Are you a student or Early Career Researcher interested in climate and weather science and modelling?
Join us at the 2025 ACCESS Community Workshop! Connect with other researchers using the same models and tools as you and discover new software tools that could transform your research!
The ACCESS Community Workshop will take place 8-12 September 2025 in Melbourne and we are welcoming students and Early Career Researchers (ECRs) to contribute and attend. The Workshop takes place over 4 days: 2 days of presentations, 1 training day, and 1 day devoted to specific domain working groups (Land Surface, Machine learning for Climate and Weather, Atmosphere, Ocean and Sea ice, Cryosphere and Earth System modeling). Scholarships are available to support ECR/student travel and attendance via the abstract submission.
Who is the ACCESS community?
If your work uses ACCESS models - be that developing models, running models, or analysing model output, then you are part of the ACCESS community! We also welcome researchers using other climate models or considering using ACCESS models to be involved.
This event is hosted by Australia’s climate simulator (ACCESS-NRI), which provides the software engineering expertise to create open-source models, data and tools in collaboration with Australian research communities.
Learn about Australia’s ACCESS climate models and tools you might use within your own research
Learn about the broad range of exciting science being done with ACCESS models
Connect with other climate and weather researchers who get it - who encounter similar technical hurdles and triumphs in their research
Attend the dedicated student/ECR social event where you can swap coding stories, make new friends, or simply unwind with people who understand what you’re working on
Talk to ACCESS-NRI staff – the research software engineers who co-develop, maintain and improve the software infrastructure – in person, so you know who to contact for modelling help in the future
Attend hands-on training opportunities on the use of ACCESS models and outputs, as well as other skills including handling large datasets, model evaluation tools, machine learning in climate models, and advanced Git and GitHub – all skills valued by research institutions, industry, and government agencies
Present your work - if you have a talk or poster from a previous occasion, bring it along to expose your research to a wider audience
Ready to advance your climate and weather research? Don’t miss this opportunity and apply now!
ACCESS-NRI is inviting expressions of interest from domain experts and researchers who would like to collaborate on a 3-month visualisation project. We’re offering technical support and expert guidance to help you bring your science to life.
We encourage bold, creative ideas that explore new ways to visualise ACCESS model outputs. It could be a compelling snapshot of climate change impacts, a journey through the ocean’s depths, or a flyover of modelled land surface processes. Be ambitious!
This is your chance to create high-impact visuals (animations, videos, or 3D still images) that showcase your research and amplify its visibility across media, conferences, and the broader community. Successful projects will be supported by:
Owen Kaluza, visualisation expert at ACCESS-NRI:
Owen is developing high-impact visualisations to better communicate the work done with ACCESS models and data. His work spans 3D graphics (OpenGL), GPU programming, Python, and notebook-based tools.
Explore recent work on our Vimeo Channel.
The ACCESS-NRI Engagement and Communications team, offering guidance on science communication and media promotion.
Call for Input- What should the land community prioritse?
We want your opinion at the Land Working Group Meeting on 5 August, on what the land community should commit resources to in the short to medium term future.
At the Land Working Group Workshop on 12 September (bookending the ACCESS Community Workshop), we plan to have an extended discussion session that will guide our efforts in the short and medium term. There will be time for 3 topics, each having 30 minutes dedicated to discussions on said topic. In that 30 minutes, we hope to determine:
What precisely is the goal?
What are the barriers to achieving this goal? Are they technical/resource/data related?
How should we get over these barriers?
What we need from you
We (the Land Workshop Committee) want your input as to what three topics we address in this session. We want topics that the community will engage with and have opinions on. We hope to get that input at the Land Working Group meeting on 5 August. The Workshop Committee will decide on what the three topics will be after the meeting, so if you strong opinions on this, please come to the meeting and share your thoughts.
clairecarouge
(Claire Carouge, ACCESS-NRI Land Modelling Team Lead)
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Hi,
We have a land working group meeting this Tuesday, 19th August at 2pm.
The notes from out last meeting are here
Land Working Group Meeting
** For a calendar invite, simply click on the relevant calendar link below **
Presentation: Links between surface roughness and precipitation during the monsoon in ACCESS-rAM3 by @mlipson .
Continue our discussion on dataset needs for Land surface modelling if needed. See previous topic
Other business
Reminder:The JULES Annual Science Meeting is happening on 15th-17th September. Registration information should be communicated soon. Check the provided link to stay updated.
clairecarouge
(Claire Carouge, ACCESS-NRI Land Modelling Team Lead)
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Hi,
We have a land working group meeting this Tuesday, 2nd September at 2pm. The agenda is very light, I am happy to update the agenda with any additional item.
clairecarouge
(Claire Carouge, ACCESS-NRI Land Modelling Team Lead)
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Hi,
It was good to meet in person at the Land Working Group workshop. For those who could not be there, notes from the workshop are on the forum.
At the workshop, we discussed the working group meeting format and decided on the following:
Alternate meetings with presentations and with discussions of the working group projects.
Organise joint meetings with other working groups during the year.
We will be working towards implementing this, understanding that introducing monthly talks might take some time to start. We might also need some flexibility in the meeting scheduling to fit with the speakers availability. In the future, please keep an eye on the schedule.
Our next meeting is on Tuesday, 7th October at 2pm.
Land Working Group Meeting
** For a calendar invite, simply click on the relevant calendar link below **
The ACCESS-AM3 Alpha version has now been released. See the release notes for more information, please feel free to give it a go and provide any feedback.
