8 Dec 2023
ICCS provides essential training in software engineering ahead of Open Science Conference in Rwanda
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…
9 Nov 2023
ICCS intern uses machine learning to predict where chemicals are concentrated in the ocean
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…
31 Oct 2023
AI: where are we going?
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…
28 Oct 2023
Reflections on the 2023 Gaussian Processes Summer School: bicycle racing, multiple dimensions and
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…
18 Oct 2023
ICCS oceanographer builds innovative road map to understand wave behaviour
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…
20 Sep 2023
ICCS software engineers are making waves in the field of climate science
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…
4 Sep 2023
Tales from the North Atlantic with Dr Laura Cimoli
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…
18 Aug 2023
Scientists reveal how underwater waves influence where absorbed carbon goes and how long it stays under the sea.
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 …
14 Aug 2023
The 2023 ICCS Summer School: equipping climate scientists with tools to advance their research
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…
13 Jun 2023
Dropbox interviews ICCS Research Software Engineer Jack Atkinson
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…
8 Jun 2023
Prof Colm-cille Caulfield joins DataWave colleagues in Stanford for mid-term review
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…
18 May 2023
Dr Henry Moss awarded "notable paper" at AISTATS 2023
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…
26 Apr 2023
ICCS present at Conference of the European Geosciences Union in Vienna
ICCS team members Dominic Orchard and Jack Atkinson attended the 2023 meeting of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), taking place in Vienna from 23-28 April.The event provided a great opportunity to catch-up with many of our scientific collaborators, especially in the DataWave and SASIP teams. There were a number of presentations of our work duri…
21 Apr 2023
ICCS bursary supports attendees to 12th Annual Climate Informatics conference
A bursary set up by ICCS and conference sponsor AWS supported attendees to the 12th Annual Climate Informatics conference hosted in Cambridge this April. The bursary supported costs for registration, accommodation, travel, and other expenses. The bursaries are part of ICCS's ongoing commitment to widening participation in computer science, climate …
10 Jan 2023
Talk about the work of our institute at the Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery
Dr Dominic Orchard, our co-director for Computer Science, gave an overview of the Institute and some of the challenges we are tackling in a talk at the Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery:
