Advancing Land Modeling for Gulf Coast Resilience

Join us for a dynamic workshop hosted by The University of Texas at Austin to advance community‑driven land modeling and foster partnerships addressing environmental challenges in Texas and the Gulf Coast.

Key Details

• Date: August 14–15, 2025
• Location: ROC 1.603 (PRC 196), 10601 Exploration Way, Austin, TX 78758 (see parking and campus maps at the end of this document)
• Participants: 255 registered (72 in‑person, 183 virtual)

Notes: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner provided on both days. International virtual talks are pre‑recorded (12 minutes). Virtual sessions will be recorded for asynchronous viewing. A poster session is scheduled on Day 1. A panel discussion will be held each day to synthesize key findings for Gulf Coast resilience. Sessions end by ~5:30 PM (no later than 6:00 PM).

Venue Location

Pickle Research Campus, UT Austin
ROC 1.603 Seminar Room (PRC 196), 10100 Burnet Rd, Austin, TX 78758

Workshop Agenda

Full List of Posters

Poster session on Day 1 (August 14), 5:05–5:50 PM. Organized by scientific session theme.

Hydrological Application and Advancement (4 Posters)

1. Anuj Prakash Kushwaha (remote, 2‑min lightning talk pre‑recording) — IIT Gandhinagar, India — Multimodel Assessment of Water Budget in Indian Sub‑continental River Basins — anuj.k@iitgn.ac.in
2. Mohammad Farmani (remote, 2‑min lightning talk pre‑recording) — University of Arizona, USA — Improving Streamflow Predictions in the Arid Southwestern United States through Understanding of Baseflow Generation Mechanisms — farmani@arizona.edu
3. Koutian Wu (in person) — UT Austin, USA — Noah‑MP land surface model with plant hydraulics scheme (Noah‑MP‑PHS) Evaluation — ktwu@utexas.edu
4. Mahsa Moradi (in person) — University of New Hampshire, USA — Noah‑MP Snow Processes in Eastern US and Hydrological Implications — mm1631@usnh.edu

Extreme Weather and Events (5 Posters)

1. Viral Patel (remote, 2‑min lightning talk pre‑recording) — Pandit Deendayal Energy University, India — Extreme Weather Modeling for Coastal Regions — patelvrl434@gmail.com
2. Israel Orimoloye (remote, 2‑min lightning talk pre‑recording) — University of the Free State, South Africa — Drought Modeling for Coastal Resilience — Orimoloyeisrael@gmail.com
3. Prolay Saha (remote, 2‑min lightning talk pre‑recording) — India (Institution not specified) — Mesoscale Convective System over Northeast India‑Bangladesh — prolay.saha@example.com
4. Eunsaem Cho (remote, 2‑min lightning talk pre‑recording) — NASA GSFC — Evaluating Multiple Parameterization Physics for Enhanced Large‑Scale Flood Prediction in the Missouri River Basin — eunsaem.cho@nasa.gov
5. Zhanfei Liu (in person) — UT Austin — Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Texas Bays and Estuaries — zhanfei.liu@utexas.edu

AI/ML Application & Integration with Physical Models (2 Posters)

1. M Niranjannaik (remote, 2‑min lightning talk pre‑recording) — Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India — AI‑Driven Coastal Resilience Modeling — m.niranjannaik@iitgn.ac.in
2. M Mbarak (in person) — University of Texas at Austin, USA — NoahMP‑AI: Enhancing Land Surface Model Prediction with Deep Learning — mbarak@utexas.edu

Urban Modeling and Application (3 Posters)

1. Hongping Gu (remote, lightning talk pre‑recording) — USU, USA — Remote Effects of Urbanization on Temperatures in Adjacent Cities: A Case Study in Utah — hongping.gu@usu.edu
2. Harsh Kamath (in person) — University of Texas at Austin, USA — Urban Influence on Convection and Precipitation in the Coastal City of Houston, TX: Modelling Urban Precipitation Impacts Beyond the Grey Zone — kamath.harsh@utexas.edu
3. Yiming Zhang (in person) — UT Austin, USA — Urban Modeling for Coastal Resilience — yiming.zhang@beg.utexas.edu

