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Institute of Computing for Climate Science@iccscambridge· 15d

📢 We're #recruiting a Research Assistant/Associate in Trustworthy Generative AI for Computational Science. Find out more about this exciting role: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

We're recruiting a Research Assistant/Associate in Trustworthy Generative AI for Computational Science. Closing date 6 September

Institute of Computing for Climate Science@iccscambridge· 21d

🧊 Josh Lanham, a Postdoctoral Research Associate based at ICCS, and Assistant Research Professor Laura Cimoli have a new paper in @nature.com Communications Earth & Environment. Find out how they inferred that deep-ocean heat has been marching closer to Antarctica. iccs.cam.ac.uk/news/polewar...

Research vessel sailing close to iceberg in Antarctic waters

Institute of Computing for Climate Science@iccscambridge· 22d

⛈️ Discover the fascinating work of Charles Powell, an Early Career Researcher based at ICCS, in this issue of Weather (Volume 81, Issue 7) from @rmets.org rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14778696...

A retrospective on the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season. "Atlantic hurricane activity in 2025 was influenced by circulation patterns and upstream conditions that influence tropical cyclone formation, such as the West African Monsoon, Kelvin wave activity, and the MJO." Dr Charles Powell

Institute of Computing for Climate Science@iccscambridge· 27d

After morning workshops, ICCS Summer School participants spent yesterday afternoon relaxing and exploring what Cambridge has to offer. 🌿 One party visited @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social while another took a walking tour. Other attendees enjoyed board games before heading off to watch the football 😐

Walking tour group standing in an ornate archway looking at a Cambridge college

Board games session with players around a table

Elevated view of the Cambridge Botanic Garden with flower beds and trees in the background

Summer School attendees walk through an archway created by huge palm leaves inside the Botanic Garden greenhouse

Institute of Computing for Climate Science@iccscambridge· 28d

🚀 We had another exciting day packed with hands-on learning, expert-led sessions and fun networking at the ICCS Summer School. The day was quite full-on, so it was fantastic to relax in the evening in the beautiful setting of @sidneysussex.bsky.social for drinks and formal dinner.

Tom Meltzer gives his AI workshop to a room full of people

Summer School attendees in discussion during the coffee break

Summer School formal dinner at Sidney Sussex college, with diners sitting at long tables

Summer School attendees enjoying drinks in the garden at Sidney Sussex College

Institute of Computing for Climate Science@iccscambridge· 29d

⭐ The 2026 ICCS Summer School has started in style! Professor Steve Easterbrook gave a keynote titled Computing the Climate: The past and future of global climate modelling. A range of workshops followed, with a chance for delegates to get to know each other over drinks and nibbles.

Professor Steve Easterbrook at the front of a lecture theatre giving his keynote talk in front of a rapt audience

Summer School attendees in discussion between sessions

Jack and Marion give RSE Skills workshop to a room full of delegates

Institute of Computing for Climate Science@iccscambridge· Jun 30

😎 Our annual Summer School kicks off on 13 July at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Attendees will enjoy a mix of keynote seminars, panel sessions, workshops, collaborations and social events. If you missed out on a place this time, don’t worry - we’ll share recordings on our YouTube channel.

Approaching the Centre for Mathematical Sciences on a sunny morning with blue sky and fluffy white clouds

Institute of Computing for Climate Science@iccscambridge· Jun 29

🌿 It was great to meet so many people at last week's Climate and Nature Research Showcase, organised by @cambridgezero.bsky.social. It's really useful to chat and spread the word about ICCS. Training and resources were two things that lots of people wanted to talk about – what are your thoughts?

ICCS stand at the Climate and Nature Research Showcase with people sitting at a table and banners and information boards behind them

Institute of Computing for Climate Science@iccscambridge· Jun 11

👜 The ICCS team is gearing up for the Durham HPC Days in the week of 15 June! Several of our RSEs are involved with sessions next week. There will be time to network, learn, and enjoy the beautiful city of Durham, so please come along and say hi to us! hpc-days.github.io/Durham-HPC-D...

Durham Cathedral seen from low viewpoint with river in foreground fringed with green trees

Institute of Computing for Climate Science@iccscambridge· Jun 10

👋 Last week we were delighted to host a Climate Science Grant Writing Workshop for early-career researchers and PhD students from the University of Cambridge and the British Antarctic Survey.

