Ecology and environment
Project
Carbon Capture and Storage
In accordance with Microsoft’s pledge of reaching carbon negativity by 2030 and along with several promising avenues such as Energy 2.0 and agricultural carbon sequestration, we are actively contributing research towards enabling CCS as a…
Dataset Source Code
Subseasonal Forecasting Toolkit
The subseasonal_toolkit package provides implementations of the subseasonal forecasting toolkit models, machine learning models, and meteorological baselines presented in the preprint Learned Benchmarks for Subseasonal Forecasting Soukayna Mouatadid, Paulo Orenstein, Genevieve Flaspohler, Miruna Oprescu, Judah…
Project
Enabling Data-driven Air Pollution Policy Making
Through this project we hope to provide an effective tool to both policy makers and the general public to address air pollution and work toward cleaner air and healthier citizens.
Project
EcoPod
EcoPod is a temporary pop-up lab experience designed to engage communities with local environmental data and expertise for climate resilience.
Microsoft Research Blog
Micro-climate predictions: Enabling hyper-local decisions for agriculture and renewables
It is springtime in Eastern Washington, USA, and the temperature is slightly above freezing. A farmer is preparing to fertilize his fields of wheat and lentils as winter runoff and frost are nearly finished. The…
Group
Environmental Sustainability Research
In the Environmental Sustainability Research group, we are working on a wide portfolio of research projects that push the state of the art in economics, science, and engineering to make Microsoft, our customers, and the…
Publication