Last Updated: 06/10/2026

CCMC Workshop 2026

The 12th CCMC Community Workshop will be held at The Maritime Conference Center, in Linthicum Heights, Maryland (near BWI Airport) on June 1 – June 5, 2026.

Biennial CCMC community workshops are designed as opportunities for an in-depth exchange of experiences, opinions and needs between model developers, science and operational users, educators, agency representatives and the CCMC staff.

Session topics (presentations/demos/discussions panels) will tentatively include:

  • Updates from developers on model status at the CCMC, new developments, upgrades, onboarding plans.
  • Demos of CCMC systems, tools and dashboards, new features and capabilities. Community feedback.
  • Discussion panel on CCMC role in space weather programs and R2O2R.
  • Follow-on discussions on advancing modeling through open science and activities of Heliophysics Open Modeling Environment (HOME).
  • Community real-time space weather modeling systems addressing specific forecasting problems and impacts: collaborative development, assessment, and demonstrating operational potential.
  • Metrics, validation, modeling challenges, scoreboards, validation platforms, tracking progress over time.
  • Expanding simulation services, modeling challenges and scoreboards to other planets and planetary bodies. Space environment modeling at Moon and Mars.
  • AI/ML in space weather modeling.
  • CCMC partnerships with other simulation service providers, run producers, and observational data centers. Interfacing with the HelioData website, and supporting mission science.
  • Community portal for great space weather storms.

Community members interested in contributing to workshop planning are encouraged to contact the workshop organizers.

Logistics

Participation

This workshop is primarily planned as in-person, however limited virtual participation will be possible. In-person attendance is strongly encouraged. Please contact us with any questions or concerns. The workshop schedule will follow an all-day in-person format.

Presentations & Recordings

Workshop presentation files and zoom video recordings of each session are now available for download.

Zoom Info

A zoom meeting link will be provided to attendees, via email prior to the workshop.

Agenda

Presentation Guidelines

  • Please check the agenda for the length of your presentation and allow at least 2-3 minutes for questions within your total time limit (unless you are speaking in a panel with a scheduled Q&A at the end).
  • Because of the number of participants and hybrid nature of the workshop we hope that you will understand our firm AV guidelines.
  • All speakers must provide a final copy of their presentation file by 7am EDT the day they are scheduled to speak.
  • Presentation files should be uploaded to the workshop google drive folder (closed - will be posted after the workshop) which is organized by morning and afternoon for each day. Suggested filename: PresentationOrder#_LastName_PresentationTitle. Presentation Order # is the order of your presentation counting from the beginning of each AM or PM schedule block.
  • Accepted presentation file formats: PPTX, PDF, and ODP.
  • For in-person presentations, facility AV staff will manage screen sharing from Windows AV laptops.
  • Virtual presenters should plan on screensharing directly on Zoom from their own laptops.
  • Those giving in-person demos or with special file formats can screenshare directly on Zoom (with muted audio) by letting us know in advance so we can test.
  • All presenters, regardless of presentation mode, must upload their files to the workshop Google Drive folder for backup and archival purposes.
  • At the end of the workshop we will provide a final link to all workshop presentation files and recordings. If there is a concern, please let us know.
  • Mac presenters: The AV laptop is Windows, and messes up some of the fonts in PowerPoint Slides prepared on a Mac. Specifically, Aptos does not render well. (1) We suggest saving your PPTX presentation with your fonts embedded. (2) Alternatively, if you don’t have movies/animations, you can save your presentation as PDF. Here are some instructions to save with fonts embedded on PowerPoint for Mac:
    • Step 1. Open the PowerPoint file that you want to embed fonts, and then go to the menu “Powerpoint” (in the menubar) and select “Preferences”.
    • Step 2. A dialog box will open, and then under the “Output and Sharing” option, click on “Save”.
    • Step 3. Under “Font Embedding”, select the “Embed fonts in the file” option (leave “Embed all characters”). Exit the menu.
    • Step 4. Click save on your PowerPoint file, and upload it to the workshop presentation folder (closed).

