Scott D. Peckham

Research Associate •
• Hydrology • Geomorphology • Modeling • Cyberinfrastructure

Fax: 303 735-8180

Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System (CSDMS)

Bio

Scott's research interests include physically-based mathematical and numerical modeling, watershed-scale hydrologic systems, source-to-sink sediment transport, scaling analysis, differential geometry, component-based modeling, grid-based computational methods, efficient computer algorithms and fluvial landscape evolution models. Scott has authored numerous, open-source, earth surface process models including a spatially-distributed hydrologic model called TopoFlow and a fluvial landscape evolution model called Erode. He is also CEO and founder of Rivix, LLC which sells a software product for terrain and watershed analysis called RiverTools.

Scott has been honored to pursue research as a NASA Global Change Student Fellow (1990-1993) and a National Research Council Research Associate (1995-1998).

Education

PhD, Geophysics: University of Colorado, Boulder, 1995
MS, Mathematics: Oregon State University, Corvallis, 1989
BS, Physics: Oregon State University, Corvallis, 1987
BS, Engineering Physics: Oregon State University, Corvallis, 1987

Awards

National Research Council Research Associate, National Research Council (NRC), 1995
NASA Global Change Student Fellow, NASA, 1990

Research

Scott's research interests include cyberinfrastructure for modeling, hydrologic modeling, fluvial landscape evolution, seafloor and stratigraphic evolution, nonlinear PDEs, differential geometry, scaling theory, sediment plumes, coastal dynamics, efficient computer algorithms, and source-to-sink sediment transport.

Publications

Recent publications

CSDMS: a community platform for numerical modeling of Earth surface processes

CU Boulder Authors: Piper, Mark; Tucker, Greg; Overeem, Irina; Peckham, Scott D; Kettner, Albert

All Authors:

Tucker GE; Hutton EWH; Piper MD; Campforts B; Gan T; Barnhart KR; Kettner AJ; Overeem I; Peckham SD; McCready L...

Tucker GE
Hutton EWH
Piper MD
Campforts B
Gan T
Barnhart KR
Kettner AJ
Overeem I
Peckham SD
McCready L

Published in: Geoscientific Model Development
Publication Date: 2022-02-17
Type: Journal Article

Artificial Intelligence for Modeling Complex Systems: Taming the Complexity of Expert Models to Improve Decision Making

CU Boulder Authors: Peckham, Scott D

All Authors: Gil Y; Garijo D; Khider D; Knoblock CA; Ratnakar V; Osorio M; Vargas H; Pham M; Pujara J; Shbita B

Published in: The ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
Publication Date: 2021-06-30
Type: Journal Article

Effective modeling for Integrated Water Resource Management: A guide to contextual practices by phases and steps and future opportunities

CU Boulder Authors: Peckham, Scott D

All Authors:

Badham J; Elsawah S; Guillaume JHA; Hamilton SH; Hunt RJ; Jakeman AJ; Pierce SA; Snow VO; Babbar-Sebens M; Fu B...

Badham J
Elsawah S
Guillaume JHA
Hamilton SH
Hunt RJ
Jakeman AJ
Pierce SA
Snow VO
Babbar-Sebens M
Fu B

Published in: Environmental Modelling and Software
Publication Date: 2019-06-01
Type: Journal Article

Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

CU Boulder Authors: Peckham, Scott D

All Authors:

Publication Date: 2019-03-17
Type: Conference Proceeding

Critical thresholds for eventual extinction in randomly disturbed population growth models

CU Boulder Authors: Peckham, Scott D

All Authors: Peckham SD; Waymire EC; De Leenheer P

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Biology
Publication Date: 2018-08-01
Type: Journal Article

A service-oriented architecture for coupling web service models using the Basic Model Interface (BMI)

CU Boulder Authors: Peckham, Scott D

All Authors: Jiang P; Elag M; Kumar P; Peckham SD; Marini L; Rui L

Published in: Environmental Modelling and Software
Publication Date: 2017-06-01
Type: Journal Article

Reproducible, component-based modeling with TopoFlow, a spatial hydrologic modeling toolkit

CU Boulder Authors: Peckham, Scott D

All Authors: Peckham SD; Stoica M; Jafarov E; Endalamaw A; Bolton WR

Published in: Earth and Space Science
Publication Date: 2017-06-01
Type: Journal Article

Semantic Interoperability of Long-Tail Geoscience Resources over the Web

CU Boulder Authors: Peckham, Scott D

All Authors: Elag MM; Kumar P; Marini L; Peckham SD; Liu R

Publication Date: 2017-01-01
Type: Chapter

DigitalCrust - a 4D data system of material properties for transforming research on crustal fluid flow

CU Boulder Authors: Peckham, Scott D

All Authors:

Fan Y; Richard S; Bristol RS; Peters SE; Ingebritsen SE; Moosdorf N; Packman A; Gleeson T; Zaslavsky I; Peckham S...

