From Fields to Watersheds: AI-driven Forecasting and Prediction across Agriculture, Water Resources, and Ecosystems

Session ID#: 282002

Session Description:
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming how we observe, model, and forecast the state of land, water, and agricultural systems — from snowpack and streamflow to soil health, crop stress, carbon flux, and ecosystem productivity — with direct implications for food security, water management, and environmental resilience. These advances are extending how far into the future these systems can reliably forecast, making predictions more useful for a broader range of decision-makers. This session brings together different domains to examine how emerging AI methods are pushing the frontiers of forecasting and prediction across the water-agriculture-ecosystem nexus. We invite contributions spanning predictions and forecasts of diverse aspects across different scales (fields-watersheds-geographies). We aim to showcase AI's role in advancing forecasting across domains — through transferable methods, open datasets, and decision support tools — while welcoming submissions that bridge research and practice, address data-scarce regions, and improve uncertainty communication for decision-makers.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • H - Hydrology
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

1622 Earth system modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1840 Hydrometeorology [HYDROLOGY]
1873 Uncertainty assessment [HYDROLOGY]
4315 Monitoring, forecasting, prediction [NATURAL HAZARDS]
Primary Convener:  Supriya Savalkar, Washington State University, Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Pullman, United States
Conveners:  Jacob A Zwart, USGS Integrated Information Dissemination Division, Data Science Branch, San Francisco, United States, Kirti Rajagopalan, Washington State University, Biological Systems Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States and Anantharaman Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, EECS, Pullman, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Bhupinderjeet Singh, Oregon State University / USGS Climate Adaptation Technical Services, Corvallis, United States