<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Dear Informatics Colleagues,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We would like to draw your attention to the Informatics session </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">“IN009 - Advancing AI with Open Env Datasets: Benchmarking Needs, Frameworks, Lessons Learned”</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> at the next Fall AGU Meeting, 11-15 December 2023 in San Francisco CA, and online.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Session Viewer Link</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">: </span><a href="https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm23/prelim.cgi/Session/187226" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm23/prelim.cgi/Session/187226</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Session Description</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">: Benchmark datasets, such as ImageNet, are instrumental for innovation in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). The infusion of AI, ML, and other advanced data science (DS) techniques is expanding exponentially to contribute to solving Earth system and space science problems. Thus, developing benchmark datasets, standards, and frameworks for evaluation, use and publishing, and sharing lessons learned in a coordinated manner is needed to ensure AI/ML/DS applications continually increase our ability to predict complex physical processes with high levels of trust and explainability. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We invite presentations exploring both use case-specific and domain-agnostic benchmark standards and framework development, as well as domain-specific topics, such as climate and weather science, environmental justice, fire weather, ocean conservation, hydrology, space weather, and any other relevant topics.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;line-height:1.2;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;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Note that the </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">abstract deadline is Wednesday, 2 August 2023</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (2359 EDT). </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Authors will be informed in September regarding the date and format (oral or poster) of their presentation.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;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;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;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;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">If you have questions about our session, please feel free to contact us via the email addresses below.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;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;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;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;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Sincerely,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Rob Redmon, NOAA Center for AI, </span><a href="mailto:rob.redmon@noaa.gov" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">rob.redmon@noaa.gov</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Douglas Rao, NC State University, CISESS, NOAA (</span><a href="mailto:douglas.rao@noaa.gov" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">douglas.rao@noaa.gov</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Eric Kihn, NOAA NCEI, (</span><a href="mailto:eric.a.kihn@noaa.gov" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">eric.a.kihn@noaa.gov</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:small;line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Stacie Koslovsky, NOAA NMFS, (</span><a href="mailto:stacie.koslovsky@noaa.gov" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">stacie.koslovsky@noaa.gov</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">)</span></p></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Geneva,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="color:rgb(86,86,86);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Douglas Rao (he/him/his)</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#666666">Research Scientist</font></span><br></div></div><a href="http://www.ncsu.edu" target="_blank">North Carolina State University</a><br><a href="http://www.ncics.org" target="_blank">Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies (CISESS)</a><br><a href="http://www.ncei.noaa.gov" target="_blank">NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information</a><div style="color:rgb(86,86,86);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Geneva,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">151 Patton Ave. Asheville, NC 28801</div></div><div style="color:rgb(86,86,86);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Geneva,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit">+1.828.271.4903</span><br></div></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="color:rgb(86,86,86);font-family:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="padding:var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero);border:var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero);font-size:0.975em;vertical-align:var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline);outline:var(--artdeco-reset-base-outline-zero)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#666666">I work on a flexible work schedule and across a number of time zones. Apologies for any out of hours email.</font></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(86,86,86);font-family:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#666666"><font face="inherit"><span style="font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit">"</span></font>Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.” – <i>Dr. Jane Goodall</i></font></div></div></div></div></div>