Birds and butterflies were already fluttering about this new oasis.“One thing that really struck me was, even in the arid areas, life can be brought back,” Taylor says. “But at the end of the day, I could see that there were real positive steps, and that other people could benefit.”Out in the countryside, Taylor started to see sprigs of hope beginning to blossom as he toured several reforestation efforts working toward the audacious goal of planting 10 billion trees.“I have to admit that I went in thinking that they were just going to be importing a bunch of trees and planting them and just walking away,” he says, pointing to similarly bold reforestation efforts that have failed elsewhere.Yet Taylor met “lifelong tree-huggers” who were tapping into the private seed banks and extensive knowledge of the region’s dynamic ecosystems that they had been cultivating for years.What’s more, it appears to be working.Taylor visited a dam that had been built just this winter and found that “one little pool of water” had sprouted trees. But the fruits of the Saudis’ research and development in this sector will inform technological progress in other nations as well.“Maybe the net-zero carbon equation might not be reached,” Taylor says. But at the same time, Taylor saw a nation striving to become a global leader in renewable energy technologies.Some of that investment is intended to offset emissions associated with continued oil production. The kingdom isn’t giving up its hold of the global oil market – far from it. “It was just kind of hard to believe.”Some of what he found confirmed his skepticism. More information will be shared in future announcements on the workshop application and selection process in June 2023.Today’s lead story almost didn’t happen.When Taylor Luck, the Monitor’s Middle East reporter, heard that Saudi Arabia was attempting to “go green,” he was intrigued – but dubious.As the world’s second-largest producer of oil, Saudi Arabia is “often seen as the spoiler to progress on climate,” he says. Filling out this form does NOT guarantee your participation in the workshop due to technology and resource limitations. To plan for workshop resources, you are invited to express your interest offsite link ( /NOAA-AI- 2023 offsite link). The workshop will focus on identifying the challenges caused by the differences, if any, between the R2O2R processes for AI and traditional applications that have been implemented by NOAA and the community. Research-to-Operation-to- Research (R2O2R): R2O2R is a critical process to enable research and development activities to be transitioned into operational environments while evolving operational needs can further inspire new research.The discussion around benchmarking framework will include high-priority application areas that are relevant to NOAA mission areas, AI-ready data sets, baseline models, desired performance metrics, cataloging mechanisms, and governance needs. Benchmarking Framework: AI research and development in environmental sciences require a benchmarking framework to ensure objective evaluation and accelerate adoption.We invite developers, data scientists, domain experts, social scientists, and downstream users to form small teams around different use cases that are relevant to NOAA mission areas. In this interactive workshop, we aim to foster collaboration around two themes: This year’s interactive workshop will focus on collaboration building and active development of AI-powered applications and community standards. NOAA Center for AI is pleased to announce the 5th NOAA Workshop on Leveraging AI in Environmental Sciences.
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