📸 In order, photo collages are from the 2025 ACCESS Community Workshop days 1 and 2, and the ACCESS Training Day. All photo credits: Harshula Jayasuriya

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...

Thanks to the @anuagrifood.bsky.social for inviting us to share how ACCESS-NRI fits into the ANU infrastructure landscape, our close collaboration with @nci-australia.bsky.social and for giving us the opportunity to meet industry representatives and tour other ANU infrastructure facilities!

Image of ACCESS Community members participating in our annual and the words: We need your input for our 2026-2027 Work Plan!

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

Photos from ACCESS-NRI research software engineers presenting and facilitating workshops at AMOS 2026

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

Our key data initiatives include:
- improving ACCESS output data specification
- an interactive ACCESS-NRI Intake catalogue
- community storage allocations on NCI's Gadi supercomputer.

All of these assist users in streamlining their research workflows.

Dr Joshua Torrance speaks into a microphone beside a slide titled "Data Management on Gadi".

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 🌊

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.