Photos from the 2025 ACCESS Community Workshop are now on the ACCESS-Hive Forum: bit.ly/4t0i2Dl Thanks to Harshula Jayasuriya for the fantastic photography, to everyone who made the event happen behind the scenes, and to the ACCESS community for their participation.

The March ACCESStory is now available! Highlights include: - PhD Internship Program applications open - In conversation with Mike Tetley - Reflections on #AMOS2026 conference - Release of ACCESS Community Datapool - CMIP7 production simulations underway Read it here: bit.ly/ACCESStoryMa...

ACCESS-NRI is commencing its planning cycle to develop our next Annual Work Plan (FY2026-27). The online form for early input is now open and closes on 16 March, 2026: ✍ bit.ly/4b6I8OV 💡We encourage community members to share their ideas, priorities and suggestions! More information: bit.ly/3NtpF61

We had a fantastic week at #AMOS2026. As in previous years, it was wonderful to attend the many talks that use ACCESS models, data and tools in their research and the many discussions highlighting the value and importance of national research infrastructure for climate researchers #NCRISImpact

How does ACCESS-NRI promote good data management? At #AMOS2026, our data specialist Dr Joshua Torrance outlined how ACCESS-NRI is improving the FAIRness (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) of data in the ACCESS ecosystem.

#AMOS2026 has started at Nipaluna (Hobart) and the ACCESS-NRI team is participating with presentations, workshops and posters! If you are in Hobart, visit our booth and win a pin, tote bag or T-shirt by giving us feedback about our infrastructure! 🏅

Our first ACCESStory newsletter for 2026 is live! Discover: 🤝 ‘Collaboration Infrastructure' article about ACCESS-ESM1.6 👩‍💻 In conversation with Rachel Law from CSIRO 💬 Work Plan feedback opportunity 🌏 ACCESS-OM2 and ACCESS-rAM3 releases 📰 Community article summaries Read it here: bit.ly/4au9zRb

🌏 Big news for Aussie climate research! @access-nri.bsky.social 's ACCESS-rAM3 now runs on NCI supercomputers, giving scientists & students fast local insights into extreme weather, water security & climate impacts—no massive downloads needed! Read more : nci.org.au/research/cas...

✨💻 We loved welcoming NYSF students to NCI to showcase how Australia’s national research infrastructure enables impactful science 🧬🧑‍🔬 Brilliant talks from NCI, @phenomicsaustralia.org.au & @access-nri.bsky.social, plus a tour of NCI data hall and ACCESS-NRI’s ocean simulator 🌊

What does a career at the interface of software engineering 👩‍💻, climate science 🌏, and high-performance computing 💽 look like? Students from the National Youth Science Forum (NYSF) found out at a recent collaborative event.

How well do climate models represent aerosols in the Southern Ocean? ☁️ 🌊 We spoke with Dr Sonya Fiddes from the Australian Antarctic Program Partnership (@antarctic.bsky.social) about her recent paper published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 🔗 Read our interview here: bit.ly/FiddesAerosols

Thrilled to share our 2024-2025 Highlights Report! Check out our achievements in engagement, training, model development, model release & more. Huge thanks to the ACCESS community and our amazing team! 📑 Read more or download: zenodo.org/records/1762... #ACCESSHighlights25 #NCRISImpact

Australia's climate future: new ACCESS model goes global - @access-nri.bsky.social l www.access-nri.org.au/australias-c...

📢Big news for climate science in Australia! 🌏 This week, Australia’s latest climate model, ACCESS-ESM1.6, is ready to enter the global stage through the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP7), which will inform the next IPCC @ipcc.bsky.social report. #NCRISImpact 📖Read more: bit.ly/497IQu5

🌏 Behind every COP summit is a massive global climate modeling effort that compares Earth system models around the world: #CMIP7. Read this article by @andyhogg.bsky.social and Tilo Ziehn about how Australia is participating to help predict our planet's future. 🔗 theconversation.com/behind-every...

🌍 Last week, 140+ Antarctic scientists came together in #Hobart for our ACEAS Research Forum 2025 to share the latest research and insights about the climate risks emerging from #Antarctica and the #SouthernOcean. Read more: antarctic.org.au/aceas-resear...

