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Climate Intelligence

Making Informed Decisions

APL is developing sensors, systems, and models to provide key intelligence on how climate pressures may impact future missions. Our teams are identifying threats, enabling informed planning, and developing early warning systems.

Mission
Earth

Quantify Threats

Identify threats and forecast their impacts on military and civilian systems

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Support Operational Awareness

Provide intelligence needed to operate in rapidly changing and increasingly extreme environments

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Detect Adversarial Activity

Track and observe resource utilization, waste production, and geoengineering activity

Featured Work

AI for Climate Action

AI for Climate Intelligence

Leveraging the power of artificial intelligence and mathematics to spur innovation and novel solutions to challenges at the intersection of earth systems and national security
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Forest fire (Credit: Bigstock)

Accelerating Air Quality Forecasts

Severe wildfires have released millions of smoke-borne contaminants into the air, setting off air quality alerts across the country. APL is using artificial intelligence to accelerate air quality forecasts and ultimately deliver a better understanding of how and where these pollutants will travel.
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Jay Brett and Jennifer Sleeman

AI for Tipping Point Discovery

Artificial intelligence experts and oceanographers are integrating AI with traditional climate modeling methods to enable scientific researchers to better understand tipping points, critical thresholds that, once crossed, could “tip” a natural Earth system into an entirely different state.
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Hayley DeHart, a genomics research scientist at APL, loads water samples into a sequencer while on board a ship during the team’s trip to Monterey Bay.

Enlisting eDNA to Understand Ecosystems

APL researchers are using genetic information to observe animals, plants, and microbes in their natural environments, and pioneering environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis methods to study marine ecosystems that the world relies on as the foundation of global food webs.
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We need continuous, ubiquitous sensing to understand current states and predict future changes of Earth’s systems. The work we are doing in sensing and modeling will provide next-generation data critical to enabling the operations of our future force.

Bobby Armiger Principal Engineer, Research and Exploratory Development
Bobby Armiger
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Climate Intelligence panel at RFF 2023

Game Changers — Climate Intelligence

At the 2023 Research Frontiers Forum, APL assembled diverse thought leaders to discuss Climate Change and National Security: Goals. Gaps. Game Changers. 


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Meet Our Experts

Elizabeth P. Reilly

Elizabeth Reilly Supervisor, Complex Systems Group

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Sarah E. M. Herman

Sarah Herman Program Manager, Biological and Chemical Sciences

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Impact
Climate Security

Climate Security

APL is bringing all of its core competencies to bear on this critical challenge area, assembling top experts from a variety of scientific fields and partners to explore strategic opportunities to protect our operations in a changing world.


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