News and updates

Jun 2026

• Attended the E3SM all-hands meeting in Bethesda, MD. A wonderful week of science and reconnecting with the community.
• Honored to receive the first “AI in Action” award for my work on applying large language models (LLMs) to E3SM development and analysis (related paper).

May 2026

• Attended HydroML26 at UT Austin and presented my work on LLMs’ silent failures in Earth system model analysis. [Link to the slides]

Apr. 2026

• The E3SM v3 overview paper is published in JAMES.
• A new paper benchmarking LLMs for Earth system model analysis is submitted to GMD — preprint here.

Dec. 2025

• Attended AGU in New Orleans and presented our delta bifurcation work in MOSART.
• Yi Yao’s Nature Water paper on irrigation-induced land water depletion is online!

Sep 2025

• Had a great E3SM all-hands meeting in DC area. I presented some results from ongoing developments in E3SM such as MOSART bifurcation, IBT, and MOSART-GCAM.

Feb 2025

• Yi Yao’s first IRRMIP paper published on Nature Communications.
• Attended the E3SM all-hands meeting in Denver.

Dec 2024

• Invited Lele Shu to give us a talk about SHUD model and how the lake is represented in his model. Great discussion!

Nov 2024

• Travis published a paper on JOSS about the python version of the hydropower model I developed a few years ago

Sep 2024

• Dongyu’s compound flooding paper published on JAMES

Aug 2024

• Attended the DOE Earth and Environmental Systems Modeling (EESM) Program PI meeting in Rockville, Maryland. Great discussion on multiple projects including ICoM and InteRFACE Phase 2.

May 2024

• Gave a lecture on the first in-person E3SM tutorial workshop at NERSC about MOSART. [Video Link]

Apr. 2024

• Hoang’s Lower Mississippi paper is published on JHM

Mar. 2024

• Started to serve in the JAWRA Editorial Board as an Associate Editor.
• Donghui’s Climate change will reduce North American inland wetland areas and disrupt their seasonal regimes paper is published on Nature Communications

Feb. 2024

• Gave a talk about IBT and overall ICoM land-river-ocean coupling configuration to a research group in Sun Yet-Sen University.

Jan. 2024

• Had a great follow-up discussion about our AGU posters with Dr. Zhan Tian of SUSTech.
• Gave a talk about our IBT work (presented on AGU) on the InteRFACE permafrost hydrology meeting.

Dec. 2023

• Met so many old and new friends in AGU23. Presented our Inter-basin water transfer work. See some photos.

Nov. 2023

• Bryce’s E3SMv1 CONUS water budget metrics paper finally got published!

Oct. 2023

• Chang’s HexWatershed Part II paper is accepted by JAMES
• Matt’s JOSS paper about baseflow analysis tool is published

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