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Useful links/information:
COSIMA Meetings:
Held most weeks at 11:30am on Thursdays.
COSIMA meeting schedule: COSIMA Meeting Talks - Google Sheets, NOTE: As the link to this document is publicly available, access has been restricted to “comment only”. If you wish to edit it please add a comment and it will be periodically edited.
The Hackathon project board has a huge list of tasks to work on - feel free to allocate yourself to something.
This year’s Hackathon dress up theme (Monday AND Tuesday) is: extravagant op-shop find.
Monday - Annual COSIMA Bocce Tournament at 3:45pm at Carlton Gardens. Snacks and non-alcoholic refreshments provided. BYO drinks (there is a shop on the walk there).
Tuesday - Hackathon starts at 9am. There is also ACCESS-NRI training you may want to check out. You will be able to swap between hacking and training during the day as you like.
Wednesday and Thursday: ACCESS Workshop. Schedule is here, with lots of COSIMA talks and posters.
Thursday 5:50pm: COSIMA Dinner Cruise at Federation Wharf. If you are not signed up, but want to come, talk to Adele or Taimoor.
Friday COSIMA Workshop, 9am - 4pm. Lots more talks and posters, schedule here.
COSIMA Awardswill be given out at 3:35pm on Friday. In addition to the Most Selfless Contributor Award, the following awards are up for grabs (with amazing pottery prizes ):
These awards are open to everybody who is joining the COSIMA Workshop Day on Friday, independent of whether you present on Wednesday/Thursday or Friday.
Our next meeting is on tomorrow (Thursday 18 September) at 1130
This week we’ll hear from Sougata Basak (UTAS) who will be presenting on “Amplification of Sea Surface Temperature variability along the Indonesian Throughflow pathways ”.
Other business:
COSIMA/ACCESS workshop debrief. What did you love? What didn’t you love?
Which leads to the official feedback form: ACCESS Community Workshop feedback. If you haven’t filled it out yet, please do! Your feedback will help make future meetings even better.
Expressions of interest open to join the Australian Academy of Science National Committees are open. National Committee for Antarctic Research and National Committee for Earth System Science are both relevant to COSIMA. Applications close 30 September 2025. (I couldn’t find a public webpage with info about the applications, sorry. You can sign up here and access the info.)
Do you have anything to add to the agenda? Let me know.
As always, the meeting will start at 1130.
Please click this URL to start or join: Launch Meeting - Zoom
Zoom Meeting ID: 82678917036
FYI: The ARC Centre of Excellence for Weather of the 21st Century is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Research Software Engineer to join our interdisciplinary team dedicated to advancing climate science. This pivotal role focuses on the development and coupling of high-resolution regional ocean-atmosphere models, contributing to our mission of enhancing our understanding of how the weather will change as the climate warms.
NCMAS 2026 Call for Applications will open next month and a closing date of 31 October 2025 has now been announced.
We’re interested in knowing what models people in the community would like to include in their applications. This allows us (ACCESS-NRI Ocean and Software transformation teams) to plan and complete the appropriate benchmarking.
Our next meeting is on tomorrow (Thursday 25 September) at 1130
This week we’ll hear from James Wyatt (UTAS) who will be presenting on “Volumetric changes in the Southern Ocean’s overturning cells ”.
I’m away this week at a workshop, so I won’t be there, but Hannah Dawson (@hrsdawson) is generously stepping in to chair the meeting. Thanks Hannah!
Other business:
COSIMA/ACCESS workshop debrief. What did you love? What didn’t you love?
TWG meeting summary
Reminder official feedback form: ACCESS Community Workshop feedback. If you haven’t filled it out yet, please do! Your feedback will help make future meetings even better.
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