 There's lots of seats up in the front, so for those of you who think you're needed to pull up the back row, you're not allowed to. So these are our new days. How many of you have been here to one of our annual meetings before? Children's. Okay. So we were renting space at Utah for our annual meetings. So now that we have these new days, this saves us a bit of money, a little over money, so I think that's good. So they're making the on buggy and working this all out, like is this new? There certainly was the first time we used the Yuko facilities. So what else do I want to say on the facilities? I do think that this is a giant building. It's the largest I've seen, 250,000 square feet. We have an attached building, which is probably another 120,000 square feet. So it's easy to get lost. So if you get lost, we have food scattered around, and there are washrooms. Okay. So I'm going to, this is not a keynote address. This is just sort of giving the updates for the meeting. But I do want to provide some updates on the program, CSDMS. These are the eight functions that we work on on a regular basis. Boulder has a community, that means all of you, and those of us who are here in Boulder at the integration facility. And I'm going to launch through a few of the things that we've done in the last few months. First off, on top in terms of the community effort. Over the last year, we have 100 new members, so we continue to grow. And even though this is no longer a focus of ours to grow the community, it grows on its own. And we have some new chairs, Tom Sue, chair of cyber informatics and numerics, the working group. Lay Lowe on the education and knowledge transfer working group. Then Kat Roxley, co-sponsored by Glossy on the hydrology focus research group. Chris Jenkins joins as co-chair of the carbonate focus research group. And Nicole Bastery joins as chair of the trust group working group. So if you're in the audience, can you stand up so people can see who you are? Okay. There you are. Those are your new chairs. Thank you. And we have two members of our steering committee. This is the group that provides us with advice, works with the interagency folks and the industrial leaders that are part of our funding efforts. And we have F.E. for people at Georgia, who I don't think is here right now. Oh, F.E. is there, yay! F.E. and David Warren. Where's David? There you go. So let's welcome them to you. So on to even more important news. After 10 years, you're going to lose me as your executive director. And I'm going to sit under a boaty tree and meditate. And we have a new director. Right now he has the title of deputy director. And he will work with me over the next year and learning the ropes and getting introduced to all the right people. And most importantly, leading the effort. And so you're going to see a lot of him at this meeting. And he's going to work with me in a number of societies and at the university. And I think he will be a terrific leader. So let's get great tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. And we'll see you in the next meeting. Thank you. Thank you very much for joining us. Thank you. So I'm also happy as punch that we've got to be saying it's great on our team. We have Lynn McCready, those of you who don't know Lynn, she's outstanding and she's manning and running this conference and then as our executive assistant and then we've taken on two through NSF related NSF funding. We've taken on two sub-engineers, Mariela Bernot and Elchin Jeffroff. So Mariela and Elchin, you're here someplace. There you are, Elchin and Mariela's in the back, you ran the bootcamp with Mark. But anyways, I am so pleased that every single one of these individuals here outstanding I was so lucky over the last ten years to be working with them, that's wonderful. So on the, it's really important, I saw I asked you and to work with your colleagues and friends to participate when this all gets settled. We've been working with the American Jew physical union to have a big presence this year and at the AGU San Francisco. We have eleven sessions proposed, as you know, sometimes they get merged together. But in that I'm a personal friend of the personal organization at AGU. Sessions hopefully will get our way on some of this. So I think this is a terrific opportunity. So if you have posters at this particular meeting, you may want to turn them into talk to other posters at the AGU. Please participate, all of the focus research groups and working groups have a presence through one of these proposed sessions. So another thing we stop counting on though we should count area here is that we now have over 500 plus institutions as part of CSCMS scattered around the world. They're both representing academic universities and knowledge institutes, government agencies and industry. Our members are now coming from 68 countries and again we don't track this as carefully as we should. However, make sure that this is legitimate and that we don't have cyber spies on our computer. We rid them for us. But anyways, these are the numbers in our groups most recently. And you can see that this is an organization that continues to grow. We're also reaching out to the International Soil Modeling Consortium. So it's dedicated to science, dedicated to open source. It has an American presence out there where it's more European based in membership. Lots of models that could be contributed to and shared with our community. So we're working with them to see if that can work out perhaps independently as a medical zone, although that's our own one. Our medical zone, which includes our sciences, not as dedicated and much more broader. And ecosystem dynamics, you know, that's one of the new ones that we launched last year. And already it's grown and Greg and I attended the International Society for Ecological Modeling Conference last week. And Baltimore, great organization to work with. And we look forward to working with them to this shared focus research group. The human dimensions, there's a few of you who are staying on for this conference next week. That's trying to link the system models, our sort of community models with the social science models. I think this will really put some emphasis behind the human dimension of focus research group. We continue to get your donated models. Thank you very much. Both in coastal, marine, terrestrial and hydrological communities. We now have 259 models of modeling tools. We have enough of them that I'm familiar with all of them so I can't talk about them. But certainly when we get them we compile them so we know they work. We just don't know what they do. So most of them are in the language that allows them to be wrapped and put into our complete environment. So I think 92% of them are in one of these languages that we support. But even though that is right now the technology, we are thinking about and trying to work out how we can best work on trying to expand this technical technology. For instance, the agent-based models. There's some open source programs out there. Our compilers out there should say that they allow this even though our language neutral compiler doesn't support that at present. Each is still up and running. A lot of you thought it would be dead by now. But the systems community is still heavily engaged in working with this. We had to re-move it to a relocation. And