[ESIP-all] Last Week to Register for 4th NOAA AI Workshop

[Yuhan Douglas Rao]

Dear colleagues,

The 4th NOAA Workshop on Leveraging AI in Environmental Sciences
<https://noaaai2022.sched.com/info> will be held virtually on 6–9 September
2022 and is open to the public. The workshop focuses on collaboration
building and interactive activities including hackathons, tutorials, and
interactive discussion sessions. No abstracts will be solicited like in
previous workshops. The workshop has three topic areas - fire weather and
impacts, AI for ocean science, and interoperable digital twin for Earth
system.

Confirmed plenary speakers for the workshop include Dr. Sarah Kapnick (NOAA
Chief Scientist), Prof. Stephen Belcher (UK Met Office Chief Scientist),
Dr. Nadine Alameh (Open Geospatial Consortium), Dr. Cisco Werner (Acting
Assistant Administrator for Oceanic and Atmospheric Research), Ko Barrett
(NOAA Senior Advisor for Climate), and Robyn Heffernan (National Fire
Weather Science and Dissemination Meteorologist).

Fire weather and impacts theme focus on forming teams among registered
participants to use open data from NOAA, NASA, and other sources to address
issues concerning fire weather and its impacts. Sample use cases may
include predicting the risk of severe fire (including prescribed burns)
based on weather, fuel, and climatology, using short-term weather forecasts
to identify regions with elevated fire conditions, or estimating the impact
of smoke on the population. The fire weather theme will be limited to 150
participants to ensure that sufficient computing resources are available to
each team. This is NOT a prize competition but rather focuses on
collaboration building. Participants with experiences in fire
research/operation, AI/ML, risk communication, and other related domains
are encouraged to register for this theme.

AI for ocean science theme aims to bring participants from the public
sector, academia, and private sectors to discuss the current landscape of
AI for ocean science and conservation. The goal of this theme is to
identify the challenges of adopting AI to accelerate ocean science and
conservation and make recommendations on how the community can work
together to address these challenges. We invite all researchers, managers,
data scientists, and developers working to implement AI techniques to
advance ocean science and conservation to contribute to this theme.

Interoperable digital twins for Earth system theme will explore the
benefits of the emerging digital twin Earth technology and identify a
community roadmap to infuse AI into the development of interoperable DTE to
deliver accessible and actionable environmental information and services.
This theme will provide an overview of ongoing initiatives around DTE from
various international agencies and private sectors. Participants will be
invited to contribute to the discussion to identify community
recommendations for different components of the DTE ecosystem including
observations, modeling framework, visualization, system coupling mechanism,
and user integration and engagement.

To register for the workshop, please complete this short google form
<https://forms.gle/Gb2n7qM8H6tLHVWn8>. You will be required to choose one
of the themes to complete your registration. All registration should be
completed by August 5th, 2022. If you have any questions regarding the
workshop, please contact ai.workshop at noaa.gov.

Douglas Rao, Rob Redmon, Eric Kihn

4th NOAA AI Workshop co-chairs

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