Attendees at climate science grant writing workshop listening to panel discussion

Institute of Computing for Climate Science@iccscambridge· Jun 9

🌊 Don't miss David Kamm's talk about Bridging scales in ocean models: on data-driven parameterizations of mesoscale eddies. When: TODAY, 4:00pm to 5:00pm Where: Online or at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences Details: iccs.cam.ac.uk/events/iccs-...

Institute of Computing for Climate Science@iccscambridge· May 5

🌀 Are you at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly #EGU2026 in Vienna this week? Watch out for ICCS! Here, Jack Atkinson shows off his poster about TCTrack. He's also the convenor of Session ITS1.7/CL0.3, Advancing Earth System Models using Machine Learning.

Jack Atkinson pointing at his EGU 2026 poster about TCTrack

Institute of Computing for Climate Science@iccscambridge· May 1

Principal RSE Jack Atkinson delivered an internal talk on NetCDF – the file format used to store most climate datasets. He gave the ICCS team an understanding of the fundamentals of the data they work with, and introduced the CF Metadata conventions for making climate data more FAIR.

Stack of cardboard files tied up with ribbon, each filled to bursting with paper documents

Institute of Computing for Climate Science@iccscambridge· Apr 14

🌦️ On Tuesday 21 April from 3pm-4pm UK time, Pritthijit Nath will give a seminar titled Rethinking Weather and Climate Model Parametrisations with Reinforcement Learning. Everyone is welcome to join us online! Full details: iccs.cam.ac.uk/events/iccs-...

Dark grey rainclouds gathering over wooded river valley in English countryside

Institute of Computing for Climate Science@iccscambridge· Apr 8

🧊 How warm is your office today? Our Senior Research Associate Anna Allen is installing weather stations in Svalbard. Her work includes designing bespoke forecasting systems for low-resource areas. Anna found polar bear tracks next to where she put up one of the weather stations... 🐾

Silhouetted scientists up on a raised platform where they are installing equipment. The landscape is snowy, with white mountains and blue sky in the background

Weather station equipment fixed to a wooden rail on a raised platform. Blue sky and snowy landscape are in the background

A small cabin in the snowy landscape of Svalbard, with warm orange light visible from inside. Behind, green washes of light from the Aurora borealis are visible in a blue and starry sky

Polar bear tracks in the snow - big paw prints and trailing marks where the bear's claws and fur have scuffed the snow

Institute of Computing for Climate Science@iccscambridge· Mar 26

📢 “Better Code for Better Climate Science” We’re delighted that ICCS’s work is highlighted in the 2025 Schmidt Sciences impact report. ICCS is part of the Virtual Institute for Scientific Software, enabling software engineers to support climate scientists: www.schmidtsciences.org/profile-2025...

Institute of Computing for Climate Science@iccscambridge· Mar 24

⌛ There are just a few more days to go until registration closes for the 2026 ICCS Summer School! Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity – a week of collaborative, hands-on learning with tuition and guidance from leading experts. Register here: iccs.cam.ac.uk/events/insti...

Idyllic Cambridge summer scene: a group enjoys a punting trip on the River Cam, with King's College Chapel in the background

Institute of Computing for Climate Science@iccscambridge· Mar 23

💡 We had a fabulous time on Saturday as part of the @cambridgefestival.bsky.social, exploring climate research and AI topics with our local community through the medium of FUN! #CamFest

ICCS volunteers watch as two children play the Planktomania game

A volunteer helps a child with an activity, while behind, others explain to families about the DAWN supercomputer

Two children getting involved with activities at a table with a smiling volunteer

Institute of Computing for Climate Science@iccscambridge· Mar 13

🌊 Research Software Engineers Jack Franklin and Mikolaj Kowalski from ICCS work on the Oceananigans code at the DiRAC - HPC Hackathon in Birmingham, assisted by Miren Radia and Richard Regan. Photo by Tom Meltzer

Jack Franklin and Mikolaj Kowalski from ICCS work on the Oceanigans code at the DiRAC hackathon in Birmingham, assisted by Miren Radia and Richard Regan.

A screenshot of profiler output where a block diagram shows the various components of a GPU including the high bandwidth memory, the first and second level caches, and the Compute Unit resources. There are arrows between the boxes annotated with the measured read and write traffic between components and cache hit rates.

Institute of Computing for Climate Science@iccscambridge· Mar 6

☀️ Registration for our 2026 Summer School is open to postgrad students and early career researchers. If you would like to attend and need some support to cover registration and travel costs, please apply to our bursary scheme. ⏰ The deadline is Tuesday 17 March: iccs.cam.ac.uk/events/insti...