Fan Y
Richard S
Bristol RS
Peters SE
Ingebritsen SE
Moosdorf N
Packman A
Gleeson T
Zaslavsky I
Peckham S

Publication Date: 2016-10-28
Type: Chapter

An introduction to the special issue on Geoscience Papers of the Future

CU Boulder Authors: Peckham, Scott D

All Authors: David CH; Gil Y; Duffy CJ; Peckham SD; Venayagamoorthy SK

Published in: Earth and Space Science
Publication Date: 2016-10-01
Type: Journal Article

THE EARTH SYSTEM PREDICTION SUITE Toward a Coordinated US Modeling Capability

CU Boulder Authors: Peckham, Scott D

All Authors:

Theurich G; DeLuca C; Campbell T; Liu F; Saint K; Vertenstein M; Chen J; Oehmke R; Doyle J; Whitcomb T...

Theurich G
DeLuca C
Campbell T
Liu F
Saint K
Vertenstein M
Chen J
Oehmke R
Doyle J
Whitcomb T

Published in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Publication Date: 2016-07-01
Type: Journal Article

Towards uncertainty quantification and parameter estimation for Earth system models in a component-based modeling framework

CU Boulder Authors: Peckham, Scott D; Hutton, Eric William Howard

All Authors: Peckham SD; Kelbert A; Hill MC; Hutton EWH

Published in: Computers and Geosciences
Publication Date: 2016-05-01
Type: Journal Article

FUTURISTIC GEOSCIENCE MODELING:SMART MODELING FRAMEWORKS, SELF-DESCRIBING MODELS AND THE ROLE OF STANDARDIZED METADATA

CU Boulder Authors: Peckham, Scott D

All Authors: Peckham SD

Publication Date: 2016-01-01
Type: Conference Proceeding

DigitalCrust - a 4D data system of material properties for transforming research on crustal fluid flow

CU Boulder Authors: Peckham, Scott D

All Authors:

Fan Y; Richard S; Bristol RS; Peters SE; Ingebritsen SE; Moosdorf N; Packman A; Gleeson T; Zaslavsky I; Peckham S...

Fan Y
Richard S
Bristol RS
Peters SE
Ingebritsen SE
Moosdorf N
Packman A
Gleeson T
Zaslavsky I
Peckham S

Published in: Geofluids
Publication Date: 2015-02-01
Type: Journal Article

The influence of droplet size and biodegradation on the transport of subsurface oil droplets during the Deepwater Horizon spill: a model sensitivity study

CU Boulder Authors: Peckham, Scott D

All Authors: North EW; Adams EE; Thessen AE; Schlag Z; He R; Socolofsky SA; Masutani SM; Peckham SD

Published in: Environmental Research Letters
Publication Date: 2015-02-01
Type: Journal Article

A component-based approach to integrated modeling in the geosciences: The design of CSDMS

CU Boulder Authors: Peckham, Scott D; Hutton, Eric William Howard

All Authors: Peckham SD; Hutton EWH; Norris B

Published in: Computers and Geosciences
Publication Date: 2013-04-01
Type: Journal Article

Driving plug-and-play models with data from web services: A demonstration of interoperability between CSDMS and CUAHSI-HIS

CU Boulder Authors: Peckham, Scott D

All Authors: Peckham SD; Goodall JL

Published in: Computers and Geosciences
Publication Date: 2013-04-01
Type: Journal Article

Integrated environmental modeling: A vision and roadmap for the future

CU Boulder Authors: Peckham, Scott D

All Authors: Laniak GF; Olchin G; Goodall J; Voinov A; Hill M; Glynn P; Whelan G; Geller G; Quinn N; Blind M

Published in: Environmental Modelling and Software
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Type: Journal Article

- Cyberinfrastructure and Community Environmental Modeling

CU Boulder Authors: Peckham, Scott D

All Authors:

Publication Date: 2012-12-12
Type: Chapter

CSDMS—A Modeling System to Aid Sedimentary Research

CU Boulder Authors: Syvitski, Jaia; Peckham, Scott D; Hutton, Eric William Howard

All Authors: Syvitski JPM; Hutton EWH; Peckham SD; Slingerland R

Published in: The Sedimentary Record
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Type: Journal Article

A Community Approach to Earth Systems Modeling

CU Boulder Authors: Peckham, Scott D; Syvitski, Jaia

All Authors: Voinov AA; DeLuca C; Hood RR; Peckham S; Sherwood CR; Syvitski JPM

Published in: Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Type: Journal Article

Land-surface parameters and objects specific to hydrology

CU Boulder Authors: Peckham, Scott D

All Authors: Gruber S; PECKHAM SD

Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Type: Chapter

Geomorphometry and Spatial Hydrologic Modelling

CU Boulder Authors: Peckham, Scott D

All Authors: Peckham SD

Published in: Developments in Soil Science
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Type: Chapter

Geomorphometry in RiverTools

CU Boulder Authors: Peckham, Scott D

All Authors: Peckham SD

Published in: Developments in Soil Science
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Type: Chapter

Geomorphometry in RiverTools

CU Boulder Authors: Peckham, Scott D

All Authors: PECKHAM SD

Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Type: Chapter

Teaching

Past courses

GEOL/GEOG 5700: Surface Process Modeling: Applying the CSDMS Modeling Tool

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Scott D. Peckham

Bio

Education

Awards

Research

Publications

Semantic Interoperability of Long-Tail Geoscience Resources over the Web

Land-surface parameters and objects specific to hydrology

Geomorphometry in RiverTools

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Teaching

Past courses

Outreach