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    <h1>BAIR Climate Initiative Group Meeting</h1>
    <p>
      The Berkeley AI Research Climate Initiative meets every two weeks to
      discuss research/applications of AI to climate change. The central goal of
      this group is to learn about real-world, impactful ways that machine
      learning can be used to address climate change.
    </p>
    <p>
      <strong
        >Subscribe to our mailing list for reading group announcements or join
        our slack channel</strong
      >:
    </p>
    <a
      id="join-mailing-list"
      target="_blank"
      href="https://lists.eecs.berkeley.edu/sympa/subscribe/ai-climate-change"
      >Subscribe to Meeting Announcements</a
    >
    <a
      id="join-slack"
      target="_blank"
      href="https://join.slack.com/t/berkeleyaicli-lv01499/shared_invite/zt-qlbeco8w-5R1~cOBKuTh2cTKkcqvw1w"
      >Join Our Slack Channel</a
    >

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      <h2>Upcoming Meetings</h2>
      <p>
        We meet every two weeks at a date and time TBD on the 8th floor of
        Berkeley Way West. Remote support at
        <a href="https://berkeley.zoom.us/my/ritwikgupta"
          >https://berkeley.zoom.us/my/ritwikgupta</a
        >.
      </p>

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        href="https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=Y183MDU5NzcyNzNjNjQ4ZDk3Zjk4N2IxMDQwNDNhNDdkNmY2OTc4ZDYzYjZkYWI5MDFkZDBhZWYwYTgwYzFjZjZjQGdyb3VwLmNhbGVuZGFyLmdvb2dsZS5jb20"
        >Subscribe to Google Calendar</a
      >

      <p>
        <strong
          ><a
            href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U9nY3FeXRFkny0xTQ0qKHS7H6mwusmWWG21sb03AZFs/edit?usp=sharing"
            >Sign up to present</a
          ></strong
        >
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      <p><strong>Previous speakers</strong></p>
      <table>
        <tr>
          <th>Date</th>
          <th>Title</th>
          <th>Speaker</th>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>November 28, 2023<br />(5pm PST)</td>
          <td>
            BenthIQ: A Benthic Classification Model for Reef Restoration (<a
              href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wG1hl3RTOBwUVefPK0_4DWicg2QVZioY/view?usp=drive_link"
              >Recording</a
            >)
          </td>
          <td>
            <a href="https://rupakv.com/">Rupa Kurinchi-Vendhan</a>
            / Caltech &amp; Coral Gardeners
          </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>November 16, 2023<br />(2pm PST)</td>
          <td>
            Machine Learning on Emerging Satellite Sensing Technologies to
            Support Open Source Humanitarian Investigation (<a
              href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/14R2gn6FiXX5iAJotjETYFQx3GLdOoYhZ/view?usp=sharing"
              >Recording</a
            >)
          </td>
          <td>
            <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/npatel08/">Dr. Nirav Patel</a>
            / University of Florida &amp; Defense Innovation Unit
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
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    <section>
      <h2>Resources</h2>
      <p>
        Here's is a small, but powerful, collection of quality meta-resources
        for AI + Climate Change:
      </p>
      <ul>
        <li>
          <a
            href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BakrG-mqSYsIiym30ivOrAcD0Ol5Z4hT?usp=sharing"
            >Google drive</a
          >
          collection of papers on AI + climate change provided by Ankur Mahesh.
        </li>
        <li>
          <a href="https://climatechange.ai">Climate Change AI</a> - a great
          monthly newsletter, twitter account, and fortnightly happy hours.
        </li>
        <li>
          <a href="http://mldata.pangeo.io">Weather and Climate Datasets</a> - a
          growing collection of datasets relevant for AI + Climate Change
          research.
        </li>
      </ul>
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    <h2>FAQ</h2>

    <dl>
      <dt>Do I need to be at UC Berkeley to join?</dt>
      <dd>
        Nope. But our invited presenters, discussions, and collaboration
        opportunities will likely focus on UC Berkeley.
      </dd>

      <dt>Can I present?</dt>
      <dd>
        Yes! Contact Ritwik Gupta (ritwikgupta at berkeley dot edu) with your
        proposed presentation topic.
      </dd>

      <dt>Who organizes this group?</dt>
      <dd><a href="https://ritwikgupta.me">Ritwik Gupta</a>.</dd>
    </dl>
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