ACCESS Community Workshop 2025: Melbourne, 8–12 September
ACCESS-NRI, Australia’s Climate Simulator, would like to invite you to the ACCESS Community Workshop 2025, held at Melbourne Connect from 8–12 September.
On this page:
- Latest updates
- About the workshop
- Where and when
- Presenting at the workshop
- Accessibility
- Program Committee members
- Contact
Latest updates
Draft programs are available for the COSIMA Hackathon (Monday–Tuesday), ACCESS Training Day (Tuesday), Main Workshop (Wednesday–Thursday), and Working Group meetings (Friday):
COSIMA Hackathon program Training Day program Main Workshop program Working Group programs
The key dates for the ACCESS Community Workshop 2025 are:
- 16 May: Abstract submission opens
- 22 June: Abstract submission closes
- 16 June: Registrations open (the cost of this year’s registration is $110)
- 20 July: Poster submissions close
- 25 July: Draft program available
- 15 August: Registrations close
About the workshop
Climate, weather and Earth system models play a crucial role in understanding and predicting the Earth’s climate system. The annual ACCESS Community Workshop aims to provide a platform for knowledge sharing and interdisciplinary collaboration around the science that uses computing models to address the complex challenges that Australia faces.
The main aims of the workshop are to build the ACCESS community by bringing together technical experts and researchers and drive collaborations on new ACCESS developments. Everyone is welcome, especially students and Early Career Researchers. We also strongly encourage researchers using ACCESS model output (i.e., not only those running models or model development) or just wanting to know more about the models to participate.
The workshop also aims to:
- build the ACCESS community by bringing together technical experts and researchers and enhance existing links especially in cross disciplinary areas
- provide a forum for sharing science updates and get user feedback on priorities and capability
- encourage active participation by students and early career researchers
- update the community on recent ACCESS-NRI activities, resources available, reporting requirements and future plans
- deliver training of ACCESS models and related software, data and tools to enhance user capabilities.
This is an opportunity to share your challenges and successes from working with the ACCESS models, exchange innovative uses of the models and enhance existing links specially between disciplinary areas.
Where and when
This year, the ACCESS Community Workshop will be held at Melbourne Connect (700 Swanston St, Carlton VIC 3053), on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. Join us for an exciting week of events from 8–12 September 2025.
| Event | Monday 8 Sep | Tuesday 9 Sep | Wednesday 10 Sep | Thursday 11 Sep | Friday 12 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| COSIMA Hackathon | All day | All day | |||
| COSIMA dinner | 6 pm | ||||
| Land Workshop | Afternoon | ||||
| ACCESS Training Day | All day | ||||
| Student and ECR networking event | 6 pm | ||||
| Main Workshop | All day | All day | |||
| Main Workshop dinner | 6 pm | ||||
| Community Working Group meetings: Atmosphere, Land, COSIMA, Machine learning for climate and weather, Earth System Modelling, and Cryosphere | All day |
The ACCESS Community Workshop 2025 combines events targeted at the ACCESS Community. Each of these smaller events has their own program that feeds into the larger workshop.
Main Workshop (Wed 10 – Thu 11)
The main workshop includes plenary talks and three parallel sessions designed as topics of interest for two or more working groups. The parallel sessions include 10 minute talks and lightning talks showcasing posters.
The draft Main Workshop program is now available:
ACCESS Training Day (Tue 9)
This year the ACCESS Training Day will take place on Tuesday 9 September. Please note this event needs a separate registration from the Main Workshop.
The draft Training Day program is now available:
COSIMA Workshop 2025 (Mon 8 – Fri 12)
The 2025 COSIMA Annual Meeting will be held in Melbourne at the same venue, starting with a 2-day Hackathon (Mon–Tue) and a science meeting on Friday 12 September. Visit the COSIMA Workshop 2025 topic on the ACCESS-Hive Forum for more details.
The draft program has now been released for the COSIMA Hackathon and the COSIMA Workshop meeting:
COSIMA Hackathon program COSIMA Workshop meeting program
ACCESS Community Working Group meetings (Fri 12)
This year, six Community Working Groups will have meetings as part of the Workshop on Friday 12 September including: Atmosphere, COSIMA (ocean and sea ice), Cryosphere Modelling, Earth System Modelling, Land Surface, Machine Learning for Climate and Weather. For more information check updates for each Community Working Group in the ACCESS-Hive Forum.
The draft programs for the Atmosphere, Earth System Modelling, Land, Machine Learning, and Cryosphere working groups are now available:
Atmosphere program Earth System Modelling program Land programs
Machine Learning program Cryosphere program
Presenting at the workshop
Abstract submissions for oral talks and posters are now closed.
Presenting at the workshop? Check out our oral presentations and posters guidelines.
Accessibility
We are committed to making this event accessible to everyone. If there any specific access requirements that we can provide to enable you to attend, please contact us at: access.nri@anu.edu.au.
Covid-safe plan
We acknowledge COVID-19 still active in the community. Check out our efforts to minimise the risk of SARS CoV-2 infection in all our events:
ACCESS-NRI COVID Safe Plan
This plan was prepared with advice from aerosol expert Professor Robyn Schofield from the University of Melbourne and member of the ACCESS-NRI Board and OzSage.
Program Committee members
The ACCESS-NRI team would like to thank the members of the Workshop Program Committee for their valuable contributions and time:
- Andy Hogg, Chair (ACCESS-NRI)
- Adele Morrison (ANU, COSIMA)
- Alex Norton (CSIRO)
- Ariaan Purich (Monash University, ESM)
- Heidi Nettelbeck (ACCESS-NRI)
- Jemma Jefree (ANU, ESM)
- Julia Neme (ANU)
- Kitsios Vassili (CSIRO, ML)
- Mathew Lipson (UNSW, LWG)
- Poul Christoffersen (UTAS)
- Tennessee Leeuwenburg (Bureau of Meteorology)
Communications and organisation:
- Natalia Bateman (ACCESS-NRI)
- Victoria Allen (ACCESS-NRI)
Contact
If you have any questions, please direct them to: access.nri@anu.edu.au.
Please note that this event may be recorded and published by the ACCESS-NRI through its communication channels. This may include your contributions during the sessions.