iEMSs

In this issue:

• iEMSs 2024 Biennial Conference Updates – Call for Abstracts
• Conference IAMES 2024 Savona, Italy

iEMSs 2024 Biennial Conference – Call for Abstracts

We are delighted to open the Call for Abstracts for iEMSs 2024, which you can find here:
https://proceedings.iemss.org/index.php/2024/about/submissions

The final deadline for abstract submission is 5 April 2024, which will give you all ample time to prepare and submit your abstracts. However, we ask the session convenors to assess all abstracts as they are submitted and to enable you to make travel decisions based on an accepted submission, please consider submitting your abstracts as soon as possible.

As a quick reminder and background: the iEMSs Board and Office have decided to move to a model with extended abstracts (max. 2 pages including references) only. The main reason for this has been the substantial additional effort required to manage the review process and to ensure that conference proceedings were edited and made available online open access in an acceptable amount of time. Download figures for full conference papers, and the major hurdles of getting proceedings and full papers of a comparatively smaller conference indexed in Web of Science or Scopus did not justify that effort. In addition, we are publishing SESMO, our full open access journal, and edit Environmental Modelling and Software, which provide excellent outlets for full manuscripts which may emerge from iEMSs biennial conferences. Specific communications around opportunities for special issues and general submissions to both journals in the context of iEMSs 2024 as an excellent venue for publishing full manuscripts will be made in due course.

We will gather feedback after the 2024 conference and report back to the new Office and Board to be elected next year to review this approach in time for the 2026 conference and beyond.

Secondly, after working with several different conference management and abstract handling systems over the years, we have decided to invest some efforts in setting up the Open Journal System (OJS), which is used as well to publish SESMO. Along with setting up a persistent conference website as part of the iEMSs domain, the plan is to trial OJS for the 2024 conference, gather feedback and learning points, and if all goes well, we will go with this setup for all future conferences. This will have several benefits, including the ease of generating open access proceedings directly in the iEMSs online presence and close to, if not even before the actual conference. In addition, it would give abstract authors, session organisers and stream convenors the same user experience every time, without the need to adapt to a new system again and again.

We will be working with session organisers and stream convenors as we run this new setup for a first time in the run up to June. We may hit a bump or two and experience some hiccups, but the potential advantages operating our own setup will streamline our conference organization in the future and benefit local organisers and scientific committees going forward.

IAMES2024

3rd IFAC Workshop on Integrated Assessment Modeling for Environmental Systems, Savona, Italy, 29-31 May 2024.

IAMES2024 is the third workshop focused on environmental modelling and integrated impact assessment that will be organized at the Savona Campus of the University of Genova. These topics generally involve scientists from different disciplines, enterprises, policy makers, and other stakeholders for monitoring, management, and planning of environmental systems, and it finds application in multiple domains (risk management, pollution, social and life sciences, economics, power and energy, circular economy, …) in an integrated way.

More information at: https://iames.unige.it/

Key Dates

• Special Session proposal: 15 February 2024
• Regular papers submission deadline: 29 February 2024
• Discussion papers submission deadline 15 March 2024

In this issue:

• iEMSs 2024 Biennial Conference – Registration is open
• Conference Streams
• Prepare for the call for abstracts

iEMSs 2024 Biennial Conference – Registration open

Michigan State University is excited to welcome you to East Lansing, Michigan and beyond. Whether you’re an outdoor enthusiast, an urban adventurer, or somewhere in between, Michigan has it all and summer is the perfect time to visit.

We look forward to hosting an amazing 12^th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs) that creates an environment for meaningful learning and networking. We hope you will take the time to enjoy all that Michigan has to offer.

To learn more about this event, visit: https://conference.iemss.org/

CONFERENCE VENUE AND LODGING

IEMSs will take place at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center (219 S Harrison Rd, East Lansing, MI 48824), located in the heart of Michigan State University’s lush and welcoming campus. This facility offers comfortable and convenient accommodations in addition to the primary meeting space for the event.

Additional lodging accommodations are available at the nearby Graduate Hotel, a short 15 minute walk from the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center or at the Brody Dormitory Lodging and Café, conveniently located across the street.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE – June 23 – 27, 2024

A tentative event schedule can be found online at https://conference.iemss.org/schedule/.

The conference schedule has been designed to offer both structured and more relaxed networking opportunities for attendees to build and enhance partnerships. Your support and engagement will help enhance the experience of the attendees and to help solve our global environmental challenges.

REGISTRATION

Registration for the event is now open. You can register by visiting: https://events.anr.msu.edu/iEMSs/. Registration includes the iEMSs 2 year membership fee, program materials, and several meals and beverages throughout the event. An outline of the membership fees are below:

Professional Online Registration

• Early Bird Registration: US$795 (until April 5 2024)
• Regular Registration: US$995 (April 6 2024 to June 2 2024)
• Late Registration: US$1195 (June 3 2024 to June 19 2024)

Student Online Registration

• Early Bird Registration: US$395 (until April 5 2024)
• Regular Registration: US$595 (April 6 2024 to June 2 2024)
• Late Registration: US$795 (June 3 2024 to June 19 2024)

To learn more or register visit: https://conference.iemss.org/

Conference Streams

• Stream A. Decision making and public participation in environmental modelling
• Stream B. Modeling environmental fate of contaminants, human well-being and ecological public health
• Stream C. Computational methods, workflows, informatics and integrated systems in environmental modelling
• Stream D. System design, identification and uncertainty in modelling complex environmental & agricultural systems
• Stream E. Socio-environmental systems modelling for planetary health and environmental sustainability
• Stream F. (Big) data solutions for environmental systems planning, management, and operation