Subseasonal‑to‑Seasonal Prediction (3 Posters)

1. Muzhen Yang (in person) — Texas A&M University, USA — Assessment of Subseasonal‑to‑Seasonal (S2S) Streamflow and Reservoir Storage Forecast Skills in the Trinity River Basin — yangmuzhen@tamu.edu
2. Jagger Alexander (in person) — University of Texas at Austin, USA — Subseasonal‑to‑Seasonal Heatwave Forecasting Using Machine Learning, Dynamical Models, and Reanalysis Data — jaggeralexander@utexas.edu
3. MD ANISUZZAMAN RAFY (in person) — Univ of Houston, USA — S2S related — mrafy@cougarnet.uh.edu

In-Person Participants

• Adnan Dehghani, Rice University
• Andrew Dessler, Texas A&M University
• Andrew Newman, NSF NCAR
• Angelica Ovalle, TAMUCC
• Ashraf Rateb, University of Texas at Austin
• Ashley Matheny, University of Texas at Austin
• Babak Heidari, Texas State University
• Bridget Scanlon, University of Texas at Austin
• Cenlin He, NSF NCAR
• Chenxi Hu, University of Texas at Austin
• Chieh-Chen Lee, University of Texas at Austin
• Danny Stockli, University of Texas at Austin
• Dapeng Feng, Stanford University
• Eunsang Cho, Texas State University
• Farhaan Cooverji, Texas State University
• Farshid Felfelani, NSF NCAR
• Gamal El Afandi, Tuskegee University
• Guo-Yue Niu, University of Arizona
• Hanadi Rifai, University of Houston
• Harsh Kamath, University of Texas at Austin
• Hassan Dashtian, University of Texas at Austin
• Huilin Gao, Texas A&M University
• John Zhu, Texas Water Development Board
• JR DeShazo, University of Texas at Austin
• Koutian Wu, University of Texas at Austin
• Lingcheng Li, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• M Mbarak, University of Texas at Austin
• Mahsa Moradi, University of New Hampshire
• Marc Coudert, Office of Climate Action & Resilience, City of Austin
• Marc Hesse, University of Texas at Austin
• Marisa Flores Gonzalez, Austin Water, City of Austin
• Md Munir Mahmud, Texas State University
• Meg Fowler, NSF NCAR
• Mike Ek, NSF NCAR
• Muzhen Yang, Texas A&M University
• Naveen Sudharsan, University of Texas at Austin
• Nelun Fernando, Texas Water Development Board
• Noemi Vergopolan, Rice University
• Rakshith Mallesh, University of Texas at Austin
• Reda, Tuskegee University
• Ronnie Abolafia-Rosenzweig, NSF NCAR
• Shinhye Han, Rice University
• Shuku Khojeh, University of Texas at Austin
• Shyama Mohanty, University of Texas at Austin
• Soe W Myint, Texas State University
• Sreenath Paleri, Texas A&M University
• Stanley Akor, Boise State University
• Tom Enzminger, NSF NCAR
• Vivek Kumar Singh, Oak Ridge National Lab
• Wonhyun Lee, University of Texas at Austin
• Xiaochen Zhao, Louisiana State University
• Xinxin Sui, University of Texas at Austin
• Yaga Richter, NSF NCAR
• Yan Jiang, University of California, San Diego
• Yiming Zhang, University of Texas at Austin
• Yinuo Zhu, Texas A&M University
• Yuan Qiu, Arizona State University
• Yun Qian, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Yuanhui Zhu, Texas State University
• Yuqi Huang, University of Oklahoma
• Zhanfei Liu, University of Texas at Austin
• Zhe Zhang, NSF NCAR
• Zong-Liang Yang, University of Texas at Austin
• MD Anisuzzaman Rafy, University of Houston
• Shanru Tian, University of Texas at Arlington
• Salem Ibrahim, Tuskegee University
• Hewei Tang, University of Texas at Austin
• Ziyan Lei, Louisiana State University
• Xueli Huo, Arizona State University
• Clint Dawson, University of Texas at Austin
• Ali Mousavinezhad, Texas Water Development Board
• Ifeanyichukwu Nduka, University of Texas at Austin
• Celeste González de Bustamante, University of Texas at Austin

