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Climate AI Nordics first 9 months
2025-06-25
From pioneering AI models for weather and biodiversity to our first Nordic Workshop on AI for Climate Change, the Climate AI Nordics community has grown and thrived over the past 9 months. Here’s a look back at our webinars, newsletters, and key milestones.
Featured paper: Accurate modeling of the potential energy surface of atmospheric molecular clusters boosted by neural networks
2025-06-25
This paper explores the potential for using neural networks to model atmospheric particle formation. The neural network-based model, tasked here to predict cluster binding energies, achieved the target chemical accuracy of less than 1 kcal/mol, although kernel ridge regression had a slightly lower error. Training was over an order of magnitude faster with the neural network compared to kernel ridge regression.
TreeSense Center of Excellence Officially Launched at University of Copenhagen
2025-06-24
The TreeSense Center of Excellence was officially launched on 24 June 2025 at the University of Copenhagen. The new research center, supported by the Danish National Research Foundation, brings together experts in remote sensing, ecology, and AI to revolutionize how we monitor global tree resources.
Climate AI Nordics to post news on job openings
2025-06-24
Climate AI Nordics aims to further help boost the Nordic AI-for-climate and AI-for-environment ecossystems, by now also including relevant job openings in our monthly newsletters. These job openings will also appear on our news page. Please get in touch with us regarding job openings that you’d like to share with our community.
Open position: Associate Professor or Assistant Professor in Satellite Remote Sensing
2025-06-21; Job Opening
Chalmers University of Technology is hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor in Satellite Remote Sensing to join its leading Geoscience and Remote Sensing Division. The role focuses on advancing satellite-based Earth observation through research, teaching, and collaboration across academia and industry. Applications are open until 24 August 2025.
Open position: Assistant professor in AI for Sustainable transformation
2025-06-13; Job Opening
Lund University is hiring an Assistant Professor in AI for Sustainable Transformation at the IIIEE, focusing on cutting-edge interdisciplinary research that bridges digital technologies and climate action. The position offers strong support for external funding, teaching, and collaboration with societal partners, with a pathway to permanent employment. Applications are open until 11 August 2025, and international researchers are especially encouraged to apply.
Internship Opportunity at RISE Lund: Ecological Annotation of Drone Imagery
2025-06-05; Job Opening
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden is looking for 1–2 motivated interns in Fall 2025 to annotate drone imagery for biodiversity AI research, supporting a collaborative project with Arla. Part-time (50%), based in Lund, and perfect for students in ecology, biology, or environmental science.
Featured paper: Severe decline in large farmland trees in India over the past decade
2025-05-27
This study investigates changes in agroforestry tree cover across India between 2010 and 2022 using high-resolution satellite imagery (RapidEye and PlanetScope) and extensive tree label datasets. The researchers applied deep learning techniques from object counting, using heatmap-based models that transformed discrete tree labels into continuous Gaussian representations for improved detection. Their findings reveal a significant decline in large farmland trees, with up to 11% loss nationally and as high as 50% in certain hotspot areas. From 2018 to 2022 alone, over 5 million trees were lost, reflecting a rapid transformation in India’s agricultural landscapes. Interviews with farmers linked this decline to shifts in cultivation practices, particularly the intensification of cropping systems.
Inaugural Nordic Workshop on AI for Climate Change sparks collaboration and looks to the future
2025-05-20
The inaugural Nordic Workshop on AI for Climate Change in Gothenburg successfully united leading researchers, practitioners, and innovators, fostering lively interdisciplinary discussions and idea exchange on topics ranging from biodiversity monitoring to the environmental footprint of AI. Building on this enthusiastic and collaborative atmosphere, the community is now looking forward to future events, with the 2026 workshop already confirmed to be hosted by the University of Copenhagen and the Pioneer Centre for AI. This vital initiative continues to build a strong Nordic network dedicated to maximizing AI’s potential in addressing the urgent climate crisis.
Featured Project: Acoustic Monitoring of Guillemot Life at Stora Karlsö
2025-04-30
The AukLab project on Stora Karlsö enhances its AI-driven monitoring of Common Guillemots by adding continuous acoustic recording to its existing camera surveillance. A new system using synchronized Raspberry Pi units captures and analyzes guillemot vocalizations, integrating this audio data with visual and thermal information. Researchers aim to use machine learning on this combined dataset to gain deeper insights into social interactions, parental care, environmental responses, and potentially even detect fish arrivals acoustically. This addition represents a significant step towards creating a comprehensive digital representation of the guillemot colony for broader research access.
Climate AI Nordics now has 200+ registered people
2025-04-30
Climate AI Nordics recently reached a new milestone of 150+ Nordics-affiliated researchers, and 200+ when including outside-Nordics-affiliated reserachers. Exciting to see the network growing!
Will you join the #AIWeatherQuest?
