<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Dear colleagues,</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">On behalf of the NOAA Center for Artificial Intelligence, we are excited to announce the 4th NOAA Workshop on Leveraging AI in Environmental Sciences is scheduled for </span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">September 6–9, 2022</span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span id="gmail-m_8907311957837952103m_-5304013631929111326gmail-docs-internal-guid-3e7521df-7fff-503c-c4f5-0b5224c0694a"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The interactive workshop will be a </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">virtual event</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> to build collaboration and initiate the active development of AI-powered applications and community standards. We invite developers, data scientists, domain experts, social scientists, and downstream users to form small teams around different use cases that are relevant to three themes relevant to NOAA Mission Areas:</span></font></p><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Fire Weather and Impacts</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">: </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Fire weather sits at the intersection between terrestrial ecosystems, atmospheric systems, and society. The impacts of fire weather on communities in or near the path of fire progression can be disastrous both in the short and long term. How can we leverage AI and rich environmental data to develop solutions to help diverse stakeholders to better quantify and manage the impact of fire weather?</span></font></p></li></ul><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">AI for Ocean Conservation</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">: </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">ocean plays a crucial role in climate and the world’s sustainable development goals. AI has demonstrated great potential in ocean conservation, such as identifying wildlife, detecting marine debris, and monitoring illegal fishing. How can we proliferate AI development for ocean conservation by reducing the barrier of using state-of-the-art AI tools?</span></font></p></li></ul><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Interoperable Digital Twin Earth</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">:</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> Digital Twin Earth (DTE) is a digital representation of the complex Earth system that allows us to visualize, monitor, and forecast natural and human activity on the planet. As different agencies and organizations, including NOAA, NASA, ECMWF, and UK Met Office, start to develop various DTE systems, how can we develop an international standard to ensure digital twins are interoperable and easily integrated into other digital twin systems for different socioeconomic sectors? </span></font></p></li></ul><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To plan for resources for the workshop, we invite you to express your interest using </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdFNOHZe6b5sa5FcilHVLLz6ZIGiwqIdND0hdV9pqfvZ87z1g/viewform" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">this Google form</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Filling this form does </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">NOT</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> guarantee your participation in the workshop due to technology and resource limitations. More information will be shared in future announcements on the workshop application and selection process in April 2022. </span></font></p><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you have any questions, please contact </span><a href="mailto:ai.workshop@noaa.gov" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ai.workshop@noaa.gov</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. For more information about NOAA Center for AI, please visit </span><a href="https://noaa.gov/AI" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://noaa.gov/AI</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></font></p><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Douglas Rao, Rob Redmon, Eric Kihn</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">on behalf of the 4th NOAA AI Workshop Planning Team</font></span></p></span></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" style="border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px;max-width:100%;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:16px;border:3px solid rgb(170,170,170);font-family:Times;line-height:14.4px"><tbody><tr><td align="center" height="71" width="71" style="padding:0px"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://ncics.org/" style="background:0px 0px;color:rgb(204,0,0)" target="_blank"><img height="71" width="71" alt="NCICS" src="https://ncics.org/ncics/img/NCICS_logo-131x131.png" style="max-width:100%;height:auto;border:0px;vertical-align:middle;width:69px"></a></span></span></td><td valign="top" style="padding:0px"><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:700">Yuhan (Douglas) Rao<br></span><b>Research Scientist</b><br><a href="https://www.mypronouns.org/what-and-why/" target="_blank">Pronoun</a>: he/him/his<br><a href="http://ncsu.edu/" style="background:0px 0px;color:rgb(204,0,0)" target="_blank">North Carolina State University</a><br><a href="https://ncics.org/" style="background:0px 0px;color:rgb(204,0,0)" target="_blank">North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies (NCICS)</a><br>151 Patton Ave, Asheville, NC 28801<br>e: <a href="mailto:yrao5@ncsu.edu" target="_blank">yrao5@ncsu.edu</a><br>o: +1 828 271 4903</span></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div>