ACCESS-NRI, Australia's Climate Simulator

✨💻 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 🌊

Event contributors included @nci-australia.bsky.social, ACCESS-NRI, @phenomicsaustralia.org.au, and the ANU Climate & Fluid Physics Laboratory at the ANU Research School of Earth Sciences.

It's great to have strong collaboration between NCRIS facilities for outreach. #NCRISImpact

Thanks to Kial Stewart for a fantastic tour of the Climate & Fluids Laboratory that highlighted climate science research in an engaging, interactive way! And thank you to the @nci-australia.bsky.social for organising the event and running a tour of the Gadi supercomputer.

ACCESS-NRI staff Paige Martin and @penguianista.bsky.social provided thoughtful insights into their ‘squiggly’ careers that transitioned from science and mathematics academia to research software engineering. 📈

Collage of three separate photos. In the top photo, Paige Martin points at a PowerPoint slide showing her career path. In the bottom left photo, Kial Steward is demonstrating a fluids experiment in front of six students. In the bottom right photo, Paul Leopardi is presenting about his career to a group of more than ten students.

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.

Publication: Evaluating aerosols in the Southern Ocean - ACCESS-NRI We spoke with Dr Sonya Fiddes about her paper that explores the interaction between marine aerosols, clouds and radiation using ACCESS-AM2.

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

Photo of the ACCESS Community members with the Shine Dome behind, taken during our 2024 ACCESS Community Workshop.

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 Climate change will shape everything about life in Australia – from the homes we live in and the food we grow to the risks of...

Australia's climate future: new ACCESS model goes global - @access-nri.bsky.social l

www.access-nri.org.au/australias-c...

The CMIP7 submissions are led by CSIRO with support from the Australian Government’s National Environmental Science Program NESP Climate Systems Hub, along with ACCESS-NRI and @nci-australia.bsky.social both funded through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).

Background showing a simulation of Sea Surface Temperatures (SST) using the ACCESS-ESM model and a simulation of the Earth with Australian at the centre with the words: Autralia's climate future: ACCESS new model goes global

📢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 is a global data project that predicts Earth’s future. Here’s how it works The project collects troves of data from the best climate models around the world – and the newest update to it is now underway.

🌏 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...

ACEAS Research Forum 2025: a national gathering of Antarctic science excellence - ACEAS More than 140 researchers from across Australia gathered in Hobart last week for the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS) Research Forum, held from 5 to 7 November at the Univ...

🌍 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...

Thank you to other ACCESS-NRI staff: Justin Kin Jun Hew, Tommy Gatti, Jasmeen Kaur, Paul Leopardi and Romain Boucher for your presentations and contributions!

- @andyhogg.bsky.social participated in a panel alongside @modeltheearth.bsky.social from @auscope.bsky.social, talking about the importance of supercomputing for Australasia 💻

- Kelsey Druken presented with Lesley Wyborn from @ardc.edu.au for a BoF session on preserving raw data for future science 💾

- Harshula Jayasuriya and Aidan Heerdegen collaborated with Emily Kahl from @pawseycentre.bsky.social for a BoF session on using Spack for building software environments 🏗️

The overarching theme of the conference was the value of enabling research through software and data. We are privileged at ACCESS-NRI to have this as our focus. 👨‍💻 👩‍💻

It was great to see the collaboration between ACCESS-NRI and other NCRIS facilities during the conference:

💡 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/

Credits: this video was created by @pawseycentre.bsky.social and the visualisations were created using the @nci-australia.bsky.social supercomputer and in collaboration with multiple research organisations.

YouTube video by Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre The power of visualisation on supercomputers

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...

Other highlights from this issue include:
- new partnership with the Australian Antarctic Division
- selected visualisation projects
- changes to help and support system
- releases of new models, tools and data
- new Research Software Community group
- upcoming events and recent publications.

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.

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CMIP7 Overview and how is Australia participating on this international collaboration - ACCESS-NRI A paper published this week in Geoscientific Model Development provides an overview of the seventh phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). This international...

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

📷Image credit: Adele Morrison, ANU

An image of a visualisation of Antarctica on Earth and a quote from ACCES-NRI Director, Andy Hogg, plus logos from the two organisations.

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.

Presentation on Dark Oceanography,an interdisciplinary collaboration that integrating climate science with experimental music

Presentation on Dark Oceanography,an interdisciplinary collaboration that integrating climate science with experimental music

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

Renato Braghiere presenting at the ACCESS Community Workshop 2025 on Earth system models

Renato Braghiere presenting at the ACCESS Community Workshop 2025 on Earth system models

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

An image of researcher Cat Vreugdenhil presenting at the ACCESS Community Workshop 2025

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"

Researcher Gokhan Danabasoglu from NCAR presenting on high resolution climate models.

Gokhan Danabasoglu with a banner of Australia's climate simulator behind presenting at the ACCESS Community Workshop 2025

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