Informatics



AI Foundation Models for Earth, Space, and Planetary Sciences
Primary Convener:  Ankur Kumar, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, United States; University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Sujit Roy1, Nidhi Jha2, Iksha Gurung3 and Rahul Ramachandran1, (1)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, United States(2)The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States(3)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States


AI-Ready Data in Biogeosciences: From Data Preparation to Scientific Discovery
Primary Convener:  Brieanne K. Forbes, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Amy E Goldman, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Biological Sciences, Richland, WA, United States, Stephanie C Pennington, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, United States and Ben P Bond-Lamberty, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Stephanie J Wilson, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Biogeochemistry Lab, Edgewater, United States


Accelerating Scientific Discovery in Earth System Science with Agentic AI
Primary Convener:  Huiqi Wang, University of California Berkeley, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Qing Zhu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, Trevor Keenan, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, United States and Forrest Hoffman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences & Engineering Division, Oak Ridge, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Jianing Fang, Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States


Advanced Artificial Intelligence-Driven Subsurface Characterization, Fluid Dynamics Prediction, and Geo-Energy System Design Optimization
Primary Convener:  Guodong Chen, University of California Berkeley, Civil and Environment Department, Berkeley, United States; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geoscience Division, Berkeley, United States
Conveners:  Randy Harsuko1,2, Jingxiao Liu2,3, Michael Mahoney4,5 and Nori Nakata6,7, (1)Energy Geoscience Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States(2)University of California Berkeley, Civil and Environment Department, Berkeley, United States(3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geoscience Division, Berkeley, United States(4)University of California Berkeley, Department of Statistics, Berkeley, United States(5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Scientific Data Division, Berkeley, United States(6)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States(7)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States


Advancing AI for Environmental Sustainability: Data, Methods, and Applications
Primary Convener:  Jiaqi Yang, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
Conveners:  Yuchi Ma, Stanford University, Stanford, United States, Taejin Park, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States and Min Chen, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Pratima Khatri-Chhetri, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States


Advancing Earth Science Data in Cloud Environments
Primary Convener:  Hailiang Zhang, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Conveners:  Owen Littlejohns, NASA EED-3 / INNOVIM, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Aimee Barciauskas, DevelopmentSEED, Washington DC, United States and James H R Gallagher, OPeNDAP, Inc., Butte, United States


Advancing Flood Science and Applications Using Earth Observations and Data-Driven Approaches
Primary Convener:  Ranjay Man Shrestha, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States
Conveners:  Daniel A Slayback, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, Beth Tellman, University of Wisconsin Madison, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Madison, United States and Renato P. M. Frasson, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Amy McNally, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States


Agentic Workflows in Science:  Safety, Innovations and Applications.
Primary Convener:  Muthukumaran Ramasubramanian, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Nidhi Jha, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, Geeth De Mel, IBM Research UK, Hampshire, United Kingdom and Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee, IBM Research USA, Yorktown Heights, United States


Application of Information Science, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence for Climate Governance and Communicating Climate Risk.
Primary Convener:  Somita Chaudhari, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States
Convener:  Pasquale De Toro, Professor and Former Director, Interdepartmental Research Center in Urban Planning ‘Alberto Calza Bini’, The University of Naples ‘Federico II’,Italy, Napoli, Italy
Student/Early Career Convener:  Sabrina Sacco, Ph.D. Student in Artificial Intelligence, University of Naples Federico II, Italy, Master in Sustainable Planning and Design of Port Areas, Naples, Italy


Beyond Off-the-Shelf: Physics-Aware and Interpretable Machine Learning for Earth System Science
Primary Convener:  Dr. Veljko Petković, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Shruti Upadhyaya, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Department of Civil Engineering, Hyderabad, India and Pierre Kirstetter, NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, United States; University of Oklahoma Norman, School of Meteorology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Norman, United States


Connections Foster Evolution:  In Science, and in Science Data Stewardship
Primary Convener:  Stephanie Mullins Wingo, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Morgan L Silverman, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States; RSES, Hampton, United States, Sara H Lubkin, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Science Data Information System, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Manil Maskey, NASA, Office of Data Science and Informatics (ODSI), Huntsville, United States


Data-Driven and AI-Enabled Decision-Support Systems for Climate Adaptation and Resilience
Primary Convener:  Sarbeswar Praharaj, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States
Conveners:  Masahiko Haraguchi, Harvard University, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Cambridge, United States and Elizabeth A Wentz, Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Tempe, United States


Digital Twins for Sagebrush Steppe Ecosystems: Integrating Data, AI, and Fire Ecology for Resilient Landscapes
Primary Convener:  Alireza Tavakkoli, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, United States and Harnessing Data Revolution for Fire Science (HDRFS)
Conveners:  Brendan Morris1, John Arnone III2, Christos Papachristos3, Tom Dilts3 and Harnessing Data Revolution for Fire Science (HDRFS), (1)University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, United States(2)Desert Reserch Inst, Reno, United States(3)University of Nevada Reno, Reno, United States