💡 Sharing knowledge and expertise with peers is important. ACCESS-NRI had strong representation at the eResearch conference last week, with staff members participating in 10 sessions across the 3-day conference. 🧑‍🏫

Attending the eResearch Australasia Conference this week? Say hello at our exhibition stand, or attend a session featuring our fabulous staff! View the full program here: conference.eresearch.edu.au/program/

A fantastic video staring our visualisation expert Owen Kaluza, on the power of visualisations for climate and weather research. These visualisations are created using supercomputers like @pawseycentre.bsky.social and @nci-australia.bsky.social #NCRISImpact Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4va...

Issue 15 of the ACCESStory newsletter is now available! bit.ly/ACCESStory-I... Our popular "In conversation with" section features interviews with ACCESS-NRI's recent PhD interns: Claire Yung and Jemma Jeffree. To get our newsletter and updates direct to your inbox, sign up here: eepurl.com/hUExr5

We are excited to share this important overview of #CMIP7! Australia is submitting one model configuration, ACCESS-ESM1.6, for the FastTrack component of CMIP7, and mobilising a large-scale initiative of researchers from many disciplines and institutions. 🔗Paper: bit.ly/3VSzIlO 🔗More: bit.ly/42vlGu5

We are thrilled to welcome the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) as a partner organisation! This positions Australia at the forefront of Antarctic and Southern Ocean research, combining ACCESS-NRI's world-class modelling infrastructure with AAD's scientific expertise. 🌏More: bit.ly/4nK26Cj

Today, the Academy is leading global change as co-convener of the landmark ‘Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action’ at the UN General Assembly alongside @burnetinstitute.bsky.social Brown University & The OSLUV Project – building on the WHO's 2021 declaration clean air is a basic human right.

We just heard an ocean eddy during #ACCESSWorkshop25 and it was marvelous! Dark Oceanography is an interdisciplinary collaboration that integrating climate science with experimental music by the School of Music and Performance at @monashuniversity.bsky.social and @21stcenturyweather.bsky.social

The last Keynote speaker of the #ACCESSCommunity25 Workshop @renatobrgh.bsky.social form @caltech.edu presented on the challenges of Minding the Carbon Gap: Bridging Observations and Process-Based Understanding for Earth System Modeling Innovation. Lots of food for thought + a great intro to #CliMA

We started the second day of the #ACCESSCommunity25 Workshop with a fantastic keynote from Cat Vreugdenhil from the University of Melbourne, entitled "Ocean convection, circulation and ice shelves: A fine-scale numerical simulation approach to modelling ocean processes"

An insightful presentation from our first keynote speaker Gokhan Danabasoglu from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in the US, showing the significant advances and challenges of the high-resolution simulations with the Community Earth System Model (CESM). #ACCESSCommunity25

Our #ACCESSCommunity25 Workshop is officially open in Melbourne and we're absolutely overwhelmed by the amazing turnout from our community! A special acknowledgment to the powerful Welcome to Country ceremony from Wurundjeri Elder Tony Garvey. Looking forward to three days of talks + discussions!

The ACCESS Training Day 2025 was a success: 5 structured sessions, 9 unstructured sessions and approx 60 participants on topics covering use of the ACCESS models (CM3, ESM1.5, CABLE, AM3, OM3) and GitHub Best practices, evaluating ENSO, Xarray and Dask and more! #NCRISImpact #ACCESSCommunity25 🎉

We are thrilled to announce our three keynote speakers for the 🌏#ACCESSCommunity25 Workshop next week in Melbourne! We have a program full of exciting talks, lunchtime discussions training sessions and opportunities to collaborate. 👩‍🏫 Program: bit.ly/4lH8UA6 👨‍💻 Training Day program: bit.ly/4kYZG0O

Happy #scienceweek! We support researchers in running models that represent different parts of our Earth: the atmosphere, ocean, sea ice, and land. These models use nature’s hidden language—physics—with the help of powerful supercomputers to decode and better understand Earth’s climate #NCRISImpact

Woah, the hot spot across the northern Pacific is even more prominent in last month's sea surface temperature map. This is really quite striking! Though the extratropics in both hemispheres are warmer than average too. Data from @noaa.gov OISSTv2.1 at www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/opt...

