Ecology and environment

Publication

GeoAI Agency Primitives

Akram Zaytar, Rohan Sawahn, Caleb Robinson, Gilles Quentin Hacheme, Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, I. Becker-Reshef, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

April 2026

Publication

Mirror in the Sky: Democratizing Continent-Scale IoT Connectivity via Amateur Satellites

Jacqueline M. Schellberg, S. Jog, Vaishnavi Ranganathan, Krishna Chintalapudi, B. Priyantha, Bhuvana Krishnaswamy

Proceedings of the 27th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications | February 2026

Publication

SatExt: Generative AI framework for Spatio-Spectral Satellite Unification and Beyond

Nazish Naeem, Peder Olsen, Vaishnavi Ranganathan

Proceedings of the 27th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications | February 2026

Publication

Materials are Mission Critical to the Sustainability Transition: Accelerating Discovery of Materials for Sustainability

Bichlien Nguyen

THE VEOLIA INSTITUTE AND MICROSOFT: AI for Energy, Water, and Waste Management | February 2026

Tool

SPARROW, developed by Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab, is an AI-powered edge computing solution designed to monitor and protect wildlife in the most remote regions of the world. Solar-powered and equipped with advanced sensors, it collects biodiversity…

GitHub

Publication

Knowledge‐Guided Machine Learning for Operational Flood Forecasting

Zac McEachran, Rahul Ghosh, Arvind Renganathan, Somya Chatterjee, Kelly Lindsay, M. Steinbach, John Nieber, Christopher J. Duffy, Vipin Kumar

Water Resources Research | October 2025

Publication

Maximizing Nature-based Solutions using Artificial Intelligence to align global biodiversity, climate, and water targets

Amy Luers

October 2025

Publication

Towards Automated Petrography

Isai Daniel Chacon, Paola Ruiz Puentes, Jillian Pearse, Pablo Arbelaez

NeurIPS 2025 | October 2025

Publication

GhostNetZero: AI for Detecting Marine Ghost Nets

Zhongqi Miao, Gabriele Dederer, Mareen Lee, Emrah Birsin, Crayton Fenn, Kai Krutzke, Theodoros Stougiannis, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

September 2025

Publication

Energy Use of AI Inference: Efficiency Pathways and Test-Time Compute

Felipe Oviedo, Fiodar Kazhamiaka, Esha Choukse, Allen Kim, Amy Luers, Melanie Nakagawa, Ricardo Bianchini, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

September 2025

Project FarmVibes | Research for Industry

Bioacoustics: Leveraging AI to process audio recordings of diverse species

Geospatial Machine Learning

Advance sustainability initiative | AI For Good Lab

GeoAI Agency Primitives

Mirror in the Sky: Democratizing Continent-Scale IoT Connectivity via Amateur Satellites

SatExt: Generative AI framework for Spatio-Spectral Satellite Unification and Beyond

Materials are Mission Critical to the Sustainability Transition: Accelerating Discovery of Materials for Sustainability

SPARROW

Knowledge‐Guided Machine Learning for Operational Flood Forecasting

Maximizing Nature-based Solutions using Artificial Intelligence to align global biodiversity, climate, and water targets

Towards Automated Petrography

GhostNetZero: AI for Detecting Marine Ghost Nets

Energy Use of AI Inference: Efficiency Pathways and Test-Time Compute

Ecology and environment

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