. For researchers like me, it was extremely beneficial to get into the guts of the mechanisms behind the scenes of the fort files. … [the] format was engaging.”

Travel

Nearby airports that participants may find convenient include Reagan National Airport (DCA), Baltimore-Washington International Airport (BWI), and Dulles Airport (IAD).

Driving Directions

• From Silver Spring, MD
• From Reagan National Airport
• From Baltimore-Washington International Airport
• From Dulles Airport

There is ample parking at the facility, which is located 1.5 miles (2.4km) from the entrance to the University of Maryland campus and about a half a mile (800m) from the College Park Metro Station on the Green Line (a 10-minute walk from the Center). Directions to the site, including vehicle access procedures are also available from our site hosts.

Accommodations

There are a number of hotels in the area of College Park and Greenbelt, including these examples:

College Park Marriott Hotel & Conference Center
3501 University Blvd, East Hyattsville, MD 20783
Hotel Front Desk: 1-301-985-7300

Holiday Inn in College Park
10000 Baltimore Ave., College Park, MD 20740
Hotel Front Desk: 1-301-345-6700
Book by calling: 1-800-315-2621

Hilton Garden Inn
7810 Walker Drive
Greenbelt, MD 20770
Hotel Front Desk: 1-301-474-7400

The Hotel at the University of Maryland

Cambria College Park

Facility Access

Parking

NCWCP provides free, on-campus parking for tenants and small visiting groups.

Metro/Transit

The NCWCP is accessible via the Metro’s Green or Yellow Line to the College Park/University of Maryland station.

Walking from Metro: It is a 15-20 minute walk (to the east down River Road and then to the path that runs along the fence between the front of NCWCP and the rear of the USDA building at 4700 River Road) from the station to the NCWCP.

Shuttle from Metro: A shuttle is also available from the College Park/University of Maryland station to the NCWCP (M-Square stop #4) during peak commute periods (6 to 9 am and 3 to 6 pm). Detailed shuttle schedules are available from MTA.

• College Park Metro Info
• Bus, Train and Metro Schedules/Information

Facility Access

Those with NOAA issued badges must stop and present their badge at the access control reader at vehicle entry gate before proceeding. Anyone without an access badge must obtain clearance from the security guard stationed at the entry gate prior to driving onto campus. Anyone entering the security perimeter on foot may be asked for identification prior to being permitted onto campus. All persons wishing to enter the facility must present a valid, unexpired, government-issued photo ID.