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Land in limbo: Nearly one third of Indonesia’s cleared old-growth forests left idle

Submitted by meghavi on Sun, 07/14/2024 - 21:59

Indonesia is the world’s largest producer of palm oil, a vegetable oil that is used for cooking and as an ingredient in many foods and in hundreds of everyday products.

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Submitted by admin on Wed, 07/10/2024 - 16:28

Postdoctoral research fellow "Geospatial analysis of land and agricultural systems "

The PostDoc position (initially fixed 2 years term) is available in the research group “Climate resilience of human-made ecosystems” in Germany (Prof. Dr. Katharina Waha). The focus of the research is on geospatial and change analysis of land and agricultural systems, also including contributions to a OneHealth project in Indonesia (ZOOMAL).

Remote Sensing - Associate Professor-Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park

The Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park, invites applications for a faculty position at the rank of Associate Professor in Remote Sensing.

Creating ML benchmarks for climate problems

Google is looking to fund and actively engage with the research community, exploring opportunities and pathways to leverage Google’s expertise in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate the development of data-driven solutions that inform climate action. ML and AI models depend on strong benchmarks that are used to evaluate their performance and track their improvement over time.