Earth Observation Foundation Models: From Representation Learning to Scientific Discovery and Applications
Primary Convener:  Peng Fu, Louisiana State University, AgCenter, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
Conveners:  Yuchi Ma, Stanford University, Stanford, United States, Yanhua Xie, University of Oklahoma, Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, Norman, United States and Anthony Campbell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Yuchi Ma, Stanford University, Stanford, United States


Earth Science AI/ML strategies
Primary Convener:  Nick Doty, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Douglas J Newman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Brian Freitag, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States and Kenneth S Casey, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Silver Spring, MD, United States


Emulation Frameworks for Physics-Based Models: A Cross-Domain Assessment of Methodologies
Primary Convener:  Umaa Rebbapragada, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Mark Carroll1, Lukas Mandrake2 and Sachin Reddy2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Data Science Group, Greenbelt, United States(2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  William Keely, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States


Enterprise Platforms and AI Integration within the Evolving Earth Science Data Ecosystem
Primary Convener:  Binita KC, NASA GSFC GES DISC (Adnet Systems Inc), Greenbelt, United States
Conveners:  Yixin Wen, University of Florida, Department of Geography, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States and Zhong Liu, NASA GSFC GES DISC (CSISS, George Mason University), Greenbelt, United States


Exploring the Intersection New Observing Technologies and Earth System Digital Twins for Enhanced Earth System Understanding and Decision Making
Primary Convener:  Nicole Ramberg-Pihl, SSAI, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, United States
Conveners:  Mrs. Jennifer Webster, Ph.D., NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, United States, Paul Grogan, Arizona State University, School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, Tempe, United States, Chaowei Phil Yang, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, United States and Benjamin Smith, NASA (JPL), Earth Science Technology Office, Pasadena, United States


Foundation Models for Earth and Beyond: Operational Pipelines, Optimizations, and Novel Applications
Primary Convener:  Iksha Gurung, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Convener:  Gabrielle Nyirjesy, IBM Research USA, Yorktown Heights, NY, United States


From Lights to Insights: Applications of Nighttime Light Observations Across Scales
Primary Convener:  Ranjay Man Shrestha, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States
Conveners:  Zhuosen Wang, University of Maryland College Park/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Miguel Roman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Prof. Qiming Zheng, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore and Angela Erb, Leidos, Reston, United States


General Informatics Session: From Data to Discovery through Informatics, AI, and Innovation
Primary Convener:  Singh Debjani, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners:  Weiming Hu, University of Georgia, Center for Geospatial Research, Department of Geography, Athens, United States, Enrico Milanese, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Ranjay Man Shrestha, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States and Sudhir R Shrestha, NOAA NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, Satellite Meteorology & Climatology Division (SMCD), College Park, United States


Generative AI in Hydrology and Interdisciplinary Environmental Research: Applications, Opportunities, and Challenges
Primary Convener:  Mewcha AMHA Gebremedhin, Florida Gulf Coast University, Department of Bioengineering, Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering, Fort Myers, United States
Conveners:  Vidya Samadi, Clemson University, Department of Agricultural Sciences, Clemson, SC, United States, Nikolaos Tziolas, University of Florida, Department of Soil, Water, and Ecosystem Sciences, Immokalee, United States and Elshall Ahmed S. Sr, Florida Gulf Coast University, Department of Bioengineering, Civil Engineering, and Environmental Engineering, Fort Myers, United States


Geoscience Communication
Primary Convener:  Kalpana Chaudhari, Institute For Sustainable Development and Research, ISDR,India, Mumbai, India; Shah and Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College, Institute For Sustainable Development And Research, ISDR, Mumbai, India
Convener:  Pasquale De Toro, Professor and Former Director, Interdepartmental Research Center in Urban Planning ‘Alberto Calza Bini’, The University of Naples ‘Federico II’,Italy, Napoli, Italy
Student/Early Career Convener:  Sabrina Sacco, Ph.D. Student in Artificial Intelligence, University of Naples Federico II, Italy, Master in Sustainable Planning and Design of Port Areas, Naples, Italy


Improving Science Data Processing Through Modern Science Data Systems
Primary Convener:  Matthew Bourque, NOAA/CIRES Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Veronica Martinez, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, Kyle Westfall, University of California Observatories, Santa Cruz, United States and Julius Johannes Marian Busecke, Earthmover, New York City, United States


Informal Settlements: Emerging Technologies and Data-Driven Approaches for Risk Analysis and Resilience Management
Primary Convener:  Chang Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Senseable City Lab, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners:  Pei Zhao1, Xiao Huang2 and Fábio Duarte1, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Senseable City Lab, Cambridge, United States(2)Emory University, Department of Environmental Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States