2025-04-07
ECMWF invites AI/ML experts to improve sub-seasonal forecasts (days 19-25 & 26-31)—key for climate adaptation & planning. Open to all, any tools/datasets.
Featured Paper: Efficiency is Not Enough: A Critical Perspective of Environmentally Sustainable AI
2025-03-27
This perspective paper discusses several reasons why it is crucial to look at the impact of machine learning (ML) using systems thinking, i.e. across the entire life cycle of models, from development to deployment.
Climate AI Nordics co-founder in Swedish Public Radio
2025-03-26
Climate AI Nordics co-founder Olof Mogren in Swedish Public Radio show “Klotet”. “AI is part of the solution—but not the whole solution”.
Partnership between Climate AI Nordics and ELLIS Machine Learning for Earth and Climate Sciences Program
2025-03-20
We are happy to share that we have partnered with ELLIS Machine Learning for Earth and Climate Sciences Program 🌍✨!
Featured Project: AI-based seabird monitoring at Stora Karlsö, Sweden
2025-02-28
Read about an exciting project involving both artificial intelligence and an artificial rock shelf!
Climate AI Nordics Core Team
2025-02-27
We are proud to announce the amazing Core Team of Climate AI Nordics! Ten people spread over the Nordics will take place in the Core Team, to share the responsibility of developing the network and run our activities.
Partnership between Climate AI Nordics and Klimatkollen
2025-02-10
We are thrilled to share our partnership with Klimatkollen 🌍📈!
Partnership between Climate AI Nordics and Global Wetland Center
2025-02-07
We are excited to share our partnership with Global Wetland Center, 🌍✨!
Partnership between Climate AI Nordics and CLIMES
2025-01-30
We are excited to share our partnership with CLIMES, the Swedish Centre for Impacts of Climate Extremes 🌍✨!
Featured Paper: Deep learning-enhanced detection of road culverts in high-resolution digital elevation models: Improving stream network accuracy in Sweden
2025-01-27
The new Climate AI Nordics Featured Paper is “Deep learning-enhanced detection of road culverts in high-resolution digital elevation models: Improving stream network accuracy in Sweden” by William Lidberg. In this work, Lidberg combines LiDAR data and aerial imagery with deep learning to detect 87 % of all road culverts in Sweden. These culverts are in turn used to increase the accuracy of maps featuring small watercourses.
Partnership between Climate AI Nordics and AfriClimate AI
2025-01-21
We are excited to have partnered with AfriClimate AI, a grassroots community dedicated to harnessing the power of AI for a sustainable, prosperous and climate-resilient Africa 🌍✨!
Upcoming seminars
2024-12-16
Climate AI Nordics will be hosting many seminars in 2025, featuring leading researchers exploring the role of AI in addressing climate change. Some speakers in the first quarter include Amal Nammouchi on leveraging large language models and deep reinforcement learning for trustworthy decision-making in energy management. Abdulhakim Abdi on the use of AI and Earth observation data to monitor ecosystems amid the biodiversity crisis. Atakan Aral on AI-driven environmental monitoring systems, and Sherrie Wang on AI applications in sustainable agriculture and climate mitigation. María J. Molina on AI’s potential to predict extreme weather and inform climate strategies. Together uniting diverse perspectives on AI-driven climate solutions.
Featured Paper: ONEKANA: Modelling Thermal Inequalities in African Cities
2024-12-03
The new Climate AI Nordics Featured Paper is “ONEKANA: Modelling Thermal Inequalities in African Cities” by Sabine Vanhuysse and colleagues. This research addresses the pressing issue of thermal disparities in rapidly urbanizing African cities, where vulnerable populations are disproportionately affected by extreme heat due to environmental and socioeconomic factors.
Climate AI Nordics now has 50 registered people
2024-11-29
As of today, 50 people have registered to Climate AI Nordics! Great to see the network growing!
Featured Preprint: Continuous Ensemble Weather Forecasting with Diffusion Models
2024-11-22
In Featured Preprints, preprints from affiliated researchers are summarized and featured at Climate AI Nordics. This one features "Continuous Ensemble Weather Forecasting with Diffusion Models", from Martin Andrae, Tomas Landelius, Joel Oskarsson, and Fredrik Lindsten.
Climate AI Nordics is now present on LinkedIn
2024-11-15
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Climate AI Nordics in Computer Sweden on how AI can help save the climate
2024-11-12
As COP29 is convening in Azerbajdzjan, Olof Mogren, co-founder of Climate AI Nordics was interviewed in Computer Sweden. “When it comes to climate change, we have to work broadly both with mitigation techniques and by adapting to the effects we are already seeing”. “AI can be a tool to support these efforts”.
Climate AI Nordics is now live!
2024-10-25
Climate AI Nordics is a network for researchers in the nordics working on problems related to tackling climate change using AI and machine learning. Our web site is now live.