September 13-17, 2021: 3rd NOAA Workshop on Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Environmental Sciences
10/21/21: Meeting recordings of the presentations are now available
This virtual workshop was a continuation of the NOAA series on “Leveraging AI in Environmental Sciences.” 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.”
This workshop was a virtual event supported by Earth Science Information Partners offsite link.
This workshop also hosted a joint virtual hackathon event together with the Climate Informatics offsite link community on the topic of wildfire, marine heatwaves, and climate model emulation.
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Topics in the workshop, including: AI for Weather and Climate, AI for Blue Economy, Trustworthy and Responsible AI, Community of Practice and Workforce Development, Seamless AI Systems, Research-to-Operation/Commercialization, and Tools and Datasets.
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Plenary Session Speakers
Dr. Richard (Rick) Spinrad, Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere & NOAA Administrator
Dr. Lynne E. Parker, Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer & Director of OSTP National AI Initiative Office
Dr. Elham Tabassi, Chief of Staff, NIST Information Technology Laboratory
Dr. Emilie Roth, Roth Cognitive Engineering
Dr. Pedro Rodriguez, Applied Physics Laboratory
Prof. Stephen Belcher, Chief Scientist, UK Met Office
Dr. Laure Zanna, New York University
Dr. Amy McGovern, University of Oklahoma
Dr. Jason Hickey, Google Research
Dr. Enrico Camporeale, University of Colorado, Boulder
Christin Khan, NOAA Fisheries
Dr. DaNa Carlis, Deputy Director, NOAA Global Systems Laboratory
Dr. Shirley Malcom, Director, AAAS SEA Change Program
Dr. Alyson Wilson, Associate Vice Chancellor, North Carolina State University
Dr. Rose Hendrix, Allen Institute for AI
Jebb Steward, NOAA Global Systems Laboratory
Dr. Julie Demuth, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Dr. Ann Bostrom, University of Washington
Dr. Lak Lakshmanan, Google Cloud
Scientific Organizing Committee
Eric Kihn, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI, Co-Chair
Rob Redmon, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI, Co-Chair
Yuhan (Douglas) Rao, CISESS, NC State University, Co-Chair
Sid Boukabara, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR
Vladimir Krasnopolsky, NOAA/NWS/NCEP
Gregory Dusek, NOAA/NOS
Benjamin Richard, NOAA/NMFS
Jebb Stewart, NOAA/OAR/ESRL
V Ramaswamy, NOAA/GFDL
John Ten Hoeve, NOAA/NWS Office of Org. Excellence
Nikunj Oza, NASA/Ames and NASA/ESTO
Kirstine Dale, UK Met Office
Amy McGovern, University Of Oklahoma
Phillippe Tissot, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
Sue E. Haupt, NCAR
Julie Demuth, NCAR
Ann Bostrom, University of Washington
John Williams, The Weather Company, an IBM Business
Jason Hickey, Google
