[Esip-datareadiness] Fwd: New Funding Opportunity for Climate Datasets

[Yuhan Douglas Rao]

Hi all,

This funding opportunity from Lacuna Fund calling for datasets that can
enable ML applications for equitable climate outcomes in energy and health
might be of interest to the community.

Best,
Douglas

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Date: Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 10:14 AM
Subject: New Funding Opportunity for Climate Datasets
To: Yuhan Rao <yrao5 at ncsu.edu>


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Today, we're excited to announce two new funding tracks from Lacuna Fund,
focused on* machine learning datasets for equitable climate outcomes in
climate & energy and climate & health.* Proposals are due on 17 July 2022 —
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Machine learning can help communities around the world understand,
mitigate, and adapt to climate change. However, a lack of ground truth data
limits the effective use of machine learning in low- and middle-income
communities that are disproportionately impacted by climate change.
Solutions created by and for those communities are crucial to address the
climate crisis globally. Lacuna Fund will help fill these gaps by providing
funding to experts in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

With more accessible and open datasets for *climate & energy*, machine
learning could help drive the transition to clean energy, optimize power
systems, expand electricity access, and improve energy planning and climate
modeling. In *climate & health*, machine learning models driven by local
data could help us better understand the impacts of climate change on
infectious and chronic disease, identify interventions to prepare for and
mitigate climate harms to health, and help make resource allocation
decisions.

Lacuna Fund encourages proposals from partnerships of emerging and
established researchers in low- and middle-income countries in Africa,
Latin America, and South and Southeast Asia. To facilitate this process,
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