Knowledge Meshes and NLP for Earth Science Operations
Primary Convener:  Ryan Berkheimer, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC, United States and Justin Dennison : Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Conveners:  Beau Backus, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, Justin Dennison, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, United States and Justin Dennison : Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory


Multimodal 3D Urban Sensing, Reconstruction, and Representation: Towards Digital Twins for Sustainable Cities
Primary Convener:  Lu Liang, University of California Berkeley, Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, Berkeley, CA, United States
Convener:  Hongchao Fan, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Student/Early Career Convener:  Yuye Zhou, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States


Multimodal AI and Remote Sensing for a Profitable Climate-Smart and Resilient Agriculture
Primary Convener:  Alwaseela Hassan, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Agricultural Biology, Austin, United States
Conveners:  Phuong D. Dao, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Integrative Biology, Austin, United States, Yuchi Ma, Stanford University, Stanford, United States and Ignacio Ciampitti, Purdue University, Department of Agronomy, West Lafayette, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Yuwei Yin, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Integrative Biology, Austin, United States


Open Earth System Science Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Machine Learning (ML) to Advance Scientific Discovery
Primary Convener:  Forrest M. Hoffman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences & Engineering Division, Oak Ridge, United States
Conveners:  Charuleka Varadharajan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States, Jitendra Kumar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States and Justin Jay Hnilo, U.S. Department of Energy, Biological and Environmental Research, Germantown, United States


Quantum Mathematical Frameworks in Earth and Human Systems: From Computation to Decision
Primary Convener:  Michael Joseph Puma, Columbia University in the City of New York, Center for Climate Systems Research, New York, NY, United States
Convener:  Rachata Muneepeerakul, University of Florida, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States


Rapid Advances in GeoAI for Hydrology and Water Resources
Primary Convener:  Sushant Mehan, South Dakota State University, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Brookings, United States
Convener:  Daniel P Ames, Brigham Young University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Provo, UT, United States


Sensitivity and Uncertainty Characterization in Multi-Scale Modeling of Drought-to-Flood Transitions: Integrating 1D–2D Hydrodynamic, AI/ML, and Index-Based Modeling Frameworks
Primary Convener:  Subhankar Karmakar, Mumbai, India
Conveners:  Kaustav Mondal, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Green Energy and Sustainability Hub, Mumbai, India, Jagriti Jain, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Centre for Climate Studies, Mumbai, India and Ajay Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Environmental Science and Engineering Department, Mumbai, India


Software Citation: Evolving Tools and Practices
Primary Convener:  Samantha Teplitzky, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Daniel Howard, NCAR, Boulder, United States, Jonathan Starr, NumFocus, Austin, United States and Sandra Gesing, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States


Spatiotemporal Data Analytics and Emerging AI/ML for Earth System Science
Primary Convener:  Chaowei Phil Yang, George Mason University Fairfax, Geography and Geoinformation Science, Fairfax, VA, United States
Convener:  Qunying Huang, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Geography, Madison, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Anusha Srirenganathan Malarvizhi, George Mason University, Geography and Geoinfomation Science, Fairfax, United States


Standards and Practices in Hydrology, Seismology, and Near-Surface Geophysics Field Operations: Lessons Learned, Existing Standards, and Community Priorities
Primary Convener:  Cian Dawson, -, Berkeley, United States
Conveners:  Christopher Matthew Calvelage, EarthScope Consortium, Washington D.C., United States, Jordan Stuart Read, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc., Arlington, United States and Pete Marchetto, FieldKit, Forestburgh, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Sara Sayyadi, University of Nevada Reno, Center for Transformative Environmental Monitoring Programs (CTEMPs), Reno, United States


Standards, Stewardship, and Solidarity: Building Flourishing Science Commons
Primary Convener:  Ryan Michael McGranaghan, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
Conveners:  Chelle L Gentemann, NASA Headquarters, Santa Rosa, United States and Kate Wing, Intertidal Agency, Oakland, United States


The Earth Observation Metadata and Data Quality Drive
Primary Convener:  Nick Doty, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Convener:  Douglas J Newman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States


Transfer Learning in Remote Sensing: Overcoming Data Scarcity and Domain Shift
Primary Convener:  Yuchi Ma, Stanford University, Department of Earth System Science & Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford, CA, United States
Conveners:  Sherrie Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Cambridge, United States, Hannah Rae Kerner, Arizona State University, School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, Tempe, AZ, United States and Zhuo Zheng, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Ivan Higuera-Mendieta, Stanford University, Stanford, United States


≥3D: Virtual Reality, MR/AR/XR, and Sonification Tools to Showcase and Explore Multidimensional Data in Earth and Space Science
Primary Convener:  Dr. Kristina Collins, PhD, Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Alexandra Boghosian, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Mr. Jaime Aguilar Guerrero, PhD, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States