Registration

  • Early Registration Deadline: March 23, 2026. After this date, the workshop will be broadly advertised
  • Final Registration Deadline: May 18, 2026 or when venue capacity is reached (please e-mail us after this date).
  • We appreciate early RVSPs for workshop planning as well as in-person and virtual attendee limit purposes.
  • RSVP/registration form (closed).
  • There is no registration fee, but registration is required.
  • A continental breakfast will be provided in the workshop area. Lunch will be provided in the Chesapeake Dining Room at the facility for all registered workshop participants.

Accommodation

  • A limited number of rooms have been blocked at The Maritime Conference Center, in Linthicum Heights, Maryland (near BWI Airport).
  • The discounted group rate of $161 per night (plus applicable taxes) is available to workshop attendees. You must reserve your room no later than Monday, April 17, 2026 in order to receive the special rate.
  • To receive this rate, guests can either:
    • Click this link to book(no longer available).
    • Call Hotel Reservations at 410-859-5700 then press 7 and identify themselves with CCMC Workshop and provide the event/room block date range: May 31 - June 6, 2026. The room block is full for the week, however, you may book some individual nights if available.
  • Even if your travel plans are unconfirmed, we strongly recommend reserving your room before the deadline to ensure you receive the discounted rate and are able to book at the facility for the workshop, as it is not a traditional hotel.
  • Should your travel plans change, cancellations are allowed up to 72 hours before check-in.
  • The hotel room block rate includes a hot breakfast and dinner in the facility dining room. Lunch is included with registration during the workshop.
  • Hotel Reservation Deadline: April 17, 2026.
  • Cancellation Deadline: 72 hours prior to check-in.
  • Meeting Room: The Auditorium (Building 3). Annotated Map.

Transportation

  • Address: The Maritime Conference Center 692 Maritime Blvd, Linthicum Heights, MD 21090
  • Parking & Map: The most convenient lots to access the Auditorium are parking lots A & D, marked on the attached map linked here. When arriving at the Maritime, look for Building 3.
    • Parking lot A enters the front of Building 3. To find the Auditorium, turn right down the first hall on the right.
    • Parking lot D enters through Building 4, and you can walk straight through the building to find the Auditorium.
    • The hotel rooms and dining room are across the Breezeway in Buildings 1 & 2. The dining room is in Building 2.
  • Local transportation: The Maritime Conference Center provides a complimentary shuttle service 24 hours to and from BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Light Rail, and Amtrak stations. After receiving all baggage, call 866-900-3517 or 410-859-5700, Press 0 and ask for a shuttle to be dispatched. Visit the hotel's transportation page for more information.

Restaurants

There are multiple restaurants nearby the hotel.

Note that those with hotel rooms at the Maritime Conference Center have meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) included at the Chesapeake Dining Room as part of their hotel room rate during the duration of the workshop.

Workshop registrants without hotel rooms will have lunch included at the Chesapeake Dining Room, in addition to a light continental breakfast and afternoon snack in the workshop break area. An enhanced breakfast can be purchased for an additional fee of $20. Dinner can be purchased for an additional fee of $35. Payment for breakfast and dinner in the dining room is made at the hotel lobby front desk.

NCTS Information: GSFC CS & Contractor Personnel

We reached out to the NCTS team and received more guidance on the requirements for tracking the GSFC travel attendees for the 2026 CCMC Workshop. As long as the traveler/attendee is not incurring any travel costs, which would be the case for this workshop [no registration fee, no parking fee, no toll reimbursement, less than 25 miles from duty station], they do not need to register their attendance for the workshop in NCTS. Please note, the workshop location is less than 25 miles from GSFC. If the traveler/attendee is looking to use NASA funds to reimburse costs for their attendance, then they need to register in NCTS and SCTMS.

If the traveler/attendee is looking to have NASA funds reimburse costs for this workshop, please work with your project support specialist to assist with this process.

Contacts

Science Organizing Committee: Masha Kuznetsova, Leila Mays, Jia Yue, Yihua Zheng, Claudio Corti and Martin Reiss

Local Organizing Committee: Elana Resnick, Leila Mays, and Masha Kuznetsova

Logistics & Registration: Elana Resnick

Website updates: Tyler Schiewe & Elana Resnick

Technical support: Poly Manessis & Tina Tsui

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