 Good morning. Welcome to the 2016 annual meeting of the Community Service Dynamics Modeling System program, CSDMS. This is actually a joint meeting between CSDMS and the Seven Experimental Network, SEM, and you'll hear about that program in the first keynote talk this morning. The theme of this meeting is capturing climate change and you'll find that that thing will be conveyed through many of the keynote talks. If you've been here before, you know that the nature of this meeting is very diverse. If you haven't, I'm sure you'll enjoy the variety of experiences you get. It's a combination of keynote talks, breakout sessions, clinics, and posters, so you'll have to sit in the room for three days, which is nice. I'm Patricia Weber, I'm chair of the CSDMS steering committee. One of the tasks that we'll be doing during this meeting has to begin sort of the visioning for the next phase of CSDMS. So please take active part in those breakout discussions and if you have any thoughts about the program, feel free to talk to me sometime during the week out if you're all interested in hearing your thoughts. Just a few digestical things. So you'll see on the program, and I think you know from communications remain, I guess, your name tags, your different breakout groups. Those rooms, the rooms for each breakout group are indicated on the agenda. There's a map on that page that shows you generally how to get to those rooms. There are big signs outside each of the breakout rooms that you can use to figure out where you're supposed to be. I'm sure there'll be people outside to guide you. I think there are restrooms that kind of out in the area on both sides of this. They're screwed over here. And if you have any questions, Ren and the other CSDMS people around here will be happy to answer any of your questions. So I'm going to turn this over to James Stisley, who's the executive director of CSDMS, and he's going to give you an update where we are and what's happening next.