diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index fadbae545..fb77ccfa5 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ authors = ["CliMA Contributors <clima-software@caltech.edu>"]
 version = "0.1.1"
 
 [deps]
-Artifacts = "56f22d72-fd6d-98f1-02f0-08ddc0907c33"
 ClimaComms = "3a4d1b5c-c61d-41fd-a00a-5873ba7a1b0d"
 ClimaCore = "d414da3d-4745-48bb-8d80-42e94e092884"
 ClimaCoreTempestRemap = "d934ef94-cdd4-4710-83d6-720549644b70"
@@ -18,7 +17,6 @@ SurfaceFluxes = "49b00bb7-8bd4-4f2b-b78c-51cd0450215f"
 Thermodynamics = "b60c26fb-14c3-4610-9d3e-2d17fe7ff00c"
 
 [compat]
-Artifacts = "1"
 ClimaComms = "0.5.6, 0.6"
 ClimaCore = "0.14.19"
 ClimaCoreTempestRemap = "0.3"
diff --git a/docs/Project.toml b/docs/Project.toml
index 66005a86f..d1be12f43 100644
--- a/docs/Project.toml
+++ b/docs/Project.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 ClimaCoupler = "4ade58fe-a8da-486c-bd89-46df092ec0c7"
 Documenter = "e30172f5-a6a5-5a46-863b-614d45cd2de4"
 Literate = "98b081ad-f1c9-55d3-8b20-4c87d4299306"
-Pkg = "44cfe95a-1eb2-52ea-b672-e2afdf69b78f"
 
 [compat]
 Documenter = "0.27"
diff --git a/docs/make.jl b/docs/make.jl
index f5767d2e2..9297d737d 100644
--- a/docs/make.jl
+++ b/docs/make.jl
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 using ClimaCoupler
-using Documenter, Literate, Pkg
+using Documenter, Literate
 
 const COUPLER_DIR = joinpath(@__DIR__, "..")
 const EXPERIMENTS_DIR = joinpath(@__DIR__, "..", "experiments")
diff --git a/experiments/ClimaCore/Manifest-v1.11.toml b/experiments/ClimaCore/Manifest-v1.11.toml
index 11947090f..dd57f9da5 100644
--- a/experiments/ClimaCore/Manifest-v1.11.toml
+++ b/experiments/ClimaCore/Manifest-v1.11.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 julia_version = "1.11.1"
 manifest_format = "2.0"
-project_hash = "b4183f1b0845de246c310b2b5727563772495d81"
+project_hash = "bf83058e7b8cbbdd01fa91af0f6b995b1e2e3f47"
 
 [[deps.ADTypes]]
 git-tree-sha1 = "30bb95a372787af850addf28ac937f1be7b79173"
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ uuid = "d934ef94-cdd4-4710-83d6-720549644b70"
 version = "0.3.18"
 
 [[deps.ClimaCoupler]]
-deps = ["Artifacts", "ClimaComms", "ClimaCore", "ClimaCoreTempestRemap", "Dates", "JLD2", "Logging", "NCDatasets", "SciMLBase", "StaticArrays", "SurfaceFluxes", "Thermodynamics"]
+deps = ["ClimaComms", "ClimaCore", "ClimaCoreTempestRemap", "Dates", "JLD2", "Logging", "NCDatasets", "SciMLBase", "StaticArrays", "SurfaceFluxes", "Thermodynamics"]
 path = "../.."
 uuid = "4ade58fe-a8da-486c-bd89-46df092ec0c7"
 version = "0.1.1"
diff --git a/experiments/ClimaCore/Manifest.toml b/experiments/ClimaCore/Manifest.toml
index beddb8600..997ecf805 100644
--- a/experiments/ClimaCore/Manifest.toml
+++ b/experiments/ClimaCore/Manifest.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 julia_version = "1.10.5"
 manifest_format = "2.0"
-project_hash = "b4183f1b0845de246c310b2b5727563772495d81"
+project_hash = "bf83058e7b8cbbdd01fa91af0f6b995b1e2e3f47"
 
 [[deps.ADTypes]]
 git-tree-sha1 = "30bb95a372787af850addf28ac937f1be7b79173"
diff --git a/experiments/ClimaCore/Project.toml b/experiments/ClimaCore/Project.toml
index ca8ff4bef..44dc9e38f 100644
--- a/experiments/ClimaCore/Project.toml
+++ b/experiments/ClimaCore/Project.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ PrettyTables = "08abe8d2-0d0c-5749-adfa-8a2ac140af0d"
 Random = "9a3f8284-a2c9-5f02-9a11-845980a1fd5c"
 SciMLBase = "0bca4576-84f4-4d90-8ffe-ffa030f20462"
 StaticArrays = "90137ffa-7385-5640-81b9-e52037218182"
-Thermodynamics = "b60c26fb-14c3-4610-9d3e-2d17fe7ff00c"
 
