Bluelink Science Meeting Weekly Program

THE MEETING IS NOW COMPLETE. THANK YOU TO ALL PRESENTERS AND AUDIENCE MEMBERS.

Program Overview

Sessions	Date & Time (AEST)	Theme
Session 1:	Wed, 2 September, 1230-1430	Setting the Theme
Session 2:	Thur, 3 September, 1230-1430	Global Reanalysis and Observations
Session 3:	Thur, 10 September, 930-1130	Global Modelling & Data Assimilation
Session 4:	Thur, 10 September, 1230-1430	Global Science
Session 5:	Wed, 16 September, 930-1130	Regional Science
Session 6:	Wed, 16 September, 1230-1430	Regional Science
Session 7:	Thur, 24 September, 930-1130	Applications
Session 8:	Thur, 24 September, 1230-1430	Status of Bluelink Services

Completed Sessions

2-Sep	Wed	Setting the scene	Week 1, 1st session – PM
	12:30	Meeting overview and organisation (Chair)	Edward King
	12:35	Bluelink/MSA overview	Mikhail Entel
	12:50	CSIRO-led Development projects and CSIRO priorities	Emlyn Jones
	13:05	BoM-led development projects and BoM priorities	Gary Brassington
	13:20	University-led development projects and priorities	Andy Hogg, Matt England
	13:35	IMOS developments and priorities	Michelle Heupel
	13:50	DoD developments and priorities	Bob Woodham
	14:05	DST developments and priorities	Chris Gillard
	14:20	Discussion (Moderator)	Emlyn Jones/ Tracey Pitman
	14:30	End	Screenhost: Andy Taylor
3-Sep	Thur	Global reanalyses & obs	Week 1, 2nd session – PM
	12:30	Welcome and reminder of logistics (Chair)	Emlyn Jones
	12:35	Bluelink’s history of delivery (15-years paper)	Andreas Schiller
	12:50	Bluelink Reanalysis: BRAN2020	Matt Chamberlain
	13:05	OceanMAPS developments	Prasanth Divakaran
	13:20	ACCESS-OM2: global ocean modelling in Australia	Andrew Kiss
	13:35	AODN – delivering ocean observations	Sebastien Mancini
	13:50	Blue Maps (Argo Maps)	Peter Oke
	14:05	On the sensitivity of ocean data assimilation to details of the ensemble	Peter Oke
	14:20	Discussion (Moderator)	Emlyn Jones
	14:30	End	Screenhost: Lucinda Matthews
10-Sep	Thur	Global Modelling and data assimilation	Week 2, 1st session – AM
	9:30	Welcome and reminder of logistics (Chair)	Mikhail Entel
	9:35	Bluelink and CSIRO’s CSC	Jaci Brown
	9:50	BoM’s moves towards seamless prediction	Gilbert Brunet
	10:05	Multi-year forecasting	Richard Matear
	10:20	ACCESS-S and linkages to Bluelink	Xiaobing Zhou
	10:35	EnKF developments for OFAM and OceanMAPS	Pavel Sakov
	10:50	Multi-scale data assimilation	Matt Chamberlain
	11:05	Discussion (Moderator)	Gary Brassington
	11:30	End	Screenhost: Lucinda Matthews
10-Sep	Thur	Global Science	Week 2, 2nd session – PM
	12:30	Welcome and reminder of logistics (Chair)	Marcus Thatcher
	12:35	NASA SWOT and satellite altimetry	Shane Keating
	12:50	New SST and sea-ice data streams	Helen Beggs
	13:05	BGC Argo	Christina Schallenberg
	13:20	Australia’s XBT Program	Rebecca Cowley & Chris Chapman
	13:35	Developments with AusWave	Stefan Zieger
	13:50	ADEPT developments and reanalyses	Frank Colberg
	14:05	Discussion (Moderator)	Scott Rivett
	14:30	End	Screenhost: Andy Taylor
16-Sep	Wed	Regional Science	Week 3, 1st session – AM
	9:30	Welcome and reminder of logistics (Chair)	Daniel Boettger
	9:35	Assessment of ocean current in a regional ocean model (SAROM)	Frank Colberg
	9:50	Preliminary ROAM road map (including ROAM-ocean update)	Emlyn Jones
	10:05	ROAM-atmosphere – preparing for littoral-scale forecasts	Marcus Thatcher
	10:20	Getting data to the field	Scott Rivett
	10:35	Regional reanalyses using 4dVar	Colette Kerry
	10:50	ROAM-biovis	Mark Baird
	11:05	Ocean modelling with unstructured grids	Mike Herzfeld
	11:20	Discussion (Moderator)	Andy Taylor
16-Sep	Wed	Regional Science	Week 3, 2nd session – PM
	12:30	Welcome and reminder of logistics (Chair)	Peter Oke
	12:35	Dynamics of breaking waves	Dan Boettger
	12:50	Improving predictions of nearshore processes and shoreline dynamics for beaches along Australia’s rocky and coral reef coasts	Mike Cuttler
	13:05	Overview of UWA and CSIRO joint research projects	Paul Branson
	13:20	Seedragon and AWS	Duan Beckett
	13:35	Update on ROAM-waves and ROAM-surf	Ron Hoeke
	13:50	Review of Littoral models	Stephanie Contardo
	14:05	Next Gen ROAM-waves and ROAM-surf	Ron Hoeke
	14:20	Discussion (Moderator)	Scott Rivett
	14:30	End	Screenhost: Andy Taylor
24-Sep	Thur	Applications	Week 4, 1st session – AM
	9:30	Welcome and reminder of logistics (Chair)	Gary Brassington
	9:35	Using seasonal forecasts to manage impacts of extreme ocean temperatures on marine industries	Claire Spillman
	9:50	Defence’s response to bushfires	Scott Rivett
	10:05	Coastal sea-level happenings and the coastal waveguide	Andy Taylor
	10:20	Use cases in ensemble forecasting	Jessica Sweeney
	10:35	Piloting autonomous vehicles	Stuart Anstee
	10:50	Port Phillip Bay and related wave-flow coupled model implementations for coastal hazard research	Vanessa Hernaman
	11:05	Our new COMPAS model of Australia’s tides and what it tells you about our tidal energy resource	David Griffin
	11:20	Discussion (Moderator)	Dan Boettger
	11:30	End	Screenhost: Lucinda Matthews
24-Sep	Thur	Status of Bluelink Services	Week 4, 2nd session – PM
	12:30	Welcome and reminder of logistics (Chair)	Mikhail Entel
	12:35	Operational OceanMAPS updates	Xinmei Huang
	12:50	Verification of OceanMAPS against surface drifting buoys	Saima Aijaz
	13:05	ROAM acoustics	Madeleine Cahill
	13:20	Acoustics and OceanMAPS	Mirko Velic
	13:35	Ocean Modelling for Acoustics	Mike Greening
	13:50	Comparison of CMEMS and RADS sea level anomaly data	Charles Sanders
	14:05	Ocean chart discussion	Lucinda Matthews
	14:20	Discussion (Moderator)	Emlyn Jones
	14:30	End

For more background to the 2020 Bluelink Science Meeting go to https://research.csiro.au/bluelink/bluelink-science-meeting-2020/

Meeting Guidelines and Administrative Roles

• 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.

Attendance was by invitation:

For more information about the meeting please email Ahmad.Khan@bom.gov.au or Tracey.Pitman@csiro.au.