Updated 15 September 2025
Introduction (Chair: Simon Louis/Harald Richter) |
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| 13:00 | Welcome and housekeeping | Simon Louis Bureau of Meteorology |
| 13:05 | Acknowledgement of Country | Harald Richter Bureau of Meteorology |
| 13:10 | Introduction from SIG | Rob Argent Bureau of Meteorology |
| 13:20 | Introduction from CSG | Piero Chessa Bureau of Meteorology |
Session 1: The warning value chain - Setting the Scene (Chair: Harald Richter) |
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| 13:30 | Does the shark bite? Ensuring excellent forecasts result in lives saved | Brian Golding Met Office |
| 13:45 | Enabling a customer driven research future | Natasha Hinrichsen Bureau of Meteorology |
| 14:00 | Embracing forecasting uncertainty in emergency management decision making | Steve Muncaster VIC SES |
| 14:15 | Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems (CREWS) for Asia-Pacific | Yuriy Kuleshov Bureau of Meteorology |
| 14:30 | Overview of EW4All progress and next steps | Erica Allis World Meteorological Organization |
| 14:45 | Integrating the Warning Value Chain into Post-Event Reviews at the Met Office | Robert Neal Met Office |
| Afternoon Tea (15:00 – 15:30) | ||
Session 2: Observations, Infrastructure & Innovation (Chair: Belinda Trotta) |
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| 15:30 | Augmenting Ensemble Data Assimilation with Machine Learning for High Resolution Observations | Lucas Howard University of Colorado |
| 15:45 | Radar and blended radar - satellite rainfall, wind, and hail analysis and nowcasting developments and plans | Alain Protat Bureau of Meteorology |
| 16:00 | Improving Satellite Derived Surface Solar Irradiance Services at the Bureau of Meteorology | Vincent Villani Bureau of Meteorology |
| 16:15 | The NextGen Rainfall Project: Building National, Hourly, Kilometre-Scale Precipitation Analysis and Forecast Products for Australia | Andrew Frost Bureau of Meteorology |
| 16:30 | Marine heatwaves: Monitoring, prediction and applications | Claire Spillman Bureau of Meteorology |
| 16:45 | ACCESS-A and National Analysis System -- km-scale Data Assimilation) | Susan Rennie Bureau of Meteorology |
| Icebreaker at Cliftons (17:00 – 18:30) | ||
| Closing Day 1 (18:30) | ||
Session 3: Advances in Forecasting and Nowcasting (Chair: Charmaine Franklin) |
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| 09:00 | Machine Learning Weather Prediction at the Met Office | David Walters Met Office |
| 09:15 | Machine Learning weather forecasting at the Bureau: research and development, benefits to services, and future plans | Catherine de Burgh-Day Bureau of Meteorology |
| 09:30 | ACCESS-AE: a national, km-scale numerical weather prediction ensemble system | Shaun Cooper Bureau of Meteorology |
| 09:45 | Tropical Cyclone Veronica: a coupled model of a severe tropical cyclone over the North West Shelf | Chris Bladwell Bureau of Meteorology |
| 10:00 | AI technology in nowcasting | Wai Kin Wong Hong Kong Observatory |
| 10:15 | Machine learning for nowcasting – new results and upcoming plans | Tennessee Leeuwenburg Bureau of Meteorology |
| Morning Tea (10:30 – 11:00) | ||
Session 4: Climate Services for Risk Reduction & Preparedness (Chair: Shoni Maguire) |
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| 11:00 | Climate Risk Information to Inform Risk Reduction and Resilience: Lessons from the NCRA | Judith Landsberg ACS |
| 11:30 | National Hydrological Predictions Project | Ulrike Bende-Michel Bureau of Meteorology |
| 11:45 | Linking Hazard Data to the Personal-Level Integrated Data Asset | Matt Beaty ABS |
| 12:00 | The Insurance Data Asset: Informing Mitigation Action | Joel Bertingshaw ABS |
| 12:15 | Measuring climate risk at the local level | Lochlan Morrissey ACS |