 [compat]
 ClimaTimeSteppers = "0.7"
diff --git a/experiments/ClimaEarth/Manifest-v1.11.toml b/experiments/ClimaEarth/Manifest-v1.11.toml
index 2931a37ea..06ed1cc05 100644
--- a/experiments/ClimaEarth/Manifest-v1.11.toml
+++ b/experiments/ClimaEarth/Manifest-v1.11.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 julia_version = "1.11.1"
 manifest_format = "2.0"
-project_hash = "877ee33651abf1f1d3b01a8c2b47c6c89669e6d6"
+project_hash = "3e0c86edc8d967d8d36d7e014c51e11ddd02d073"
 
 [[deps.ADTypes]]
 git-tree-sha1 = "30bb95a372787af850addf28ac937f1be7b79173"
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ uuid = "d934ef94-cdd4-4710-83d6-720549644b70"
 version = "0.3.18"
 
 [[deps.ClimaCoupler]]
-deps = ["Artifacts", "ClimaComms", "ClimaCore", "ClimaCoreTempestRemap", "Dates", "JLD2", "Logging", "NCDatasets", "SciMLBase", "StaticArrays", "SurfaceFluxes", "Thermodynamics"]
+deps = ["ClimaComms", "ClimaCore", "ClimaCoreTempestRemap", "Dates", "JLD2", "Logging", "NCDatasets", "SciMLBase", "StaticArrays", "SurfaceFluxes", "Thermodynamics"]
 path = "../.."
 uuid = "4ade58fe-a8da-486c-bd89-46df092ec0c7"
 version = "0.1.1"
@@ -960,11 +960,6 @@ git-tree-sha1 = "674ff0db93fffcd11a3573986e550d66cd4fd71f"
 uuid = "7746bdde-850d-59dc-9ae8-88ece973131d"
 version = "2.80.5+0"
 
-[[deps.Glob]]
-git-tree-sha1 = "97285bbd5230dd766e9ef6749b80fc617126d496"
-uuid = "c27321d9-0574-5035-807b-f59d2c89b15c"
-version = "1.3.1"
-
 [[deps.GnuTLS_jll]]
 deps = ["Artifacts", "GMP_jll", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl", "Nettle_jll", "P11Kit_jll", "Zlib_jll"]
 git-tree-sha1 = "383db7d3f900f4c1f47a8a04115b053c095e48d3"
diff --git a/experiments/ClimaEarth/Manifest.toml b/experiments/ClimaEarth/Manifest.toml
index 638c439f0..f702e4c21 100644
--- a/experiments/ClimaEarth/Manifest.toml
+++ b/experiments/ClimaEarth/Manifest.toml
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # This file is machine-generated - editing it directly is not advised
 
-julia_version = "1.10.5"
+julia_version = "1.10.6"
 manifest_format = "2.0"
-project_hash = "bb90fe1237f0005fb451fcca456bfa9abb22474c"
+project_hash = "9d4daca72a27dd26a4e46ba913787d7e63971347"
 
 [[deps.ADTypes]]
 git-tree-sha1 = "30bb95a372787af850addf28ac937f1be7b79173"
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ uuid = "d934ef94-cdd4-4710-83d6-720549644b70"
 version = "0.3.18"
 
 [[deps.ClimaCoupler]]
-deps = ["Artifacts", "ClimaComms", "ClimaCore", "ClimaCoreTempestRemap", "Dates", "JLD2", "Logging", "NCDatasets", "SciMLBase", "StaticArrays", "SurfaceFluxes", "Thermodynamics"]
+deps = ["ClimaComms", "ClimaCore", "ClimaCoreTempestRemap", "Dates", "JLD2", "Logging", "NCDatasets", "SciMLBase", "StaticArrays", "SurfaceFluxes", "Thermodynamics"]
 path = "../.."
 uuid = "4ade58fe-a8da-486c-bd89-46df092ec0c7"
 version = "0.1.1"
@@ -953,11 +953,6 @@ git-tree-sha1 = "674ff0db93fffcd11a3573986e550d66cd4fd71f"
 uuid = "7746bdde-850d-59dc-9ae8-88ece973131d"
 version = "2.80.5+0"
 
