Ecology and environment

Career Opportunity

Research Intern – Environmental Policy/Public Policy

Posted: December 6, 2025

Location: Redmond, WA, US

Research Area(s): Ecology and environment

Microsoft Research (MSR) is seeking Research Interns to join our team and contribute to cutting-edge projects in decision making and policy analysis. Research Interns will collaborate with world-class researchers and engineers to advance the state…

Dataset Source Code

SPARROW

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

Where are the Whales: A Human-in-the-loop Detection Method for Identifying Whales in High-resolution Satellite Imagery

Caleb Robinson, Kimberly T. Goetz, Christin B. Khan, Meredith Sackett, Kathleen Leonard, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

November 2025

Publication

Knowledge‐Guided Machine Learning for Operational Flood Forecasting

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

Water Resources Research | 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

Publication

New frontiers in AI for biodiversity research and conservation with multimodal language models

Zhongqi Miao, Yuanhan Zhang, Zalan Fabian, Andres Hernandez Celis, Sara Beery, Chunyuan Li, Ziwei Liu, Amrita Gupta, Md Nasir, Wanhua Li, Jason Holmberg, Meredith Palmer, Kaitlyn Gaynor, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

Methods in Ecology and Evolution | August 2025

Project

Publication

AI-Driven Detection and Analysis of Handwriting on Seized Ivory: A Tool to Uncover Criminal Networks in the Illicit Wildlife Trade

Will Fein, Ryan J. Horwitz, John E. Brown III, Amit Misra, Felipe Oviedo, Kevin White, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Samuel K. Wasser

August 2025

Publication

Remote Sensing Reveals Adoption of Sustainable Rice Farming Practices Across Punjab, India

Ando Shah, Rajveer Singh, Akram Zaytar, Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Caleb Robinson, Negar Tafti, Stephen A. Wood, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres

July 2025

Project

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

Research Intern – Environmental Policy/Public Policy

SPARROW

Where are the Whales: A Human-in-the-loop Detection Method for Identifying Whales in High-resolution Satellite Imagery

Knowledge‐Guided Machine Learning for Operational Flood Forecasting

Towards Automated Petrography

GhostNetZero: AI for Detecting Marine Ghost Nets

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

New frontiers in AI for biodiversity research and conservation with multimodal language models

AI-Driven Detection and Analysis of Handwriting on Seized Ivory: A Tool to Uncover Criminal Networks in the Illicit Wildlife Trade

Remote Sensing Reveals Adoption of Sustainable Rice Farming Practices Across Punjab, India

Ecology and environment

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