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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 details of ICCS projects w…

ICCS's co-director, Dominic Orchard, co-chaired thhe 1st ACM Workshop on Programming for the Planet in London. The gathering brought together researchers from computer science to discuss how to close the gap between state-of-the-art programming methods being developed in academia and the use of programming in climate analysis, modelling, forecastin…

The following blog is written by Aleksandra Higson. After an initial two-month summer internship, she continued on into December, working on a variety of multi-media communications for the Institute of Computing for Climate Science (ICCS).What a whirlwind of an experience! Interning with ICCS meant that I could have a go at everything comms-related…

A select team travelled to Kigali, Rwanda to provide pre-conference training for the first ever World Climate Research Programme conference to be held in Africa. Just days before 1,400 experts gathered to discuss the latest developments in climate science, ICCS delivered a hands-on session demonstrating practical tools and best practices in softwar…

Myles Ng worked on the mapping of oceanic heat and carbon uptake using machine learning under the supervision of Dr Laura Cimoli of ICCS. The following blog outlines his experiences contributing to the world leading research.Going into the project, there were two main things I had hoped to take away from it. I was excited to apply what I had learnt…

With the UK’s AI Summit taking place in London on the first week of November, ICCS has participated in an initiative that invites the public to speak about their hopes and fears regarding AI.In a collaborative effort to involve members of the public in conversations with scientists, Cambridge University’s ai@cam, the Accelerate Programme for Scient…

ICCS intern Ivan Shalashilin writes about his experience.During my internship at Cambridge University, I learned to apply Gaussian processes (GPs), a type of machine learning, to model ocean currents. Following my last week, I was invited to attend the Gaussian Processes Summer School hosted by the University of Manchester. This event gave me the o…

Dr Laura Cimoli of ICCS co-led a workshop that brought together a mixture of ocean explorers, conservationists, and other climate scientists to come up with the best way to observe, interpret and model turbulent mixing. This occurs when waves form and travel in the ocean interior. They act just like the waves that break on the seashore, but this ha…

In an International Collaboration of the Virtual Earth System Research Institute, ICCS Research Software Engineers (RSEs) Jack Atkinson, Athena Elafrou, Simon Clifford and Tom Meltzer partnered with Minah Yang, Laura Mansfield, Dave Connelly, Aditi Sheshadri, Qiang Sun and Ed Gerber of DataWave to optimise a PyTorch-Fortran coupling of a machine le…

The oceans are changing. As the largest carbon sink, they absorb more carbon dioxide than all the trees and plants on land combined. Oceans also absorb the majority of excess heat caused by greenhouse gas emissions. As a consequence, waters are becoming warmer, more acidic, depleted of oxygen, less nutrient-rich and increasingly fresh, meaning less…

An international team of scientists led by the Cambridge University Institute of Computing for Climate Science recently explored the role of deep sea turbulence in the regulation of Atlantic currents. A global network of currents helps regulate our climate, by removing heat and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and drawing them down into the deep …

This July, the Institute of Computing for Climate Science hosted its second annual summer school in the vibrant city of Cambridge, a place that has been a focal point of learning and discovery for over 800 years. Members of the VESRI and VISS communities were invited to attend a variety of technical training sessions, workshops as well as present t…

As part of their "Working Smarter" series interviewing AI experts about how they leverage machine learning to solve interesting problems and dramatically change the way we work for the better, cloud storage company Dropbox interviewed ICCS Research Software Engineer in an article entitled "How Cambridge scientists use machine learning to improve cl…

Prof Colm-cille Caulfield joins DataWave colleagues in Stanford for mid-term reviewICCS co-director Prof Colm-cille Caulfield recently joined our colleagues on the DataWave VESRI for their mid-term review.DataWave is one of Schmidt Futures' Virtual Earth System Research Institute (or VESRI) teams that ICCS supports. It is an international consortiu…

ICCS postdoctoral researcher Dr Henry Moss was awarded a "notable paper" status for one of his papers at the 2023 Artificial Intelligence and Statistics conference.AISTATS is a conference for artificial intelligence researchers with a focus on statistics. Henry had two papers accepted to this year's conference: "Inducing point allocation for sparse…