2024

Date: May 10 2024, 9:30am - 2pm

Theme: Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence for GIS

Location: Ocean Health Building 118 at the UCSC Coastal Science Campus & virtually on Zoom 

Information on parking near the Ocean Health Building: https://taps.ucsc.edu/off-campus-sites/csc-access.html  

Schedule

09:30 - 10:00 : Sign in, networking, coffee

10:00 - 10:10 : Intros and announcements from organizers

10:10 - 10:40 : Amadea Azerki (Esri): GeoAI – Unlock the Power of AI in GIS  

10:40 - 11:00 : Bo Yang (San Jose State University): Employing drone mapping and AI-vision for predictive modeling of eelgrass disease on a seascape scale

11:00 - 11:20 : John Ryan (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute): Mapping habitat occupancy of baleen whales with acoustic vector sensing

11:20 - 11:35 : Break

11:35 - 11:55 : Dongran Zhai (UC Santa Cruz): Assessing long-term trends in satellite ocean chlorophyll through a dynamic space-time model lens

11:55 - 12:15 : Patrick Daniel (UC Santa Cruz): Exploring phytoplankton variability at different scales in Monterey Bay using an automated observing system

12:15 - 12:35 : Issie Corvi (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute): Ocean Vision AI (OVAI) - Accelerating observations of marine life using artificial intelligence

12:35 - 12:50 : Break

12:50 - 12:55 : Lia Guo (Environmental Defense Fund): Detection of seaweed farms in the Philippines using satellite imagery and remote sensing techniques

12:55 - 13:00 : Mariam Ayad (UC Santa Cruz): Detection and Analysis of Coral Stressors in Florida Keys using Remote Sensing Imagery

13:00 - 13:05 : Dan Buscombe (US Geological Survey): CoastSeg - Open-source software for mapping shoreline change from 4 decades of satellite imagery

13:05 - 13:10 : Mark Lundine (US Geological Survey): Data-Driven Applications in Coastal Geomorphology

13:10 - 13:30 : Wrap up, group discussions

Join us afterwards at Humble Sea Brewery to keep the conversation going !