Environmental Intelligence Conference 2025

Programme Agenda & Speakers

Thursday 11th September 09:00-19:00: Xfi Building on the Streatham Campus

 

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09:00 – Arrival, Posters & Refreshments

Venue: Xfi Atrium

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Session 1- Venue: Henderson LT
Chair: Hywel Williams

• 10:00 Hywel Williams — Welcome & Introduction
• 10:15 Tim Lenton — Keynote: “Positive tipping points to avoid climate tipping points”

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11:00 – Parallel Sessions

Session 2A: EI for Biodiversity & Nature- Venue: Henderson LT
Chair: Benno Simmons

• Viktor Domazetoski — Uncovering Systematic Errors in Camera Trap Species Classification Models 
• William Rees — AI-Based Visual Monitoring of Small, Fast-Moving Nocturnal Fauna: A Case Study in Bat Roost Detection
• Oscar Rodriguez de Rivera Ortega — Following the Paws Behind the Patterns
• Danny Williamson — Where should all the trees go?
• Bertrand Nortier — Emulation of ecological models with categorical time series outputs using Deep Gaussian Processes
• Ross Gardiner — BioCLIP-world: Progress and challenges towards a multimodal embedding space for the tree of life

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Session 2B: EI for Earth & Climate- Venue: Conference Room 1+2
Chair: Stefan Siegert

• Frank Kwasniok — Data-driven subgrid-scale parameterization for atmosphere and ocean models
• Hugo Lambert — Measuring the differences between weather and climate models and the real world
• Steve Thomson — Improving Machine Learned Predictions of High CO2 Climates Using Physical Constraints
• Charlie Kirkwood — Geological mapping in the age of AI
• Khan Muhammad — Statistical Learning Applications in Earth Sciences
• Julian Ortiz — Geostatistical uncertainty quantification in Earth Sciences

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Session 2C: EI for People & Health- Venue: Seminar Room A+B
Chair: Lorien Jasny

• Shakil Mohammad Hasan— Board Gender Diversity and Carbon Emissions: A Panel Regression and Machine Learning Approach
• Fanlin Meng — AI for sustainable systems
• Lorien Jasny — Social-Ecological networks and risk: how is perceived social and ecological risk associated with information networks?
• Jaylaxmi Desai — The Ugly Truth Behind Anti-Aging: How Fear of Wrinkles Harms the Planet
• Theo Economou — Statistical models for temporally distributed effects from multiple environmental stressors on health
• Steven Squires — Forecasting climate driven healthcare surges using machine learning

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12:00–13:00 — Lunch Break & Posters (Xfi Atrium)

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Session 3 — Panel Discussions- Venue: Henderson LT
Chairs: Katie Ledingham / James Dyke

• 13:00 Katie Ledingham — Panel: Social Dimensions of Environmental Intelligence
  Panellists: Suchith Anand, Ellie Fox, Manju Bura, Catie Johnston
• 13:45 James Dyke — Panel: Environmental Intelligence in Practice
  Panellists: Rachel McInnes (Met Office), Adrian Hines (JASMIN), Matthew Palmer (PML) + 1 more TBC

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14:30 – Parallel Sessions

Session 4A: Machine Learning for Earth Observation- Venue: Henderson LT
Chair: Brianna Pickstone

• Saptarshi Das — Remote Sensing Single Image Super-Resolution Benchmarking with Transfer Learning Algorithms
• Steve Palmer — A Quantile Regression forest estimate of Greenland’s subglacial topography
• Joseph Paulo — InSAR DEM Correction using Machine Learning
• Remy Vandaele — Geospatial foundation models for marine applications
• Brianna Pickstone — A Probabilistic Vision-Language Framework for Remote Sensing Land Cover Classification
• May Rodriguez — Dynamic assignment of photosynthetic parameters using machine learning for modelling primary production from satellite observation

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Session 4B: Climate Communications & Data Science (Hosted by C3DS)- Venue: Conference Room 1+2
Chair: Travis Coan

• Nicholas Clifton — AuthentiSci: Crowd-sourcing reviews of mainstream science media
• Francisco Gonzalez Espinosa — Computational approaches to studying climate communication in Television & Film
• Ranadheer Malla — CARDS-i-b: A Chatbot and API for Classifying and Responding to Climate Misinformation
• Tristan Cann — Classifying opposition to Net Zero in UK News
• Travis Coan — Greenwashing detection in Fossil Fuel Advertisements

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15:30–16:00 — Refreshments & Posters (Xfi Atrium)

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16:00 – Parallel Sessions

Session 5A: Earth Rover Spotlight- Venue: Henderson LT
Chair: Simon Jeffery

• Tarje Nissen-Meyer — Towards a greener revolution with good vibrations: 4D seismic soil health monitoring
• Peter Mosongo & Morine Wangechi — Seismic soil data acquisition across Kenyan ecosystems and agro-climatic zones
• Maria Tsekhmistrenko & Joe Collins — Soil bulk density from non-invasive seismology
• Jiayao Meng — A Scalable, Wireless MEMS Sensor Network for Seismic Soil Monitoring
• Kuangdai Leng — Data-augmented AI agent for soil science
• Discussion

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Session 5B: AI for Water Systems- Venue: Conference Room 1+2
Chair: Peter Melville-Shreeve

• Mikiyas Etichia — Smart agents for water resource planning
• Jawad Fayaz — Holistic machine learning frameworks for proactive water distribution management
• Diego Panici — Harnessing AI and heterogeneous datasets for decision tools and digital twins
• Garry Codling — Advancing Non-Target Water Chemistry Through Environmental Intelligence
• Pete Melville-Shreeve — Establishing a living lab for water at the University of Exeter
• Ben Hamilton — Upgrading SuDS systems

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17:00 Session 6: EI @ Exeter- Venue: Henderson LT
Chairs: James Dyke / Hywel Williams

• Discussion: Environmental Intelligence – Past, Present & Future

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Evening Social Event (Xfi Atrium)

17:30 Networking & Social Gathering
19:00 Event Close