The OpenMI Association is pleased to announce the winners of the OpenMI Awards 2012. These awards reward excellence in the use and development of the Open Modelling Interface standard. They focus on the contributions of individuals and groups in furthering the application and evolution of OpenMI. The two winning entries are given below.

1. Integrating OpenMI and UncertWeb (Aston University)

The paper "Integrating OpenMI and UncertWeb: Managing Uncertainty in OpenMI Models" was presented at the iEMSs 2012 conference in Leipzig by Lucy Bastin of Aston University, Birmingham UK.

The paper is attached to the relevant news article, below. The authors may be contacted for further information.

 

Version 2 of the FluidEarth toolkit for OpenMI version 2.0 is now available.

FluidEarth is HR Wallingford’s implementation of the OpenMI standard, with the objective of making integrated environmental modelling easier and more flexible. This release of version 2 of the toolkit runs on Windows with .Net 4 with C# and FORTRAN and includes:

- An open source version of the Pipistrelle GUI and FluidEarth Software Development Kit (Pipistrelle_2_0_x86_RC1): http://sourceforge.net/projects/fluidearth/ ;

- A training website with videos and example models, starting at the beginning: http://elearning.fluidearth.net/.

Information about FluidEarth and the above links are given on the FluidEarth portal (http://fluidearth.net/); anyone may request an ID to contribute to the community and raise discussion points and questions.

 

Adrian and Paul being presented with their award by Roger Moore

• still working with HRW on Oxford composition (InfoWorks RS + ZOOMQ3D : surface water + groundwater) to examine how flooding occurs in the Oxford area
• Thames composition (3 models : 2 groundwater + 1 surface water) : initial composition nearly ready
• Matlab borehole model (radial-cartesian grid) made OpenMI compliant and linked to cartesian groundwatermodel such as ZOOM3D
• waiting on the outcome of a Belmont Forum proposal which involves transcontinental cooperation.

Innovyze (UK) :

• continue collaboration with HRW on FluidEarth2 development
• move InfoWorks CS and RS to OpenMI 2.0

HR Wallingford (UK) :

• Development of FluidEarth2
• OpenMI 2.0 composition Beachplan (composition of different coastal and surface water sediment transport and morphologic models); publication for IAHR congress envisaged.
  
• submitted paper (originating from ModelFusion Conference) for Geological Society Publishing House
• development of dedicated GUI (Pyxis) for existing models to make them more accessible for integrated modelling.  Pipistrelle can be used as a plug-in to Pyxis.
• FP7 iWidget project (scenario-modelling) has been running for about 6 months.  Optimisation of domestic watersupply.
  
• DRIHM has been running for about 18 months.  1D flow model Mascaret is being wrapped and envisaged to be linked with hydrologic and flood models.

NERC (UK)

• Development of strategy for integrated modelling
• PURE experimental zone : integrated catastrophe modelling

Deltares (NL)

• DeltaShell Framework is being made compliant to both OpenMI 1.4 and 2.0
• Links between OpenMI and  OpenDA (Java based Open Data Assimilation) are strengthening
• ongoing developments on OpenStreams : small components for hydrological modelling 
• Interactive modelling using OpenMI (involving scenario and uncertainty analysis) presented on EGU 

DHI (DK)

• Added 2.0 components to already migrated components  (Mike She, Mouse, Mike11 and Mike21 as research version).
• FEFlow (groundwatermodel) made compliant
• Proof of concept for linking Linux model with a Windows model (with no or minimal changes to the respective source codes)
• OpenDA/OpenMI coupling (together with Deltares) focussing on MikeShe.
• Linking Danish meteorological model (Linux based, HPC) with MikeShe : ongoing.
• Linking MikeShe and FEFlow (full 3D coupling using the new OpenMI 2.0 adapters)
• Assistance with various smaller projects at partner organisations (universities, ...)

Aquafin (BE)

• Development for Aquafin by Danish consultant J. Gudbjerg of OpenMI based interface for Matlab Simulink Toolbox.

Cracow University of Technology / NT (PL)

• initial ideas for Python implementation of OpenMI for open source (non Windows based) GIS Implementations
  

• Bulatewicz, T., A. Allen, J.M. Peterson, S. Staggenborg, S.M. Welch, D.R. Steward, 2013. The Simple Script Wrapper for OpenMI: Enabling interdisciplinary modeling studies, Environmental Modelling & Software, 39 (January), 283-294, ISSN 1364-8152, 10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.07.006.
• Bulatewicz, T. and D. Andresen (2012). Efficient data collection from Open Modeling Interface (OpenMI) components. In:
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA), ed. H. R. Arabnia et al., CSREA Press, Las Vegas, Nevada, Vol. 1, 53-59, July 16-19, 2012. The paper is included in the publicly available conference proceedings.

FluidEarth is HR Wallingford’s implementation of the OpenMI standard, with the objective of making integrated environmental modelling easier and more flexible. This release of version 2 of the toolkit runs on Windows with .Net 4 with C# and FORTRAN and includes:

- An open source version of the Pipistrelle GUI and FluidEarth Software Development Kit (Pipistrelle_2_0_x86_RC1): http://sourceforge.net/projects/fluidearth/  ;

- A training website with videos and example models, starting at the beginning: http://elearning.fluidearth.net/ .

Information about FluidEarth and the above links are given on the FluidEarth portal (http://fluidearth.net/); anyone may request an ID to contribute to the community and raise discussion points and questions.

With appreciation and thanks to the staff involved from HR Wallingford and Innovyze.