Delighted to co-author this published paper with my Brazilian colleagues. Identifying and comparing information cultures: a perspective from research institutes and academic librariesThis article aims to identify the information culture of two research institutes and an academic library, to verify the alignment of this culture with the organizational strategy. The methodological approach adopted follows the... Continue Reading →

The International Science Council (ISC) recently published a guide for policy makers: Evaluating rapidly developing technologies including AI, large language models and beyond. This builds on high level principles already published from UNESCO, OECD, EU and UN etc.According to Peter Gluckman, ISC President, “In an era marked by rapid technological innovation and complex global challenges,... Continue Reading →

Project Innerspace GeoMap: Global Geothermal Resources Map. For those that are not aware, some exciting global data freely available to support geothermal exploration & development.According to Project Innerspace:"We aim to unlock global exponential growth of geothermal by facilitating the rapid transfer of resources, technologies, and know-how from the oil and gas industry toward geothermal energy... Continue Reading →

The talk I gave on applying artificial intelligence to geoscience documentation at the Geological Society of London last year is now on YouTube. I have added the link in the comments, it is from the 'Digital Geoscience' conference held in Burlington House on the 13th November 2023.It covers how we may use such techniques to... Continue Reading →

Excellent PhD thesis online from Athanasios Nathanail at Heriot-Watt University. Quite thought provoking for future possibilities using Machine Vision, Natural Language Processing and Neural Networks. Abstract Geological interpretations are always linked with interpretational and conceptual uncertainty, which is difficult to elicit and quantify, often creating unquantified risks for understanding the subsurface. The complexity and variability... Continue Reading →

Delighted my paper was accepted to the “Artificial Intelligence for Geological Modelling and Mapping” conference at the University of Exeter, May 22-23, 2024. The conference is organised by the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI). The title of my paper is “How can Natural Language Processing (NLP) support Geological Modelling and Mapping?”. #geology #geosciences #subsurface #artificialintelligence #naturallanguageprocessing #earthscience

Are we building ethical AI chatbots in our scientific disciplines and industry sectors? There are many aspects to ethical AI for domain chatbot apps powered by Large Language Models (LLM). From a human centric perspective these include (1) privacy and data protection, (2) equality and non-discrimination and (3) transparency and explainability. From a content and... Continue Reading →

Rocks, Birds, Water and Space? Not a trivia question but a rather innovative new online course for Machine Learning in the Natural Sciences from Portland State University Department of Geology. After being taught the basics of machine learning you can choose your topic of interest and dataset (rocks, birds, water or space) then follow a... Continue Reading →

I co-authored a paper presented at the Geological Society of London late last year on the topic of transitioning geoscience (literature) into the age of AI. The aim is to inject more creativity into the way we explore big data geoscience documentation and release free, easy to use web apps using techniques enabled by AI. The... Continue Reading →

Enjoyed giving the guest lecture today with Pascal Ezenkwu and students on the Energy Data Management with Business Analytics course at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. We covered Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models in Geoscience and the Subsurface, and the changing role of the data manager.  Lots of wonderful questions about skills (both soft... Continue Reading →