Please share and advertise the conference widely in your networks! The streams, sessions and workshops are made available on the conference website here: https://conference.iemss.org/streams/

Prepare for the call for abstracts

iEMSs 2024 will come with some changes that have been long coming. Firstly, the iEMSs Board and Office have decided to move to a model with extended abstracts only. The main reason for this has been the substantial additional effort required to manage the review process and to ensure that conference proceedings were edited and made available online open access in an acceptable amount of time. Download figures for full conference papers, and the major hurdles of getting proceedings and full papers of a comparatively smaller conference indexed in Web of Science or Scopus did not justify that effort. In addition, we are publishing SESMO, our full open access journal, and edit Environmental Modelling and Software, which provide excellent outlets for full manuscripts which may emerge from iEMSs biennial conferences. We will gather feedback after the 2024 conference and report back to the new Office and Board to be elected next year to review this approach in time for the 2026 conference.

Secondly, after working with several different conference management and abstract handling systems over the years, we have decided to invest some efforts in setting up the Open Journal System (OJS), which is used as well to publish SESMO. Along with setting up a persistent conference website as part of the iEMSs domain, the plan is to trial OJS for the 2024 conference, gather feedback and learning points, and if all goes well, we will go with this setup for all future conferences. This will have several benefits, including the ease of generating open access proceedings directly in the iEMSs online presence and close to, if not even before the actual conference. In addition, it would give abstract authors, session organisers and stream convenors the same user experience every time, without the need to adapt to a new system again and again.

We intend to open the call for abstracts first thing in January 2024 and ask all iEMSs 2024 authors, session organisers and stream convenors for their support and patience as we run this new setup for a first time in the run up to June. We may hit a bump or two and experience some

hiccups, but the potential advantages operating our own setup will streamline our conference organization in the future and benefit local organisers and scientific committees going forward.

In the meantime, you can already prepare your abstracts and get ready for submission in January with the template, which you can find on the conference website here. Or directly as .docx or .rft.

In this issue:

• Update on iEMSs 2024 Conference
• Call for Papers: 2nd AP SDEWES Conference
• SESMO Compendium on “Fundamentals of Modelling, Principles and Good Practice”
• Upcoming Fall Webinar

Update on iEMSs 2024 Conference

The 12th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, “Addressing Global Environmental Challenges through Intelligent Modeling!” is less than a year away! iEMSs 2024 will be held in East Lansing, Michigan, June 23 – 27, 2024. Session proposals have been received and the program is being organized. Call for abstracts will be coming out this fall. Further details will be available at https://iemss.org/ and https://conference.iemss.org/.

2nd AP Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems – Call for Papers

The 2^nd AP SDEWES Conference will be dedicated to the improvement and dissemination of knowledge on methods, policies and technologies for increasing the sustainability of development by de-coupling growth from natural resources and replacing them with knowledge based economy, taking into account its economic, environmental and social pillars. Conference will be head April 2 – 5, 2024 in Gold Coast, Australia. For more information: http://goldcoast2024.sdewes.org/index.

SESMO Compendium on “Fundamentals of Modelling, Principles and Good Practice”

A joint special issue on Good Modelling Practice is being shared with three journals: Environmental Modelling and Software, Ecological Modelling and Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling. Some details are on each of the journals’ websites and are in the attached in terms of scope – which can be very wide such as considering the whole modelling cycle, or methods or applications for any part of the cycle. Below are the Guest Editors, one from each of the journals. They will be across all submissions. There is some flexibility about the timing but Tony Jakeman would be very pleased to receive an abstract or even a suggestion of what you might cover in a submission so the proposed topic can be discussed.

Guest Editors

Which journal to publish in?

Authors can submit to one of the three journals but only one must be chosen. It is envisaged that manuscripts will be reviewed and assessed by the relevant journal selected by the author(s) and Guest Editors will be across all manuscript processes.

Deadlines for submission

In this issue:

• Call for Session Proposals for iEMSs 2024
• iEMSs Awards
• SESMO Compendium on “Fundamentals of Modelling, Principles and Good Practice”

Call for Session Proposals for iEMSs 2024

Session proposals are being accepted for the 12th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, “Addressing Global Environmental Challenges through Intelligent Modeling!” to be held in East Lansing, Michigan, June 23 – 27, 2024. Session proposals are due by 30 April 2023. Sessions can be submitted here. Streams include:

iEMSs Awards

The iEMSs acknowledges research excellence and service to the Society periodically awarding Medals (biennial, even years), Fellowships (biennial, odd years) and Early Career Research Excellence (ECRE) awards (biennial, even years). There will be a call for Fellow nominations soon.

At iEMSs 2022, the iEMSs Board presented the following awards:

• Biennial Medals: Tatjana Filatova, Marcus Janssen, Giorgio Mannina
• Fellowships: Ann van Griensven, Serena Hamilton, Peter Khaiter, Jiri Nossent, Willem Vervoort
• Early Career Research Excellence Prizes (ECREs): Takuya Iwanaga, Firouzeh Taghikhah, Wenyan Wu.

SESMO Compendium on “Fundamentals of Modelling, Principles and Good Practice”

With the support of its publisher iEMSs, our open access, community-driven journal SESMO is embarking on a Compendium on Fundamentals of Modelling and Good Practices. It will be a series of special issues with online materials. For more information, see sesmo.org/compendium. Interested contributors please contact Serena.Hamilton@anu.edu.au