Ecology and environment
Group
Microsoft Climate Research Initiative
The Microsoft Climate Research Initiative (MCRI) is a community of multi-disciplinary researchers working together to fight climate change.
Microsoft Research Blog
Introducing the Microsoft Climate Research Initiative
Addressing and mitigating the effects of climate change requires a collective effort, bringing our strengths to bear across industry, government, academia, and civil society.
Project
Reducing AI’s Carbon Footprint
This project develops techniques that enable AI to use computing infrastructure more efficiently. The goals are to maintain predictive accuracy while reducing carbon emissions, whether embodied in manufactured hardware, or produced from electricity usage when…
Project
Sustainability Science and Innovation
Empower people and enable the planet to thrive We work with researchers, businesses, governments, and non-profit organizations around the world to empower people and enable the planet to thrive —through technology and innovation for energy, connectivity, and sustainability…
Tool
Blue whale acoustics
The goal of this project is to use audio recordings and corresponding annotations to build an automatic classifier for calls from four different species of blue whales, and to estimate the total number of calls…
Project
Geospatial Machine Learning
We combine geospatial data with machine learning in collaboration with partners at universities, conservation agencies, and NGOs in projects that support disaster response, humanitarian action and conservation efforts.