2025 EARTH ERC Annual Meeting

ERC EARTH Annual meeting participants gathered for a group photo, a large group of people all standing together in an atrium

The 2025 ERC EARTH Annual Meeting was held on Mar 13-14 at the University of Kansas.  The Annual meeting brought together over 120 faculty, students, staff, and stakeholders to discuss the EARTH projects.  A team building exercise was held to develop an EARTH glossary.  The Council of Students who currently have 40 members met to discuss their work and future plans.  Thrust and Project leaders reviewed progress on each of the ten projects.  Students and faculty presented 20 posters on their research.  Prof. Alex Dowling at the University of Notre Dame presented the dinner presentation on “Accelerating Research Convergence: Opportunities for Systems Engineering in EARTH.”  The Industry Advisory Board (IAB) held their first meeting with 27 members in attendance.  Dr. Charles Allgood from Chemours, Mr. Steve Harrill from Chiller Services, and Mr. Ian Fenimore from Chemours were elected chair, co-chair, and secretary for the IAB, respectively.  Workforce, Impact, and Testbed sessions were held with stakeholders and the results from our first evaluations were reviewed with the attendees.  We thank everyone for attending our first annual meeting and we look forward to seeing you back on Oct 20 – 22 at the University of Kansas for our NSF site review.