The seven-year funding for Centres of Excellence ostensibly supports focused research across existing scientific communities but, as the Consortium for Ocean-Sea Ice Modelling in Australia (COSIMA) shows, it can also help create entirely new scientific communities in a specific research area.
Melissa Hart recounts the recent winter school and introduces "the alumni sessions", where CLEX alumni from a broad range of industries and career paths share career advice and strategies.
Aidan Heerdegen (CLEX CMS) talks about new features in Payu, and how to run ACCESS-OM2.
In January Andy Hogg attneded the annual DRAKKAR meeting. DRAKKAR, is the consortium which supports global ocean model configurations in Europe.