Please indicate whether you are interested in attending any of the following Workshops. At this stage we are planning to hold them pre-conference on Friday 5 February 2021, or post-conference Monday 15 February 2021). Dates and times will be confirmed. Note that some workshops will have limited numbers.
WS1 - Python (04 Feb @9:00am) full day (REGISTRATION CLOSED)
WS2 - Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator (ACCESS) modelling workshop (05/Feb @ 2.00pm AEDT) - (REGISTRATION CLOSED)
WS3 - NCI Data training workshop (05/Feb @ 9.00am AEDT) - (REGISTRATION CLOSED)
The climate data user community - including both technical users and research scientist - needs to work with data infrastructure providers to improve data sharing, maximise data quality and availability. To facilitate this, we propose a guided discussion on “Creating a collaborative approach to climate data”. The aim of the discussion is to start defining a common strategy between all the climate data users to improve the quality and the accessibility of the climate data in Australia. Easily findable and accessible data provides a foundation for data impact, use in forecasting and research, and creating quality stakeholder end products. The discussion will cover data management and availability, established tools, and emerging needs. Attendees will be provided with materials detailing the current state of centralised climate data holdings in Australia prior to the discussion, to be conducted as an expert panel with audience interaction. Break-out groups could potentially cover topics including dataset types: model output, reanalysis, observations; as well as aspects of data management: how to access additional storage, approaching very large regional datasets, processes for retirement of older datasets to create space for newer data, harmonising approaches across institutions/research groups and developing climate data management guidelines for researchers.
A workshop to demonstrate how to access and explore the newly developed Australian radar archive (AURA). This NCI archive includes the now open-access operational radar dataset and research radars datasets: CPOL (Darwin), OceanPol (RV Investigator) and CP-2 (Brisbane). These datasets can be used to explore a broad range of phenomena, including severe thunderstorms, bushfire plumes, tropical convection and southern ocean precipitation. Furthermore, long-term records can be applied for climate science to develop climatological investigations and evaluate simulations. Participants of the workshop will gain an understanding of strengths and limitations of weather radar observations and will be guided through a series of Python notebooks that demonstrate applications.
The Bureau provides data, information, insight and advice to support critical decisions across the Australian economy and society. This workshop will highlight Bureau's climate and water spatial datasets and is targeted at those who make use of climate and water data, products and services for research and evidence-based decision-making.
The workshop will cover information on how the datasets have been developed, and how the data can be accessed and used for reporting on various impacts of weather and climate across Australia.
The workshop will be interactive, with online demonstrations on how to access or obtain climate and water spatial datasets. It will be presented in two parts, covering climate spatial data in one part and water spatial data in the other.
This hands-on interactive workshop will demonstrate innovative online educational resources for University-level courses in atmosphere, ocean, and climate science. We will work through a suite of web-enabled labs built with Google Colaboratory, a cloud-based python notebook server, and Dedalus, an open-source fluid dynamics solver that allows students to enter equations in human-readable format. The labs give students the opportunity to run research-quality numerical simulations, visualize model output, and interrogate data sets --- all from a web browser. The labs and accompanying teaching materials are available freely online with support from the Dedalus Project and the Universitas 21 Global Education Fund.
The Climate Classrooms workshop is part of an ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CLEX)- Monash Climate Change Communication Research Hub (MCCCRH) effort to improve the understanding of climate science among high-school students. The aim is to bring climate scientists and teachers together to develop lesson plans that can guide high-school teachers on how to educate their students on climate science while teaching topics from the Australian curriculum. The workshop will deliver draft lesson plans that will be fully developed by the CLEX-MCCCRH team and made available to teachers via the MCCCRH and CLEX websites and education platforms nationwide and worldwide, including the TROP ICSU repository. The event will also help give teachers the confidence to incorporate climate science into their lessons and build connections between climate scientists and teachers.
The workshop will contain a lesson plan development session and a teachers’ professional development session.
Increased funding to support full-year operation of the Marine National Facility (MNF) and RV Investigator has resulted in greater opportunities for the marine and atmospheric research community to utilise this national facility. In response, MNF has developed the MNF 2030 strategy to guide the use of Australia’s dedicated marine research capability for the next 10 years. Building on achievements to date, MNF 2030 seeks to ensure that access to the MNF is broad and equitable, and that the research we enable is aligned with Australia’s national research priorities. MNF 2030 introduces wide ranging improvements in the way researchers access sea time on Investigator, and in the way we schedule research. The strategy also describes the directions the MNF will take in the pursuit of operational excellence and capability improvements.
This workshop will present MNF 2030 with a focus on how its implementation will impact researchers applying for time with the Facility from 2021 onwards. Attendees will have the opportunity to seek clarification on any aspects of the strategy and applications and assessment process. With the next call for Primary Applications scheduled for 15 February 2021, the workshop will present a timely overview of the opportunities that exist for your research.
Who should attend: We encourage researchers from across the diversity of marine and atmospheric science disciplines from academia, government and industry to attend. Past, current and potential future users of the facility are particularly encouraged, both Australian-based and international.
Convenors: Ben Arthur and Donna Roberts (Marine National Facility, CSIRO)