Speakers
The Domains
The talk of Jozef Skakala will provide an overview of the evolution and the state-of-the art ML/AI applications in operational marine biogeochemistry. Jozef will highlight the specific problems and needs of marine biogeochemistry data assimilation and forecasting, and discuss areas where AI can have the largest positive impact. Finally, Jozef will focus on the more specific case of the recent ML/AI developments in the UK operational forecasts for the UK regional seas biogeochemistry.
Jozef’s background (including PhD) is in theoretical and mathematical physics. After spending three years as postdoctoral researcher in theoretical physics, Jozef has spent the last decade at Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), for nine past years closely collaborating with the Met Office on developments in marine biogeochemistry data assimilation. This work has directly fed into the Met Office operational and reanalysis system for the UK regional seas biogeochemistry. In addition to data assimilation, in the last years Jozef has led PML work activities in the area of machine learning applications in modelling and data assimilation, as well as in the field of bio-optical modelling. On a national level, Jozef is a co-chair of National Partnership for Ocean Prediction’s Marine Data Assimilation group and lead for PML science in the National Centre for Earth Observation.