2026 ADCIRC Week

ADCIRC Week is the key annual event for connecting with the ADCIRC Community. Please join us in Raleigh, North Carolina on 22-26 June, 2026!

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 Coastal & Computational Hydraulics Team in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University will host the 2026 ADCIRC Week!

The ADCIRC Users Group Meeting will be held Tuesday (all day) and Wednesday (morning), June 23 and 24 in Duke Energy Hall on NC State's Centennial Campus.

The ADCIRC Boot Camp will start on Monday June 22 in a new hybrid format and then continue after the Users Group Meeting, starting on Wednesday afternoon on June 24 and continuing through Friday June 26.

We're looking forward to an exciting series of ADCIRC Community Events from Monday June 22 to Friday June 26, 2026.

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 2026 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 Tuesday 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 8 June 2026. 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 8 June 2026) 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".

This year we also 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 $325 (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

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

The nearby airports that participants will find convenient is Raleigh Durham International Airport (RDU).

Facility

The Users Group Meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday will be held in the Duke Energy Hall at James B. Hunt Jr. Library on the Centennial Campus of North Carolina State University at 1070 Partners Way, Raleigh, NC 27606. Instructions for getting to the event:

From Partners Way

• Enter the library building.
• Continue straight past the yellow stairs to the back wall.
• The elevator is on your right.
• Take the elevator up to the second floor.
• Exit the elevator and continue straight across the lobby.
• The Duke Energy Hall is in front of you.

From the Oval

• Enter the library building.
• Continue straight across the lobby.
• Turn right before you reach the stairs.
• The Duke Energy Hall is in front of you.