Title: What can artificial intelligence (AI) do for salmon and the ocean?
Speaker: Dr. Beibei Jia
Abstract: The ocean provides an irreplaceable environment and critical resources to sustain our life on Earth. We have considerable knowledge of its ecosystem through research and practice across many disciplines. However, the vital interaction of the many components remains largely a mystery that could be addressed with an interdisciplinary approach and framework. Because of its cross-discipline nature, AI could become a platform and pathway to assist in the ecological, sociocultural, and economic assessment of the ocean ecosystem to our enormous benefit.

With the case studies of Canada’s conservation policies of wild salmon, we elaborate on the opportunities and challenges when artificial intelligence is integrated with veterinary medicine and a variety of ocean sciences. We propose to develop an AI application to provide better digitization and prediction analytics for the assessment of Canadian wild salmon conservation policies for integration into veterinary medicine and ocean sciences. Our ambition is to build out our initial success in this area to expand the application of AI for the benefit of numerous other areas in ocean science.

All are welcome to attend!