| Lunch (12:30 – 13:30) | ||
Session 5: Hazard-Specific Forecasting, Impact-Based Modelling & Risk Information (Chair: Caitlin Minney) |
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| 13:30 | AQFx Evolution: Advancing Smoke Forecasting Capabilities through Scientific Innovation | Fabienne Reisen CSIRO |
| 13:45 | Climate Intelligence Summary for the 2025 AFAC Spring Outlook | Catherine Ganter Bureau of Meteorology |
| 14:00 | Wet summer 2023-2024 in observations and ACCESS-S2 forecasts | Irina Rudeva Bureau of Meteorology |
| 14:15 | Towards a long-range flood outlook for Australia | Christopher Pickett-Heaps Bureau of Meteorology |
| 14:30 | A bridge over troubled waters: linking sea levels to their impacts for coastal flood hazard analysis across days, months and decades | Ben Hague Bureau of Meteorology |
| 14:45 | An overview of research gaps and challenges for impact-based forecasts and warnings | Sally Potter Canary Innovation Ltd. |
| Afternoon Tea (15:00 – 15:30) | ||
Session 6: Research and Innovation in the Warning Value Chain (Chair: Urooj Khan) |
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| 15:30 | Australian Research Insights to Inform Warning Systems | Andrew Gissing NHRA |
| 15:45 | Advancing operational flood forecasting and early warning | Prasantha Hapuarachchi and Jiawei Hou Bureau of Meteorology |
| 16:00 | Using Forecast Ensemble Rainfall from Rainfields in an operational probabilistic flood forecasting service | Chris Leahy Bureau of Meteorology |
| 16:15 | Estimating warning levels based on flood frequency analysis for stations with short records | Julien Lerat CSIRO |
| 16:30 | Lightning talks (see Posters for details) | |
| Closing Day 2 (17:00) | ||
Session 7: Warning Design, Communication & Dissemination (Chair: Jane Golding) |
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| 09:00 | How do people understand their risk in Australia? What does the Australian Community want and need from hazard warnings (DRRP) | Carla Mooney Bureau of Meteorology |
| 9.15 | Using Psychology and Behavioural Science to Keep People Safe | Helen Roberts Uk Met Office |
| 09:30 | Risk perception, situation awareness, and safety: The use of weather information in Antarctic and sub-Antarctic regions | Victoria Heinrich Bureau of Meteorology |
| 09:45 | Predictions in public: understanding the design, communication and dissemination of predictive maps to the public | Chloe Begg CFA |
| 10:00 | Visualising Uncertainty: Evidence informed guidance. How Visual Design can affect communication and decision-making | Danielle Charlton and Mary-Ann Clive GNS Science, NZ |
| 10:15 | Leveraging CAP for Warning Communication and Dissemination | Eliot Christian University of Wisconsin |
| Morning Tea (10:30 – 11:00) | ||
Session 8: Emergency Services and Warning Users (Chair: Max Strack) |
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| 11:00 | Lessons from the introduction of the Australian Warning System | Tayissa Sweetlove DFES |
| 11:15 | Closing the Port: using Bureau forecasts and warnings to inform operational decisions at the Port of Port Hedland during Severe Tropical Cyclone Zelia | Behrouz Daeizadeh Harbour Master East |
| 11:30 | An Overview of Recent CFA Research into Bushfire Response Operations | Nick McCarthy CFA |
| 11:45 | TBC | Anthony Tregenza and Fyowna Norton Red Cross |
| 12:00 | Enhanced tools necessary for managing a highly distributed solar photovoltaic electricity system | Adrian Grantham Australian Energy Market Operator |
| 12:15 | Current and future volcanic ash service collaboration between the volcanic ash advisory centre and Jetstar | Jarrad Denman and Glenn Johnston Bureau of Meteorology and Jetstar |
| Lunch (12:30 – 13:30) | ||
| 13:30 | Poster Session | |
| Afternoon Tea (15:00 – 15:30) | ||
