ACCESS Community Workshop 2025 (8-12 Sep)

ACCESS-NRI, Australia’s Climate Simulator, would like to invite you to the ACCESS Community Workshop 2025. 

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 the ACCESS models to address the complex Earth system 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 and to provide a welcoming environment for early career researchers and students.Everyone is welcome, especially students and early career researchers.

This is an opportunity to share your challenges and successes from working with the ACCESS models, exchange innovative uses of the models and experiences with others in the community, and enhance existing links specially between disciplinary areas.

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WHERE AND WHEN

This year, the main Workshop will be held in Melbourne Connect, VIC on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. Join us for an exciting week of events including:

• ACCESS Training day on Tuesday 9 September
• ACCESS Community Workshop from 10-12 September. Friday 12 September will be dedicated to the ACCESS Community Groups meetings.
• The 2025 COSIMA Annual Meeting will be held in Melbourne on the same venue, starting with a 2 day Hackathon (Mon-Tue) and a science meeting on Friday 12 September. Details are here.

 

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WORKSHOP AIMS

• 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.

 

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ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS AND PRESENTING AT THE WORKSHOP

Abstract submissions open on 12 May 2025 and close on the 15 June 2025

Presenting at the workshop? Check out our Poster and oral presentations guidelines

KEY DATES

• 12 May: Abstract Submission opens
• 15 June:  Abstract submission closes
• 2 June: Registrations open
• 15 August: Registrations close
• 15 July: Final program available

 

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ACCESS COMMUNITY WORKING GROUP MEETINGS

This year, four Community Working Groups will have meetings as part of the Workshop on Friday, 12th September including: Atmosphere, COSIMA (Ocean and sea ice), Cryosphere Modelling, Earth System Modelling, Land Surface, Machine Learning for Climate and Weather. You must register for the Workshop in order to attend these Community working group meetings.

For more information check updates for each Community Working Group in the ACCESS-Hive Forum.

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