Looking forward to the GESGB conference on geoscience machine learning at the Institute of Physics in London on Thursday.A diverse programme of speakers. Topics include a wide range of applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in geosciences.Including meaningful AI integration in the field and advanced methods such as deep learning-based multi-objective data assimilation for... Continue Reading →

Enjoyed presenting on AI literacy and participating in a panel discussion today at the British Geological Survey (BGS) Science Festival. Lots of insightful questions and discussions - well organised and facilitated!There is some exciting geoscience AI research being undertaken at the BGS to support the public both in the UK and Internationally, looking forward to... Continue Reading →

Took just a few minutes using a general purpose LLM (Claude AI) to create an app to georeference & extract polygons from geological maps. The export to GeoJSON format allows you to integrate with other data in other applications such as QGIS or Esri ArcGIS.I’ll put the code for this REACT app in GitHub shortly... Continue Reading →

Looking forward to giving the webinar hosted by ThinkOnward tommorow at 5pm UK time (3rd Nov 2025). I'll cover some background of Language Models, Human-AI teaming, open-source Large Language Model (LLM) based Applications/Agents, and introduce a model for AI Literacy in the Geosciences. This model combines geoscience core competencies, data and technical awareness, critical thinking... Continue Reading →

AI Ethics in Geoscience: Organisations representing over 300,000 geoscientists have now endorsed the recommendations from our report.The “AI Ethics Recommendations for the Geoscience Community” were produced by the Task Group on AI in the Geosciences - of the Commission on Geoethics of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS).The report was published in late September... Continue Reading →

Abstract Submission Open! AI in the Geosciences Conference - Geological Society of London.Deadline 5th January 2026.The inaugural AI in the Geosciences conference is a new hybrid event aimed at researchers, industry professionals, students, policy makers, and all those with an interest in responsible innovation. The meeting will explore how artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big... Continue Reading →

Fantastic event today, 1400 geoscientists signed up for “AI, Drones and satellites: tech skills for geoscientists or get left behind”.Sponsored by the Geological Society of South Africa , Geological Society of Zimbabwe , WAIMM (West African Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum) and American Institute of Professional GeologistsExcellent talks from David Hodgetts and Glen Nwaila... Continue Reading →

Delighted to be invited to present at the GESGB “Innovating Geoscience through Machine Learning” conference with such a great line up of speakers. Link in the comments.Prof. Cedric John John - Queen Mary University of London Towards Meaningful Applications of Al in the GeosciencesNanzhe Wang - Stanford UniversityDeep Learning based Multi-Objective Markov Chain Monte Carlo... Continue Reading →