Theme

The 2025 Bureau of Meteorology Annual Research and Development Workshop will be held in Melbourne and online from 15-18 September, and this year's theme is 'The Power of Partnership and Science: Strengthening the Warning Value Chain'.

The workshop will include in-person and hybrid sessions, and contributions from key warning users and decision makers outside the Bureau. The workshop will include a poster session to showcase case studies and outcomes from warning events. We particularly encourage operational meteorologists, climatologists and hydrologists to present case studies, warning event reviews and other papers.

About the theme

A key function of the Bureau is to issue warnings for weather conditions likely to endanger life or property or give rise to floods or bushfires. This 4-day workshop, jointly hosted by the Bureau's Science and Innovation Group and Community Services Group, will explore how we work together across the warning value chain – from observation and forecasting, to communication, response, and value creation. For an early warning system to achieve the desired outcomes of public safety and community wellbeing, connections and partnerships between individual parts of the value chain are fundamentally important.

Workshop topics

• Strengthening the end-to-end warning value chain: from data to decisions
• Advances in forecasting, impact modelling, and integration of AI/ML
• The role of climate services in seasonal readiness and preparedness -> how to create warnings for scenarios that are unprecedented/out of people’s memory
• Designing effective, inclusive warnings and reaching key users

Workshop Organising Committee

Simon Louis, David Hoffmann, Harald Richter
RDworkshopsupport@bom.gov.au

Venue

This year's R&D annual workshop will be a hybrid conference at Cliftons, L1/440 Collins Street, Melbourne Victoria.