What does an ocean climate model sound like? Check out this article in The Conversation. To find out more, why not join the ACCESS Community Workshop 2025 from 8–12 September? @navidcy.bsky.social and collaborators have a 15 min plenary talk on this very topic! 🌐 Workshop info: bit.ly/4lH8UA6

3D Visualisation Project EoIs close soon! Collaborate with ACCESS-NRI on a 3-month visualisation project. We offer technical support and expert guidance to help bring your science to life. 🌐 More info: bit.ly/3IS0ZSb 📝 Apply here: bit.ly/45da2Ex See a past visualisation project below.

Which sessions are you going to? Draft programs for the ACCESS Community Workshop and ACCESS Training Day are now available! Check out the fantastic line-up of speakers and topics planned. 👩‍🏫 Workshop program: bit.ly/4lH8UA6 👨‍💻 Training Day program: bit.ly/4kYZG0O 🌐 More info: bit.ly/3YRL3V5

📣 Job opportunity 📣 Come work with us at Monash as a 3yr Research Fellow on ice sheet-atmosphere coupling! You'll sit within @arcsaef.bsky.social and be part of the @access-nri.bsky.social ice sheets team, pushing frontiers in Earth System Modelling ❄️🇦🇶 👉 careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Keen to work on ice sheet 🧊🏔️ model development 👩🏾‍💻🌏 with @fsmccormack.bsky.social and @access-nri.bsky.social? Seize the opportunity!👇🏼 careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Wondering what ACCESS-NRI is working on and how it may benefit the ACCESS community this year? We are thrilled to unveil our Annual Work Plan for 2025–2026! 📖Read or download: bit.ly/3IO36Gg ✍️Access the feedback from the ACCESS Community go to the ACCESS-Hive Forum: bit.ly/3Iw1ctV #NCRISImpact

Want to up your modelling game? Sign up for the ACCESS Training Day 2025! This event is at Melbourne Connect on 9 September, during the same week as the ACCESS Community Workshop 2025. 📝 Register: bit.ly/4eERwsU 🌐 More info: bit.ly/3YRL3V5

Missed out on submitting your abstract? No worries – you can still submit a poster! The ACCESS Community Workshop 2025 is at Melbourne Connect on 8–12 September. Registrations are open and poster submissions close 20 July. 📝 Registration: bit.ly/44kYj7y 🧑‍🏫 Poster submission: bit.ly/44FzBOn

Our second training workshop at #AMOS2025 on "Working with Australia's climate model output data: first steps for researchers" introduced +25 participants to how to access manage and use data output at the @nci-australia.bsky.social Gadi supercomputer #NCRISImpact #ACCESSImpact

Our User Training lead, Paige Martin at #AMOS2025 talking about how ACCESS-NRI empowers climate modelling through collation, innovation and training. 🌏⛹️‍♀️

Great talk at #AMOS225 by Lachlan Whyborn, from our Land Surface model team on recent developments in the CABLE Surface model including improvements to the water balance and groundwater, as well as other developments on the model workflow. #NCRISImpact

A great start of Day 2 at #AMOS2025 with our Workshop on Australia's climate and weather models 🌏. 30+ participants enjoyed breakfast, a climate model inspired song/dance, an overview of what climate models are, and an introduction to the role of the different teams at ACCESS-NRI. #NCRISImpact

#AMOS2025 Meyers Medal awarded to Dr Ed Doddridge for his work on sea ice. 🧊 🌊

Dr Michael Grose gives his talk on climate update. Six supported datasets agree in global mean temperature trends

Fascinating talk by Dr Chermelle Engel from our Atmosphere Modelling team at #AMOS2025 on the technical hurdles of high resolution ACCESS regional nesting suites for research purposes on the Gadi supercomputer. #ACCESSImpact #NCRISImpact

Andrew Kiss from COSIMA giving an insightful talk at #AMOS2025 on the many new capabilities of the ocean model ACCESS-OM3 compared with ACCESS-OM2 #ACCESSImpact

Fantastic presentation by Felicity Chun at #AMOS2025 from our Model Evaluation and Diagnostics (MED) team on ACCESS-ENSO Recipes and ACCESS-Vis. This tools aim to provide a seamless workflow from model evaluation to impactful data visualisations to improve climate model accuracy. #NCRISImpact

The exciting program for #AMOS2025 has started with an intro by @sarahinscience.bsky.social from @21stcenturyweather.bsky.social. I you here, find our booth and say hello!😁 ACCESS-NRI is a proud sponsor of this event.