Bluelink Science Meeting 2020 goes online
The annual Bluelink Science Meeting brings together project staff, partners, and stakeholders to share ideas. 
The intention is to celebrate achievements, review the plans for the year ahead, and identify new opportunities. For more information about the Bluelink partnership see The Bluelink Partnership
The 2020 Bluelink Science Meeting was due to be held earlier this year but was postponed. Now, due to Covid-19 travel restrictions around Australia, the meeting will go online for the first time.
Normally two days long, the new format will span the month of September with eight separate 2-hour sessions. Over 40 different presenters will provide updates on their work. The three Bluelink partners of CSIRO, the Bureau of Meteorology, and the Department of Defence will be represented, along with IMOS and universities. Topics include global modeling and data assimilation, global and regional science, applications, and services.
2020 Science Meeting in action
An important part of the Science Meeting is to bring the Bluelink team together to encourage and strengthen collaborative opportunities. The online nature of this year’s meeting may provide an extra challenge to this goal, but the agenda leaves plenty of room for the often robust discussion and Q&A sections that have proved popular in previous years.
While the meeting will be online, the agenda and wide-range of participants show that Bluelink science is very much alive and well.
If you would like to attend please email Ahmad.Khan@bom.gov.au or Tracey.Pitman@csiro.au.
Bluelink Science Series 2020 Objective:
To celebrate and share the Bluelink science achievements and plan for future years.
Guidelines:
- Sessions will open half an hour before the start and will begin promptly at the start time
- Please mute when you enter the meeting.
- Please only unmute if requested to by the Chair or Moderator. (Be aware, that you may be muted by the production team if you forget to mute)
- During discussion times, please post your questions in chat preferably, or press the ‘raise hand’ icon in TEAMS.
- Sessions will be recorded
- The following Roles will be allocated for each session
| Chair | Will facilitate the session. |
| Moderator | Will monitor chat and reflect questions and discussions as time permits – either at the end of the session, of after each talk. Discussion within the chat function is encouraged. Group discussion will be led by the moderator at the end of the session, in liaison with the Chair and if time permits. |
| Screen host | Will ensure they have received and collated all presentations from all speakers the day before their session. The Screenhost will then be a backup if the presenter has any technical difficulties sharing their screen. |