The US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) supports interagency groups across federal agencies that coordinate and implement global change research activities. The USGCRP Observations Interagency Working Group (ObsIWG) sponsored a seminar series in 2024, entitled Becoming a Climate Ready Nation: A Focus on Greenhouse Gases, with many sessions co-hosted by the USGCRP Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group (CCIWG). The series highlighted today’s most pressing climate topics and challenges affected by increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Newsletter archive of the MSD Community.

Updates from the MSD Community of Practice.

The MSD community aims to improve our understanding of the coevolution of human and natural systems over time, and build the next generation of tools that bridge across sectors (energy, water, land, economy) and scales (spatial, temporal) as well as offer a holistic view of systems-of-systems.

VELMA (Visualizing Ecosystem Land Management Assessments) is a tool designed to model effective decisions for a wide array of environmental issues. It is a spatially explicit ecohydrological watershed model that planners can use to visualize the effects of their decisions.

EPA’s water research supports solutions that ensure adequate supplies of clean water resources to protect our health and livelihood, protect and restore watersheds and ecosystems, and strengthen our economy.

Surface water quality models are critically important tools for managing our nation's surface waters. EPA's Water Modeling Workgroup (WMW) works to facilitate the use of surface water quality models through collaboration, information sharing, and training on models and modeling resources.

The EPA Center for Exposure Assessment Modeling (CEAM) distributes simulation models and database software designed to quantify movement and concentration of contaminants in lakes, streams, estuaries, and marine environments.

The goal of the Global Change Intersectoral Modeling System (GCIMS) scientific focus area is improving the understanding of the complex interactions among energy, water, land, climate, socioeconomics, and other important human and natural systems at regional to global and seasonal to centennial scales.

The Integrated Multisector, Multiscale Modeling (IM3) project is a multi-institutional effort led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science as part of the MultiSector Dynamics program area within the Earth and Environmental Systems Modeling program.