-[[deps.Glob]]
-git-tree-sha1 = "97285bbd5230dd766e9ef6749b80fc617126d496"
-uuid = "c27321d9-0574-5035-807b-f59d2c89b15c"
-version = "1.3.1"
-
 [[deps.GnuTLS_jll]]
 deps = ["Artifacts", "GMP_jll", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl", "Nettle_jll", "P11Kit_jll", "Zlib_jll"]
 git-tree-sha1 = "383db7d3f900f4c1f47a8a04115b053c095e48d3"
diff --git a/experiments/ClimaEarth/Project.toml b/experiments/ClimaEarth/Project.toml
index 1d165fbcc..cca94dba6 100644
--- a/experiments/ClimaEarth/Project.toml
+++ b/experiments/ClimaEarth/Project.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 [deps]
 ArgParse = "c7e460c6-2fb9-53a9-8c5b-16f535851c63"
-Artifacts = "56f22d72-fd6d-98f1-02f0-08ddc0907c33"
 CairoMakie = "13f3f980-e62b-5c42-98c6-ff1f3baf88f0"
 ClimaAnalysis = "29b5916a-a76c-4e73-9657-3c8fd22e65e6"
 ClimaAtmos = "b2c96348-7fb7-4fe0-8da9-78d88439e717"
@@ -14,13 +13,10 @@ ClimaParams = "5c42b081-d73a-476f-9059-fd94b934656c"
 ClimaTimeSteppers = "595c0a79-7f3d-439a-bc5a-b232dc3bde79"
 ClimaUtilities = "b3f4f4ca-9299-4f7f-bd9b-81e1242a7513"
 GeoMakie = "db073c08-6b98-4ee5-b6a4-5efafb3259c6"
-Glob = "c27321d9-0574-5035-807b-f59d2c89b15c"
 Interpolations = "a98d9a8b-a2ab-59e6-89dd-64a1c18fca59"
-JLD2 = "033835bb-8acc-5ee8-8aae-3f567f8a3819"
 LinearAlgebra = "37e2e46d-f89d-539d-b4ee-838fcccc9c8e"
 Makie = "ee78f7c6-11fb-53f2-987a-cfe4a2b5a57a"
 NCDatasets = "85f8d34a-cbdd-5861-8df4-14fed0d494ab"
-OrderedCollections = "bac558e1-5e72-5ebc-8fee-abe8a469f55d"
 Poppler_jll = "9c32591e-4766-534b-9725-b71a8799265b"
 PrettyTables = "08abe8d2-0d0c-5749-adfa-8a2ac140af0d"
 SciMLBase = "0bca4576-84f4-4d90-8ffe-ffa030f20462"
@@ -39,7 +35,6 @@ ClimaLand = "0.14, 0.15"
 ClimaParams = "0.10"
 ClimaTimeSteppers = "0.7"
 ClimaUtilities = "0.1"
-Glob = "1"
 Interpolations = "0.14, 0.15"
 StaticArrays = "1"
 YAML = "0.4"
diff --git a/experiments/ClimaEarth/run_amip.jl b/experiments/ClimaEarth/run_amip.jl
index eb9b6f4a1..0238cbda7 100644
--- a/experiments/ClimaEarth/run_amip.jl
+++ b/experiments/ClimaEarth/run_amip.jl
@@ -54,8 +54,7 @@ import ClimaUtilities.SpaceVaryingInputs: SpaceVaryingInput
 import ClimaUtilities.TimeVaryingInputs: TimeVaryingInput, evaluate!
 import ClimaUtilities.Utils: period_to_seconds_float
 import ClimaUtilities.ClimaArtifacts: @clima_artifact
-import Interpolations
-
+import Interpolations # triggers InterpolationsExt in ClimaUtilities
 # Random is used by RRMTGP for some cloud properties
 import Random
 
diff --git a/experiments/ClimaEarth/run_cloudy_slabplanet.jl b/experiments/ClimaEarth/run_cloudy_slabplanet.jl
index 766f6a735..ddbced24b 100644
--- a/experiments/ClimaEarth/run_cloudy_slabplanet.jl
+++ b/experiments/ClimaEarth/run_cloudy_slabplanet.jl
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ import ClimaCoupler:
 
 import ClimaUtilities.ClimaArtifacts: @clima_artifact
 import ClimaUtilities.SpaceVaryingInputs: SpaceVaryingInput
-import Interpolations
+import Interpolations # triggers InterpolationsExt in ClimaUtilities
 
 pkg_dir = pkgdir(ClimaCoupler)
 
diff --git a/src/Utilities.jl b/src/Utilities.jl
index 79c0166ee..735171f71 100644
--- a/src/Utilities.jl
+++ b/src/Utilities.jl
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ modules in the coupler.
 """
 module Utilities
 
