September 16-20, 2024: 6th NOAA AI Workshop on Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Environmental Sciences
This year’s workshop focuses on fostering collaborative development within the community around the theme of heat resilience.
Complete the expression of interest form offsite link by July 26, 2024. Further communication regarding the workshop will be provided in late July.
Contact ai.workshop@noaa.gov with questions.
We define “heat” broadly across different physical systems and its impacts on society and ecosystems. Examples that are relevant to the workshop include but are not limited to:
- Applying AI to advance prediction and attribution of extreme heat events across different domains of the earth systems (e.g., atmospheric and marine).
- Using AI techniques to quantify impacts of extreme heat events on human & natural systems (e.g., community and ecosystem health, drought and food security, wildfire, social equity).
- Leveraging AI tools to improve information services for heat resilience planning for the community and ecosystems (e.g., urban planning, coral reef conservation).
- Prototyping AI applications to enhance environmental observing systems for heat resilience (e.g., mission planning, observing network design, on-orbit computing).
This year’s NOAA AI Workshop will gather community members to discuss and explore collaborations on leveraging AI that align with NOAA’s strategic priorities. Participants will form community collaboration groups around selected use cases that can be sustained after the workshop via online collaboration platforms. We invite all interested scientists, AI practitioners, and application end users to join this community-driven collaboration development event.
Given available resources, the in-person component of the workshop will take place at up to three locations – College Park, MD, Boulder, CO, and Seattle, WA – simultaneously and connected via the video meeting platform. The event is open to the public with a fully virtual participation option. Due to space limitations, priority for in-person participation will be given to participants who can commit to fully participate in the planned activities.
Previous Workshops
The interactive, virtual workshop focused on collaboration building and active development of AI-powered applications and community standards. The workshop collaborated around two themes: Benchmarking Framework and Research-to-Operation-to-
An interactive workshop to build collaboration and initiate the active development of AI-powered applications and community standards, focusing on three themes: fire weather and impacts, AI in ocean conservation, and interoperable Digital Twin Earth. September 4-9, 2022, virtual.
The third event continued the successes of previous workshops and encouraged participation by scientists, program managers, and leaders from the public, academic and private sectors who work in AI and environmental sciences. The theme was “Transforming Weather, Climate Services, and Blue Economy with Artificial Intelligence.” September 13-17, 2021, virtual.
The workshop consisted of weekly events including: extended presentations, mini sessions, panel discussions, tutorials, and networking opportunities. This WiSM (Workshop in Slow Motion) took advantage of the virtual format and reserved time for the development of presentations and Q&A sessions. July 30, 2020 - February 25, 2021, virtual.
The workshop gathered scientists, program managers, and leaders from the public, academic and private sectors. It enabled experts involved in the development and adaptation of AI tools and applications in a number of fields to meet and exchange experiences. April 23-25, 2019, College Park, Maryland.