Session 9: Equity, Inclusion & Cultural Relevance in Warnings (Chair: Carla Mooney) |
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| 15:30 | TBC | John Richardson AIDR |
| 15:45 | Multilingual inclusive emergency communications: challenges and possibilities | Raelene Wilding Latrobe University |
| 16:00 | Beyond Barriers: International insights on inclusive and equitable warning systems | Anni Fordham DFES |
| 16:15 | How remote First Nations people are accessing emergency and weather information: Learnings from Mapping the Digital Gap research 2022-24 | Daniel Featherstone RMIT |
| 16:30 | Inclusive Warnings: Lessons from People with Aphasia | Sam Harvey and Scott Harding QARC, UQ |
| 16:45 | Nothing about us without us | Rebecca Cason QDN |
| Closing Day 3 (17:00) | ||
| Workshop dinner (invite only) (17:30) | ||
Session 10: Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (Chair: David Wilke) |
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| 09:00 | Public Perceptions and Behaviour in Response to Weather Warnings: A UK Perspective | Sarah Jenkins Met Office |
| 09:15 | Testbeds and Operational Meteorologist-Led O2R Activities at the Met Office | Dan Suri Met Office |
| 09:30 | Objective evaluation of warning services based on risk matrices: A case study for TC Alfred | Rob Taggart Bureau of Meteorology |
| 09:45 | Developing a meteorological case study framework for rapid post-event learning | Harvey Ye Bureau of Meteorology |
| 10:00 | Post event debriefs and lessons management | Jack Dawes Bureau of Meteorology |
| 10:15 | From knowledge to action: learning for effective implementation | Seona Meharg CSIRO |
| Morning Tea (10:30 – 11:00) | ||
Session 11: Strengthening Institutional and Systemic Capacity (Chair: Simon Louis) |
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| 11:00 | Learning What we Don't Know: Establishing a Baseline of US Weather Perceptions with the WxSurvey and Tornado Tales | Sean Ernst IPPRA/University of Oklahoma |
| 11:15 | The Role of the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed in Operational Model Implementations | Israel Jirak NOAA/NWS/SPC |
| 11:30 | Enhancing New Capability Through Training and Assessment | James Pescott Bureau of Meteorology Training Centre |
| 11:45 | Australian Fire Danger Rating System – A National Collaboration | Alex Holmes NSW Rural Fire Service |
| 12:00 | Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection using Administrative Data Sources | Adam Leinweber ABS |
| 12:15 | How the Bureau is supporting work to strengthen APRA’s understanding of climate change impacts on the financial sector | Ivan Chan APRA |
| Lunch (12:30 – 13:30) | ||
Session 12: Interactive Mapping & Value Chain Evaluation: Case Study Tropical Cyclone Alfred (Chair: Carla Mooney) |
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| 13:30 | Forecast Process – TC Alfred | Lauren Pattie Bureau of Meteorology |
| 13:45 | Warning creation and communications | Kimba Wong Bureau of Meteorology |
| 14:00 | Gold Coast Public Information and Warnings Strategy – Tropical Cyclone Alfred | Mark Ryan Gold Coast Council |
| 14:15 | Warning, Water, Response: Queensland Police Operations during the crossing of Severe Tropical Cyclone Alfred | Amanda Rosman Queensland Police |
| 14:30 | Panel Discussion | Beth Ebert |
| Afternoon Tea (15:00 – 15:30) | ||
Session 13: Panel discussion - Partnership and Research in the warning value chain (Chair: Elizabeth Johnston) |
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| 15:30 | Panel Discussion | Sarah Mizza (NHRA), Steve Muncaster (Vic SES), Ailie Gallant (W21C), Karl Braganza (Bureau of Meteorology), Melita Keywood (CSIRO) |
| 16:30 | Workshop wrap-up and closing | Simon Louis, Harald Richter and Bertrand Timbal Bureau of Meteorology |
| Closing Day 4 (17:00) | ||
