2025 National Soil Moisture Workshop
About the Workshop
The 16th annual National Soil Moisture Workshop is scheduled for June 3–5, 2025. The event will take place at the Smith Alumni Center in Fort Collins, Colorado and will be hosted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and NOAA's National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS). This science workshop is a core component of work conducted by the National Coordinated Soil Moisture Monitoring Network (NCSMMN). This gathering provides opportunities for learning and collaboration among researchers, data users, and network operators from the soil moisture community. Activities will include two days of presentations and discussion, followed by a hands-on field-day.
The theme of this year’s workshop will be "Making Soil Moisture Science Actionable." Presentations of all kinds may be submitted for consideration, but we especially welcome talks and posters on: working with data users, metrics for communicating soil moisture information to the public, citizen science, recent advancements in data assimilation or machine learning to improve forecasting models, developments in public-facing maps and tools, and relationships between soil moisture and resource management or hazard mitigation planning. Abstracts may be submitted during registration.
This workshop will be hosted in a hybrid format. There are no conference fees for this workshop. Registration for the workshop is now closed.
Find video recordings and highlights from prior years’ meetings on drought.gov.
Pre-Workshop Meeting
NIDIS, CSU, USFS, and USDA will also host a pre-workshop meeting, “Operations and Maintenance Challenges for Soil Moisture Networks,” which will be held in Fort Collins on Monday, June 2, from 1-4 p.m. MT. Registration for this pre-workshop meeting is now closed. Learn more.
Agenda
Workshop Location
Iris and Michael Smith Alumni Center
Colorado State University (CSU)
701 W. Pitkin St, Fort Collins, Colorado
Please be aware that there is no free parking on the CSU campus. Those who choose to drive to the conference center will need to pay for parking at a CSU parking garage or lot. CSU is well connected to the Fort Collins transit system. View transit routes to CSU.
Lodging
The Armstrong Hotel, Candlewood Suites, and Fairfield Inn and Suites do not have conference blocks reserved, but offer reduced rates for bookings scheduled through the Colorado State University Website link.
Quality Inn and Suites Fort Collins has a daily rate that falls below the government rate for Fort Collins and includes breakfast. The distance to the conference center is 3.2 miles, accessible via Transfort MAX Rapid Bus route.
Conference rates for the National Soil Moisture Workshop are available at the following hotels:
Hilton Fort Collins
Conference rate may differ from government rate.
Distance to conference center: 0.5 miles
Best Western University Inn
Distance to conference center: 0.7 miles
Travel
The nearest major airport is Denver International Airport (DIA). It is approximately a 1.25-hour drive from Fort Collins.
Bus or shuttle reservations from the airport to Fort Collins can be made on Groome Transportation or Landline. You may also consider carpooling with colleagues!
For more information, please contact Elise Osenga (elise.osenga@noaa.gov).
