We are honored to receive the 2025 AGU Edward A. Flinn III Award. For over 25 years, we have developed and shared the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) with the ocean modeling community, which now has thousands of users worldwide. Our work has supported the training and research of the next generation of ocean scientists and operational specialists. Building the advanced capabilities of ROMS truly requires a team. We are grateful to all the multidisciplinary scientists and colleagues who have contributed to ROMS's development, improvement, applications, dissertations, and hundreds of scientific papers in the literature.
We want to express our gratitude to all the collaborators whose contributions have been invaluable. Specifically, Alexander F. Shchepetkin, John C. Warner, and the ROMS Adjoint Group for their assistance with various numerical algorithms. We also appreciate Kate Hedstrom and David Robertson for their help in managing the ROMS user community and developing the necessary cyberinfrastructure. We are grateful for all the support from funding agencies that made this possible. We extend our heartfelt thanks to the nominator(s), the writers who supported the nomination package, and the selection committee for bestowing this honor upon us.
We dedicate this award to the ROMS community— Hernan, Andy, and John.
It is truly fantastic that you are honored this way for your lifetimes of contributions to the field. We know so much more about the oceans and can represent it so much more accurately because of your tireless efforts. Thank you!
ROMS has been able to grow and advance thanks to your tireless passion and dedication. I am truly grateful. I applaud your efforts that have left a lasting mark on the development of ocean modeling.
Thank you all for your support. It took us a long time to get where we are. When I got to Rutgers thirty years ago, I had no idea of the magnitude and scope of the work. The current ROMS count is 1,259,674 lines of code, 4,588,730 words, 51,771,130 characters, 51,771,135 bytes!. Now think about debugging and testing...
