Ecology and environment
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AI Takes to the Skies
As do other recreational pilots, Ashish Kapoor learned during flight training that he shouldn’t count on the accuracy of wind forecasts. The best available forecasts in the United States—from the federal government’s Winds Aloft program—have…
Tool
The Madingley Model
Source code, driver data and user manual for the Madingley model, as described in Harfoot, M.B.J., Newbold, T., Tittensor, D.P., Emmott, S., Hutton, J., Lyutsarev, V., Smith, M.J., Scharlemann, J.P.W. & Purves, D.W. (2014) Emergent…
Video
FetchClimate: a tutorial
Sadia Ahmed explains how to use FetchClimate: a fast, free, intelligent climate information service that operates over the cloud to return exactly the information you need.
Publication
Quantifying the Uncertainty in Heritability
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Microsoft Research support for climate change studies
Last June, U.S. President Barack Obama announced a Climate Action Plan to help predict and address the impacts of climate change. To further this important effort, Microsoft Research is pleased to launch a special Climate…
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ZooTracer: Setting a Track Record
Posted by Rob Knies People love to watch animals. That’s why zoos exist. That’s why photographic safaris command princely sums. That’s why cat videos have become an unstoppable force. Lucas Joppa loves to watch animals,…
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Latest Microsoft Research Luminary: Lucas Joppa, Conservation Scientist
Posted by Rob Knies Over the past several years, Microsoft Research Cambridge has established its bona fides as a serious player in the area of computational ecology, so it’s no great surprise that work from…