Here are some important reports produced by the MSD community.
Report of a workshop held October 31-November 2, 2023, with support from participating federal agencies including NASA, NOAA, US EPA USDOE, USGS, and the USGCRP. The workshop was organized according to a “WHAT” and “HOW” framework, with the common underlying “WHY” being the integrated water resource challenges and the “WHO” defined through interagency and cooperating academic partners. The report provides a summary of plenary presentations and breakout discussions, and a road map that focuses on near-term activities.
MultiSector Dynamics: 2023 Inaugural Workshop Report
Supported by the United States Department of Energy’s Office of Science. This report summarizes the MultiSector Dynamics (MSD) Community of Practice (CoP)’s inaugural workshop on October 3-5, 2023 at the University of California, Davis. The workshop brought together members of the MSD CoP to advance the understanding of the co-evolution of human and natural systems, and to build the next generation of tools that bridge sectors, scales, and systems to realize a more resilient and equitable future. The theme of the workshop was “Advancing Complex Adaptive Human-Earth Systems Science in a World of Interconnected Risks”. This document outlines the motivation for the workshop, its goals and objectives, the application process, the agenda, overviews of the training sessions offered to the workshop participants and a summary of each breakout session. The MSD workshop report further discusses the feedback from workshop participants and presents some reflections and next steps.
MultiSector Dynamics: Scientific Challenges and a Research Vision for 2030, A Community of Practice
Supported by the United States Department of Energy’s Office of Science. This report outlines a vision for MultiSector Dynamics (MSD)vas an emerging transdisciplinary field that seeks to advance our understanding of how human-Earth systems interactions shape the resources, goods, and services on which society depends. The core objective of this MSD Vision Report is to clarify core definitions, share research questions, highlight scientific opportunities, and provide steps for improving the MSD community’s capacity to support needed scientific progress.
Addressing Uncertainty in MultiSector Dynamics Research
This e-book was developed by the Integrated MultiSector, Multiscale Modeling (IM3) project, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, as part of research in the MultiSector Dynamics, Earth and Environmental System Modeling Program. It is living guide to sensitivity analysis and diagnostic model evaluation techniques for confronting the computational and conceptual challenges of multi-model, transdisciplinary workflows. Topics covered include an overview of diagnostic modeling and perspectives on model evaluation, a framework for the basic methods and concepts used in sensitivity analysis, and technical applications supporting diagnostic model evaluation and exploration.
The Coastal Integrated Hydro-Terrestrial Modeling (C-IHTM) Workshop Report
Organized around five sessions held over five days, the workshop series focused on the challenges of modeling and evaluating coastal landscapes of co-evolving human and natural systems subject to influences and stressors, including extreme weather events, sea level rise, natural and anthropogenic disturbances, and other impacts from climate change. The effort was jointly planned and undertaken by the federal interagency C-IHTM Coordinating Group within the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and the MultiSector Dynamics (MSD) research community. The five-day virtual workshop included robust participation from a wide range of science and engineering research communities.
On July 2021 the MSD Urban Systems Working Group, led by Christa Brelsford and Andrew Jones, organized this workshop to provide a venue for coordination and identification of shared objectives, research themes, and major knowledge gaps, as well as developing a shared strategy for addressing these gaps. This report summarizes the outcomes of this workshop.