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2022

Michaelmas term 2022
Date	Title of presentation	Recording	Speaker
07/10/22	Bringing Trust to Carbon Credits Through Computer Science	Link	S. Keshav, U. Cambridge
14/10/22	Towards a single controller that can make many buildings a little greener		Arduin Findeis
21/10/22	Fusing GEDI and Landsat data to estimate tropical forest recovery rates across the Amazon	Link	Amelia Holcomb, Cambridge
28/10/22	Optimization-in-the-loop AI for energy and climate	Link	Priya Donti, Climate Change AI, MIT
04/11/22	Assessing indirect business risk from climate change	Link	Daoping Wang, University of Cambridge
11/11/22	Investigating forest dynamics and functioning in response to disturbances through individual-based modeling	Link	E-Ping Rau, University of Cambridge
18/11/22	Upcoming BIOMASS Earth Explorer 7 mission: concept and validation challenges	Link	Jerome Chave
25/11/22	Measuring emissions by satellite to support the Paris Agreement	Link	Stephen Briggs, University of Cambridge
02/12/22	A framework for measuring biodiversity impacts of land use change	Link	Alison Eyres, University of Cambridge, Zoology
09/12/22	Challenges in Designing Control Strategies for Buildings	Link	Omid Ardakanian, University of Alberta

2023

Lent term 2023
Date	Title of presentation	Recording	Speaker
20/01/23	Quantifying changes in Above Ground Biomass in degraded and restored forests: Challenges & opportunities	Link	Charlotte Wheeler is a post-doc in Plant Sciences and 4C
27/01/23	Machine Learning in Climate Action	Link	David Rolnick, McGill University
03/02/23	The value of high resolution remote sensing to understand forests		Emily Lines
10/02/23	Ecovisor: A Virtual Energy System for Carbon-Efficient Applications	Link	David Irwin
17/02/23	Research Avenues for Net-Zero Carbon Cloud Datacenters	Link	Fiodar Kazhamiaka - Microsoft
24/02/23	CityLearn: An OpenAI Gym Framework for Grid-Interactive Buildings		Zoltan Nagy - UT Austin
03/03/23	Using SSL to create useful representations from corrupted spectral-temporal data for applications in agriculture		Madeline Lisaius - EEG
10/03/23	New framework for carbon offsets in global drylands	Link	Adam Pellegrini, University of Cambridge
17/03/23	Why and how measuring energy consumption of Internet services? Illustration on VoD	Link	Aurélie Bugeau, Université de Bordeaux, France

Easter term 2023
Date	Title of presentation	Recording	Speaker
28/04/23	Competitive Online Peak-Demand Minimization using Energy Storage	Link	Minghua Chen, City University of Hong Kong
12/05/23	Remote sensing enables monitoring life above and under water	Link	Devis Tuia, EPFL
19/05/23	CS and Supply Chain Policies		Rachael Garrett, Cambridge
26/05/23	Assessing the Impact of Drought on Tropical Forests using GEDI	Link	Felipe Nincao Begliomini, Jovana Knezevic, Onkar Gulati, Yihang She
02/06/23	Generative Model in Remote Sensing: the role and applications of radiative transfer models in the optical spectral domain for environmental studies	Link	Clement Atzberger, BOKU university & Mantle Labs Ltd.
09/06/23	The Case for Planetary Computing		Anil Madhavapeddy ( University of Cambridge)
16/06/23	Designing PV-EV Integrated Residential Microgrids in the post-COVID World	Link	Anaïs Berkes - ETH Zürich
30/06/23	Data-driven Building Energy Systems: Applications, Platforms, and Benchmarking	Link	Dan Wang - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
07/07/23	Dynamic Distribution Network Reconfiguration with Generation and Load Uncertainty	Link	Vincent Wong - University of British Columbia
14/07/23	Narrowing Precipitation Uncertainty over High Mountain Asia with Probabilistic Machine Learning	Link	Kenza Tazi
21/07/23	Parallel Universes, Parallel Processing: Using expired weather forecasts to supply up to 10 000 years of weather data (on an HPC cluster)	Link	Petr Dolezal
28/07/23	Identifying direct deforestation drivers in sub-Saharan Africa using deep learning and high-resolution satellite imagery	Link	Amandine Debus

