Full Title: Modeling of Landscape Evolution and Basin Stratigraphy with goSPL (Hybrid)
Sponsored by: Quantitative Clastics Laboratory (QCL) from The University of Texas at Austin
Endorsed by: GSA's Environmental and Engineering Geology, Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology, Limnogeology, Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology, Planetary Geology, Soils and Soil Processes Divisions
Industry tracks: Economic Geology, Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology
Led by: Xuesong Ding, Larry Syu-Heng Lai, Tristan Salles
Date: Sat. 18 Oct. 2025
Time: 1-5 p.m.
Format: In-Person and Online
CEUs: 0.4
goSPL (short for Global Scalable Paleo Landscape Evolution) is an open-source Python-based code to simulate landscape and basin evolution at both global and regional scales. It is the first model designed to evaluate global-scale evolution of the Earth surface and its interaction with the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the tectonic and mantle dynamics. It can be used to better characterize many aspects of the Earth system ranging from the role of atmospheric circulation on physical denudation, from the influence of erosion and deposition of sediments on mantle convection, from the location and abundance of natural resources to the evolution of life. This short course was partially funded by Quantitative Clastics Laboratory (QCL) from The University of Texas at Austin.
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Product Code: SC25CN517
Product Category: SHORTC