Dear ACCESS Community,
Welcome to our second edition of ACCESStory.Here at ACCESS-NRI we’ve been continuing to work to establish ourselves, and to recruit our core team of Research Software Engineers. An important recent milestone was the release of the ACCESS-NRI Strategic Plan, which is now available for download.
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This plan sets out our goals and objectives for the next 5 years, and is aimed to give ACCESS users a clear idea of what they can expect from us.
One of our current priorities is to provide a place where we can collate documentation on ACCESS model activities. With this newsletter we’re announcing the launch of the ACCESS-Hive, a portal that will allow both community users and ACCESS-NRI staff to provide documentation to describe how our models and other systems operate. The intent of the Hive is that it will grow organically to be a reliable and up-to-date information source. It will also provide a Community Forum which will permit you to post questions or discussion topics, or to learn from questions posted by others (a sort of ACCESS-based stackoverflow).
As ACCESS-NRI takes shape, we are working to formulate the mechanisms that will help us to engage with the community. An important part of this engagement is the formation of Community Working Groups – these groups are intended to provide an interface between the researcher community and ACCESS-NRI. They will provide feedback on the modelling systems and associated tools, and suggest directions for future development. Importantly, the working groups are community-driven, which means that they will depend on input from all of you. We conducted a recent survey of interest in these groups and can see a clear path to establishing our first working groups early in the new year. Please stay tuned!
November this year has turned into a festival of conferences in the weather/climate modelling space, which means that I will likely see many of you over the coming weeks. In particular, ACCESS-NRI will host a booth at the upcoming AMOS conference in Adelaide.If you’re attending, please feel free to drop by and say hello,
Andy
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The ACCESS-NRI team continues growing! In October, we welcomed three new members: Dougie Squire (research software engineer, Ocean Model Development team), Roger Edberg (leader of the User Training team) and Heidi Nettelbeck (leader of the Atmospheric Modelling Infrastructure team). Photo credit: Harshula Jayasuriya
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FOCUS ON OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS
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Are you interested in joining our team as a Research Software Engineer to help us build the national research climate and weather modelling infrastructure? Contact us to have a chat about future possibilities!
Current available positions:
Research Software Engineer (Visualisation Specialist)
Applications close: 20 Nov 2022 11:55:00 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time
More information and to apply or contact Dr Romain Beucher.
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Launch of ACCESS-Hive, the ACCESS Community Portal
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ACCESS-NRI welcomes you to the ACCESS-Hive, an open-source collaborative portal developed by and for the ACCESS community members.
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The team behind the ACCESS-Hive: (l-r) Dr Claire Carouge, Dr Aidan Heerdegen, Dr Romain Boucher, Dr Heidi Nettelbeck and Dr Roger Edberg
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Launch of the ACCESS Community Forum
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This Forum has been developed for the ACCESS community to come together, share information, have fruitful discussions, organise and plan shared activities. Join the conversation here
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ACCESS Community Working Groups Survey
The survey for the Community working groups closed last week. Huge thanks to the 93 people who participated. The results will go the next meeting of the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) for consideration. So stay tuned for more information in our next issue!
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The ARC Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century has been funded!
The new Centre, led by Monash University, aims to determine how Australia’s weather is being reshaped by climate change.
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Congratulations to the many members of the ACCESS Community who will lead this new Centre for the next seven years.
Read the ARC funding announcement
Image credit: Andrew Gammon
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ACCESS-NRI /NESP Workshop
A NESP/ACCESS-NRI community science workshop was held in Canberra on the 20-21st October 2022 with 33 participants
Read the full report here
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ACCESS-NRI participation at e-research Australasia 2022
In October, ACCESS-NRI participated in the e-research Australasia 2022 Conference, joining other research capabilities around the country, including several National Research Infrastructures.
Read more about our participation in the event
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CABLE DOCATHON
A NESP/ACCESS-NRI community science workshop was held in Canberra on the 20-21st October 2022 with 33 participants
Read the full report here
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COSIMA WORKSHOP
ACCESS-NRI participated in the COSIMA workshop in Hobart, Tasmania between 3-4 of November.
Read more about the event
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AMOS Annual Conference 2022
28 November - 2 December 2022, Adelaide Convention Centre, SA
Read more
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Australian Community Earth System Simulator Modelling Workshop at AMOS
27 November, 2022
Read more
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SOOS Symposium 2023 "Southern Ocean in a Changing World"
Session's submissions including short talks and posters, panel discussions and/or workshops close 31 October 2022. 14 -18 August 2023, Hobart, Australia.
Read more
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World Climate Research Program (WCRP) Open Science Conference
23-27 October 2023, Kwali (Rwanda)
- 1 December 2022: Abstract submission, financial support application and registration open
- February 2023: Abstract submission and financial support application deadline
- April-May 2023: Abstract review and financial support notifications
- June 2023: Final Conference program with speakers
- Local contact: Helen Cleugh
More details
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ARDC Digital Research Skills Summit 2023 9-10 February 2023, Rydges World Square Hotel, Sydney.
Read more
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Towards better recognition for research infrastructure specialists
Maintaining Australia's world-class research infrastructure requires a specialist workforce. Read the Position Paper from the NCRIS Directors proposing a new job classification system for the national research infrastructure workforce.
Read more here
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Birds of Feathers (BoF) discussion at e-research
As part of the e-research 2022 Australasia event, members of the NCRIS Communications Network and NeSI explored the challenges of communicating across and beyond research ecosystems through a Birds of Feathers (BoF) discussion.
Read the outcomes of the BoF discussion here.
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Reporting on the ACCESS models framework use is a key performance indicator for ACCESS-NRI. This enables us to record how and where ACCESS is being used, and helps us to continue to be funded to deliver these services. Read how to do it here
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Do you use (or would like to use) ACCESS for your research? We want to connect with you!
Register to our two main channels of engagement with the ACCESS community: the ACCESS-Hive and the ACCESS Community Forum or send us an email to add you to our contact lists.
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