About - 2025 GCAM Annual Meeting

The GCAM Annual Meeting

The GCAM Annual Meeting provides a forum for the community to hear about the latest developments and current uses of GCAM. For those new to GCAM, this workshop serves as an excellent in-depth opportunity to learn and gain a better understanding of the model. With a large domestic and international user base and model training program, GCAM has made critical contributions to the understanding of how energy technology, the integrated water cycle, land-use change, and other human activities influence Earth system dynamics. It has also been the foundation for developing future scenarios that are used in science-based environmental and energy research. Over the years, the complexity of GCAM has evolved commensurate with scientific questions about how human and earth systems interact.

At its core, GCAM is an economic model with detailed physical system representations of energy, water, land, and biogeochemistry components. GCAM is also used to represent the human component of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM).

Join us to dive into the latest updates and applications of GCAM and gain a deeper understanding of its capabilities.