-import Artifacts
 import ClimaComms
 import ClimaCore as CC
 import Logging
diff --git a/test/Project.toml b/test/Project.toml
index a939c1c8e..dd4961365 100644
--- a/test/Project.toml
+++ b/test/Project.toml
@@ -1,27 +1,19 @@
 [deps]
-Adapt = "79e6a3ab-5dfb-504d-930d-738a2a938a0e"
 Aqua = "4c88cf16-eb10-579e-8560-4a9242c79595"
 ArgParse = "c7e460c6-2fb9-53a9-8c5b-16f535851c63"
 Artifacts = "56f22d72-fd6d-98f1-02f0-08ddc0907c33"
 CairoMakie = "13f3f980-e62b-5c42-98c6-ff1f3baf88f0"
-ClimaAnalysis = "29b5916a-a76c-4e73-9657-3c8fd22e65e6"
 ClimaAtmos = "b2c96348-7fb7-4fe0-8da9-78d88439e717"
 ClimaComms = "3a4d1b5c-c61d-41fd-a00a-5873ba7a1b0d"
 ClimaCore = "d414da3d-4745-48bb-8d80-42e94e092884"
 ClimaCoreMakie = "908f55d8-4145-4867-9c14-5dad1a479e4d"
 ClimaCoupler = "4ade58fe-a8da-486c-bd89-46df092ec0c7"
-ClimaLand = "08f4d4ce-cf43-44bb-ad95-9d2d5f413532"
 ClimaParams = "5c42b081-d73a-476f-9059-fd94b934656c"
 ClimaTimeSteppers = "595c0a79-7f3d-439a-bc5a-b232dc3bde79"
-ClimaUtilities = "b3f4f4ca-9299-4f7f-bd9b-81e1242a7513"
 Dates = "ade2ca70-3891-5945-98fb-dc099432e06a"
-Downloads = "f43a241f-c20a-4ad4-852c-f6b1247861c6"
-Interpolations = "a98d9a8b-a2ab-59e6-89dd-64a1c18fca59"
-IntervalSets = "8197267c-284f-5f27-9208-e0e47529a953"
 LinearAlgebra = "37e2e46d-f89d-539d-b4ee-838fcccc9c8e"
 Makie = "ee78f7c6-11fb-53f2-987a-cfe4a2b5a57a"
 NCDatasets = "85f8d34a-cbdd-5861-8df4-14fed0d494ab"
-OrderedCollections = "bac558e1-5e72-5ebc-8fee-abe8a469f55d"
 Pkg = "44cfe95a-1eb2-52ea-b672-e2afdf69b78f"
 PrettyTables = "08abe8d2-0d0c-5749-adfa-8a2ac140af0d"
 Printf = "de0858da-6303-5e67-8744-51eddeeeb8d7"
@@ -37,12 +29,8 @@ Thermodynamics = "b60c26fb-14c3-4610-9d3e-2d17fe7ff00c"
 [compat]
 Aqua = "0.8"
 ClimaAtmos = "0.27"
-ClimaLand = "0.14, 0.15"
 ClimaParams = "0.10"
-ClimaUtilities = "0.1"
 Dates = "1"
-Downloads = "1"
-IntervalSets = "0.5, 0.6, 0.7"
 Pkg = "1"
 PrettyTables = "2"
 StaticArrays = "1"
diff --git a/test/experiment_tests/coupled_sims.jl b/test/experiment_tests/coupled_sims.jl
index bd454ae5c..48fcc29e8 100644
--- a/test/experiment_tests/coupled_sims.jl
+++ b/test/experiment_tests/coupled_sims.jl
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import Test: @test, @testset, @test_throws
-using IntervalSets # for `..`
 import ClimaComms
 @static pkgversion(ClimaComms) >= v"0.6" && ClimaComms.@import_required_backends
 import ClimaCore as CC
@@ -31,14 +30,19 @@ end
 name(::SimB) = :simB
 
 function spectral_space_2D(; n1 = 1, n2 = 1, Nij = 4)
-    domain = CC.Domains.RectangleDomain(
-        CC.Geometry.XPoint(-1.0) .. CC.Geometry.XPoint(1.0),
-        CC.Geometry.YPoint(-1.0) .. CC.Geometry.YPoint(1.0),
-        x1periodic = false,
-        x2periodic = false,
-        x1boundary = (:east, :west),
-        x2boundary = (:south, :north),
+    xdomain = CC.Domains.IntervalDomain(
+        CC.Geometry.XPoint(-1.0),
+        CC.Geometry.XPoint(1.0),
+        periodic = false,
+        boundary_names = (:east, :west),
     )
+    ydomain = CC.Domains.IntervalDomain(
+        CC.Geometry.YPoint(-1.0),
+        CC.Geometry.YPoint(1.0),
+        periodic = false,
+        boundary_names = (:south, :north),
+    )
+    domain = CC.Domains.RectangleDomain(xdomain, ydomain)
     mesh = CC.Meshes.RectilinearMesh(domain, n1, n2)
     comms_ctx = ClimaComms.SingletonCommsContext()
     grid_topology = CC.Topologies.Topology2D(comms_ctx, mesh)