• New pan-Texas coastal operational forecast at Texas Water Development Board, based on SCHISM 3D now available as Baycast
  • NOAA article on UFS-coastal development
  • Release of National Water Model V3.*, with SCHISM as coastal module
  • Annual NOAA SCHISM update took place on July 10, 2024. See here for presentations.
  • Ocean Modelling is organizing a special issue for SCHISM; see details for submission here .
  • Dr. Joseph Zhang became an Associate Editor of Ocean Modelling in Jan 2024
  • Compound flood forecasts featured in NSF news
  • In Dec 2021, EPA's Chesapeake Bay Program selected SCHISM as its new Main Bay Model for regulatory purposes. See the news release on EPA & NOAA activities at VIMS
  • TACC article on NOAA-VIMS work on compound flood forecast and prediction.
  • Jan 2023: NOAA released SCHISM based STOFS3D-Atlantic for Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
  • EOS article on NOAA-VIMS work on compound flood forecast and prediction.
  • 2nd e-Tutorial on OPENcoastS, to be conducted by LNEC, Portugal from Jan 27-29, 2021.
  • On Dec 23, 2020, NOAA/OCS introduces world's first three-dimensional integrated compound inland-coastal flooding guidance system based on SCHISM: Inland-Coastal Flooding Operational Guidance System (ICOGS)
  • First SCHISM user group meeting/boot camp, organized by NOAA, will be held online Feb 17-19, 2021. See NOAA announcement here .
  • SCHISM code base migrated from svn to github in Aug 2019.
  • A special SCHISM Summit & training workshop for developers/advanced users was held in April 2019 at California Dept of Water Resources. Agenda here. We have participants from 10 countries represented. Group photo. Links to videos can be found from the Forum site.
  • Joseph Z. gave a training course at on April 18-20, 2018 at Univ. of Oldenburg (Germany).
    • Group photo
    • List of participants
  • Joseph Z. gave an open course on seamless cross-scale modeling with SCHISM at Second Institute of Oceanography, Hangzhou, China from Dec 4-7, 2017. About 70 participants attended. Group photo here. You can also download video files
  • An interactive platform (OPENCoastS) to generate on-demand forecasts based on SCHISM is under development at LNEC (Portugal), funded by the EOSC-HUB project.
  • SCHISM selected as a potential core model suite that could be applied by a future European Research Infrastructure called Danubius-RI - The International Centre for Advanced Studies on River-Sea Systems.
  • SCHISM developers meeting was held online on Sept 13-14, 2016.
  • An on-site user training course was conducted at VIMS on May 9-10, 2016.
  • In-person user training course was conducted at California Department of Water Resources in Jan 2015; see here for more info.
  • On-site user training course was conducted at VIMS on August 12-14, 2013.
  • The original SELFE paper is the 4th most cited papers on Ocean Modelling
  • SELFE/SCHISM developer, Joseph Zhang, moved to Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS), College of William and Mary in August 2012
  • An online tutorial on SELFE/SCHISM and ACE tool in May 2012, given by Joseph Zhang