Last month, the EERIE project turned two, reaching the halfway mark – a milestone important enough to gather the whole team and analyse what’s been done and what’s left to be done over the second half of the project. And that’s precisely what we did during our General Assembly 2025, held from the 14-16 January at ETH Zürich (watch the video summary above and all #EERIE25-related videos here).
What have the EERIE team been working on during the second year? Browse our latest papers in our Publications section and find out, and discover more research topics in the Science Hour section. The latter got boosted last year by inter-project collaboration with both nextGEMS and WarmWorld, and was later renamed as Storms, Eddies and Science Hour. Machine Learning methods used in EERIE, Reducing the carbon footprint of climate modelling or Eddy-ice interaction under Antarctic sea ice are just a handful of the latest topics addressed in our free, online, monthly seminars (all talks are available here).
It’s been a key year in terms of simulations too. Our phase 1 simulations have been completed, paving the way for scientific analysis. “It’s the first time that I know of that we have such a coordinated experiment. So everybody has run the same experiment together with the same forcings, the same periods, the same outputs, the same scientific objectives. So this coordination is on top of the achievements in modelling. It’s really what makes a big difference with EERIE”, says EERIE Project co-coordinator Pier Luigi Vidale (University of Reading). “What we have achieved here is to build entirely new coupled climate models with these eddy-resolving ocean models”, he adds.
Besides, we’ve taken some significant steps towards equality (the ratio of women taking part in the EERIE project increased from 33% to nearly 38% over the past 12 months) and launched the EERIE for Equality section to highlight the need to keep pushing for equal representation and conditions. In that section you may find news related to the progress in this field as well the Gender Equality Action Plan for the project.
On a radically different note, last year we began producing our Science Art videos, such as the one below, which became by far the most-watched video on our channel in a matter of days!
And last but not least – we’ve kept growing in terms of social media presence: Bluesky, LinkedIn, YouTube and our Newsletter have shown promising growth in followers. If you’re not part of the EERIE Project community yet, follow us and stay in the loop!
