News
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Sprinting Students: Making the most of an Agile Sprint
In this post, Louise Gordon takes a moment to highlight the work of the students and early-career researchers working on their Sprint.
15 July 2026 -
Organising research differently: lessons from an Agile Policy Sprint
Drawing on a year-long, policy-engaged Sprint with Natural Resources Wales, Agile Initiative researchers reflect on the research infrastructure, relationships, and diverse ways of working that can support genuine co-creation alongside live policy processes.
14 July 2026 -
Net Zero Education Project Welcomes Teacher and Youth Representative for London Climate Action Week Session
Agile researcher Amelia Farber writes about running a session at London Climate Action Week with the Net Zero Education project and the Children and Climate Initiative.
13 July 2026
Explore sprints
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Environment and National Security: Exploring Policy ‘Demand Signals’ and the Science Response
This 6-month research project is exploring urgent evidence needs and use in response to the climate and biosphere emergency and its implications for UK national security.
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How can action on deforestation strengthen the UK’s food system security and resilience?
This Sprint will explore how alternative deforestation-control pathways may affect agricultural output, trade patterns, livelihoods, and the UK’s food systems.
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How can the UK improve flood resilience in the Thames Estuary?
This Sprint will directly support the Environment Agency’s Thames Estuary 2100 (TE2100) Plan by developing a new generation of flood-forecasting and risk-assessment tools.
Outputs
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PRE-PRINT | Anderson Acceleration Can Ease Reliable Model Calibration
MoreIn this pre-print, the authors tackle the computational bottlenecks of calibrating global marine biogeochemical models by combining a fixed-point iteration spin-up scheme with an efficient offline ocean model and calibration algorithm, achieving roughly ten times faster spin-up and calibration.
Associated Sprint: Can we solve the “spin-up” problem in Earth System Modelling?
Associated SDGs: 13 Climate action
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PRE-PRINT | A warm stagnant ocean leads to deep-ocean deoxygenation without widespread anoxia
MoreIn this pre-print, authors use Miocene Climatic Optimum simulations (ACCESS-ESM1.5) to show that cold initial conditions at higher pCO2 drive a stable ocean stratification, and find, via Anderson Acceleration-equilibrated biogeochemistry, no large-scale deep anoxia or hypoxia.
Associated Sprint: Can we solve the “spin-up” problem in Earth System Modelling?
Associated SDGs: 13 Climate action
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Software for solving fixed point problems with Anderson Acceleration
MoreThis repository on GitHub contains MATLAB and Python software for solving fixed point problems using Anderson Acceleration. You can also find it on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/aa4py
Associated Sprint: Can we solve the “spin-up” problem in Earth System Modelling?
Associated SDGs: 13 Climate action
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VIDEO | A vital approach for retaining water
MoreIn this preview clip from an upcoming Sprint video, Dan West from the Radnorshire Wildlife Trust highlights the critical importance of cross-catchment water management, which is a vital approach for both natural flood defence and its flip side: retaining water during severe droughts.
Associated Sprint: How can we deliver effective, equitable and place-based environmental governance?
Associated SDGs: 11 Sustainable cities and communities, 13 Climate action, 15 Life on land, 16 Peace, justice and strong institutions, 17 Partnerships for the goals, 2 Zero hunger
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