💥How can we ensure AI generalizability to reliably predict and understand environmental processes?
This question is at the center of our GENAI-X project, starting today!🎉 www.genai-x.uni-jena.de
Built around @ellisunitjena.bsky.social, funding: Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social
Enjoyed contributing to this fantastic winter school. Presented #uncertainty methods + application to decision-oriented spatial prediction of environmental #pollution: our ReGeNi project on groundwater nitrate, funded by @umweltbundesamt.bsky.social
📢 Stay tuned for upcoming publications! 🤩
New State of Science paper:
“Desert pavements: A hidden key to Earth surface processes” doi.org/10.1002/esp....
#Desertpavements regulate the interplay of runoff, weathering, dust, microbes & landscape evolution in #drylands—yet remain surprisingly understudied.
#Geomorphology #EarthSystemScience
6th talk of 4th session AI for Good Webinar series
AI for Earth & Sustainability Science
📅8 Dec 2025
⏰5-6 pm CET
📚 Risks and solutions when using non-stationary training data in earth system science
🧑🏫 Speaker: Joachim Denzler (@uni-jena.de)
👨🏻💻 Moderator: Ribana Roscher
🔗 loom.ly/jyU-P78
📢 Hot off the press!
"Mapping forest-covered #landslides using Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA), Jena region, Germany" by @ikram-zangana.bsky.social, Rainer Bell, Lucian Drăguţ, Flavius Sîrbu & Lothar Schrott in NHESS @egu.eu
#geosky #geomorphology
doi.org/10.5194/nhes...
❓Why is this important? Mountain permafrost matters for #slopestability & #waterresources. #geographymatters
✨I had developed the method for the Alps with colleagues at University of Zurich.
👨🎓Project led by Guillermo Azócar, for Dirección General de Aguas. Thanks to contributors!
@uni-jena.de
First Chilean mountain #permafrost model & map is out!
Preprint: egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
🌎We used the most complete compilation of permafrost evidences - mainly rock glaciers & boreholes - along with climatic+topographic data to inform a nonlinear statistical model. 📈
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Humanoid robot studying a digital world map on a holographic globe
💥Kicking off my geographic information science advent calendar in my blog geods.netlify.app + Instagram in English+German.
🌍Core concepts that every #geographer... & everyone else... should know. Concepts that are also introduced in my #GIScience intro course in our #BScGeography @uni-jena.de
ELLIS Unit Jena Vernissage-Nov 6 “When Machines Learn for Nature: AI Research on Climate & Biodiversity”
Speaker: Dr. Thomas Nitzsche (Mayor of Jena) Prof. Andreas Marx (President, @uni-jena.de) Prof. Markus Reichstein, Prof. Joachim Denzler & Prof. @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social
GIS Day’25 – GeoAI for the Environment by @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social +GIScience Group (@uni-jena.de) on 17 Nov
Highlights: Disaster-image AI, SAR ship detection, landslide mapping, environmental insights and poster presentations 🌍🤖
Thanks to all speakers
@ellis.eu
🔗 www.gisday.com/en-us/overview
Prof. Dr. Alexander Brenning wird von der Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung im Rahmen ihres Förderprogramms „CZS Durchbrüche“ für fünf Jahre mit insgesamt rund sechs Millionen Euro unterstützt. Foto: Nicole Nerger / Uni Jena
Prof. Dr. Alexander Brenning coordinates the GENAI-X project at the @ellisunitjena.bsky.social at #UniJena together with partner institutions. The @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social is funding GENAI-X with around six million euros over five years.
➡️ www.uni-jena.de/369974/zuver...
GENAI-X 🌍, 👨🏻🏫Coordinated by @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social (@uni-jena.de) develops AI🤖 for robust prediction in non-stationary environmental systems — tackling floods 🌊, droughts 🌵 & landslides ⛰️
💡Funded by @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social
🤝 @ellis.eu @bgc-jena.mpg.de
🔗 www.genai-x.uni-jena.de
Dr. @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social + the GIScience Group (@uni-jena.de) invite you to GIS Day 2025 — focus: GeoAI for Environment.
📅 17 Nov 2025
🕐 13:00–17:30 CET
📍 Rosensäle Jena + Zoom (hybrid)
🖼️ Poster registration until 10 Nov
🔗 www.chemgeo.uni-jena.de/48059/gis-da...
🚀 Yesterday at Zero-to-Hero sessions at #SummerSchool2025 @ellis.eu
A) Beyond Accuracy: Understanding & Quantifying Uncertainty in Deep Learning — Aishwarya Venkataramanan 🎯
B) Scalable AI for Earth & Climate Sciences — Ioannis Papoutsis 🌍
🔗 www.ellis-jena.eu/summer-schoo...
Project Spotlight #2: ELLIS Unit Jena 🌊
@alexanderbrenning.bsky.social & the GIScience Group, funded by the @umweltbundesamt.bsky.social , are using geostat+#ML to:
📍Identify nitrate-affected areas
📊Support regulatory decisions
🧠Improve monitoring accuracy
🔗 geods.netlify.app/post/nitrate/
How will #climatechange impact #rivers across Europe? 🌍 #DRYvER H2020's model projects increases in frequency & duration of drying periods.
➡️New paper in #HESS! 🚨
hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/...
Shoutout to Annika Künne in my group @uni-jena.de for leading key parts of modeling & analysis! 👏
🚀Kickstart your academic career in #GIScience as a #Postdoc in my group! Looking for geospatial #machinelearning / #GeoAI for Earth surface processes & #naturalhazards. Join our team
at University of #Jena & ELLIS Unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social. 🔍 See job ad for details: bit.ly/giscience
📢RSAGA 1.4.2 is out! 🎉
💡My R package integrates SAGA GIS with R, facilitating #geocomputation & environmental #modeling.
🚀Fun fact: It's among the 10% most downloaded packages!
Blog: geods.netlify.app/post/rsaga-u...
#Rstats #GIS #opensource #GIScience #Geoinformatik
@ellisunitjena.bsky.social
7th Data Science Day Jena on May 13 at @uni-jena.de 📊 📢 Submit your abstracts by April 13:
🔗 www.fmi.uni-jena.de/12727/data-s...
Lead by our ELLIS member Joachim Giesen and the Interactive Inference group (inference.uni-jena.de?events/dsd2025).
Supported by @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social