Michaelmas term 2023
Date	Title of presentation	Recording	Speaker
22/09/23	Fast Tagging of Pollinator Field Videos with Convolutional Tsetlin Machines	Link	Sachin Mathew, University of Cambridge
29/09/23	Computational Agroecology: Rethinking Agriculture with State Spaces	Link	Barath Raghavan
06/10/23	Measuring Small-scale Tropical Forest Disturbance with GEDI	Link	Amelia Holcomb
13/10/23	Creating a High-Resolution Canopy Height Map of the Earth	Link	Konrad Schindler from ETH Zürich
20/10/23	Taking the Long View: Enhancing Learning On Multi-Temporal, High-Resolution, and Disparate Remote Sensing Data for Measuring the Spread of Buildings	Link	Jay Taneja - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
27/10/23	Designing PV-EV integrated Residential Microgrids	Link	Srivasan Keshav - University of Cambridge
03/11/23	Tokenized Carbon Credits	Link	Derek Sorensen, University of Cambridge
10/11/23	From open source and open data to “open computation”: a climate science perspective	Link	Roly Perera, University of Cambridge
17/11/23	Forest biomass mapping and monitoring with NASA Lidars	Link	Laura Innice Duncanson. University of Maryland
24/11/23	Telling Tree Stories through Laser Scans and AI	Link	Stefano Puliti, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research
01/12/23	Batteries beyond Power Supplies	Link	Liang He - University of Colorado Denver
08/12/23	Full-waveform LiDAR and Scalability of Forests Plots		Milto Miltiadou, University of Cambridge
15/12/23	The Real Information in Climate Simulations	Link	Milan Klöwer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2024

Lent term 2024
Date	Title of presentation	Recording	Speaker
12/01/24	If a Tree Falls in the Forest, Does It Cause a Fire?	Link	Laura James, Overstory
19/01/24	Programming for the Planet: the challenges of repeatable and reproducible computing for enviromental sciences	Link	Michael Dales, University of Camridge
26/01/24	Uncertainty at Scale: How CS Hinders Climate Research	Link	Patrick Ferris, University of Cambridge
02/02/24	Group Discussion - What I Wish I Had Known Earlier in My Research Career		Group Discussion
09/02/24	Carbon Clarity in the Global Petrochemical Supply Chain	Link	Jonathan Cullen + students, University of Cambridge
16/02/24	Reimagining Urban Energy: Policy Implications of Bidirectional Electric Vehicles, Solar Energy, and Work-from-Home Trends		Anaïs Berkes, University of Cambridge
23/02/24	AI-Refined Radiative Transfer Modelling to Retrieve Biophysical Variables in Forests	Link	Yihang She, University of Cambridge
01/03/24	Challenges in Computing Climate Sensitivity and Climate Solutions: Examples from Glaciology and CO2 Storage	Link	Jerome Neufeld, University of Camridge
08/03/24	Analyzing the Impacts of Extreme Heat on Buildings	Link	Livia Capol, ETH Zurich
15/03/24	Renewables as Reserve Providers; Turning a Challenge into an Opportunity	Link	Yashar Ghiassi-Farrokhfal, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
22/03/24	The Future of 24/7 Clean Energy driven by AI	Link	Dr. Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, CTO, Energy Industry, Asia, Microsoft. // Dr. Srinivasan Iyengar, Senior Program Manager, Asia, Microsoft.
28/03/24	Towards Global, General-Purpose Geographic Location Encoders	Link	Konstantin Klemmer, Microsoft Research

Easter term 2024
Date	Title of presentation	Recording	Speaker
05/04/24	Tracking Compound Heat and Humidity Impacts	Link	Chloe Brimicombe, Wegener Center, University of Graz, Austria
12/04/24	Mechanisms Against Climate Change	Link	Carl Edward Rasmussen, University of Cambridge
19/04/24	Transforming Your Understanding of Large Language Models: A Primer	Link	Sadiq Jaffer, Planetary Computing Fellow Department of Computer Science and Technology
26/04/24	Using AI to Accelerate Evidence Synthesis and Decision Support to Save Biodiversity	Link	Alec Christie, Henslow Research Fellow, Downing College
03/05/24	Digital Participatory Tools for Rural Communities in India to Adapt to Climate Change	Link	Aaditeshwar Seth, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
10/05/24	Automated Fact-Checking of Climate Change Claims with Large Language Models	Link	Dominik Stammbach, ETH Zürich
24/05/24	SOPEVS: Sizing and Operation of PV-EV-Integrated Modern Homes		Anaïs Berkes - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge
31/05/24	Internet Connectivity in the Global South: Challenges and Lessons Learned		Andres Arcia-Moret, AMD - former researcher at UCAM
07/06/24	An App for Tree Trunk Diameter Estimation from Coarse Optical Depth Maps	Link	Frank Feng, Independent Researcher
21/06/24	Tackling the Hidden Costs of Computational Science: GREENER Principles for Environmentally Sustainable Research	Link	Loïc Lannelongue, Heart and Lungs Research Institute, DPHPC, University of Cambridge
28/06/24	HyWay: Enabling Mingling in the Hybrid World	Link	Venkat Padmanabhan, Managing Director of Microsoft Research India
28/06/24	Annual Monitoring of Forest AGB over a Period of 10 years Using SSL-derived Representations from Optical Time Series	Link	Clement ATZBERGER, Mantle Lab's Co-found and Chief Scientist
05/07/24	Grid-friendly Energy Community Coordination for Reducing Grid Reinforcement Needs	Link	Anke Weidlich from Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
12/07/24	Real-time Wildlife Monitoring	Link	Tom Ratsakatika, University of Cambridge