Janice is still up and running even though it's now past its life. And so Anna said we supported us. I'm one of the PEIs on this new program summit. So I'm connected to all of them. And so summit will be coming online. It's kind of terrible. I've had a problem I should say. And that will be available to those who can show that they can scale their models. And your bona fides can be made on beach. And if you're capable on Janice and then summit. But we also work carefully with Yellowstone out the road. It's an MSF facility that's a couple of feet up in the bumps. And we're trying to get our software stack on other systems. We reach out to you every year. And we continue to reach out to you to submit to this online service that we provide. And you'll get credit. But it offers a price for you to develop a sort of cyber network labs, shorter courses, lectures, textbooks, even data. You have movies on our systems YouTube channel. And we talked about last year's science on a sphere. So we put up ourselves more of our data sets and model simulations on the science on the sphere that gets out to the international community and the museums and really gets into the public domain. So please help us. Also our uncertainty volume that Albert Kenner deserves all the credit for as the lead editor. Data is now out. It's available on uncertainty. Our annual meeting a couple of years, two, three years ago. So we're happy to announce that system's one final, the web modeling tool is out. It's BattleHarden. That was our big deal was to convert it from a group of concept, a CMT tool that was not BattleHarden to BattleHarden called Operational Grade Code. And that's available for all of you to use. And we've also, for those of you who don't like using glues, we have a behind the scene. We've had it forever, but we just never shared it. But now we're sharing it. It's the system's iPhone modeling tool. And that's also available for all of you to see Eric Cutten for that. We have a condo based binary software distributors available for all of our software code. We have software stack installers. We tried this out most recently at Louisiana State University's High Performance Computer. And we're willing to work with you and your HPCs to get our software stack there and can meet it. Otherwise, we're happy to support you for our own systems through the web. And we have work on getting all the components of public health in the UMJ that's completed now. And we have a clinic coming up this meeting. We wanted to use public health because even though Scott was the owner of this company, it wasn't quite into the DMI standards that we now have. And so it provided us with challenges that we were able to overcome. So we're pleased to say that that's not always components that are available in the government. Scott has continued to work on our semantic mediation and ontologies. And he now has 2653 systems that are named. We measure when you have two codes that want to talk to one another. They have to agree what something is called. And they do that through a shared naming system. And that allows, doesn't matter what this code calls it. It doesn't matter what that code calls it. But by having this shared thing, the models can communicate through our model program program. Dakota, we still work on when we can to get the systems of the UMJ. We have a prototype now under the veil row. We have got Dakota Python wrappers available. And we have a new benchmarking toolkit called ILAM. And Elton is the master advanced if it's called Elton. So this is our meeting. So our meeting is, even though many of you appeared to have been here before, we've run the meeting more or less the same different keynote addresses, of course, and clinics, of course, and discussions, of course. And the posters and all of that, the meeting schedule is more or less fixed. We've started some keynote things that are lined up. We'll get on to all your thoughts on system 3.0. What is it that you would like this as a community effort to meet your needs in the 21st century through system 3.0? We have clinics. So after lunch, go directly to the clinics. We're going to come back here after the... So after the keynotes, there must be a break, isn't there? Yes. So after the break, come back here. This break would like to encourage you all and give you some ideas on what the breakouts will be for the system 3.0. But after lunch, go directly to the clinics, the rooms are there. Then we have more keynotes, posters, posters and strength of day fresh the next day. We have a wide variety of clinics. They're outstanding. I look forward to them. And we will have group meetings, discussions that will actually be on medium and long-term goals and systems 3.0 also. So the banquet is a fun banquet. It's on Wednesday night. It's at the Haunted Regency where some of you are staying. And there will be buses or transportation to get you there. Correct me? Yes. Okay. And so this is an opportunity for us to award a prize to the best poster. And so to get the best poster, you just don't want me voting. So everyone should vote. And remember, vote offered. I shouldn't say that. Don't vote on them. This is not a Republican. Oh, did I say vote for June? So we will also have an award go out to our student model here. I would like to, I mean, that's a wonderful opportunity to get this highly competitive award. And then we're going to move on to the program director's award. Many of you don't know Joe, some of you do. Joe is one of the most outstanding people I've ever come across. He's, he took a program that was the predecessor to systems, CSCMS, and it was called Stratiform. And he led that when he was program director at the Office of Labor Research. What made Stratiform outstanding is that it was based on the three colors of modern day science in our environmental field. Built on the process based studies, because you need them. Always learning things when you measure things. It's based on the preserved record because you need to interpret and sort of translate between the process studies and the preserved record. And it's also based with the medical modeling being the important glue between those two. And his effort in this made Stratiform one of the most outstanding programs. And so for this and many other programs that he ran, he will be winning the director's award this year. And Mary Hill will be winning the Lifetime Achievement Award. Now many of you don't know Mary, because she's been an outstanding spokesperson, inflect or at systems meetings over the last few years. And she is well-deserved for this Lifetime Achievement Award. And then the list of prizes that she's already won is outstanding from her awards and fellowship at the USGS, the civil engineers, Walter Hubbard Engineering Research Prize, the National Groundwater Distinguished Arts and Lecturer, fellowship with the GSA, and the King Hubbard Award, which is probably the most prestigious of all, is just one of the reasons, but that's not in itself the reason she's winning the System of Lifetime Achievement Award. She's really pioneered an open source modeling, and it's because of her that we now have the foundations that we do in some of the great codes that we have. So, and then her work on Uncertainty Meals is through all that, I just bow my hands to Mary all the time. So, where are you Mary? Congratulations.