{"id":1969,"date":"2025-01-30T18:15:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T23:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/geospatial-analytics\/clark-cga-at-agu-fall-meeting-2024\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T12:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:04:07","slug":"clark-cga-at-agu-fall-meeting-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/geospatial-analytics\/blog\/clark-cga-at-agu-fall-meeting-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Clark CGA at AGU Fall Meeting 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting is the largest gathering of geoscientists around the world. This year\u2019s meeting, attended by more than 27,000 people, was held in Washington, DC in Dec 2024. Our Director, Dr. Hamed Alemohammad, gave a presentation on an <a href=\"https:\/\/agu.confex.com\/agu\/agu24\/meetingapp.cgi\/Paper\/1693806\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explainable AI benchmark for geospatial foundation models<\/a>&nbsp;and chaired <a href=\"https:\/\/agu.confex.com\/agu\/agu24\/meetingapp.cgi\/Search\/0?sort=Relevance&amp;size=10&amp;page=1&amp;searchterm=alemohammad&amp;ModelType=Session\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sessions <\/a>focused on Foundation Models and GeoAI Best Practices. Rahebe Abedi a PhD student in Clark Graduate School of Geography who collaborates with our team on the Prithvi geospatial foundation model also presented her work on <a href=\"https:\/\/agu.confex.com\/agu\/agu24\/meetingapp.cgi\/Paper\/1676484\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mapping smallholder farms<\/a>. Participating in AGU Fall Meeting is a valuable opportunity for our team to engage with researchers, practitioners and stakeholders from diverse sectors to both present the latest updates from Clark CGA, and to learn about the advancements happening across the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topics presented in this year\u2019s meeting continue to show how the geoscience community is embracing and pioneering innovative AI-driven solutions to address problems related to climate change, conservation, land change, and mapping among others. The moto for meeting was \u201cWhat\u2019s Next for Science?\u201d, and we believe one of the key drivers of future scientific discoveries in geospatial sciences will be AI, and advanced analytics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the sides of this meeting, Hamed and Rahebe participated in a working group meeting on Large Earth Models to tackle challenges of making foundation models accessible, practical, and impactful. You can read more about the outcomes of this meeting <a href=\"https:\/\/developmentseed.org\/blog\/2024-12-19-large-earth-meeting-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large wp-image-1586\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/geospatial-analytics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/AGU2024-1-scaled-3-1024x473.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/geospatial-analytics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/AGU2024-1-scaled-3-1024x473.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/geospatial-analytics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/AGU2024-1-scaled-3-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/geospatial-analytics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/AGU2024-1-scaled-3-768x355.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/geospatial-analytics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/AGU2024-1-scaled-3-1536x709.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/geospatial-analytics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/AGU2024-1-scaled-3-2048x946.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Organizing team of the sessions on AI Foundation Models for Earth, Space and Planetary Sciences. From left: Dr. Budhendra (Budhu) Bhaduri (ORNL), Dr. Rahul Ramachandran (NASA), Dr. Hamed Alemohammad (Clark Uni.), Rahebe Abedi (Clark Uni.), and Dr. Campbell Watson (IBM)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting is the largest gathering of geoscientists around the world. This year\u2019s meeting, attended by more than 27,000 people, was held in Washington, DC in Dec 2024. 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