Michaelmas term 2024
Date	Title of presentation	Recording	Speaker
04/10/24	Partner-driven Environmental Sensing: Co-design with Indigenous Ojibwe Scientists	Link	Eric J Greenlee, Georgia Tech Computing & Society Lab and Ka Moamoa Lab
11/10/24	Visual Digital Twins of Forests	Link	Wojciech Palubicki, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
18/10/24	Challenges in Cyber-Physical Energy Systems - of Agents and Data	Link	Astrid Nieße, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
25/10/24	How a Positive Tipping Point Cascade in Power, Transport and Heating Can Accelerate the Low Carbon Transition	Link	Femke Nijsse, University of Exeter
01/11/24	A CarbonFirst Approach for Decarbonizing Cloud Computing	Link	Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts
08/11/24	Tracking 30-year Tropical Forest Biomass Loss and Recovery Based on a Spatially-explicit Bookkeeping Model with Earth Observations		Yidi Xu, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
15/11/24	Combined Talks: Long-term Biodiversity Monitoring at Scale & Collecting Deep Population Data for Amphibians with a Simple Phone and an ML Vision	Link	Josh Millar, Imperial College & Silviu Petrovan, Department of Zoology at University of Cambridge
22/11/24	Using Machine Learning to Improve Protected Area Management		Charles Emogor, University of Cambridge
29/11/24	Conservation Evidence	Link	Shrey Biswas / Radhika Iyer / Kacper Michalik, University of Cambridge
06/12/24	Smart Grid Trust Assessment	Link	Sebastian Lehnhoff, OFFIS Institute for Information Technology

2025

Lent term 2025
Date	Title of presentation	Recording	Speaker
24/01/25	What EEG Members Would Like from the Group		Host: Prof Srinivasan Keshav, University of Cambridge
31/01/25	Decoding Fungal Trade Algorithms for Carbon Drawdown		Toby Kiers, SPUN, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
07/02/25	Barlow Twins Earth Foundation Model		Frank Feng, University of Cambridge
14/02/25	Using Low-cost, Research-led, Decentralised Networks to Increase Access to High Quality Microspatial Data on Building Stocks, and the Built and Natural Infrastructure	Link	Polly Hudson, Senior Research Fellow, The Alan Turing Institute
21/02/25	Robotics and Sensing for Sustainable Crop Production	Link	Cyrill Stachniss, University of Bonn
28/02/25	An Introductory Guide on How to Create Beautiful Slides	Link	Frank Feng, University of Cambridge
07/03/25	A Discussion: What AI Tools Do You Use for Your Daily Work?		Prof Srinivasan Keshav
14/03/25	Shared Talk: Identifying Key Countries in the Illegal Elephant Ivory Trade Network; Machine Learning for Building-Level Heat Risk Mapping	Link	Jakob Poffley, University of Cambridge; Andrea Domiter, University of Cambridge
21/03/25	Towards Global Maps of Anthropogenic Threats to Biodiversity and Their Contributions to Species Extinctions	Link	Emilio Luz-Ricca, University of Cambridge
28/03/25	Democratizing Carbon Markets: A Blockchain-Based Emission Trading System for Small and Large-Scale Stakeholders in Brazil	Link	Jean Martina, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Easter term 2025
Date	Title of presentation	Recording	Speaker
04/04/25	Synthetic Controls, Causality, and Confidence: Measuring the Impact of Jurisdictional REDD+ Policies Fairly		Onkar Gulati, University of Cambridge
11/04/25	Towards Global-scale Species Distribution Modelling	Link	Oisin Mac Aodha, University of Edinburgh
01/05/25	Is There Hope for the Climate?	Link	Srinivasan Keshav, University of Cambridge
08/05/25	Machine Learning for Building-Level Heat Risk Mapping		Andrea Domiter, University of Cambridge
15/05/25	Modelling Building Thermal Dynamics – From Data Generation to Transfer Learning	Link	Fabian Raisch, Technical University of Munich
22/05/25	Compute Cluster and Storage		Mark Elvers, University of Cambridge