RESEARCH
Earth Systems Lab: A nervous system for planet Earth
ESL 2026 will focus on developing planetary intelligence for our changing world, extending the research portfolio from monitoring to active stewardship.
Leveraging on the explosion of foundation model capability, this challenge will develop a novel adaptive switch-out system to produce a transparent, uncertainty-aware estimate of Earth systems as a Mixture of Experts, addressing critical gaps in areas like carbon reporting and land use.
Addressing the gap in predicting rapid storm intensification, this challenge will create a novel multimodal AI model that fuses 3D cloud morphology with temperature, precipitation and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) wind speeds for the first time.
Building a complementary multisatellite AI foundation model focused specifically on global forests and biomass, this challenge aims to understand how the Earth’s living systems function and how they respond through the lens of carbon capacity, resilience, and ecosystem dynamics.