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Climate change’s effects will be felt across the planet, but what we can we learn from different regions? Falk Huettmann, professor of wildlife ecology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, explores one area to see. Falk Huettmann is a Professor for Wildlife Ecology working on all continents of the world with over 250 publications, including […]

Falk Huettmann, University of Alaska Fairbanks – Climate Change in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya

Today's episode features Dr Falk Huettmann. He's a wildlife biologist and professor at University of Alaska-Fairbanks. He does a lot of polar research, and introduces me to the three pole concept (Arctic, Antarctic, and Himalayas) and is based on those 3 places having large concentrations of ice and glaciers. So we cover a lot of ground in this conversation today talking about Antarctica issues, including research, tourism, wildlife, and about governance of Antarctica. We also talk about what international polar years are and why they're valuable. This is a wide ranging conversation so enjoy! --- You can find Rachel Villani on Twitter @flyingcypress and Storytellers of STEMM on Facebook. You can find Falk Huettmann on his website. He also gave a TED talk titled "A New Way Forward for a Global Sustainability Culture" at TEDxFairbanks. He has many publications including: Protection of The Three Poles and Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean. Book List from this episode: The book about the cholera outbreak and Dr Snow that Falk alludes to is The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson. Recorded on 19 October 2020.

Today's episode features Dr Falk Huettmann. He's a wildlife biologist and professor at University of Alaska-Fairbanks. He does a lot of polar research, and introduces me to the three pole concept (Arctic, Antarctic, and Himalayas) and is based on those 3 places having large concentrations of ice and glaciers. So we cover a lot of ground in this conversation today talking about Antarctica issues, including research, tourism, wildlife, and about governance of Antarctica. We also talk about what international polar years are and why they're valuable. This is a wide ranging conversation so enjoy! --- You can find Rachel Villani on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/flyingcypress" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@flyingcypress</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/storytellersofSTEMM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Storytellers of STEMM on Facebook</a>. You can find Falk Huettmann on his <a href="https://www.uaf.edu/bw/about/faculty.php?who=Huettmann_Falk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">website</a>. He also gave a TED talk titled "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8vACOuPPQc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A New Way Forward for a Global Sustainability Culture</a>" at TEDxFairbanks. He has many publications including: <a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9784431540052" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Protection of The Three Poles</a> and <a href="https://www.scar.org/library/scar-publications/occasional-publications/3501-biogeographic-atlas-of-the-southern-ocean-selected-chapters/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean</a>. Book List from this episode: The book about the cholera outbreak and Dr Snow that Falk alludes to is <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36086.The_Ghost_Map" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson</a>. Recorded on 19 October 2020.

#90 - Antarctica Series 12: Falk Huettmann

Artificial intelligence and machine learning can teach us about the future. Falk Huettmann, associate professor of wildlife biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, explores the benefit to the public good from these technologies. Falk’s research interests include wildlife ecology, seabirds, predictive GIS modeling, web-based wildlife databases and metadata, spatial aspects of population viability analysis (PVA), future landscape scenarios of wildlife habitat, landscape ecology, Russian far east, tropical ecology, conservation steady state economy. Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence https://academicminute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/08-13-20-Alaska-Fairbanks-Machine-Learning-and-Artifical-Intelligence.mp3  Over the last 30 years we were able to track progress on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in real life. But, arguably, without addressing the environment and the wider public good any progress for mankind cannot be achieved. While industrial technology is pushed, hyped and on the rise, the required wider peaceful and more beneficial and reflective use of AI and ML remains somewhat overlooked. So, in the last 20 years we have applied AI/ML to a diverse set of questions of great public environmental concern world-wide and for progress, involving Open Access principles to assure transparent and repeatable science. The study subjects we cover include 1,000s of biodiversity species, many endangered species and their habitats, high-pandemic diseases, human livelihoods, global economic governance, climate predictions, as well as industrial impact assessments on land, sea and the atmosphere across scales (global to local). Those projects found their use in high-profile court cases, were presented at international conferences, published in the peer-reviewed literature and with our (text) books all over the world, usually helped by our students. However, the uptake to reach sustainability remains too slow and is highly ineffective, which hints towards bigger and underlying cultural and policy problems explaining why there is so little change but ‘business as usual’ still prevailing that destroys the earth and man-kind. Disciplines and their institutions that suffer from those inherent problems come from Fisheries, Forestry, Biology and Wildlife, Economy, Medicine. Climate Change questions, Protected Area Optimization and Earth Planning. Courts and constitutions are also directly involved.  We are happy to show examples and elaborate on ethics with an outlook of those problems and how to overcome them on a policy and cultural level for the telecoupled Anthropocene and future generations.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning can teach us about the future. <a href="https://people.iab.uaf.edu/falk_huettmann" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Falk Huettmann</a>, associate professor of wildlife biology at the <a href="http://uaf.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">University of Alaska Fairbanks</a>, explores the benefit to the public good from these technologies. Falk’s research interests include wildlife ecology, seabirds, predictive GIS modeling, web-based wildlife databases and metadata, spatial aspects of population viability analysis (PVA), future landscape scenarios of wildlife habitat, landscape ecology, Russian far east, tropical ecology, conservation steady state economy. <h2>Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence</h2> <a href="https://academicminute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/08-13-20-Alaska-Fairbanks-Machine-Learning-and-Artifical-Intelligence.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://academicminute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/08-13-20-Alaska-Fairbanks-Machine-Learning-and-Artifical-Intelligence.mp3</a> <h2></h2> Over the last 30 years we were able to track progress on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in real life. But, arguably, without addressing the environment and the wider public good any progress for mankind cannot be achieved. While industrial technology is pushed, hyped and on the rise, the required wider peaceful and more beneficial and reflective use of AI and ML remains somewhat overlooked. So, in the last 20 years we have applied AI/ML to a diverse set of questions of great public environmental concern world-wide and for progress, involving Open Access principles to assure transparent and repeatable science. The study subjects we cover include 1,000s of biodiversity species, many endangered species and their habitats, high-pandemic diseases, human livelihoods, global economic governance, climate predictions, as well as industrial impact assessments on land, sea and the atmosphere across scales (global to local). Those projects found their use in high-profile court cases, were presented at international conferences, published in the peer-reviewed literature and with our (text) books all over the world, usually helped by our students. However, the uptake to reach sustainability remains too slow and is highly ineffective, which hints towards bigger and underlying cultural and policy problems explaining why there is so little change but ‘business as usual’ still prevailing that destroys the earth and man-kind. Disciplines and their institutions that suffer from those inherent problems come from Fisheries, Forestry, Biology and Wildlife, Economy, Medicine. Climate Change questions, Protected Area Optimization and Earth Planning. Courts and constitutions are also directly involved.  We are happy to show examples and elaborate on ethics with an outlook of those problems and how to overcome them on a policy and cultural level for the telecoupled Anthropocene and future generations.

Falk Huettmann, University of Alaska Fairbanks – Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence