Assessing named entity recognition by using geoscience domain schemas: the case of mineral systems. Excellent paper published in Frontier Earth Sciences by Villacorta Chambi Sandra Paula , Lindsay Mark , Klump Jens , Gessner Klaus , Gray Erin , McFarlane Helen (2025).AbstractNamed Entity Recognition (NER) is crucial for accurately extracting and classifying specialized domain terms... Continue Reading →

Government officials, industry chairs, technical experts and academics recently participated in a round table on how subsurface data sharing can drive sustainable development. I took part representing Robert Gordon University, attended by Members of Parliament, Government, Business and Academia. Report write up in the magazine link below. https://www.geplus.co.uk/features/round-table-the-economic-environmental-and-social-benefits-of-subsurface-data-sharing-07-05-2025/

Seismic hazards 3d Earth Viewer Open Data. Earthquakes on land and in the oceans with magnitude >=6 from the US Geological survey catalogue from 1970 to recent. Uses hypocenter point radius animation based on date and time of the earthquake event.From the University of Washington and partners to help foundation K12 education. Link in the... Continue Reading →

A Two-Step Approach to Training Earth Scientists in AI. Researchers learned machine learning methods during a boot camp, then applied their new knowledge to real-world research problems during a hackathon.Interesting article this week from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) on their two step training process for earth sciences. Sharing some quotes below, link in the... Continue Reading →

Thoroughly enjoyed participating in the European Geosciences Union (EGU) Great Debate on Large Language Models (LLM) in the Geosciences. A big thank you to the organisers, convenors, my esteemed panel members and everyone who joined the debate for their time and questions.In 1hr 45min we only scratched the surface! Link to the video here: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/session/54301In... Continue Reading →

Global Volcanism Program: Current and past volcanic activity for all volcanoes on the planet in the past 12,000 years. Valuable Open-access data.“The Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program (GVP) is housed in the Department of Mineral Sciences, National Museum of Natural History, in Washington D.C. We are devoted to a better understanding of Earth's active volcanoes... Continue Reading →

Benchmark dataset of over 3,000 question image pairs for testing AI for geological maps. Microsoft Research, China Academy of Geological Sciences and Wuhan University have developed a benchmark dataset to test Vision Language Models (VLM).“Geologic maps are essential tools in earthquake prediction, mineral exploration, infrastructure planning, and environmental assessment. They depict layers of Earth’s crust—faults,... Continue Reading →

The International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) Executive Committee "unanimously resolved to suspend all formal links and activities with Deep-time Digital Earth (DDE) for one year with immediate effect". The IUGS Communique is at the end of this post. Some background below to the current situation. This includes links to three public discussions in scientific... Continue Reading →

Superb 'live' open-source interactive views of global weather conditions forecast by supercomputers updated every three hours. Choose to view ocean, wind and wave currents, space weather, chemicals, biology, live fires, particulates, pollution etc.Integrated is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Global Forecasting System (GFS), version 5 of NASA’s Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS-5), and... Continue Reading →