North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies - NCICS

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Tomorrow (Jan. 6) from 2–3:15 Eastern, NCICS presents a CISESS webinar, “Advancing Open Artificial Intelligence for Earth Observation and Climate Modeling,” presented by Chris Bretherton, Joe Redmon, and Gabriel Tseng of the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), a nonprofit research institute. Register: ncsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/HaNcBJWQTl2gFqSFeXNbvw#/registration

Abstract: This seminar presents two complementary AI research programs at Ai2 addressing critical Earth science challenges. The first presentation introduces OlmoEarth, an open multimodal foundation model trained on millions of satellite and sensor observations, enabling state-of-the-art environmental monitoring for applications ranging from crop mapping to wildfire risk assessment. The accompanying OlmoEarth Platform provides an end-to-end workflow for data collection, model fine-tuning, and deployment, enabling organizations to generate actionable Earth intelligence without specialized AI infrastructure. The second presentation covers recent advances in machine learning for climate simulation, including global atmosphere-ocean emulation, high-resolution downscaling, and progress toward end-to-end open-source climate prediction systems. Together, these efforts reflect Ai2's commitment to open, scalable AI tools for understanding and responding to planetary change. ... See MoreSee Less