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Remote Participants

• In-Young Yeo, University of Newcastle
• Madhuka Wickramarachchi, University of Newcastle
• Ayman Nassar, Utah State University
• Devesh Mani, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar
• Ran Du, Fudan University
• Gayathri Vangala, IIT Gandhinagar
• Augusto Getirana, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Ananya Sarkar, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
• Akshaya Nikumbh, IIT Bombay
• Saleem Adebayo, Texas State University
• Samiran Khorat, Jadavpur University
• Yongjie Huang, University of Oklahoma
• Manmeet Singh, UT Austin
• Wenting Ming, Beijing Normal University
• Jianhui Wei, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• David Donaire Montaño, University of Granada
• Hu Wenke, Jilin University
• Avinash Parde, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology Pune
• Mohammad Afzal Shadab, Princeton University
• Tricia Parker, University of Maryland and NASA GSFC
• Hailan Wang, NOAA NWS Climate Prediction Center
• Li Xu, CPC/NCEP/NWS
• Duc Tran, University of Virginia
• Jing Wang, UMD
• Chenghao Wang, University of Oklahoma
• Arunav Nanda, Michigan State University
• Jason Otkin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Dan Lu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Shuaichen He, Yunnan University
• Ganesh Khatei, Temple University
• Liaofan Lin, CIRA, CSU
• Swarup Dangar, The University of Tokyo
• Peng Ji, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
• Xinyi Gu, NUIST
• Liling Chang, Florida State University
• Ziyan Zheng, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Francis Tam, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Swathi V S, Indian Institute of Scientific Education and Research, Bhopal
• Md. Aminul Haque Laskor, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
• Rajendran Shobha Ajin, University of Florence
• Arijit Chakraborty, KU Leuven
• Sawsan Shatanawi, Washington State University
• Shyama Mohanty, University of Texas at Austin
• Qiuju Li, China University of Geosciences (Beijing)
• Yuan Xue, Lynker at NOAA
• David Mocko, SAIC at NASA/GSFC
• Danielle Touma, UT Austin
• Shanza Arshad, Forman Christian College University
• Mohamed Hamitouche, IUSS Pavia
• Michel Bechtold, KU Leuven
• Yasir Abbas, University of Agriculture Faisalabad
• Jinwoong Yoo, University of Maryland/NASA GSFC
• Sulochan Dhungel, California Department of Water Resources
• Kwun Yip Fung, University of Miami
• Jing Wang, ESSIC/NASA
• Liaofan Lin, CIRA, Colorado State University
• Yan Xue, NOAA/NWS/OSTI Modeling Program
• Amira Moustafa, Tuskegee University
• Saurav Bhattarai, Jackson State University
• Endalkachew, SD Mines
• Zhan Yingxu, Fudan University
• Xin Wang, Fudan University
• Sandeep Trideepkumar, IISER THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
• Shan Sun, Global Systems Laboratory, OAR, NOAA
• Josna Joseph, IISER THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
• Gayathri B, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram
• Xiangyong Lei, Peking University
• Saghar Ahmadian, Research Scholar at IHE Delft
• Ali Mousavinezhad, Texas Water Development Board
• Love Kumar, University of Illinois
• Md Arifur Rahman, University of Texas at Arlington
• Wang Yiyang, Fudan University
• Yuan Huanmujin, Fudan University Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences & Institute of Atmospheric Sciences
• Hongping Gu, Utah State University
• Long Zhao, Southwest University
