2025 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 that the US Army Corps of Engineers' Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Coastal and Hydraulics Lab (CHL) will host the 2025 ADCIRC Week! We're looking forward to an exciting series of ADCIRC Community Events from Monday May 12 to Friday May 16, 2025 at ERDCWERX inside the Mississippi Center for Innovation and Technology (MCITy) at 1622 Washington St Suite 300 Vicksburg, MS 39180 (the map above may show a different location due to an Eventbrite glitch, please type the address into your favorite mapping application to get an accurate map until it is resolved).

Users Group Meeting

All ADCIRC topics are welcome, and we encourage each presenter to see this event to as a teaching and learning experience, rather than as a traditional conference where the emphasis is on reporting (your best) results. Our mission is to strengthen the community as well as the technologies we are developing.

Theme

Presenters are invited to engage with our theme for 2025 which is Looking to the Future for ADCIRC:

• Cloud computing
• Restructuring code for modularity
• New capabilities: river elements, new implementation of tides, ADCIRC on GPUs, global modeling
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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 18 April 2025. 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 18 April 2025) 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.

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 2025 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 are bringing back our succesful ADCIRC After Dark sessions in the evenings to add value for participants who are interested in special topics. The ADCIRC After Dark sessions 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 special topics. This includes Joannes Westerink, who will present the ADCIRC Boot Camp opening session, and ADCIRC Live and ADCIRC Compute Cluster Deployment sessions in ADCIRC After Dark presented by our software automation architect 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 Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport (JAN) and Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY).

Facility

ERDCWERX is located in downtown Vicksburg, Mississippi at 1622 Washington Street, Suite 300 (3 rd floor), inside MCITy (Mississippi Center for Innovation and Technology). The entrance to ERDCWERX is located on Mulberry Street (Dr. Briggs Hopson Blvd.).

Visitors may enter ERDCWERX through the main entrance (staircase) at West side of building or North entrance (elevator) at North side of building. Visitors are required to sign in upon entering reception area. The following sign-in steps must be completed:

• Use iPad to sign in by tapping screen or scanning QR code with mobile device
• Enter full name and email address
• Select purpose of visit
• Select whether you represent Industry, Academia, ERDC or Other

The map at the top of this page may show a different location due to an Eventbrite glitch, please type the address 1622 Washington St Suite 300 Vicksburg, MS 39180 into your favorite mapping application to get an accurate map until it is resolved.

Lodging

According to Visit Vicksburg, there are a number of hotels in the area, please click the link to have a look.