Artificial Intelligence for Earth System Science Summer School 2020

Jun. 22 to Jun. 26, 2020

9:00 am – 5:00 pm MDT

The AI4ESS Summer School was held virtually June 22-26, 2020 by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (Boulder, Colorado, USA).

***Due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, the AI4ESS summer school was held virtually.***

Our schedule is in Mountain Daylight Time (Denver, Colorado, USA). Please use a time zone converter if you are unsure what time it equals to in your own time zone.

Follow Along with the Hackathon

If you are unable to participate in the hackathon, you may follow along with the problems on your own with the Google colab links in GitHub. Links to the completed team notebooks are available in GitHub.

Description

The AI4ESS Summer School is a week long interactive course covering essential and cutting edge topics in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning that are relevant for Earth System Science problems. Each morning, students will participate in lectures from leading researchers at the intersection of AI and ESS on AI fundamentals, ESS AI applications, and emerging methods. Afternoons will feature interactive breakout sessions where students will work in teams to solve challenge problems with real Earth System data and the AI techniques they have studied during the week. There will also be opportunities to network with the instructors and other students and present a poster about your research.

Goals

The goals of the summer school are as follows:

Learn about the fundamentals of data processing, machine learning and deep learning algorithms, evaluation, and interpretation.
See how machine learning systems have been developed for a range of Earth System Science applications.
Develop hands-on experience with machine learning techniques covered in the course on real-world Earth System Science datasets.
Investigate new and emerging methods for ESS machine learning.
Network with fellow students and instructors.

Program

Here is the summer school agenda.

Links to slides and recordings are at the bottom of this page.

Recommended Resources

Please see this document for recommended reading before the summer school.

Please see this document for other resources, including events and books recommended by our speakers.

Confirmed Instructors

Amy McGovern, University of Oklahoma

Chaopeng Shen, Penn State

Claire Monteleoni, University of Colorado Boulder

David Hall, NVIDIA

David John Gagne, NCAR

Dorit Hammerling, Colorado School of Mines

Imme Ebert-Uphoff, Colorado State University/CIRA

Jebb Stewart, NOAA ESRL

Karthik Kashinath, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Katie Dagon, NCAR

Mike Pritchard, UC Irvine

Mustafa Mustafa, Lawrence Berkeley Lab

Pierre Gentine, Columbia University

Ryan Lagerquist, University of Oklahoma

Sue Ellen Haupt, NCAR

Certificate of Participation

If you would like a certificate of participation, please email taysia@ucar.edu. You must have registered for AI4ESS to receive a certificate, even if just for lectures.

Cost

There will be no registration fee for the summer school.

Summer School Program Coordinators

David John Gagne, NCAR

Karthik Kashinath, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Rich Loft, NCAR

Please direct questions about the program to David John Gagne (dgagne@ucar.edu)

Summer School Administrator

Taysia Peterson (taysia@ucar.edu)

Code of Conduct

UCAR and NCAR are committed to providing a safe, productive, and welcoming environment for all participants in any conference, workshop, field project or project hosted or managed by UCAR, no matter what role they play or their background. This includes respectful treatment of everyone regardless of gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, age, body size, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, level of experience, political affiliation, veteran status, pregnancy, genetic information, as well as any other characteristic protected under state or federal law.

All participants (and guests) are required to abide by this Code of Conduct. This Code of Conduct is adapted from the one adopted by AGU, complies with the new directive from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and applies to all UCAR-related events, including those sponsored by organizations other than UCAR but held in conjunction with UCAR events, in any location throughout the world.

Here is the full Code of Conduct.