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Data Science Africa 2025 Summer School and Workshop

11 August 2025

The following blog is written by Dr Adeleke Bankole. Adeleke is a research software engineer at the ICCS specializing in computational methods for fluid dynamics. In June this year, ICCS's Research Software Engineer (RSE) Dr Adeleke Bankole was invited as a speaker at the yearly Data Science Africa (DSA) Summer School and...

Ocean Currents and Ice Shelves - ICCS researcher's Antarctic cruise leads to new discoveries

4 August 2025

Earlier this year, ICCS Early Career Advanced Fellow Dr Laura Cimoli set off on a cruise to the Bellingshausen Sea off the coast of Antarctica to study the ocean circulation and the impacts of glacial melting in the region. As the team was conducting their survey, however, an enormous iceberg calving event caused them to...

The 2025 ICCS Summer School: Equipping Climate Scientists with RSE Skills

28 July 2025

Earlier this month, the ICCS hosted its fourth annual Summer School at Newnham College, University of Cambridge. The week-long event brought together members of the Schmidt Sciences Virtual Earth System Research Institute (VESRI), other project partners, and local students for a variety of training workshops, networking...

Reflections on the 27th EuroAD workshop

14 May 2025

Derivatives are at the core of scientific computing: from the Jacobian matrices used in nonlinear solvers to the gradient vectors used in optimisation methods; from the back-propagation operator in machine learning (ML) to the Hessian matrices used in uncertainty quantification methods. Automatic differentiation (AD) -...

ICCS Joins £4.25M Project to Predict Marine Ecosystem Tipping Points

28 April 2025

The Institute of Computing for Climate Science (ICCS) is proud to collaborate on TiMBER — a bold, multi-institutional research effort to forecast tipping points in marine ecosystems and help the UK prepare for their consequences and opportunities, especially in the fishing and aquaculture industries. Funded by the UK...

Artifact Evaluation at this years' Climate Informatics 2024

18 December 2024

(blog post co-authored by ICCS members, Dominic Orchard, Marion Weinzierl, Roly Perera, and also Alejandro Coca-Castro from The Alan Turing Institute) Capsule In 2024, the Climate Informatics conference embarked, for the first time, on adding an Artifact Evaluation (AE) process following the standard peer review process...

University of Cambridge Professional Services Recognition Awards 2024

17 December 2024

Winners and nominees at the Professional Services Recognition Awards The Professional Services Recognition Awards take place every year in December. The awards recognise and celebrate outstanding contributions across all professional service areas in the University. On 5 December the awards ceremony commenced with a warm...

The 2024 ICCS Summer School - sharing research software engineering skills to develop climate science

17 July 2024

After the very successful Cross-VESRI convening the ICCS quickly turned their attention to the Summer school in the second half of last week. Whilst it did make for an intense week, having the two events back-to-back allowed for a large international attendance from Virtual Earth System Research Institute project...

The 2024 Cross-VESRI Convening: Collaboration and Education across VESRI projects

17 July 2024

Last week the Institute of Computing for Climate Science hosted the Cross-VESRI convening in conjunction with Schmidt Sciences, the funder of the Virtual Earth System Research Institute (VESRI) and the ICCS. rse_johns_vesri.jpeg For more information about our collaborators and the VESRI project teams see here and for more...

Collaboration Across Continents - My visit to NCAR.

26 June 2024

The following blog is written by Jack Atkinson . Jack is a senior research software engineer at the ICCS who spent two weeks in Boulder, Colorado, at NCAR, working closely with model developers in an effort to make a breakthrough in an ongoing project. The visit also gave Jack the opportunity to share his own expertise and...

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