• Xitian Cai, Sun Yat-sen University
• Wei Zhang, Utah State University
• Antonietta Quigg, Texas A&M University at Galveston
• Tzu-Shun Lin, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
• Eric Bickel, University of Texas at Austin
• Liu Liren, JUN
• Aaron Alexander, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Avimanyu Ray, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Xinjie Wei, Fudan University
• Gangqiang Zhang, Beijing Normal University
• Wang JC, Beijing Normal University
• Hyeon-Ju Gim, Korea Institute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems
• Weizhong Zheng, Lynker at NOAA/NCEP/EMC
• danqiong dai, University of Western Ontario
• Shiqin Xu, KAUST
• Parthkumar Modi, Jacobs
• Matilde García-Valdecasas Ojeda, University of Granada
• Liu Liren, Jinan University
• Shabeh ul Hasson, University of Hamburg
• Jonathan Case, University of Alabama - Huntsville
• Michael Barlage, NOAA/NWS/EMC
• Guiling Wang, University of Connecticut
• Chenghao Wang, University of Oklahoma
• Huili Chen, Loughborough University
• Haotian Wang, University of Connecticut
• Dr. Alok Raj, IIT (BHU)
• Caleb Earl Adams, UT Austin and Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Madhusmita Swain, University at Albany
• Eunsaem Cho, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Deep Shah, Texas A&M University
• Chi Hsiang Huang, Texas A&M
• Shuai Zhang, Texas A&M University
• Elise Huysman, KU Leuven and Ghent University
• Lidia Cano Pecharroman, MIT
• Adrien Hilmy, Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program
• Christopher Castro, NCAR
• Mohammad Farmani, University of Arizona
• Love Kumar, University of Illinois
• LBJ Dean's Admin, University of Texas at Austin
• Sherly Shelton, Utah State University
• Zhichang Guo, NOAA/EMC
• Joyce Leung, NOAA CPC
• Yasir Abbas, University of Agriculture Faisalabad
• Hyunglok Kim, GIST
• Enrico Zorzetto, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
• BERNARD NKRUMAH ATTOBRAH, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
• Kirsten Warrach-Sagi, University of Hohenheim
• Chandra Prakash Ojha, Pokhara University
• Xingang Fan, Western Kentucky University
• Nahid Gani, Western Kentucky University
• Royhan Gani, Western Kentucky University
• Eric Rappin, KY Climate Center
• Young-Hoon Jin, City of Austin
• Jiwon Yoon, Ewha Womans Universiy
• Santosh Chaudhary, Tuskegee University
• Myung-Seo Koo, Korea Institute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems
• Yonghwan Kwon, Korea Institute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems
• Chetan Gurung, University of Maryland Baltimore County
• Archana Aravind, IISER Thiruvananthapuram
• Arun G S, IISER Thiruvananthapuram

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Organizers

Dr. Zong‑Liang Yang

UT Austin
Lead Organizer

Dr. Soe Win Myint

Texas State University
Co‑Organizer

Dr. Cenlin He

NSF NCAR
Workshop Co‑Lead

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Workshop Chair

Zong‑Liang Yang
Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, UT Austin
liang@jsg.utexas.edu

Organizing Committee

Cenlin He
Scientist, NSF NCAR
cenlin@ucar.edu

Soe Win Myint
Professor, Department of Geography, Texas State University
soe.myint@txstate.edu

Local Organizing Committee
Jackson School of Geosciences, UT Austin
Mahmoud Mbarak, Jagger Alexander, Shokoufeh Khojeh, Chieh‑Chen Lee, Chenxi Hu, Manmeet Singh, Naveen Sudharsan, Harsh Kamath, Xinxin Sui, Hassan Dashtian

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