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Earth Surface Processes Institute
APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED JANUARY 28TH!!
Due to issues with the CSDMS website, the ESPIn Team would like to provide a direct link to the form for community members interested in applying to ESPIn 2025 which will
be held May 5th through 12th, 2025 at the Sustainability,
Energy and Environment Community (SEEC) facility on the University of Colorado, Boulder East Campus.
Apply Here
The Earth Surface Processes Institute (ESPIn) is a six-day immersive training experience organized by CSDMS for 25 early career scientists, including graduate students, postdoctoral
fellows, researchers, and faculty. ESPIn is designed to help participants advance their research in earth and planetary surface processes by teaching skills in numerical modeling, in modern, collaborative, scientific software development, and in the use of
open source community cyberinfrastructure. A mix of experienced scientists, visiting faculty, and research software engineers provide instruction.
ESPIn uses the CSDMS Ivy course material, with topics including:
- Project Jupyter
- Introduction to the Shell
- Text Editors and Development Environments
- The Anaconda Distribution
- Introduction to Version Control with Git and GitHub
- Basics of Python Programming
- Python Programming for ESP Scientists
- Landlab
- The Permamodel Toolkit
- The Basic Model Interface
- The Python Modeling Toolkit
- High-Performance Computing
- Best Practices in Scientific Software Development
Students will be provided an opportunity to present their ESPIn team projects at the CSDMS 2025 Annual Meeting in Boulder, Co from May 13th through 15th, 2025. Travel and
subsistence support will be provided for all students (for ESPIn and the CSDMS Annual Meeting). Important Dates:
- December 2: Application window opens
- January 28: Application window closes
- February 17: Notifications
- May 5th to May 12th: ESPIn 2025
- May 13th to May 15th: CSDMS Annual Meeting 2025
The ESPIn Team
CS...@colorado.edu
CSDMS is sponsored by the National Science Foundation

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