Excellent presentation yesterday using Large Language Models to query seismic interpretations and data using natural language. Nate Suurmeyer from Onward and Anna Dubovik from WAIW ran through the possibilities with their framework, using natural language to ask questions of their structured data such as geological horizons and the sea floor, with basic data and analogues.... Continue Reading →

I thought I'd plot where the readers are of my free blog on Digital Geoscience. A total of 144 countries (45 in Europe, 32 in Asia, 30 in Africa, 26 in the Americas, 11 in the Middle East). I was having some challenges with the georeferencing and some countries don't appear but its good enough!I've... Continue Reading →

Serious concerns on Deep-time Digital Earth AI: “A scientific chatbot prohibiting certain questions because they may tarnish the image of a government, poses a serious risk to academic freedom of expression”.The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the geosciences continues at pace. There is much to be positive about, but with AI comes a responsibility to ensure these powerful emerging tools are... Continue Reading →

Subsurface Data: New foresight report from the UK Government Office for Science. The subsurface is a space much the same as the above ground whose use needs to be monitored, planned, and managed. But the data, technologies, and policy tools needed for this lag behind those available for the surface.Quotes on data include: "Evidence gathered... Continue Reading →

Geological AI: New open-source tool for scanning grains of sand. A convolutional neural network (CNN) was trained by researchers at Stanford on hundreds of electron microscope images of sand grains to determine the depositional environment. This represented material from different geological ages and locations, terrestrial environments fluvial (rivers and streams), eolian (windblown sediments, such as... Continue Reading →

I always find it interesting how someone not involved in geology or AI perceives the rather technical descriptions of what its about and communicates it to those not familiar with the area. This was written below by the King's Award Network from my rather technical jargon! This 'icebreaker' was sent out as an email within... Continue Reading →

DeLVE into Earth’s Past: A Visualization-Based Exhibit Deployed Across Multiple Museum Contexts. An interactive visualisation of geological deep time used to improve museum visitors perception of deep-time. I found it an exciting concept and use of visualisation.I've placed a link to the paper and video, Solen et al (2024) from the University of British Columbia,... Continue Reading →