Dear Colleagues,
You are invited to join the 6th NOAA AI Workshop that will be held as a hybrid event during the week of September 16–20, 2024. This year’s workshop focuses on fostering collaborative development within the community around the theme of heat resilience.
We define “heat” broadly across different physical systems and its impacts on society and ecosystems. Examples that are relevant to the workshop include but are not limited to:
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Applying AI to advance prediction and attribution of extreme heat events across different domains of the earth systems (e.g., atmospheric and marine).
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Using AI techniques to quantify impacts of extreme heat events on human & natural systems (e.g., community and ecosystem health, drought and food security, wildfire, social equity).
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Leveraging AI tools to improve information services for heat resilience planning for the community and ecosystems (e.g., urban planning, coral reef conservation).
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Prototyping AI applications to enhance environmental observing systems for heat resilience (e.g., mission planning, observing network design, on-orbit computing).
The workshop will gather community members to discuss and explore collaborations on leveraging AI that align with NOAA’s strategic priorities. Participants will form community collaboration groups around selected use cases that can be sustained after the workshop via online collaboration platforms. We invite all interested scientists, AI practitioners, and application end users to join this community-driven collaboration development event.
Given available resources, the in-person component of the workshop will take place at up to three locations – College Park, Maryland, Boulder, Colorado, and Seattle, Washington – simultaneously and connected via the video meeting platform.
The event is open to the public with a fully virtual participation option. Due to space limitations, priority for in-person participation will be given to those who can commit to fully participate in the planned activities.
You are invited to complete the expression of interest form for this year’s workshop by Friday, July 26, 2024. Further communication regarding the workshop will be provided in late July.
