Science Steering Committee Meeting

Present: Brad Aagaard, Magali Billen, Jed Brown, Jolante van Wijk, Lorraine Hwang, Scott King, Carl Tape

Absent: Tim Ahern, Jon Aurnou, Roger Buck, Louise Kellogg

The meeting focused on:

• Potential CIG participation in the EarthCube CINERGI project
• Creating a database for contributed models
• Best practices for software development

Outcomes:

• Committee needs more time to review EarthScope CINERGI project before formulating a recommendation for CIG participation.
• Committee expressed support for creating a database for contributed models.

Action Items:

• Committee members will review EarthCube CINERGI project tools and discuss potential CIG participation at the next SSC meeting.
• Committee members will examine potential tools for creating a database for contributed models and work on developing some use cases for PyLith, SPECFEM, and CitCom.
• Jed Brown will give a webinar on Git workflow in Oct.
• Discussion of how to document best practices for software development postponed to next meeting.