Summer School attendees working together around a table on their laptops

Institute of Computing for Climate Science@iccscambridge· Feb 26

🇺🇸 Dr Tom Meltzer and Dr Matthew Archer, members of ICCS's Research Software Engineering team, have been busy in the US. The duo were in Seattle for the cross-VISS GenAI meeting, and then visited DataWave in Stanford to hand over their non-local gravity wave project and gave seminars.

Tom's laptop, covered in stickers from various programmes and institutions

Attendees of the cross-VISS GenAI meeting

Tom Meltzer, Matt Archer and Colm-cille Caulfield at the eScience Institute

Institute of Computing for Climate Science@iccscambridge· Feb 24

🌀 The Cambridge Centre for Climate Science is holding its annual Symposium on 9 April. This will be a conference day of talks and posters showcasing the #ClimateScience happening across the University of Cambridge and @bas.ac.uk. Book your place: www.climatescience.cam.ac.uk/events/cambr...

Aerial view of white icebergs floating in deep, dark blue sea. The ice looks turquoise where it's visible underwater

Institute of Computing for Climate Science@iccscambridge· Feb 23

💼 We’re hiring a Senior Research Software Engineer! At the Institute of Computing for Climate Science, we're building the next generation of high-performance, high-assurance climate modelling tools and are looking for a Senior Research Software Engineer to join us. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/senior-...

We’re recruiting a Senior Research Software Engineer. Closing date 20 March

Institute of Computing for Climate Science@iccscambridge· Feb 18

We have fantastic internship opportunities available in #Cambridge this summer. But don't take our word for it. One of last year's interns, Rishul Karia, gave his verdict. ⏰ The deadline for applications for summer 2026 is Tuesday 24 February. Full details here: iccs.cam.ac.uk/opportunitie...

Quote from Rishul Karia, 2025 ICCS Summer Intern: "I thoroughly enjoyed my time as an intern at the ICCS. Overall, this experience has been electric, and one I would highly recommend to anyone considering applying in the future!”

Institute of Computing for Climate Science@iccscambridge· Feb 17

🥳 Registration is OPEN for the ICCS Summer School 2026! It runs from 13-17 July in #Cambridge. The programme will feature a mix of: Keynote speeches Training sessions & technical workshops Scientific presentations Collaborative & social events. iccs.cam.ac.uk/events/insti...

Attendees at ICCS Summer School chatting and working at laptops around a table

Institute of Computing for Climate Science@iccscambridge· Feb 4

👋 Could you be one of our 2026 ICCS interns? We’re looking for 5 interns to join us this summer. 3 will work on projects under the supervision of ICCS postdoctoral researchers; 2 will work on projects in collaboration between ICCS + @clr-cambridge.bsky.social Info: iccs.cam.ac.uk/opportunitie...

Four students walking along the towpath by the River Cam in summer. The trees are green and it's a beautiful day

Institute of Computing for Climate Science@iccscambridge· Jan 21

🌪️ Many thanks to Inigo for hosting us in London for the quarterly InSPIRe (Inigo Storm Prediction and Impact Research) meeting. Cambridge researchers Alison, Robert, Sam, Jack (pictured speaking), Charles and Omer gave an update and we had productive discussions with the Inigo risk scientists.

ICCS's Jack Atkinson giving presentation, with logos of Inigo, TCTrack and ICCS below

Institute of Computing for Climate Science@iccscambridge· Jan 14

☀️ A postcard from… sunny Cambridge! Our team members Simon Driscoll, Matthew Archer, Josh Stevens and Annabelle Scott are representing ICCS today at Forecasting the Future: The UK AI for Weather Forecasting Workshop at the Maxwell Centre @cam.ac.uk

ICCS team members outside the Maxwell Centre in Cambridge. Left to right: Josh Stevens, Matt Archer, Simon Driscoll and Annabelle Scott

Institute of Computing for Climate Science@iccscambridge· Jan 13

🗓️ A date for your diary: the 29th European workshop on automatic differentiation #EuroAD will be held in Cambridge on 29-30 September, hosted by ICCS at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, home of @cambridgemaths.bsky.social More details soon: iccs.cam.ac.uk/events/29th-...

The Centre for Mathematical Sciences in summer, with buildings visible between green trees and lush flower beds

Institute of Computing for Climate Science@iccscambridge· Jan 7

⏰ Just 1 week left to submit abstracts to #EGU26! Our Senior Research Software Engineer, Jack Atkinson, will convene a session, Advancing Earth System Models Using Machine Learning, at the EGU @egu.eu General Assembly in May. Find out how to submit: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...