Norway is at the forefront of subsurface geoscience research, driven by decades of work in oil and gas extraction. Research in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing rapidly worldwide and is becoming part of peopleʼs everyday lives. How can the Norwegian research community use this global momentum to become world leading in AI for geoscientific data and workflows? That is the question the GAIA network will answer.
The partners in GAIA – Geoscientific AI Alliance – cover research areas in geoscience, theoretical machine learning and statistics, and AI applications. They include universities and research institutes from across the country. Throughout the project, we will develop a common strategy across institutions to position Norway at the forefront of AI research on geoscientific data.
The network will organize a joint hackathon to identify geoscience-specific challenges and propose recommendations to simplify training algorithms for geoscientific data. The hackathon shall inspire and stimulate PhD students with different backgrounds to work on geoscientific challenges. We will furthermore increase our visibility internationally through collaboration agreements with strategically important universities and by arranging and participating in international seminars and conferences.
The GAIA network will be a central contributor to enabling the Norwegian research community to collaborate across disciplines and to lead the geoscience into the AI era. GAIA will also facilitate the application of our geoscience competence to problems beyond the petroleum sector, such as climate risk, groundwater flow, pollution, and geohazards.
